New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-30
The Whike Mountains.

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Breton Woods, N. H., July 29.-With
the approach of August the White
Mountain hotels and cottage colonies
are fast filing, and many festivities
have been planned. There is an in
teresting programme of sports and
social events in the White Mountains
this week. Bethlehem, with its thirty
hotels, has two golf events at the Beth
lehem Country Club for prizes pre-
sented by the Mount Washington and
Arlington, the Alpine and Highland
hotels. Turner's Tavern and the
Strawberry Hill House are donors OF
prizes for the August four-ball match
play. The balls at Upland Terrace on
Tuesday evening and the Sinclair
House on Saturday evening round out
busy week interpreted with informal
dances and affairs at the Country Club
daily.
At the Maplewood the children's first
sunlight dance on Wednesday, at the
CASINO, ana The Odll vi HHioNoy
ing are among the important events OF
the week. Friday evening the casino
is turned over TO the movies, and every
one from hotel, inn and cottage turns
out for this popular form of entertain
ment. At the Waumoek the weekly
dances have begun, and the Mountain
View, at Whitefeld; the Sunset Hill,
at Sugar Hill; the Sunset and Eastman
and Kearsarge, at North Conway;
Wentworth Hall, at Jackson; the Fab
yam, Twin Mountain and Crawford all
have their Saturday night hops. Dane
ing every night entertains the younger
set at the Mount Pleasant, and at the
Mount Washington, at Breton Woods,
where Tyer's colored orchestra Of New
York plays in the Foret de Danse night
iy from 1890 o'clock onward, and sup
pers are served in the cave grill. The first
amateur vaudeville show of the season
came off at Fabyan on Friday night.
At the Profile and the Mount Washing
ton and at Jefferson Highlands
branches Of the Red Cross have been
established, and work on Monday and
Thursday mornings in the ball rooms
find many willing to make hospital
supplies for the soldiers. Golf and
tennis are popular at all resorts, and
players are getting in practice for the
annual open tournament at Crawford
on Tuesday and following days.
The summer colony at Sugar Hill is
rapidly growing, and the Sunset Hill
House and cottages are filled almost to
the limit Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Gibbs,
Of Baltimore; Mrs. f. L. Holden, of
, New York; Mrs. A. Fl. Wheeler, New
York; Canon John McCarroll, OF De-
troit, who will assume charge Of the
parish of st. Matthews Church, are
among the colony. Movies twice week
" at Sugar Hill village amuse the
Younger set, where Peckett's in the af-
ternoon is a favorite rendezvous for
dancing and tea, in the beautiful and
spacious tea room, with its wide porch
commanding . view OF the Francohia
range.
The Intervale House, with its base
ball team, holds the centre Of athletic
interest in Intervale. The Rev. DR..
Harry P. Nichols, of New York, who is
at Coneordia Hut, his summer home at
Intervale, is spending his forty-seventh
season in the mountains, and climbed
Mount Washington this week, accom-
panied by his daughter, Mrs. C. E. Har-
denberg, of Kansas City, who has been
climbing the White Mountain peaks
during the past twenty years. Miss
Van Bokkelen, Of New York, niece
of Pierre Lorillard, has opened her
Intervale villa, opposite the Intervale
House.