New-York tribune., 1904-09-04
WHITE MOUNTAIN SPORTS.
Climbing Steep Peaks by Moonlight
Popular uith Young People.

Breton Woods, N H. Sept. (Special).-The
exodus of families with children OF the school
age is new inevitable, but there is a correspond
fng influx OF September visitors. most Of whom
VIII remain through the entire month. and some
well into October The Mount Pleasant House.
the Intervale. Fabyan, Iron Mountain, Sunset
Hiu Forest HI Sinclair and many other
will remain open this year until October 10 and
the White Mountain season promises to be even
as late as that of the Berkshires There is
something in this mountain cir. tinged with
carly frost, that is wonderfully braciug, and
mountain climbing both by day and night. be-
comes the sport Of the hour. The August friils
give way to corduroys and tweeds.
There has been round of social happenings
at the two Breton Woods hotels. On Thursday
evening last week coton given at the
Mount Pleasant, which arranged and led
by Miss Maysie Emery, of Jacksonville. Fla,
and George w. White. of NewYork.
AT the Mount Washington on Saturday even
ing there was another cotilon. to which the
young people of the Mount Pleasant were in
yited. Charles Eliot, of Baltimore, and Robert
Day. of Springfield, led the figures. The favor
tables were presided over by Mrs Ganson De-
pew, Mrs. r. w. Day. Mrs. w. G. Eliot and
Mrs. ]. Blake White. Mrs Clarence Brown. of
New York, on Monday evening arranged hay
rack ride to the Crawford House.
A water polo match on Tuesday evening at
the Hotel Mount Washington was attended by
guests of both houses in large numbers, and
baseball game the Breton Woods diamond
between Bethlehem and Breton Woods resulted
in g victory for Breton Woods l. most in
teresting game OF ball was that played on
Wednesday afternoon between two teams made
up of the fat and lean men OF the two Breton
Woods hotels. The Mount Peasants men were
victorious with a score of 9 to s.
7 ID Price Wednesday evening chap
eroned & party Of young people of Breton
Woods TO a vaudeville entertainment at the
Crawford House. L. A. Hamilton, of New-York.
gave g supper after the performance to a num-
ber OF his friends.
Prominent among distinguished guests at
Breton Woods Mrs. Joseph Stickney. who
came this week with her mother. Mrs. Foster;
Congressman Butler Ames, of Lowell Mass:
DR.. George F. Shrady, of New-York, and Mrs.
shrady; Professor J. Rayner Edmands. of Har-
ward University; Bishop Leonard and Mrs.
Lepnard, of Cleveland, Ohio. Miss Maysie
Emery gave luncheon party to several young
women of Mount Pleasant on Tuesday.
The American Hay Fever Association held
meeting in Bethlehem last Friday. the Rev. DR..
John Peacock. Of Philadelphia, presiding. An
other will be held at the Fabyan sfIouse on
Tuesday. VIII Carleton. the poet, spoke on
Wednesday afternoon in the Methodist Episco-
IN the evening the Rev. DR.. Tunis Hamlin, Of
Washington, d. c. gave an address Nor
rnonism.
Lieutenant Peary, the Arctic explorer, has
been at the Fabyan House this week, with Mrs.
Peary and Miss Marie Peary. They visited the
summit of Mount Washington
At the Crawford House there have been ten
mis- and golf tournaments. The masquerade ball
Saturday night brought out about forty dancers,
Lollo ~
A moonlight climb over Mount Washington and
a shorter one to the summit Of Willard have
been innovations in mountain climbing that
have appealed to many of the young people.
A vaudeville show Wednesday evening
was given for the benefit Of the bellboys OF the
hotel. The guests and party from the Breton
Woods hotels filled the parlors.
DR.. Henry Boyer. of the United States navy,
who has just returned from a three years
cruise is here with his son, Henry Boyer, Jr,
for few weeks at the Crawford.
At the InteTvaie House there is a large COM
pany of guests assembled there for September.
Golf and mountain climbing are the most popu-
lar sports at present Clarence Estey and party
stopped over at the Intervale on their way to
Oyster Bay. Mr.. Estey, who is a classmate of
the Presidents, is going there to visit him.
1t has been busy week at the Kearsarge. at
North Conway, which entertains large num-
ber of guests. Several brake rides have been
given by Kearsarge guests this week. card
party Thursday evening filled several tables
"A JACKSON mountain cUINDlIS also SeeillS aS
popular pastime as any. The new Grays Inn
is having large September patronage.
Wentworth Hall. the Iron Mountain, the Eagle
Mountain. and the Jackson Falls House are all
well filed with midsummer guests. There is
much driving. As yet motoring does not seem
80 have become popular here.
Bethlehem is well filed with visitors, her vari-
Gus hotels and cottages accommodating between
two and three thousand visitors, and most of
them planning to stay for September golf
The Maplewood has had at her hotel and cot
tsges the largest house count of any hotel on
that side OF the mountains There have been
many entertainments this week, prominent
among Them being a cotillon Tuesday evening.
at which about twenty-five couples danced. The
Casino was handsomely decorated. The grand
midsummer ball. however, the big function
Of the entire season. Invitations that had been
sent broadcast throughout the mountains met
with generous responses. Among events of this
week was beneft and dance for the baseball
club at the Casino Thursday evening, and a
vaudeville entertainment by Louis Kelso and
Miss Frederick in the Casino on Friday evening
There has been "a great deal Of golf at Maple
wood this week, as well as tennis. There are
expert players enough in both sports to make
the regular weekly tournaments most exciting
INDUCED in at Maplewood, where there are at
tractive roads and shady lanes that invite a
drive. Horseback riding is also in vogue and
the saddlers IN constant demand there.
At the Profile House golf and tennis have, as
usual, reigned. A tennis tournament last week
was the largest ever held at the Profile and Gre
ated great enthusiasm over the sport. At the
tea on the golf links last Saturday Mrs. Irwin
Cornell. of New-York, hostess The train
carried down large load OF guests to the golf
club four miles distant, and as many more
A musical was given Friday evening, under
Mrs. d. 2. Kimbalfs patronage, for the benefit
Of Boston's blind babies.
One of the gIvers OF tennis cups at the recent
tournament was c. y. Bliss. jr., the son of the
ex-Secretary. Mrs J. Wyman Jones. Mrs David
Morrison and Mrs c. S. Haskins of New-York