New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-12
THE HOTEL CHAMPLAIN.
Delightfully."- Situated Beside Lake
and Mountain.

The Hotel Champlain opens on July with the
largest advance engagements It has had for
eral seasons Perched like an enchanted palace on
a pine wooded bluff overlooking beautiful Lake
CI1amplain. and looking out TO the east the
Green Mountains OF Vermont. and to the west
the Adirondack range the Hotel Champlain revels
in all the beauties OF nature and art. as every
tourist who has tarried there enthusiastically at
tests.
The completion Of the broad gauge railroad brings
this season Bluff Point the site OF the Hotel Cham
plain, within two and half hours ride Of Lake
Placid. Saranac Lake. Paul Smiths and other
5avoTite Adirondack resorts. This shortening Of
distance viii greatly enhance the gayety OF the
Hotel Champaign for tourists taking the famous
lake trip either TO from the mountains, or into
Canada. since the hotel IS the only inn Of de-
lights" under whose hospitable caves boat or rail
road passengers may tarry. The broad gauge short
all trips into the AdirondackS either 10 from
the hotel nearly twenty-four hours. This will bring
JOY TO golfers. The links at the Hotel Champlain
justly famous. but hitherto distance from the
Adirondack links has prevented the interchange
OF match games desired by guests owing TO the
t,re consumed in reaching the links. Now golfers
Tay leave the Hotel Champlaln in the morning
after breakfast. reach Lake Placid. Saranac or
PAU Smith in time for luncheon have game OF
Soli and take dinner home. This years golf
prizes will be as numerous and costly as in former
seasons.
No hotel in the world-certainly not in the United
States-open only three months Of the year has
O.OuSnL horticulture 10 such nigh degree OF per
lection as The Hotel ChamU.alu. The greenhouses,
Landscape gardening. wealth Of outdoor bloom the
fare continuation OF art and nature cOnfrOntS
me eye from the hotels enrrcAnS VeranGas are
rarely met elsewhere. Inc horticulture at the
Hotel ChamplaIn IS almost as educational as are
the botanical gardens Of large cities.
The grOItO All lre-e-.t TINS season many novelties
10 enhance, II possible, the Monte Carlo suggestive
ness OF that feature Of the hotel The wall diyld-
ing the grotto proper from the interior cafe has
been removed; al adjoining rooms nave been con-
heTleo INTO one broad area, fitted up with all the
luxury OF metropolitan restaurant
Inc Hotel Champlaln. being without rival hotels
N us vicinity, IS largely dependent on its own
resources Tor entertainment. eXclusi.euess
age. Inuke many other resorts. however. is
hIoAlnllty 10 FlattSburg Barracks gives u dash Of
me military 10 all its social affairs.
4, I44s season promises 10 be particularly CAV in
IespecL Inc 3th Infantry Is staliUEed for
ZIG summer al TINS largest frontier mltary station
On the governments Canadian borders The 9TH
tuIdhug includes some fourteen hundred men, q
A@Tse percentage OF whom dancing men
us season, Tor the first time in many years the
tSAteSoorg Barracks opens its Military Club, which
when the guests OF the Hotel Champain will al
ways De welcome Aside from the military inc
otel naanag cement asserts that this season will
ping an assured number Of dancing mem outside
pIass puttons, so that no maiden of nimbIe feet
AeSq sign IN vain for a partner in the dance
Inc tallyho has been refurbished and coaching
pIueS 70 the historic sites in the neghborhood
WILL remain a feature Of the hotels eayety
me -FOUR hundred acres of farmland from which
11s ISnles Or the Hotel Champlan are replenished
s.sn Hesh nome grown vegetables and fruits were
..eNleF N more productive condition. assuring a
SAtnle up 70 the high standard which the Hotel
Snainplain has maintained since its opening TO the
puDAe some hfteen years ago.