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vacations at summer hotels. There are many of 

 those northwestern lakes I have mentioned the 

 shores of which are entirely occupied by such sum- 

 mer residents. There are some considerable bodies 

 of water where a tourist or other stranger cannot 

 get to the water's edge without passing through 

 somebody's private garden or park ; or if some- 

 how he has got into a boat, he cannot land any- 

 where without being a trespasser — not a mere 

 technical one, but a trespasser whose presence is 

 hotly resented, as is shown by the warning signs 

 that greet him on every hand. This movement 

 towards excluding the public from places of this 

 kind will go on with increased speed until it has 

 practically reached every available spot of beauty. 

 Aside from the wrong thus done to the great mass 

 of people for the benefit of a minority, what will 

 be the effect of this change upon the permanent 

 inhabitants of the region ? At present they derive 

 large revenues from the travellers by furnishing 

 them with board, lodging, boats, vehicles, acting 

 as guides, and so forth. But to this revenue the 

 people who have their own summer residences con- 

 tribute very little. They have their own boats and 

 teams, get their supplies from the city, and hardly 

 ever patronize the local tradesman. If they are al- 

 lowed to drive out the transient visitors by more or 

 less completely excluding them from all the beauti- 

 ful spots to be found in the place, the permanent 

 inhabitants will lose nearly all the economic bene- 

 fits to be derived from the vacation season of the 



