New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
News Of the Resorts, Mountain and Shore
State to Purchase
Mount Whiteface i'm
Lake Placid Region
Conservation Commission
Sends Surveyors to I'm
spect Timber ON Slopes;
May Buy the Property
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

Special Dispatch to The Tribune
LAKE PLACID, N. Y, Sept. IL
Among members of the summer COLONY
here who are remaining in large num-
bers at the hotels and cottages through
September there is general satisfac-
tlon over the practical certainty that
Mount Whiteface, now privately
owned, soon will become the property
of the state, insuring it's preservation
In its present condition as one, of the
natural features Of the Adirondack re-
gion. s
Surveyors, two representing the Con-
servation Commission and two the
present owner of the mountain, Calvin
Pardee, of Germantown, Pa, have been
inspecting the timber on the mountain
to ascertain its value. If a satisfac-
tory adjustment of timber and land
values is reached, Mr.. Pardee's hold
ings, totalling 1900 acres and compris-
ing virtually all Of the slopes of the
mountain, together with the summit
on which the Conservation Commission
now maintains fire observation sta
tion, will pass to the state. Recently
the state purchased Mount Marcy
Thus two of the most famous peaks in
the Adirondacks will become public
parks.
Mr.. Pardee, if he sells, will reserve
his private park on the shore of Lake
Placid, at the base of the mountain,
within which is his camp, Eagles Eyrie.
Among those remaining in camp on
Lake Placid through September is Mark
A. Hanna, of Cleveland
AT their camp on Lake Placid Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Humphreys, of Philade1-
phia, are entertaining their daughter
and her husband, Mr.. and Mrs. J. A.
Ireland, of Philadelphia.
Mile. Longchamps, of New York, is
the guest of DR.. and Mrs. Henry O.
Marcy jr. at Camp Green Top
Happy Hour Theater, in the village,
mer colony on Tuesday evening at a
! benefit film and vaudeville performance
! in aid of the work of the Woman's
Club of Lake Placid, of which Mrs.
Homer Lockwood is president. The
club seeks to maintain rest room and
community center. Features of the pro-
gram were Russian costume dances by
Marshall Hall, of New York, and Miss
Winifred Waterman, Of Rye, N. Y, and
miracle" stunts by James Davis, of
New York.
The annual garden party in aid of
the Lenox Hill Settlement, New York,
given by members of the Ruisseau-
mont colony last Saturday, was at
tended by large number and a large
sum of money was raised in aid of this
charity. Mrs. Henry Sherman, of New
York, was the treasurer. Heading the
committees were: Donations, Mrs.
Moritz Rosenthal; refreshments, Miss
Helen Bachman; dance. contests. Miss
Louise Wolf.
Congressman Thomas F. Smith has
ioiy nor Il 60 ;lxyo xk1
Mrs. Stephen H. Heating has been
Joined at the Stevens House by Mr..
Heating.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy R. Holbrook, of
New York, are at the Stevens House.
Others from New York among recent
arrivals there include Mr.. and Mrs.
]. G. Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Alex
anader, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank J. Taylor,
Mrs. w. F. Rupert, Mrs. w. T. Rupert,
Mr.. and Mrs. H.. D. Randall, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. M. Randall, Victor A. Young,
w. Jones jr., Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.
Walden, Thomas Walden, Miss Scanlon
and j. K. O'Meara.
Charles Parks, Of New York, who
with party of friends arrived here on
hike through the mountains, which
included the ascent Of Mount Marcy and
the tour of Indian Pass, visited friends
at the Grand View before making the
ascent of Mount Whiteface. Others
from New York at the Grand View in
clude Mrs. A. K. Petit, Mr.. and Mrs.
James M. Simpson and Mrs. W. J. Scott.
Miss Helen Havemeyer and Miss
Natalie Magruder were winners of the
trophies for women in the onc-club
golf contest at the Whiteface Inn
Country Club last Saturday, winners of
the prizes for men being Carl Good
and Hugh w. Rowan.
Those from New York among recent
arrivals at Whiteface Inn include Mr.
and Mrs. X: F. Griffith, Hugh W. Rowan,
Robert Pulleyn, Mrs. J. C. Hanley, Miss
M Morrison, Harold D. Porter, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank j. Forster, Miss Alice
Pearce, Miss Alice Havemeyer, Mr.. and
Mrs. R. B. Thayer, Miss Thayer, Mr..
and Mrs. John A. Wade, Mr.. and Mrs.
james A. Wade, James Wade, Joseph
F. Wade, Mrs. T. Dean Swift, Mrs. Will
lam Taylor, MIR. and Mrs. r. H. Thomp-
son, Mr.. and Mrs. L. Lane and f. i.
Higgins.
At Northwoods Inn recent New York
ney, DR.. and Mrs. P. A Spain, Miss
Spain, J. Dahaney and Mr.. and Mrs.
W: A. Robertson and daughter.
Pines include DR.. and Mrs. J. Walter
Stiles jr., Mr.. and Mrs William B.
Langhorst, the Misses Higgins, DR..
Samuel D. Bierman, Miss Pauline
Wilkes, L. M. de Hersig, DR.. and Mrs.
George Mosher, DR.. and Mrs. W. Segel,
Mr.: and Mrs. c. Westcott, Karl Dreicer,
Robert Schwartz, K. A. Donnelly and
G. F.. Borden.
Those from New York who regis
tered at the Belmont include M. M.
Beck, Joseph Moys, Mr.. and Mrs. S.
Shapiro, A. M. Davis, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Rosen, j. B. M. Sass, Mrs.
Daniel J. Dunn, D. Lampe, D. May, Mr..
and Mrs. John Vogel, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ.
Welngarten, Major and Mrs. A. H.
mueller, Miss R. Grain, Miss M. Marcus,
5; II. WE'LL, j. Oppenheimer, Charles
Klein and Leo r. Buttes,
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