Excerpt from Mountain Lake Park: Summit of the Alleghanies

Here we come to a halt at the very summit of the mount ains, three thousand feet above the level of the sea, and midway between the famous resorts 'of Deer Park and Oak land we find mountain lake park, Beautiful for situa tion, a natural gem rapidly receiving as superb a setting as art'can give it, a wilderness which is being made to blossomthe rose. The Park contains eight hundred acres. Three hundred of these have been cleared, avenues care-fully laid and named, the natural drainage been supplemented by engineering skill, and a large number9 cottages, varying in size, style and cost. Has been erected, twenty-three within the past year, some of great beauty and of substantial character. The artist finds ample subjects for his pencil in this sequestered, shady villa, where he beholds ornamentation and mo-destv harmonizing, and surrounded with the thick green foliage of nature's own oaks.

The best of roads for carriages have been constructed, already aggregating from eight to ten miles within the grounds. Here is a quaint, peaceful city of magnificent dis tances, whose avenues are broad and long, and where crowd ing is out of the question. Under the tall and arching trees the sunlight and shadows play, and now and then one catches a glimpse of a towering mountain peak in the dreamy gray of the distance, adding a peculiar charm to the carefully planned avenues. Again has the B. O. Manifested its interest in the success of the Park by constructing a fine roadway from the Deer Park grounds to Mountain Lake, and thence by Lake Youghiogheny, along the mountain ridge, southward, making a complete circuit of road bed, thus affording the best oppor tunities to those who enjoy the pleasure of a picturesque mountain drive.

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