New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02
NEW LONDON
Crowds for the Boat Race-ln.
provements at the Griswold.

New London. Conn, July l-All intsres
the last week has centred around the Ya&
Harvard regatta. The sole topic o. CONVEX.
sation has been race, and on all sides TIA
rival colors have been flying: store win.
dows. cottage porches, automobiles and
Yachts have all been decorated in the bio.
or the crimson bunting. All the cottages a.
Eastern Point have been filled and AZ many
there have been weekend house parties.
The harbor likewise has been filed wts
Yachts. but the centre OF all festivities has
been the Griswold Hotel, for this has been
The headquarters Of both the Harvard and
Yale supporters. over eight hundred peo-
nile were here Thursday and Friday and
many we're turned away disappointed On
the day Of the race.
Among the many persons Of national IN.
terest were: From New York, August Bel.
mont, jr, who took his fathers Pace %
the committee boat Scout; william jay
Schieffelin, Mrs. McGregor J. &itchesoa
and Miss Boond, Mr. and Mrs. Warren
Thorpe and Miss Theodore Thorpe. Nla
Hoffman,, Mr.. and Mrs. Lancaster Morgan
and Miss Helen Ridgely Morgan. Mr.. and
Mrs. John z. Hollingshead and Miss Ethe
Hollingshead, Mr. and Mrs. G. y. Smithen,
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Bradshaw, Mrs. k K
Moore. Daniel FRANKIE, ". J. wentworth
and family, whose son Is on the Harvard
four-oared freshman crew; Colonel Z. Y.
Brown and party and Gorham Bacon and
party Of four. from Brooklyn, Mrs. A A.
Low and party.
49, Mfchf~1s
was here on race day. The United States
dispatch boat Dolphin, used BY Secretary
OF the Navy George Won L. Meyer, has been
in the harbor all the week. The secre-
tarys son, George Won L. Meyer j., rowsd
on the Harvard varsity four-osred and
tie 5 cretary witnessed the race from The
y>-t OF the Dolphin.
IT, Aloha, the flagship OF tie New YORK
Yacht Club. with Commodore James aboard,
has also been here all this week.
Ex-Mayor Z. II. Hooker OF Hartford has.
his steam yacht, the Nephau, in the mar
Dor.
Commodore Morton F. Plant has added
extensively 10 his feet. He has recently
received a new racing schooner yacht tns
Elena, which was designed By Nat
Herreshoff and built in the shipyards a.
Bristol, r. l.
Fishing, boating and bathing are always
active pastimes, but the favorite diversion
Of the resort is golf at the Shennecossstt
! Country Club. Many exciting tournaments
are run off during the season, and many
Of the countrys best players are found
| here competing for cups offered BY H.
| Plant, the hotel. the club and others. Ten
| mis- is also very popular, there being many
/ excellent courts around the Point, on whea
| interesting tournaments may be witnessed
at almost any part of the summer. Base
| ball comes in for its share. too, but the
| most unusual sport IS the soccer football
which is played by the English employees Of
the Branford House.
Major Isaac Bromley, OF the New York
New Haven & Hartford Railroad. hu
| opened his summer cottage on the point
L. L. Cushman and family, Of Hartford
are at Ferncrest, their summer home
Mrs. William Mcdonald Of Brooklyn, has
been 1t her cottage for month.
The returning colony has found many
changes at the Griswold Hotel, for II IS
now under the management OF II. d. sax
ton. who has taken the place Of W. j.
! Fleming. 1t is expected that under his tao
! and executive ability the hotel VIII con-
tinue to be known as the finest sessnon
resort In America. a reputation which u
has held ever since & was built ive yea"
. ago. 1t overlooks the broad Thames whese
it merges with the Sound and the soun'
! where il melts into the Atlantic. Eastern
! Point is less than three hours Journey
from either New York or Boston ana y
on the direct automobile route between
these two cities. \ large iirepgoof concre'
garage has been built. which aeconin''
dates over one hundred machines.
\ new feature OF the hotel has been M
stalled this season. in the form OF moa'
ern grill. where meals are served =
carte. This is proving great con'enien''
20 automobile tourists.