. Summer excursion routes and rates .. . ation, all thedrives of the mountains are tributary to its livery, which is the best equipped in the White party wagons are especialUcomfortable, and of a kind not elsewhere in use, except at PolandSprings, for which place they were originally designed, and have there proved a most popular success. The house is striking in appearance architecturally, and is provided with every comfort andluxury of a thoroughly hotel. Among the minor features are electric lights, steam heat,open fires, private baths, bowling alley, billiards, s
. Summer excursion routes and rates .. . ation, all thedrives of the mountains are tributary to its livery, which is the best equipped in the White party wagons are especialUcomfortable, and of a kind not elsewhere in use, except at PolandSprings, for which place they were originally designed, and have there proved a most popular success. The house is striking in appearance architecturally, and is provided with every comfort andluxury of a thoroughly hotel. Among the minor features are electric lights, steam heat,open fires, private baths, bowling alley, billiards, shuffle board, tennis court, base ball field, golf links,mountain paths, and, as a final attraction, the very best table that can be provided. An artesian well,drilled four hundred feet through solid rock, and supplying the purest, softest water, is a notablefeature. The orchestra is one of the finest among the New England resorts. DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN R. R. GLEN MOUNTAIN HOUSE WATKINS GLENNEW YORK ^ ^ T^HE pure air of thi^. GtENP^oUNfAir^ ,ii-i-\x-^. ■ mountainous regionhas proved so conduciveto health, that an enchant-ing haven of rest, termedthe Glen Jlountain House,has been built on a clift inthe-life giving atmospherecf pines and hemlocks,where malaria is un-known, and to whose coolshades thousands annuallyrepair for rest and recre-ation. It possesses all themodern conveniences ; oc-cupies an elevation oi 300feet above the village, andis the ONLY hotel con-nected with or in theimmediate vicinity ofWatkins Glen. The Uming Room isin a Swiss Chalet across the Glen from the Hotel, whereby allheal and uupleasant odors arising from cooking, and noiseand confusion occasioned by servants, are wholly avoided, rendering the Glen Mountain House oneof the most delightfulh-cool and situated summer hotels in the United States. A beauti-ful iron suspension bridge (covered), one hundred feet above the water, connects the two and fullyprotects the guests from sun and
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