Show LN 1 IV 4 T 7 finishing new hampshire M made de hose Prep arca by national geographic society was washington ington U V C service I 1 ce THIV HAMPSHIRE might recently IN C have been called t the lie orchestra seat scat for the show produced by nature the eclipse which drew thousands of visitors across tier her borders irom from ninny many states without the eclipse however new hampshire Is a magnet to visitors the year round in the summer its mountains and lakes call from remote pa parts arts of the country while in winter they are the scene of winter sports about two hundred and fifty years ago TO now new hampshire was separated from massachusetts the new royal province had then but four towns which clung citing precariously to the sea board and if the usual rule of computing population in proportion to qualified voters be observed there were perhaps a thousand souls in the census in ill a quarter millennium the states population has come to number about half a million people and has spread from tile the coast to the lakes and beyond the mountains to the Can canadian canadyan adlan border the march has been toll toilsome some subduing the forest was no easy task and it Is small wonder that so ninny many of its acres once cleared by the stern process of cutting and burning have been permitted to resume their forest cover it Is probable vint that massachusetts was glad to be rid of new hampshire back there years ago they had not got on well with the royal governors who had lived in boston bosto n it was the first manifestation of a revolt against absentee which new hampshire has hag always more or less maintained mills on the merrimack Meirl mack down in maine they speak of the lordly kennebec but the merrimack stands unmatched its bonstin boa bon stIs that tt it turns more spindles than any other stream in the world for upon its banks stand the great industrial cities of manchester and nashua and new hampshire has always looked with pride upon its centers of the textile world from which its products have gone out all over the globe time was when solid trains of cottons used to go from manchester and nashua north and west through canada to the coast and thence to the orient to clothe the heathen chan chinese esc rut but changing styles slackening immigration rayon and what not have played havoc with new eng lands textiles while the orient has learned to make its own shir tings and the south now not only grows but weaves its own cotton the miles of mighty mills at manchester still run but not with their former volume the Merrl merrimack mack however like old ohl man alan iziver keeps rolling along and so ilo do the other streams which new hampshire originates and which have so greatly enriched new england the kennebec alone of all the great rivers of this section escapes new alamp ham shire paternity the connecticut the androscoggin the saco these with the merrimack Mor make the great quartette to which the four states of new hampshire massachusetts vermont and connecticut owe so much switzerland of america among the titles in which new hampshire glories Is that of tile the switzerland of america in summer the mountains and valleys are thronged thron ged by the thousand the appalachian pala PRIn chian chlan mountain club visits them piecemeal and sporadically though their trails and their cabins have a call which should be as strong in win ter as a in summer the dartmouth Part mouth outing club however has been by no means slow to make use of the winter months this organization has its chain of cabins also which covers the territory front from mount cardigan to mount washington and its hikes as described in the college publications remind one of the heroic tales which napoleon wrote upon the fuca of the alps some new hampshire cities whose latitude gives permission have their carnivals too and another fixed observance servance of the winter season Is tho dog races because la in tile the eastern ue lie the kennels from froin which explorers of both the arctic and ana the antarctic have taken their sledge teams increasing competition and changing economic conditions have caused a recession in new Hamp shires basic industries dus tries but there can be no competition and there Is no change in those thosa gifts 9 s with wt which nature haa aa endo en owe weil the state As a consequence there are those who think that new hamp 1 shires future must lie wholly in the further extension of its recreational interests and in the further development of its water powers lots of water there I 1 new hampshire Is not a dry state i at any rate no inconsiderable portion of its square miles Is covered with water its lakes are innumerable ranging from saul cee with its 80 square miles of area and its islands downto down to tile the tiny tarn in front of the crawford house where the saco river has its source all of these waters highly protected by the state teem with elsh and the prediction which gov cov moody currier made in his inaugural ral message a half century ago seems to have come true the old gentleman was pleading for more generous generou s appropriations for the elsh and game department ano and argued that it should be possible to make each acre of new hampshire water area as productive as a s the average acre of land if one throws into the account the revenue in taxes and purchases mado made by the owners of the sportsmens sports mens camps which have spawned soa plentifully on the shores of new hampshire e 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 maintain hatcheries which are modern and efficient and some of them picturesque has excellent schools new hampshire has always laid great store upon education and in less than tha n 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 but seventy years old when amid the distress and distraction of the rench french F and indian war the assembly ns made provision on by taxation for meeting houses ministers homes schoolhouses and the salaries of schoolmasters endowed academies sprang up within the following century the first being th the e phillips exeter academy which in 1931 celebrated its and which stands in the foremost rank of preparatory schools in the country these institutions for the most part bore the marls mark of the standing order of congregational ism the methodist school at tilton the baptist school at new london the free baptist school at new hampton and the school at andover still maintain more or less of their denominational af flita tion lion the great church of st pauls which was the first of that strong and notable chain of church schools in the east together with the school at fl holderness still adders to its depiso faith while st Ans anselma elms college established by the benedictine order near manchester and several N academies academics for girls fittest tha devotion of the catholic church t in a state where it numbers at least a third of the total population n at tile hend head of all oan of new y hamp shires educational institutions stands dartmouth college no to longer ager tile the sm small all colic colidge ge which webster loved and defended crowning tile the heavenly heights which spring upward from the connecticut at Ila hanover dartmouth with new buildings an enlarged faculty expanding endowments and it la 14 good to add the same old spirit has come to rank ath the great col leges or of the country and Is 6 a source of constant pride to tile the state at durham oneff the first watlo anent and near the spa sea Is the bover jn brer sity of new hampshire lt aitto to enjoying sin ill era of remarkable expansion and prosperity pro rii ty i i i |