New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
Adirondack Hotels
And Resorts Plan
Extensive Changes
Sl,O0O,OOO Projects Under
Way to Assure Room for
Guests Turned Away in
Record Breaking Season
Cnsr;nl Corr.snondencs

Special Correspondence
ADIRONDACK, N. Y, Sept 27.-The
end of a record breaking season in
the Adirondacks, now close at hand.
finds many of the owners, managers
and others identified with the great
hotel interests of the region occupied
with consideration of projects for ex-
panson involving a total expenditure
of approximately $4,000
Principal among the big projects is
that for new hotel to be built at
Saranac Lake village at a cost of $780,
0OO This hotel, which is community
project, is to be a freproof, all-the-
year hotel Of 100 rooms capacity. 1T
is hoped to have the building in oper-
alton by January /, 1921. 7. Edmund
Krumbholz, for number of years
manager Of the former Ruisseaumont
Hotel at Lake Placid, has been selected
as manager of the new hotel.
Progress is being made on the prof.
ect to build on the grounds of the
present Grand View Hotel, at Lake
Placid, another large freproof, all the
year hotel costing approximately the
same as that proposed for Saranac
Lake. John McE. Bowman and others,
including M. B. Marshall, head of
string of New York hotels and present
managing director of the Grand View,
are among those identified with this
undertaking.
Plans prepared by the Stevens Hotel
Company, of Lake Placid, of which
George A. Stevens is president, pro-
vide for fircproof addition, increasing
the hotel capacity to about 500 The
changes also contemplate the installa-
on Of entirely new kitchens equipped
with every known device to minimize
labor These plans call for an cXpendl-
turc of nearly 100000.
In addition to these major pro ects
are several new camps and cottages to
be erected at Whiteface Inn, Lake
Placid. in time for .hc 1920 season, If
conditions permit; additions at Placid
Club, and changet at Saranac Inn,
Upper Saranac Lake, Paul Smiths, the
Windsor and Deers Head Inn. Eliza
bothtown, Westport Inn, Westport-on-
Lake Champaign, Hotel Au Sable
Chasm and Northwoods Inn, Lake
Placid
Sach changes as are made will be
with view to avoiding conditions that
arose in the height of this season,
when, after every available inch of
space had been utilized, it still was
NECESSARY W IuI IL guests away
The hunters are especially pleased
over the fact that most of the hotels
remain open we'll into October. They
are now here in increasing numbers,
ready to take to the forests promptly
at the opening of the season October /.
Guests Of Mrs. Henry J. Davidson, ,f
New York, at a luncheon given at the
club were Mrs. Adolph Lewisohn, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Farley Winch. Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert S. Carpentep, Mrs. G.. A.
Logg, Mr.. ard Mrs. S. a. Meachem Az
thur Delroy. r p Sage, Miss Wilson,
Miss Anne Davidson, MIR. and Mrs. Dex-
ter Bradford, DR.. and Mrs. j. Van
Bergen.
Mrs. Vincent Astor recently arrived
at Paul Smiths, where she was called
by the illness of her mother, Mrs. Rob-
clt =. Huntington, who has been spend
ing the season at her camp on the up
per ST. Regis Lake.
Lodgcwood, an attractive summer
place at Elzabethtown and an adj
joining tract bacl; have been pur-
chased By Samuel Campo and Edward
Lee Campo, OF New FORK, who have
been scjou~ning at Decrs Head Inn
that village, throughout the season.
Seth Spraguc Terry and family, who
have been spending the summer IN
linear toiLuLc Ia tit l)Nls1eiio Ncltiis-
Eli2ahethtown, are among those who
recently returned to New York
Mr.. and Mrs. John G. Bryce, Nh. and
Mrs. George II. Stage, Miss Stage, Miss
Struse and Robert Nelson have COM
pleted their sojourn at the Windsor,
Elizabcthtown, and returned to New
York.
At Grand View Hotel, Lake Placid,
NJ. e. Marshall, Of New York, has had
as his guests his cousin. Mrs. Z. NJ.
Wheeler, of Ticonderoga, and the Misses
Grace and Rita Watson, Of New York.
early in the week Mr.. Marshall enter
tanned a party of friends on q motor
picnic to Follansbee Pond.
Mrs. NJ. d. Carroll, OF New York,
was early in the week joined at the
Grand View by her brothers, Ches-
ter II. Carney. formerly i'll the avia-
ton service. and William F. Carney,