Show 4 fa ft I 1 suppose this thia is the t time ime ot of the year to tell about our visit to santas workshop at no new cw york thice men inon have made a fortune tor for themselves and 1110 nought tight countless happy hours to many many any children new boik Is located a afew few miles out of lake placid pla cid in a beautiful mountainous legion lut but to begin at the beginning four or five years ago a mr air reiss who lad had an automobile agency was driving to lake placid from new york city with his small daughter in n the car to keep her entertain ed lie he began t to tell her hel st atolies iles olies and as it was near Chils tinas lie ho naturally told lier iier about santa claus and where he lived after three or four hours of talking of santa and just before she fell asleep the little girl said it be the best ever it if we could go to santas hore home this gave mr reiss food for thought bought and for the i remainder ema inder or of the he trip his thoughts were completely occupied with the idea of a tourist attraction which would mould feature santa claus clam ant and his workshop like all dreamers die di earners amers mr air reiss get any satisfaction from his banker and his brother told him he was crazy but a walt disney artist and another friend could visualize what could be done so they formed a partnership and promoted this fal fairyland ryland for clil children lAren ot of course adults become children a gain and enjoy it too across the ezi entrance trance to io santas workshop shop Is a big arch picturing santo santa and his sleigh with the aei reindeer lein adeer deer literally flying across the sky inside the park were many bright colorful little cottages which looked like they had been picked right out of a walt disney cartoon was a home for or jolly old king V aple apte a big laughing fellow dressell dres seil exactly as one would ima ine he should be dressed lie he had the jolliest jol liesl liest eyes of any individual I 1 have even seen but his teeth stole the show they were e big very big and about every other one was missing and laughing as he did you just miss the teeth all the attendants in the park were ere diessel as elves real dionest to goodness reindeer lein deer were around amoum and in that time ot of the year june their hoins were only about div alve e inches long arid and in the velvet I 1 dint count all the ducks geese rabbits chickens and other animals around but they say are several hundred As for or santa the best the most exciting of all lie ile is the most moat perfect santa claus clans I 1 h have ave evel seen and I 1 wish all the kids in the llie county could see our picture of him ile he is short and plump with ical white whiskers whisk ers the merriest of blue eyes of which he wears those tiny square glasses that our great grandparents grandpas ants used to wear ile he lives in a house which Is completely furnished fuini shed so that the children may see bee how lie he lives but the best of all in his house la Is its his big bea which is made ot of a sleigh and lined with beautiful red satin Is a north pole in the park a real one of 0 ice and snow and no matter how hot it gets in the he bum mer mertice time the pole remains fioden the fact that it Is helped out with modern inventions Invent lona detract from froin the spirit I 1 tell you just walking around this fairyland makes one want to shout merry christmas even in june there is a wishing well in which well wishers toss coins and just beffie christmas each year the money Is used to buy presents which are distributed to orphanages and other less fortunate children within a radius of miles of North pole |