Show ung GM AMMUEl r PK 4 yin finishing now new hampshire made hose prepared by national claux phi L D CL WN U service ca UW HAMPSHIRE might re NEW Nor centhy have been called tho orchestra chestra seat ecat for tho the show produced by nature the eclipse which drew thousands ot of visitors across her borders from many sta state tep without the eclipse however ne v hampshire Is a magnet to visitors ohp th year round lu in the summer its mountains and lakes call vacation ista from remote parts of the country while ip winter they are the scene of winter sports about two hundred and fifty years ago g new hampshire was separated fro from in B massachusetts the now new roy royal all provi province n ce had then but fo four ur towns which clung precariously to the seaboard and tf if the usual rule ot of computing population in proportion to qualified voters be observed there were perhaps a thousand souls in the census in a quarter millennium the states estates population has come to number about half a million people and has aspre spread ad from the coast to the lakes and beyond the mountains to the canadian border the march has haa been toilsome subduing the forest was no easy task and it Is small wonder that so many of its acres acrea once cleared by the stern process of cutting and burning have been permitted to resume their forest cover it Is probable that massachusetts was glad to be rid of new hampshire back there 0 years ago they had not got on well with the royal governors who had lived in boston it was the first manifestation of a revolt against absentee which new has always moro more or less maintained mills on the merrimack Merrl mack down in maine they speak of the h lordly kennebec but the stands unmatched its boast Is that it turns more spindles than any other stream in tho the world for upon its banks stand the great industrial cities of Blan manchester chester and nashua and new hampshire has always looked with pride upon its centers ot of the textile world from which its products have tone lone out all over the globe time was when solid trains 0 of f cottons used to go from manchester and nashua north and west through canada to the pacific coast and thence to the orient to clothe the heathen chinese but changing styles blackening immigration rayon and what w bat not ilot have played havoc with new eng H ng lands textiles while the orient has learned to make inalie its own shir tings and the south now cow not only grows but weaves its own cotton the miles of 0 mighty MIUS mills at manchester still run but not with their former volume the merrimack Merrl mack however like old man river keeps rolling along and so do the other streams which new hampshire originates and which have so greatly enriched new england gland the tha kennebec alone of all the great rivers of tills this section escapes ec apes new hampshire paternity the connecticut the androscoggin the saco these with the malce make the great quartette to which the four states of new hampshire massachusetts vermont and connecticut owe so much the story etory ot of the ney new hampshire grants Is an interesting one many a worthy figured in it the redoubtable ethan allen alien being the most conspicuous with him was a leading member ot of the dartmouth faculty and among them they attempted to set up a new state they succeeded but when they sought to incorporate into it some orty fifty towns of new hampshire that waa vas too much there was federal intervention tion and both vermont and new hampshire withdrew within their present frontiers among the titles in which now new hampshire glories Is that ot of the switzerland of 0 america in summer the mountains and valleys are thronged thron ged by tho the thousand the appalachian pa pala chian lachlan mountain club visits them piecemeal and sporadically though their trails and their cabins have a call which should be as strong in winter no as in Eur tho the dartmouth outing club however has been by no means slow to make use of 0 the winter months this organization has its chain of cit cabins lAns also which covers the territory from mount blount cardigan to mount washington and its hikes ns as described in the college publications remina one of the heroic tales which napoleon wrote upon the face of the alps some new hampshire cities whose latitude gives permission have their carnivals too and another fixed observance of the winter season Is the log dog races because in the eastern hills lla ile the kennels fram which explorers of loth the arctic and the Ant arcUe ll 11 hao va taken their sledge teams increasing competition and eb changing angin economic conditions have caused a recession in new Hamp shires basic industries dus tries but there ma an be no compete om and there Is Wc hange in those gifts with which nature has endowed the state As a consequence there are those who think that new ilama shares future must lie ile wholly in the further extension 0 of its ita recreational interests and in the further development of its water powers ono of the afa nt trat manufacturers of sporting goods la Is set down in the foothills of the white mountains and from his factory go forth thousands of baseballs to ib be sewn by the women of the tha comp I 1 il anity women in an fn are plenty enough in new hampshire however er but they have not come coma from the farms at least not from new hampshire farms where hand industry was to be found with the concentration of new hampshire industries in the cities and particularly with the specialization 8 of cities in the shoo shoe and textile lines camo came a swelling stream of immigration from the north attracted by the opportunities which the states expanding mills provided lots lota of water there new hampshire Is not a dry state at any rate no inconsiderable portion of its square miles Is covered with water its lakes are innumerable ranging from winnelle with its 80 square miles of area and its islands down to the tiny tarn in front of the crawford Craw tord house where the saco river has its source all of these waters highly protected by the state teem with fish and the prediction which gov moody currier made in his inaugural message a halt century ago seems to have come true the old gentleman was pleading for more generous appropriations for the fish and game department and argued that it should be possible to make each acre of new hampshire water area as productive as the average acre of df land if one throws into the account the revenue in taxes and purchases made by the owners of the sportsmens sports mens camps which have spawned so plentifully on the shores of new hampshire lakes and streams the governor Is seen to have had his vision realized the federal government also has not been neglectful and both the legislature and congress have established and mal maintain n hatcheries which tire are modern and eff efficient lelent and some of them picturesque has excellent schools new hampshire has haa always laid great store upon education and in less than fifteen years from the date of the first settlement schools were established in the earlier towns and contracts were made with imported teachers who were paid at public expense the colony was wag tut but seventy years old when amid the distress and distraction of the french and indian war the assembly made provision by taxation for or meeting houses ministers homes schoolhouses and the salaries of schoolmasters endowed academies sprang up within the following cen tury the first being the phillips exeter academy which in 1031 celebrated its and which stan stands ds in the foremost rank of 0 preparatory schools in the country these institutions for the most part bore the mark of the standing order of congregationalism the methodist school nt at tilton the baptist school at new london the rree free baptist school at new hampton ampton II and the unitarian r school at andover still maintain more or less of their denominational af affiliation the great church of 0 st pauls which was the first of that strong and notable chain of church schools in the E east ast together with the school at flold still adders to its hriso faith while st anselma Ans elms college established by the benedictine order near Alane manchester bester and several academies for girls attest the devotion 0 of the catholic church to scholarship in a state where it numbers at least a third of the total population at the head bead of all of new hamp shires educational institutions stands dartmouth college no longer the small smal college which webster loved and defended crowning the heavenly heights which spring upward from the connecticut at hanover na nover dartmouth with new buildings an enlarged fac acuity expanding endowments and it Is good to add the same old spirit tins has corno come to rank ranis with the preat col leges of the country rind and Is a source of constant pride to the state at Dur durham linni one of the first settle ments and near the sett sea la Is the university of new hampshire it too enjoying an era of r remarkable expansion i and prosperity |