New-York tribune., 1920-09-19
Delegates Arriving
AT Lake Placid
For Library Week
New Yorker Among Speak
ers at Session Opening.
Monday; Fall Arrivals
Numerous at the Hotels
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

LAKE PLACID, N. Y, Sept. 49,
Although Library Week" of the New
York Library Association is not until
next week, members have been arriv-
ing from all parts of the state and are
at the Lake Placid Club, where sessions
of the convention will be held.
The opening session Monday after
noon will be devoted to committee
meetings, and that evening DR.. Melville
Dewey. former State Librarian and now
president of the Lake Placid Club, will
extend the welcome of the club. The
speakers at the different sessions in
clude Francis NJ. Hugo, Secretary of
State, who will talk Wednesday morn
ing on "The Library as a Special Fac
tor in Community Development; Hec-
Public Library; Miss May Massee, ed
itor of The Booklist, Chicago; Donald
Gilchrist, librarian Rochester Univer-
sity; Montrose Moses, New York;
Miss Catherine Van Dyne, secretary Of
the Newark Library; Frederick w.
Belts, trustee of the Syracuse Pub
lie Library; William Webster Ellis
worth, formerly president of the Cen
tury Company; Frederick G. Melcher
executive secretary of the National AS
sociation of Book Publishers; Miss
Mary Frank, New York Public Library;
John Daniels, New York, author Of
America Via the Neigh hborhood, soon
to be issued and J. Foster Carr, secre-
tary Of the Immigrant Publication So
ciety, New York
On Friday evening, September "a,
"1n Bashi- Boo" library burlesque in
two acts, by William B. Gamble, with
music by DR.. Otto C. Kinkeldey, will
be staged by the "Bagdad Players"
Last Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. George ].
Hamlin opened their Swiss chalet on
Signal Hill for the last musical tea Of
the season. Irving Bacheller, author,
entertained with stories, and vocal Sc
lections were given by Mrs. Emma Pat
ten Hoyt, of Chicago, soprano; Miss
Dorothy Hamlin, of New York, colora-
tura soprano, and Miss Florence Reid,
of Buffalo, contralto.
More than $1,000 was contributed
last Friday night at the Lake Placid
Club for the members Of the Boston
Symphony ensemble.
On Monday Miss Anna Ryan will
open winter school for girls in Fern
wood cottage.
Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes and her
daughters, the Misses Catherine and
Elizabeth Hughes, motored from Lake
George Tuesday for visit with friends
at Whiteface Inn.
Mr.. and Mrs. James M. speers, Of
Montclair and New York, spending q
fortnight at Whiteface Inn, have been
Joined by their son, the Rev. Thomas
Guthrie Speers, of New York.
Theodore S. Farrelly, of New York,
has arrived at Whiteface Inn to close
the camp of his father, Stephen H.
Farrelly.
The Rev. and Mrs. William Osborne
Baker and Miss Mary Osborne Baker,
of New Haven, Conn. have been max
ing their annual Se@tember sojourn at
Inn.
Mrs. John W. Judson, Of Newark,
has been at Whiteface Inn as the guest
of Mrs. II. B. Good, also of Newark.
James S. Hunter, of New York, has
returned to Whiteface Inn for Sep
tember
Mrs NJ. F. Kavanaugh and Miss E. A.
Kavanaugh are recent New York ar
rivals at Whteface Inn.
Among those who have been spend
ing the week at the Stevens House ar
c. N. Culkin, former first Deputy Fire
Commissioner of New York City, and
Mrs. Culkin, who have been making
tour of the mountains. They were ac-
companied by Mr.. and Mrs. John f
Walsh, of New York. On the return
to New York, Francis A. Walsh, room
clerk at the Stevens House this sea
son, was Il member of the party.
Miss Hurley, Of East Orange, is az
the Stevens House with her mother
Mrs. NJ. Hurley.