AN ADIRONDACK CAMP 
By E. N. Vallandigham 
With Photographs hy the Author 
/^AMPS in the Adirondacks are of all sorts 
and sizes, from the rough shelter of those 
who go into the wilderness to hunt deer, to 
the palatial country houses that surround the 
St. Regis Lakes. Twenty-five or thirty 
millionaires have their so-called camps in 
the St. Regis region. Here all summer long 
the occupants of the camps entertain a small 
army of guests. Those who do not lodge in 
the houses, great and small, that dot the camp 
grounds, are lodged in commodious tents 
sometimes fitted up with something like 
Oriental luxury. 1 he daily life is that of a 
fashionable watering place; and a few of 
those who camp actually take most of their 
meals in a neighboring hotel dining-room. 
Such camping is one of the most expensive 
forms of summer dissipation. Food, service 
and supplies of all kinds are appallingly high 
in these little millionaire colonies. Every 
large camp has from two to four guides at not 
less than three dollars a day each, union 
wages. All local servants are highly paid, 
the guides’ wages setting the fashion. Meat 
is sold at exorbitant prices, and even fish, 
which one might expect td be cheap in a 
region thick set with lakes and fretted with 
streams, is far above the market price in most 
cities. The visiting millionaires and their 
guests are the natural prey of a community 
with super-sharpened money sense. There 
are stories told of bread sold to the camps at 
thirty cents a loaf, and wild berries, to be 
gathered anywhere by the gallon, at ten or 
twelve cents a quart. 
The life of these gay camps is an affair of 
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