. The White Mountains of New Hampshire : in the heart of the nation's playground . igewasset River, Franconia and is visited by hundreds of tourists every year. The drive throughthe Notch is an obligation amounting almost to unwritten law on thepart of vacationists sojourning at Crawford, Bretton Woods, Fabyan,Twin Mountain, Jackson and the Intervale-North Conway White Mountain experience is more delightful. After every one of the White Mountain centers was given its duein printed and illustrated page (which would be quite impracticablefrom the guide-book point of view), they would a
. The White Mountains of New Hampshire : in the heart of the nation's playground . igewasset River, Franconia and is visited by hundreds of tourists every year. The drive throughthe Notch is an obligation amounting almost to unwritten law on thepart of vacationists sojourning at Crawford, Bretton Woods, Fabyan,Twin Mountain, Jackson and the Intervale-North Conway White Mountain experience is more delightful. After every one of the White Mountain centers was given its duein printed and illustrated page (which would be quite impracticablefrom the guide-book point of view), they would all, figuratively speak-ing, still have to take off their hats to grand old Mt. Washington. Asin the ancient days when the White Mountains were first revealed tothe eyes of white men, this peak continues to be monarch of all it surveys,and that is a good deal, geographically speaking. From the summit of Mt. Washington, the radius of view is muchmore than one hundred miles, taking in the ocean, the New Hampshirelake country, the Connecticut River Valley, the Rangeley Lake country. and to Mt. Katahdin in Maine, and reaching far into Vermont andCanada. This is one of the reasons why so many thousands of theworlds people have been impelled to ascend to its breeze-swept summitduring the last half century or so, princes, presidents and potentatesamong them. Like the Mountains in general, Mt. Washington is not quite tobe described; it must be visited and studied on its own account. Every fine day in summer the famous cog-railway, with its pushinglocomotives and inclining cars, is busy transporting visitors from allparts of the globe to the top of this famous mountain. The Mt. Washington Railway has been running since 1869, andin all these years not a passenger has been killed or injured. Fromthe Base Station, the distance covered by the cog-railway is aboutthree miles, and the average grade is 1,300 feet to the mile. At itsgreatest gradient it is nearly 2,000 feet to the mile. Its famo
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