New-York tribune., 1905-07-30
CATSKlLL LOG FIRES.
Hotels Cro1cded- Happy Tribune
Fresh dir Children.

Pine Hill. n. Y July % Especially cool
weather of late made necessary log fires in many
Catskill hotels in the evening. There is some
thing especially CHEEKY about cracking open
fire around which the mountain guests gather
in the big easy chairs when the evening breezes
bit too fresh outside
Hotel Kaaterskill, which has been entertain
ing over 800 guests for the last two weeks is
now filled. and some of it's regular guests are
on the waiting list. Mr. Humphrey says the
great mountain resort, with its 800 or more
rooms, is completely booked for August and
the immense hotel tonight is crowded as it
rarely has been in recent years
The old Mountain House has about $50 guests.
which means many cots in convenient places
Dinners at the Mountain House for excursion
parties quite the fad this season. and every
corner of the enlarged dining hall is now In
use. All the many Hanes Falls resorts are
filled with visitors. and there is a continuous
whirl of social gayety.
Here at Pine Hill there also is an active search
for rooms. The little streets are alive with the
summer girl. her relatives and her admirers.
There are indoor functions of an informal ma
ture, and athletic events without number, in
Guiding straw rides. Miss Helen Wurburger
won the bowling alley prize. with score of Do,
and j. A Michel took the gentlemans prize
score, 211. j. H. Southgate is at the Alpine for
his eighteenth Tie Rev. De Los Lull
has completed an Indian wigwam in Cathedral
Glen, which he named Pilgrims Rest"
Frederick Shelton and family, and Mrs. A.
Hewlett and daughter, of Brooklyn, are at the
Cornish House. H. n. Casson, of New-York,
has presented the Pine Hill school with a silver
cup, which is TO be raced for by the boys each
year. Ward Griffin the winner this season.
her WAS q tiC rta Mt
Charles Casino, Hunter, tonight, under the di-
rection of Bores Thomashefsky, in aid of the
Beth Israel Hospital in New-York. This He
brew actor has bought the Burtis farm there
upon which he now lives, He talks of building
theatre in that quiet village. A delegation
from the Tamminund Country Club of Phila-
delphia is camping the Schoharie, near
Hunter.
j. B. Carey, of Brooklyn. has purchased the old
Martin homestead at EdgewOod in the Stony
Glove, which includes $50 of land and
miles of trout water. Louis Morgenstein
treasurer Of the KnickerbOcker Theatre is at
Cairo. H L. Parnell. general manager of the
Merchants Union Ice Company, NewYork. and
his wife, were recent guests at the summer home
of F. n. Du Bois, in Catskill.
Gems of the CatSks" is the title of an at
tractive and artistic folder lately issued by the
Catskili and New York Steamboat COMPANY
A congenial company of Brooklyn people are
camping on Rogers Island in the Hudson. near
Catskill. Among them Nathan NJ. Higbie
Sidney Bonnet and L. l. Balch. with their
families.
The Rev DR. s. n. Hamilton of Englewood
n j. will preach in the Union Chapel, Twilight
Park tomorrow.
1t is said that George ]. Harding, of the Kaat-
erskin has promised to dam the stream owned
by the estate. and supply water for Haines
Falls if it will construct a distributing plant
Mrs Ballard Of NewYork is entertaining the
guests of Sunset Park Inn with musical selec-
tiOns.
DR. Ludwig Weiss and family of New-York
are at the Grand Hotel. This great resort OF