New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
VACATION SPOTS IN MOUNTAINS AND BY THE SEA
Yacht Club Ball to
OpenFormal Season
At Thousand Islands
Summer Colony Is Already
W ell Represented by
Prominent New Workers;
Many Events Are Planned
Special Correspondence

ALEXANDRIA BAY. N. Y, June 90.
he week end over the Fourth. All of
the members of the cottage colony will
entertain large house parties, and the
Yachting parties, golf foursomes,
iuncheons and dinners so far scheduled
give promise of much social activity
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander r. Peacock
will have almost score of guests Mr.
and Mrs. A. Graham Miles, Mr.. and Mrs.
William 7. Dowart, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thotnas II. Wheeler and others will
entertain large house parties.
One of the most interesting events
of the season during the summer will
be the Thousand Islands Yacht Club
race scheduled for August 13 and IA,
TO be run over the clubs racing course.
This cup was won the last time by
the Miss Detroit, and the devotees of
this sport at Alexandria Bay are MAX
ing every effort to bring the cup back
30 the yacht club, its original home.
Commodore A. l.. Judson. of Luke
George: John N. WHY'S, of New York;
A. Graham Miles, of New York; Com
modore William S. Waldron and DR..
Jack J. Harty, of Kingston, Ontario,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Courtland
Penfeld have closed their Fifth Avenue
home in New York and have leased for
the season Hopewell Hall, the villa be-
longing to the estate of the late George
G. Boldt.
The first large event of the season
will be the card party scheduled for
the evening of July = at the Thousand
Islands Yacht Club, given by the Ladies'
Welcome Club. This affair will as
semble all of the card playing contin-
gent of the Thousand Islands. A card
party is scheduled for each succeeding
Wednesday throughout the summer
The golf tournament will be played
club links from August to 9.
Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Theisen, of
Albany, have arrived at the Thousand
Islands, and have opened their cottage
ct st. Lawrence Park for the summer.
The polo tournament is scheduled
for August 20-September 6. Many visit
ing teams are entered already, and
others have made application. Among
the players in the Thousand Islands
teams will be J. Larocque Anderson,
Lee M. Rumsey, jr., Henry Wiser, of
Ellis, of Boston; A. Graham Miles. of
New York. The Miami Valley Polo
Club, of Dayton, Ohio, will enter for the
tournament, and teams from Montreal
Chicago, Pennsylvania, St. Louis, Chi
cago, New Jersey, New York and Cleve-
land. Mr.. and Mrs. Lee NJ Rumscy, of
New York. and James Fl Hammond, of
Pittsburgh, have donated silver cups to
the club to be played for during the
tournament. The midwestern circuit
cup. presented by the Polo Association,
is to be played for also.
~'Devotees of the hook and line are
enthusiastic about their catches in the
st. Lawrence this summer. Mr.. and
Mrs. Lev Hayden, Commodore Rees,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Ritter, DR.. and Mrs. C.
A. Theisen, Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander R.
'eacock have had excellent luck fishing
at Collins Bay during the past week
Waiter Schultz, # New York, who is
guest at the Thousand Island House,
has had wonderful catches of big
mouthed bass. John NJ. Theopel, Super
visor of Flushing; Louis Mr. Labe, of
New York; DR.. and Mrs. B. Queen, of
80 West End Avenue, New York, guests
OF the Thousand Island House, have
brought in the limit of bass several
times
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. W. Gorge, of New
York. were the first rcgstrants of the
season at the Thousand Island House,
which honor they claim each summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. l.. Anderson, of 1910
st. Marks Avenue, Brooklyn, are among
the enthusiastic golfers at the Thou
sand Islands. They are spending the
summer at the Thousand Island House.
At the same hotel is General George
Beauregard, of Montreal, who recently
returned from overseas with the Ca
madam Expeditionary Forces.
Mr., and Mrs Graham NY;1os b,,o
rs their guests Miss Helen Hammond.
Mrs. Marshall Mclean, Miss Helen Nc
Lean and Mrs. John West Hornor, of
New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter j. Young, of New
Brunswick, N. j., and Mr.. and Mrs. R.
Ellis, of Boston, are spending the sum
mer at the Thousand Islands Country
Club.
The date for the annual tennis tour
ney at the Thousand Islands Yacht
Club is August II to 16, which will be
followed on the evening Of August 16
with the tennis ball.
The opening ball OF the season will
be given at the Thousand Islands Yacht
CLUB July 2 Preceding the ball there
will be many dinners.
Mrs. Robert A. Osborne, of New
York, will spend the summer on her
houseboat, Arcadia. With her dur
ing July will be her daughter and SON
ln-law. Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick H.
Tillinghast, and her daughter. Mrs.
Marguerite Washington, of Summit.
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