PAUL SMITH S. Ill 



Meacliam Lake, and accustomed to eveuings at tiie rude 

 guide-house. 



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

 ists Avho " take 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 liither, 

 making this tlie base from which to project excursions into 

 the deeper wildei'ness, there to dwell in camj) and tent and 

 pursue in solitude the pleasures of the pathless woods, the 

 limpid lakes and winding streams. 



The hotel stands uiion a blutf looking southward out u])on 

 Lower St. Regis Lake, ueyond which lie Spitfire and 

 Upper St. Regis. It is a long, four-storj^ wooden edifice, 

 with a broad verandah along its entire front, and capable 

 of accommodating a liimdred guests. The guide-house, on 

 the shore of the lake and to the right, is a long; two-story 

 frame building, used below for housing seventy-five to 

 one hundred trim, light ;uul 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 

 awa3\ and frame barns, shops and an ice-house comi)lete 

 this realh' remarkable hostelry and its appurtenances. An 

 excellent road, traversed daily by a stage-coach, leads out 

 by way of Bloomingdale and Ausable Forks to the rail-road 

 terminus at Point of Rocks, whence the tourist journe3^s 

 by rail to Plattsl»urg and whither he will. Tlie "click" 

 of the telegrai>h, in the hotel-ottice, assures you that you 

 are no lonoer cut off from mankind, and you suddenly 



