New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Palm Beach TANNED to
Capacity; Season Is the
Biggest in Many Years
Special Correspondence

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Special Correspondence
PALM BEACH, Feb. 15.-Palm Beach
is now jammed full, as are al otner
resorts along the east coast of the
state. the Florida playground having
run into much the best season 1T has
ever known.
The days furnish continuous round
Of gavetv. starting on the bathing
beach and winding up with the ham
and egg breakfasts that are now beng
served during the early hours at the
Beach Club.
Mayor and Mrs Hylan of New York
and their daughter, Virginia Hylan,
arrived last Monday morning after an
eventful trip, in which they were de-
layed several hours by wreck north
of Jacksonville. The Mayor and Sam
uel Untermyer, who has been llvlng
here aboard his houseboat, Nirodha.
motored over to Miami yesterday.
where both served as judges in the
annual midwinter regatta at the Alton
Reach raceccurse Others on the
Judges committee included Arthur Cap
per. former Governor of Kansas; Glenn
il. Curtiss, Henry Watterson, Winfield
T. Durham. former Governor of Indiana,
and Carl u. Fisher. The Mayor has
been living very quietly in Palm Beach,
keeping early hours and getting as
much rest as possible. Ocean bathing,
listening to the concert in the tea grove
every evening at sunset and an oc-
casional automobile or boat ride have
constituted his day.
Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs this week will
set machinery in motion for the cree
ton of a hospital here, the funds for
which she was largely instrumental in
collecting last winter. The new struct-
ure, for which bids have been asked,
will cost 100000. A hospital built by
Paris Singer at the Everglades Club is
being used. The handsome new club
building, erected for the use of French
officers, caught fire during house
warming a few nights ago, but the dam
age was slight The blaze occurred at
dinner time The diners rushed to the
street, but returned to finish the meal
A dinner was being given at the time
for Mrs. Vernon Booth, jr., of Chicago
The guests included Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lam Lawrence Green. Mr.. and Mrs
Stanley c. Mortimer, Grafton Pyne, Mr.
and Mrs. John Rutherfurd, Mrs. Quincy
Shaw. I'd. F. a. Babcock, Mrs. D r
Ferguson, John B. Kitchen and Robert
Toland.
Property Owners Want to Vote
The politics of Palm Beach are un-
dergoing an overhauling in order that
the property owners, most Of whom arc
not residents, may be represented
About sixty persons, most of them
prominent members of New York
society, met with Mayor Thomas T
Reese in the Town Hall Wednesday ans
took steps to have the Florida Legis
lature pass law at its April session
under which property holders in this
state may vote in all contests affecting
management of their property, without
injury to their status as voters in
the district where they have their lega
residence. The Mayor appointed Sam
uel Untermyer. of New York; f. A
Giiddon. of Cleveland, and Louis Clarke
of Ardmore, Penn, committee to ad
wise on the administration Of public
affairs 10 Palm Beach.
TheTown Council passed an ordinance
declaring the Lake Trail, the Fifth
Avenue of Palm Beach, to be public
property, shortly after the meeting
and as the result of a controversy or
the subject, Mrs. Charles D. Vail o.
Geneva. y. Y, threw fence across The
thcroughiare opposite her residence
She had watchmen to defend her rights
and for some time people living on tn,
OF the largest estates here, had to ge
around the end Of the fence in boats
The trail is used by pedestrians, whec
chairs and bicycles, which pass at tn
rate of several Kindred an hour, Blu
according to the deeds to estates Dor
dering the lake. it is a part of thes
properties.
Colonel and Mrs. William Boyc
Thompson have arrived at the Breakers
where they will spend the remainde
Of the season. J. Leonard Replogle. @
the War Industries Board, has joine
kls family at the Poinciana. Mrs. Bar
clay II. Warburton and Miss Mary War
burton are expected early next wecl
Mrs. Warburton's father John Wana
maker, is on his way down, aboard hi
yacht Gadfy. and will spend tw
months cruising through the Flord
keyes, with headquarters at the Bis
cayne Bay Yacht Club, Miami. OFT
H. Kahn, who il expected down shortly
has leased his Palm Beach villa TO
two weeks 10 Mr.. and Mrs. J. d. Larkir
Mrs. kodnan Wanamaker gave up he
cottage in Sunset Avenue this week 70
the Poinciana Hotel when Mrs Joh1
Wanamaker, IT,, arrived with he
mother, Mrs. Henry Disston.
Colonel Edward @. Luckcnbach an'
his bride arrived from New York
week ago and are At the Poinciann
Miss Anna Case, Of the metropolitan
Opera Company, is here with Mrs
Henry fairfield Osborn. Judge and Mrs
Francis Xey pendieton arc here for tn
rem ~ the zeaaon
Ostend Eathhouse introduced
Mrs. rnarlez y. Dillingham;, II New
frfk. Who mas one Of the ocean from