44 EIGHTH REPORT OF THE 



$5,000 to $100,000 each, in which the investment for buildings, exclusive of land, 

 amounts in the aggregate to $3,846,500. 



If there are any to whom these figures may appear unduly large, their attention 

 is respectfully called to the beautiful and costly summer homes, near Raquette 

 Lake, owned by Mr. J. P. Morgan, Mr. A. G. Vanderbilt, Hon. T. L. Woodruff and 

 the late Mr. Collis P. Huntington; to the forest villas on the St. Regis Lakes 

 of Hon. Whitelaw Reid, Mr. F. W. Vanderbilt and Mr. H. McK. Twombly; 

 to the expensive and tasteful "camps" on Upper Saranac Lake belonging to 

 Hon. L. P. Morton, Mr. Isaac Seligman, the Messrs. Swenson, Mr. Julius S. Bache, 

 Dr. L. E. Holt and Mr. D. H. Kahn; to the buildings of the Knollwood Club on 

 Lower Saranac; the numerous fine cottages of the Adirondack League Club 

 on Little Moose, Honnedaga and the Bisby Lakes; the houses of the Saranac 

 Club on the Bartlett Carry; the large number of beautiful cottages at Lake 

 Placid and Keene Valley, and the extensive buildings on the private preserves 

 of Hon. Robert C. Pruyn, Dr. W. Seward Webb, Mr. William Rockefeller, 

 Gen. E. A. McAlpin and Mr. A. A. Low. 



Adirondack jammer lousiness. 



The business done each season by the hotels and boarding-houses in the 

 Adirondacks contributes largely to the development and prosperity of Northern 

 New York, fairly approaching in its magnitude that of the great industries which 

 are dependent on the forest product of that region. In the management of this 

 business employment is furnished to thousands of people, trade is stimulated by 

 the large purchases of supplies, building operations increase the demand for skilled 

 labor, while the railroad and steamboat lines reap the benefits accruing from the 

 large passenger and freight traffic. Of more importance, however, far greater in 

 its humane aspect than mere commercial advantages, are the sanitary benefits 

 afforded by the Adirondack forests to the thousands who there find relief from 

 disease and enjoy a new lease of life. The healthful climate is due largely to the 

 pure air, which, carried by mountain winds over great forest areas, is freed from 

 dust, smoke and miasmatic influences, while in its course it is charged with balsamic 

 exhalations that carry healing to the lungs of invalids. 



The statistics published in the annual reports of the Adirondack Cottage 

 Sanitarium show a remarkable percentage of cures effected in patients suffering 

 from incipient consumption ; and a large proportion of the population in some of 

 the Adirondack villages is composed of people who enjoy comparatively good health 

 in that climate, although they could not live long elsewhere. Of this class many 

 find employment in various vocations, while others, whose incomes will permit, 



