New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10

mos, beautiful The people who summer on Snei'er
Island go in for launches and saooats rather tnan
canoes but thirteen of the latter craft mustered
for the carnival A. E Fuller won the prize Forty
lanterns the paper sides OF which were adorned
with mermaid and sea serpent designs in gay colors
swung from half hoops which arched ABOVE the
canoe. and the shape of the boat was outlined
with tiny electric bulbs The battery was rather
a heavy load but the carried it bravely
Some of the others effectively adorned ana
more fairylike scene could hardly be imagined than
the glittering line presented as ii moved slowly
away from the Manhanset ferry landing and cir
cled around the launch in which the judges sat
Card parties and dinner parties have been In fuii
swing this week. A dinner given by Mrs. l. M
8sadsd NJ NJ and and Ms Ah1 ruler and a an
Mrs Frank Loring, H. s. Fuller Mr. and ai,u Mrs
Hane M sn soari and Iouis A5ha
Of Island has , Gsea seTs bas eef f0r The
guests who arrived the Manhanset Hoe
through July and August in their own motor motor cars
registered. Aufomobiles have caused number of
can hardly be said to add to the comfort Of Shelter
islanders who do s"sd dea f Of dyas hf Rbas
a bof at dow
automobe Nine EEL passed there fifty times without
W H6Wev but at e ne noW
feature of the Shelter Island summer, and on the
SUNDAY was wet day in Manhanset Manor On
of the religious services Were
held in the music room instead of the chapel 1he
latter being short walk from the hotel Inc Key
Mr.. Diggles, of Marietta. Ohio preached In the
evening there a concert by the hotel orchestra
In spite of its being SO late in the season, people
continue arrive the Manhanset House
Over the Prospect House side. the harvest les
tiva which is annual function, was the cnlei
affair of the week. The proceeds of this festlVai
always go the Shelter Island Public LIBRARY ana
that Institution has no other means OF supp0rI
the Shelter Islanders naturally anxious 10 MAKE
the festival success. Unfortunately the date OF
its opening this year was also the date OF a shower
that might have been called cloudburst Never
theless, people appeared, and they bought Things
to the amount Of $3.50 The following day o was
fair. and the sales even better. prospect
Chapel where the festival was held was spPro-
priatey decorated with cornstalks and pumpkins
and flowers The prize, vegetables were diSplayeHd
tables along the wall. and their size ana e1cel-
lence and variety astonshed some Of the visitors
who had thought of Shelter Island IS merely one OF
the play spots of the earth It would probably SUI
prise most persons to know that one farm on TINS
little island sent out fifteen hundred barrels OF Gu
cumbers this summer and that by the Montauk
Steamship Line from two to eight hundred barrels
OF cabbages shipped each week: , 49,
A number OF the hotel guests, both from the Man.
hanset House and the Prospect House. ATTENDED
the festival, and seen wandering about carry
ing baskets of potatoes and crookneck squashes ana
giant mangel-w urzels and other purchases thev
made But they had the satisfaction OF feeling that
they had advanced the of literature and con-
tributed their mite toward supplying the shelter
Islanders with reading matter for the long winter