New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-02
IN THE ACKNOWLEDGES.
THE SEASON ALMOST AT IT'S HEluh l.
NEW ARRIVALS AT THE VARIOUS HOTELS FOR
AUGUsT-DIvERsIONs AND ADJUSTMENTS

IN THE MOUNTAINS
Adirondack Mountains. Aug 1 ,SpeciaD.-The
height of the season is at hand. the trains and
the hotel registers would show even Il the calendar
and the frequent quotation of the precedent SET 10y
al previous Adirondack seasons didn't Especially
In the last day have the people been nockhs
in. for a great many rooms at the various hotels
had been engaged from August 1-to-day. Tho
week has been like of the previous weeks this
season one of occasional showers. but not the
weather that Mr. Mantalini so cordially and justly
disiked-ony rain enough to keep the DUST iao'
This is the month VI the tennis tournaments, plans
for holding least two of which. at the Grand
View and the Ampersand. have been perfected
The hotels which have golf links on their grounds,
though absorbed I'm That great game. 10 the
practical exclusion OF all other sports, and some
interesting interhotel golf championship matches
TO he contested. The hotel guests read
the papers of course, but they too far away
from the centres Of activity take lively interest
In politics. That will stir them when they get
home. little later on. refreshed and strengthened
by their rest here to do stout service In defence
OF sound money and the National faith for the ad-
vocates of Reputation do not make the Adiron-
dacks their summer home.
HOTEL AMPERsAND.
Saranac Lake n. Y. Aug (SpeciaD.-The beau
tifu Hotel Ampersand is in the full tide of pros
porous and brilliant season. and scores OF persons
DESTROYS Of getting rooms for August have been
told that there rooms. Arrangements have
been completed for the eighth annual tennis tour
nament, which will be held on August II and sue
ceeding days on the Ampersand courts. Entries
will be received up to the night of August 10. The
contests will be limited to mems singles and
doubles and handsome prizes will be awarded the
winners The details OF the tournament are in
charge OF Clinton l.. Childs. Of Pittsburg. The
games will have attractive setting. for no
prettier grounds can be found anywhere than the
Arnpersands fine cement court. on a beveed space
halfway down steep hillside just before you get
to the hotel and down below the court. shining
through the trees the clear waters Of the lake
The Ampersand will enter team ut the Grand
View tournament next week. One Of the players
will be Mr.. Chi,ds. who will play in doubles with
Samuel Thomson OF Altoona. Penn.
Many Of the guests witnessed on Monday lively
hail game on the Ampersand field between the team
Of this hotel and nine from Ausable Forks. Some
OF the members OF this years victorious Princeton
nine played on the Ampersand team. which won the
game by the OF IS to 10.
There IL dancing night In the hotel parlors.
which AFFORD ample floor space for the young and
gay while their elders sit out on the wide piazzas
chatting and watching the exquisite enects OF the
moonlight upon the ripping waters OF me lake
On Sunday evenings the scene changes. for then the
great rug is spread in the main paror, many chairs
are brought IN standing lamps with shades Of many
colors are placed here and there around the room.
and there gathers revercnt throns OF worshppers
20 attend the short and simple service of the Episco-
pal Church. held there every Sunday evening by the
Rev. Mr.. Larom.
Among tho Ampersand's guests are Mrs. Robert
= Green and Robert s Green. jr., Elizabeth. " j.;
lir and Mrs. Horatio Looms and Mrs f. j. fheipS'
Burlington VT: Mr.. and Mrs Thomas A tdisoh
and Miss Miller. Orange. ~ j: Mrs. George X
sheldon Miss Mary S Sheldon. Miss Gertrude Shell
Inn Mr. and Mrs s - Mathews. Miss A. T. Park.
Mr. and Mrs Lansdale Boardman Miss Boardman
Lincoln Mccormick. Nathan Guilfori. jr., Mr. and
Mrs John w. Love and Miss Love. New-Nork CITY,
Mr. and Mrs James Macbeth Miss Macbeth, Mrs
VI P Norris. Miss NJ Frances Norris. Mrs f. A.
Dickerson and Miss Dckerson Brooklyn; Mr.. and
NIrs p W Roberts Mrs. Edmund Wright and Miss
II J. Wright Philadelphia: Miss Davis and Miss
Mary Davis Rogers. Germantown. Penn: Miss
Edith NJ Saylor and Ralph f. Saylor. Pottstown
Penn and F. c. Schraub. Lowvile. y. Y
HOTEL ALGONQUIN.
life at The Algonquin is a round OF pleasure. with
boating and bowling and driving by day and danc-
ing every evening samagundi party in the hotel
parors the other evening thoroughly enjoyed
nv a large number of players The prizes were
awarded as follows: Ladies-First prize. Mrs C. H.
Garland: second. Miss Mildred Sutherland Men
First prize, James Mcmillan; second, f. T. Sher-
There will be held August 4. and on the new
track near Saranac Lake Village a series of trot
ting and pacing races. which will be Of special IN
rerest to the Algonquin's guests, as Mr.. Harding
the proprietor OF the hotel, is president OF the
Earanac Lake Driving Association. under whose
management the races be contested y large
number Of the trotters and PAGERS In North
ern New-York. well as several from New-York
CITY have entered for the the purses FOR
which aggregate $3.50"
Among the guests recently registering at the Al
gonquin have been Mrs. Margaret Bottome head OF
the Kings Daughters; Frank a. Hall. Mr.. and Mrs
J. H. Sherman. Mrs. s. +. Gillum, Miss NJ 3
Waters New-York: Judge and Mrs Alfred c. Coke
Miss Gertrude Coke. Miss Isabel Coke, aired C.
Coke ir Utica Seth l.. Keeney. Mr. and Mrs
Frank A. Keeney Brooklyn; Mr.. and Mrs Clarence
s. Whitney Mr. and Mrs. Lewis A. Leland, Bos-
ton: Mr. and Mrs W. T. Lewis. Morristown n. j..
Mr. and Mrs Charles Brewer, Philadelphia; L. s.
Johnson Syracuse.
HOTEL DEL MONTE.
The Del Monte. which is close to the pretty Colby
Pond and only fve-mnute walk from the Amper-
sand and the Lower Saranac Lake has consider
able number of guests and many bookings for Au-
gust With boating. driving. walks through the
woods on the picturesque roads near by. billiards
and other amusements. the time of the guests is
pleasantly occupied. There was weL-attended
musical in the handsome parlor OF the hotel one
evening this week followed by dance. Those TAX
ing part in the musical Miss Belle Wiskham,
of Syracuse rnczzo soprano Miss Elizabeth Nc
Clean. Of Highland Park, soprano; W. II. Scott.
recitations.
Among the Del Monte's guests c. II. Childs.
East Orange. y. j.: Mrs. G. Denson. Miss Denison,
Miss Ruth Denison Cleveland: Charles s. Miller.
Or. Richard Miller New-York: Miss Sutherland,
Miss Mary Sutherland Sidney W. Wallace, Jersey
City: F. G. Schumacher, Buffalo.
RIVERSIDE INN
The season at Riverside Inn is fully up 10 the X
pcctations OF Wallace Murray its proprietor Mr.
Murray used to manage the old Baker p1ce." first
Of the Saranac Lake hotels. I'm the days when the
guests had to stage IT. away through the noun
tains from Keeseville and he still holds the prop
erty. which is on the outskirts of the present vii
lage. the line OF the railway to Lake Placid
Part Of the farm IS under cultivation as the hotel
garden OF Riverside Inn. The Inn is favorite
For