PAUL SMITH'S. Ill 



Meacham Lake, and accustomed to evenings at the rude 

 guide house. 



"Paul Smith's" is familiar to thousands of summer tour- 

 ists who "lake it in" along with Newport, Long Branch 

 and Saratoga, as well as to those veterans of the angle and 

 the hunt, who for many years have annually resorted hither, 

 making this the base from which to project excursions into 

 the deeper wilderness, there to dwell in camp and tent and 

 pursue in solitude the pleasures of the pathless woods, Ihe 

 limpid lakes and winding streams. 



The hotel stands noon a Mull' look ing soul 1 1 ward out upon 

 Lower St. Regis Lake, -neyoinl which lie Spit lire and 

 I'pper SI. lleiris. It is a long, four story, wooden edifice, 

 with a liroad verandah along its entire front, and capable 

 of accommodating a hundied quests. The guide-house, on 

 the shore of the lake and lo the right, is a long, two story 

 frame building. u<ed belc.w for housing seventy live to 

 one hundred trim, light and shapely boats. Above it is con 

 verted into sleeping and living rooms for the guides engaged 

 by Mr. Smith for the season. A bowling alley still further 

 away, and frame barns, shops and an ice house complete 

 this really remarkable hostelry and its appurlenances. An 

 excellent road. Ira \ersed daily by a stagecoach, leads out 

 by way of liloomiu-<lale and A usable Forks to the rail road 

 terminus at Point of Rocks, whence the tourist journeys 

 by rail to I'lalNburu' and whither he will. The "click" 

 of the telegraph, in the hotel ollice. assures you that you 

 are no longer cut off from mankind, and you suddenly 



