Chronicles of the White Mountains . cessary struc-tures for carrying on the operation of these means ofvisiting the Summit were erected. Soon the increaseof business due to these agencies for making thepeak more accessible necessitated the provision ofgreater accommodations for the shelter of time to time, also, buildings for various otheruses were added to the Summit settlement. The re-cording of the history of the later hotel and of theother structures referred to, however, properly fol-lows the stories of the carriage road and the railway,and will be set down in due course aft
Chronicles of the White Mountains . cessary struc-tures for carrying on the operation of these means ofvisiting the Summit were erected. Soon the increaseof business due to these agencies for making thepeak more accessible necessitated the provision ofgreater accommodations for the shelter of time to time, also, buildings for various otheruses were added to the Summit settlement. The re-cording of the history of the later hotel and of theother structures referred to, however, properly fol-lows the stories of the carriage road and the railway,and will be set down in due course after the latterhave been related. The construction of the first-named means ofaccess to the summit of Mount Washington is awork which bears eloquent witness to the enterprise,courage, and persistence of its projector and road, which extends from the Pinkham NotchRoad, near the site of the Glen House, to the Sum-mit, is eight miles long and makes an ascent of forty-six hundred feet, the average grade being one foot in 234. MOUNT WASHINGTON eight and the steepest, one foot in six. To GeneralDavid O. Macomber, of Middletown, Connecticut,belongs the credit for originating this Mount Washington Road Company was char-tered July I, 1853, with a capital of fifty thousanddollars. The company was organized at the AlpineHouse, in Gorham, on August 31 of that year,General Macomber being chosen president. Theroad was surveyed by Engineers C. H. V. Cavis andRicker. Two incidents of the surveying period havebeen preserved by John H. Spaulding. One is themeasurement of the height of the Mountain byactual survey made by the engineers in 1854, whoarrived at 6284 feet as a result. The other incidentwas the dining, on July 16 of that year, of PresidentMacomber, Engineer Cavis, and Mr. Spaulding inthe snow arch. It was then two hundred and sixty-six feet long, eighty-four feet wide, and forty feethigh to the roof. Mr. Spaulding records that, duringthe time spent in this s
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