THE NEW ADIRONDACKS 



emphasized. With the building of the railroads and 

 the consequent bringing of the mountains within easy- 

 access of the cities, and especially New York, the old 

 boarding-houses and small hotels scattered here and 

 there, and which are comparatively few in number, 

 have been enlarged or have given place to fine and 

 expensive structures. Paul Smith's has grown upon 

 and around itself from a little frame house accom- 

 modating eight people to an immense building, with 

 spacious piazzas and hallways, which can hold nearly 

 1,000 guests and is a city in itself Then comes the 

 Ampersand, a handsome house on Saranac Lake ; and 

 then in succession the fine and well-situated Wawbeek 

 Lodge, at the foot of the Upper Saranac ; Saranac 

 Inn, at the head of the same lake, and the cluster of 

 large hotels at Lake Placid, beginning with the White 

 Face Inn and including the Ruisseaumont, Lake 

 Placid, Grand View, and Stevens Houses. Scattered 

 here and there throughout the mountains there are also 

 fine or comfortable houses, such as those in the Keene 

 Valley, St. Hubert's Inn and the Chateaugay, Chazy 

 Lake, and Loon Lake Houses on the lakes of those 

 names. 



