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expense of the improvements. The princi- 
pal “‘camp” is called Moonhaw Lodge, and 
is built on the site of the lodge of the chief 
of the Moonhaw Indians, who were the 
owners of the country in years gone by. 
tion of the lodges, bridges and rough roads, 
is left exactly as the lumbermen left it years 
ago when they stripped it of its hemlock. 
And through the forest run streams of glass- 
clear, ice-cold water, the very sight of which 

“FAINT BABBLING OVER STONES IN STRANGELY, SOFTLY TANGLED TONES” 
All the building materials used, with the 
exception of cement and nails, are obtained 
on the spot, and the work is all done by 
natives. The bridges are made of cobble- 
stone, in the building of which the workers 
are remarkably skilful; the cobblestones 
are picked up in the bed of the stream and 
the bluestone, which is also used, is found 
near-by. It requires from four to six weeks 
to build a lodge, at a cost of about $600. 
The Wittenberg Club land is of the 
wildest in the Catskills and, with the excep- 
_would cause the eyes of the fisherman—he 
who knows the haunts of the speckled trout 
—to brighten; and with reason, for in the 
two. miles of streams tributary to the Esopus 
Creek that meander through Wittenberg 
Park and tumble noisily over the rocks in 
innumerable little cascades lurk many 
members of the brook trout tribe—the 
genuine Salmo fontinalis, with their char-— 
acteristic wildness, and the flavor that 
belongs to trout that live in very cold water. 
Moonhaw Lodge,.in Wittenberg Park, is 
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