50 EIGHTH REPORT OF THE 



In August the hotels and boarding-houses, with few exceptions, are filled to 

 their utmost capacity, and the total just given (27,502) indicates closely the 

 number of guests in the Adirondacks at that time. With these figures must also 

 be kept in mind the equally large capacity of the private "camps" and cottages, 

 each occupied during the season by some family and its guests. But the summer 

 boarders are coming and going from June to September, staying, on an average, 

 about two weeks each. In the White Mountains an exhaustive census of the 

 summer people and the hotel business shows that sixty-two per cent of the arrivals 

 remained less than one week.* A careful estimate of the total number of summer 

 visitors from the beginning to the end of the season, as reported by the Adirondack 

 hotels and boarding-houses, to which are added the occupants of private "camps," 

 shows that j 93,681 people went there last season for recreation and health. This 

 also includes the sportsmen who went there in May for the fishing, and in October 

 or November for deer shooting. 



That this number is not an overstatement is evident from the information 

 kindly furnished this office by the general passenger agents of the New York 

 Central and the Delaware and Hudson Railroads, from which it appears that 

 225,000 passengers were carried on the Adirondack divisions during the summer 

 season. These figures do not represent the entire passenger traffic during that 

 period, but the difference obtained by deducting from the total summer traffic 

 an amount equal to that of the winter months, the difference evidently showing 

 the number of summer boarders, hotel employees and sportsmen on their way to 

 and from the woods. 



The following statistics are based on the returns made to this office by each 

 hotel and boarding-house in the Adirondack region: 



VOLUME OF ADIRONDACK BUSINESS. 



Capital invested in buildings, furniture, boats, horses, carriages, etc., not 

 including land: 



Hotels and boarding-houses $7,°37i9 2 3 



Private "camps" and cottages 3,846,500 



Total $10,884,423 



* " The Summer Season in New Hampshire." Special Report by the State Bureau of Labor. 

 L. H. Carroll, Commissioner, Manchester, N. H. Public Printer, 1900. 



