New-York tribune., 1867-08-13
At LAKE MAHOPAC.
MAHoPAC AS A SUMMER REsoRT-ITs ADyAN-
TAGEs-THE GRAND MASQUERADE on FRI
DAY NIGHT.

MAHOPAC AS A SUMMER RESORT-ITS ADFAN-
TAGEs-THE GRAND MASQUERADE on FRI
DAY NIGHT.
Prom Our Special Correspondent
LAKE MAHOPAC Aug. 10, 1857.
Look out for so-and-sO about these times, the
amanacs say Among events for these days referred
to by the are Of course, the coming OF
the doghays and the consequent counryward hegra OF
the MetrOpotans. For the sunny days have come, or
rather the time for them has fully come, and people can
not they would stay the coming Of soft visions OF surf
beaten shores and inland lakes and COOL NOISY tystng
places the trees This is why are here at TINS
beautiful lake This is why 80 many tsSusa1d san Sl 0
&C. as your correspondents have duly noted III rel,es
Of he emo money @ and therefore %o write for many Of the
friends OF the ayathomes are lyng mere III the lut'
m MaIpSc sr IN iact near near & an NeaTy All the hotels
are filled and st your people come Ihey 90 wen ~
hard to find watering place OF easy access Irom 'eS
that for which people should seek when they
hear Mahopae, in this good county of Putnam Some Of
tins scenery hereabout is quite picturesque and ali OF
is pleasing The lake is only four five miles from Gro
ton Falls the Harlem Railroad and Is Of course quick
ly reached, and that too by good road through me
though rather rough farming district The place is quite
elevated and the pure There fine drives near
the lake. and running off TO Carmel and other villages
Aud on the lake tse-why there you may fish, sail or
from to eve and it's all right. II you can stand
II; but even then you Will dOyey little
the beauties the capabilities of these waters You may
do little steamboating too, If you choose; for here Is
little steamer Which carries about l25 people, For
quarter one may sail in this strange looking craft round
the lake. distance Of several mes-we don't know
how many Near the center are pretty Islands oi many
acres. heavily wooded. The hotels are scattered all
round the lake. and near by are some very taseim p
vate villas.
The masquerade and fancy dress ball at the Gregory
House Friday eyenlng-cOncerning which sent you
dspatch-had long been the theme OF comment by the
fashionable folk Of all the hotels Great preparations had
been made Wolfe, the Costumer Of New York. had been
called up. Wagon loads of Chinese lanterns aud star
spangled banners were brought The buildings were bril-
anty lighted hundreds of lanterns, scattered every
where the lawns down TO the lake shore produced
very pleasing effect The hop opened at about o'clock
i'm the evening Bernsten's band gave fine music, to
which hundreds of strangely or prey costumed people
filed ont upon the floors of The great dningrOoms which
had been very finely decorated Then there was merry
scene-as merry as IL 1t allowable to say as merry as
be GTite indescribabIe. Therefore, why should
We attempt description One ball is as much
like another as two peas alike, the only
difference being in the degree You will therefore easily
understand how these people looked, what the masque
rade really was when we say that the whole affair
Just like the most brilliant, most successful, most satls
factory ball you ever attended IL was brilliant lheI9
sorts OF pleasing startling effects Of dress, from the
plain domino from the gawky clown or the Daughter o
the Regiment, up to Louis Kill and NIN aud on, ev
Pocahonascs, and Italian and Spanish peasant girls and
Turks the Coral Fisher the Cherry Girl, the Kings
Jester aud hundreds OF others The centuries had been
Tansackcd for styles. Some of the chdrons costumes
were remarkably pretty There was motto on the wall
which read "Mirth, Wit, Folly" Well, these three
we'll and the masqueraders, what with dancing and good
supper and all the sOfOrhs had unquestOnably en-
ioyabc time The following named gentlemen formed the
Committees: Recepton-J. W. Bradley, I. B. Kerr, g. "
Powers j. swarren. H. G. Fahnestock, g NJ Fahnestock
G.. NJ simonson H. NJ. Van Eten. Decorations G T.
Gilman, VIM Tucker, W. I. Shirley, j. H. MorIeH, W O.
Mullock RefreShnents-J IL MoTren, l.. NJ Van Eten
VIM Tucker j. W. Bradley. Hndnce-H. &, Fahne-
stock, J. s. Warren, j. II. Morrel. Nusc-W NJ. Cowan
q. +. Gilman G.. NJ SimOnsOn. Fo0r-W. NJ Cowan H.
s Wilson, II. Shirley A. l.. Woodruff. j. T. Amldon, A. o.
Bradley. H0nOrdry-J. Kerr, i. Ellsworth, a. Fullerton
p Bruins ]. Il. Sayre, ~ NJ. Miranda, j. stner, W. y
Ketchum G.. W. Fuller. II. Salisbury G.. Kutter, p NJ
Bixby. Thomas Hitchcock. W. Il. Fletcher A musical
festival place this morning for the benefit OF Mons
Bernstein. There Il To he regatta on the Lake To-Day
and hop at the Baldwin House this evening. Among
the recent arrivals at the Gregory House arc Lord
Francis beverley OF Howlton Hail. Yorkshire, England
Eugene H. and Lady I. Beverley aud \ e. Gasa, consul
Rico a Boston.