New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-13
SARANAC TROUT BITING
Automobile Tours and Motor
Boating on the Increase.

The Improvement of old highways
and construction of new ones through
out the Adirondacks is the chief topic
of interest this summer, and is fast
placing automobiling at the head Of the
seasons favored psstimes. Practically
everyone in the mountains has a car and
uses it for travelling as we'll as pleasure
jaunts and fishing excursions. The
highway improvement is marked and
a proposed new trunk route through
the western Adirondacks is receiving
much attention and support. Contract
has been let for a strip of state road
to connect Upper Lake with Long Lake
as a unit in this western trunk line.
This will complete continuous
state road from Malone to Long Lake
via Paul Smiths, and Ssranac Inn. From
Big Moose there is a good dirt road
to Old Forge, where II is state road 10
Utica in the Mohawk Valley, connect
ing with the Mohawk trunk route to
Buffalo. The remaining strip yet 10
be secured is between Long Lake and
Big Moose, comparatively small por-
ton. This western trunk line 70
parallel the eastern trunk line from
Schroon Lake to Montreal is a most
important step in the highway ad-
vancement. The connecting arm Is
from Elizabethtown TO Saranac Lake,
via Keene Valley and Lake Placid.
A strip of seven miles of road be-
tween Saranac Lake and Lake Placid
is now under construction by the state,
and will be ready for heavy tourist
travel From Saranac Lake TO Ray
Brook. three miles of the Saranac Lake
Lake Placid road was completed last
fall. With the completion of the Will
mington-Jay road, which is being
rapidly pushed by the contractors,
there will be continuous state road
across this connecting arm.
There is much building throughout
the Adrondacks and many bungalows
are newly completed IN connection with
hotels, in response 10 the demand for
this form Of accommodation. The hotel
man is near the end of his annual
struggle TO install garage accommoda-
tions for the increased travel, addl,,
ton 10 bathrooms. lighting systems ana
other improvements for the comfort
of his patrons, and in many instances
these improvements include most II not
all Of his last seasons profits.
Motor boating is now a luxurious
form of travel in the Adirondacks, the
campers boat often containing lockers,
ice chest and every conceivable form
of convenience. The swiftest of these
boats are annually entered in the sea-
sons racing events. which include re-
gattas at Saranac Lake, Lake Placid.
Paul Smiths, Upper Saranac and Old
Forge. The man Of Wall Street. whose
time in business hours is almost price
less, as well as the unoccupied million
aire, will spend days. even weeks, in
arranging a successful programme for
one of these events.
All public waters Of the Adirondacks
are receiving their full quota of fish
from the state hatcheries. The hatch
cry at Saranac Inn is unusually busy
this summer and has distributed 7,000.-
900 fish, including rainbow trout, lake
trout, speckled or brook trout and
white fish The output of white FISH
is especially heavy and amounted 10
100000 fish. The other species in
cluded 100000 speekled trout, or
double the output of last year The in
crease Of white fish in Adirondack
waters has been noticeable. and they
are now secured in practically every
section OF the region. One OF the
largest brook trout taken from public
waters in many years came from Lake
Clear. which is annually stocked from
the hatcherios. II measured twenty
two inches in length and weighed four
and three-quarter pounds. Theodore
! V. Speer was the lucky angler who
secured il. Scores Of anglers in the
Fulton Chain region have been busy
/ fishing for lake trout and with good
success. The black bass season will open
next week. when the bass angler viii
make his way 20 the Raquette River
and many of the other well known bass
waters. Black bass have increased in
Adirondack waters during the past few
years and some taken weigh as high as
! five pounds.