Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-05-21
GREAT DEVELOPMENT
AT WILLOUCHBY LAKE.
Peene Property to be Site of Large
Girls Camp. Nearly so Build
ings Going Up at Once.

Work has begun at Willoughby lake
at the greatest single development
ever made on any of the beautiful
lakes of Orleans county. The prof.
ect is the establishment of a large
girls summer camp on the site of the
Peene estate and farms on the west
side of the lake near the north end.
six miles from Barton.
The entire estate of Mrs. A. l..
Peene of Yonkers, n. Y, and the
Peene farms in connection including
the fine summer residence of Mrs
Peene and the farm buildings, has
been transferred to New York
including men from New
York, Pennsylvania and other places
This corporation has contracted with
A. NJ. Stone & Son of Middletown,
Conn, for the erection of "A camp
buildings and work has already be-
gun on the project, Edgar Congdon
being the executive head of the prof.
ect for the contractors.
Each of the "A camps will be sleep
ing quarters for five girls and it is
understood over 200 girls have al
ready been booked for the camp. A
large pavilion and dining room is also
to be centrally erected and other
buildings already on the property re-
modelled. The contract calls for the
cottages to be ready for occupancy
by July l which means that the con-
tractors will make every day count
to the utmost
The contractors will require sever
al hundred men on the job to COM
plete it by the specified time having
begun operations only Monday. The
original plans called for the develop
ment on the east side of the lake be-
tween the schoolhouse and the village
with the Atkins farm included, but
difficulties arose which made the
change to the west side advisable, and
the Peene property was purchased.
There are fully 200 acres of land be-
longing to the camp with lake front
extending from the outlet nearly
mile south on the west shore. The
Peene property commands a magnifi-
cent view of the lake and is an ideal
location for such a development as
the one now under way.
The camp will be known as Camp
Westmore for Girls" and is to be op-
Grated by the Camp Westmore Com
pany, Inc. Mrs. Anna d. Justis is
president of the company and will be
remembered as Miss Anna Day, ma
tive of Bloomington and for years an
--i AoASSlAN Camper at w AllOuHuUIs
Joseph f. Preston is secretary of the
company and the winter address is
Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City
Miss Laura Joll, lady principal of
Kings Hall School, Compton, p. O.,
is to be director of the camp and Mrs
Helen Mcclure of Miss Potter's
school, Pennington, Conn, will be as
sistant director.
Literature of the company adver-
tises the camp as on Willoughby lake.
''The Lucerne of America" and ad-
vertises to give instruction in boat
ing, canoeing, swimming, horseback
riding, tennis, field hockey, archery,
basketball and athletics of all kinds
will give instruction in dancing, pho
Biography, drawing, sketching, fancy
work and crocheting. 1t is planned
to have camp orchestra and camp
chorus, a camp paper and camp bank.
Summer camps for boys and girls
are of recent origin, being established
for the purpose of taking children
from the cities during the school va
cation months into the country where
they are under supervision of experts
who give them training in boating,
swimming, horseback riding and 9th
er sports. The price paid by parents
for the care and training of their girls
tablished at Willoughby varies from
$50 to s400 and even higher. 1t is
understood the ages of the girls in
this camp will be from IL to 1S
years.
The camp development calls for
an expenditure of approximately
$50 900 while the annual expenditure
Of the corporation will be a large
sum. The development means much
TO the south end Of Orleans county.
To Westmore il will mean an increas-
ed grand list and greater publicity
for Willoughby lake. To Barton and
Orleans it will mean more business in
many ways while TO labor it viii mean
much especially this season.
IL might be stated that in other
places where summer camps for boys
and girls have been located more
camps soon follow, and hints Of an
other camp for next season have al
ready been made.