Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-08
ALEXANDRIA, BAY.
peciaI Correspondence Of The star.

With the great influx of southerners 10
attend the sessions OF the Catholic Summer
School at Cliff Haven. northern New York
resorts are probably able to count more
people from the national capital and from
Maryland and Virginia than ever before in
their history. Many are, of course, coming
solely to attend the school, but there are
hundreds of others who are combining
study with pleasure. and purpose taking
charming little side trips between the learn
ed lectures. A majority will cling close To
the beautiful grounds at Cliff Haven until
the very last session, and then the great
crowd viii scatter along the shores Of Lake
Champlain. up into the depths of the Adiron-
dacks and among the Thousand Islands OF
the great ST. Lawrence. A large number OF
them have undoubtedly heard that this sea-
son among the islands promises to surpass
all previous ones, and quarters have been
engaged In advance at all the principal no.
tells and cottages to be taken upon the clos
ing of the school.
1t was locally published last week upon
what was claimed to be official authority
that the President would make BRIEF tour
of the islands during the latter part OF Au-
gust, and there was much rejoicing among
the hotel men; but the report Is found to
be without any grounds whatever. as let
ter direct from Mr.. Loeb, the secretary to
the President, to The Star correspondent
denies the truthfulness of the published re-
are known Mr.. Roosevelt will spend the
greater part of the summer at his Oyster
Bay home
One member of the cabinet, at least, will
be a guest here for a few days, coming
about the end of this month, James Wilson,
Secretary of Agriculture. 1t is understood
that the Secretary will be the guest of Sen
ator Clapp of Minnesota at Grenadfer Is
land.
At the Hotel Frontenac there Is much
speculation over the coming visit of the
governor general of Canada and Lady Gray
The governor general will first be the guest
of friends upon an island near GananoQle,
on the Canadian side, and it is expected
that the trip to the Frontenac will be made
in one of the Canadian revenue boats
number of elaborate functions are being
planned in his honor and for his entertain
ment
Desiring to acquaint himself IL possible
with the views OF Canadians on annexation,
The Star correspondent recently mace a
brief tour of the nearby Canadian resorts
and cities, Kingston, Gananoque, Rockport.
Brockville and Prescott, and found that the
hotel men and other men OF AFFAIRS at those
places held exactly the same views as did
the Americans at the other side or the
river That the Canadian resort keepers
felt keenly the falling off of American pat
ronage was undisguised, and more than one
of them remarked that unless matters
mended within a season or two they would
be compelled to sell out their places or run
them on a much less expensive scale; Tor,
to quote the remark of a Kingston boni-
face .the Canadian likes his outing as well
as the next man, but he refuses to spend
his money like the Yankee.
With this condition of affairs the coming
visit of the Canadian governor general TO
Frontenac is looked upon as something
more than a mere outing. Il
A party of twenty clelgymen OF
Washington, Georgetown, Alexandria, Bal
timore and Frederick Nd, has engaged
tents and grounds on the river near Clay
ton for week or ten days stay 1oiIoWlng
the close of the Catholic summer school.
AS the telegram called also for boats and
fishing tackle 1t is presumed that the rev.
erend gentlemen will spend part OF the
time at this excellent and refreshing sport.
The party is headed by the Kew. Dr. Chas
o. Brien Of Georgetown.
At the Clayton hotels the following Wash
ingtonians were registered during the week
closing today: Capt John Reed, Miss Reed
Mr. and Mrs Herbert Wiley, John Z. Will
ley, Mrs. w. c. Borden and family, Mr.
and Mrs Vance Mayne, Mr. and Mrs Chas.
F. Farrell. Mr.. Edward c. O'Brien Les
lie Merritt, Miss Virginia Merritt, Horace
H. Williams, S. Abrams, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Murphy. Miss Cecilia Murphy, Mr. John
v Garvan, Miss Lucy Garvan and Miss
Bell and maid.
Revs Michael Gallivan, Thomas Nash,
Peter F. Sullivan and John t. Lawrence
of Georgetown, Richmond Charlottesville
and Lynchburg, respectively. are booked for
a weeks stay at the Thousand Island
House, Alexandra Bay.
Thomas Nelson Page of Virginia and
party of friends will spend a part of July
on Grenader Island, and it is expected that
Col. Henry Watterson will join them there,
by Col. Washington of Ken
lucky and Judge Albert M stevens OF BIZ
mngham, Ala.
The District of Columbia, though hardly
state was more literally represented at the
recent tea of the states on Boundary Island
than some of the great commemorative,
y Miss lula TretmOre.
Miss Grace NJ. Huntington of Rhode Is
land avenue, Mrs. Norman T. Norman and
Miss Josie z. Lawton of Georgetown
MARYLAND was represented at the ''Lea' by
Miss Mabelle Shaw of Baltimore and Miss
Isabel Naylor of Cambridge. Miss Nellie
Grant of Annapolis, who was to have rem
dered some vocal selections, did not attend
the function because of the illness of her
friend and chaperone, Mrs. T. E. Baker of
Brookside, n. j., at whose cottage, The
Ferns Miss Grant is a guest.
Among the others present were Mrs.
Sampson T. Lackey Of Cambridge, Nd;
Miss Sallie Longstreet of Charlotte. n. c.;
Miss Margaret Cappen and Miss Genevieye
Cappen of Culpeper, Va; Mrs. Boyce Lane
of Baltimore, and Miss Hayes of Harper's
Ferry.
Miss Trixle Weigh of Lynchburg repre-
scented the state of Virginia, and, with Miss
Susan c. Barnes of Richmond, beautifully
rendered a number OF southern melodies.
Bathing is becoming from year to year
more of a feature of resort life among the
Thousand Islands and hotel proprietors are
beginning to realize that they must make
provision for the watery dips of their pa
irons 1t is true that there are no such
beaches here as may be found along the
seacoast or along rivers further south;
but il is also true that the islands afford
very many places for the enjoyment of a
delicious bath.
AS vet there is none of that commingling
of the sexes that is found a. ali seaside re-
sorts but there are wise ones who predict
that a season or two more will remove the
objections which seem to exist only away
from tidewater.
At Star Lake bathing a great feature
of the season up to a day or two ago, when
the sad drowning of three young girls cast
a gloom over the place and probably put
end to bathing at that resort for the season.