New-York tribune., 1920-06-20
Summer Sojourners
In the AdirOndacks
Aid RefOrestratiOn
Owners of Estates and Pri-
vate Camps in Region
Buy Saplings and Make
Tree Planting a Pastime
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS. N. Y,
June 19.-Planting trees is no longer
work; it is now pastime. Mem
bers of the summer colonies through
out the Adirondack resort region have
adopted "plantings" as means of
promoting the demonstration work un-
dertaken by the Northern New York
Development League and indorsed by
the State Conservation Commission.
Owners of private estates are pur-
chasing the saplings. supplied by the
Conservation Commission at nominal
charges, and the work of reforestra-
tion through wholesale planting will
go forward all summer. The work is
expedited by the division of planters
into three groups, the first, armed
with grub hoes, making the holes, into
the second group, while the third, or
"tampers," fill in the earth and fin
ish the job.
Communal forests, similar to those
in Switzerland, are favored by the De
velopment League, the Conservation
Commission and the leaders in the re-
sort centers. General planting is to
take place at Lake Placid, Paul Smith s.
Saranac Inn, Saranac Lake, Elizabeth
town, Plattsburg, Port Kent, Hotel
Champlain, Westport and Schroon
Lake.
Motor tourists in great numbers are
reaching the different resorts. For
the most part they are making the
thusiastic over the delights of that
trip. The fact that there is no new
construction work going forward with
in the Adirondacks this season adds
much to the pleasure Of motoring
through the region.
Among members of the colony at
Lake Placid there will be much enter
tanning this season in honor of Nine
Teiusanu, wife O. Major Livius D
Teiusanu, military attache of the Ru-
manian Legation, formerly Miss Adele
Humphreys, of Philadelphia, who is
returning with her infant daughter,
Humphreys, to spend the first summer
at camp since her romantic marriage.
Irving Bachelor novelist, has joined
the Lake Placid colony.
One of the principal improvements
along the shores of Lake Placid this
season is the boat house built for use
in connection with his camp, Little
Brook, by A. L. D. Warner, New York
sugar refiner.
Gull Rock camp on Lake Placid has
been leased for the season by Will
liam c. Barry of Rochester.
Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Gibson are to
return to Paul Smiths, where their
romance developed last season, being
They have leased the Wiser camp on
the Lower ST. Regis Lake.
Golf players are busy at Paul
Smiths, and games on the improved
links of the st. Regis River Club are
following one another with regularity.
DR.. George W. Shera, of Jersey City,
was the winner in the first flight of
the finals of the first invitation tourna-
ment early in the week. A hotly con-
tested foursome was won by Richard
Longtin and Benjamin Muncil, of the
st. Regis Club, from Clarence Lyman
and NJ. i. Whalen, of the Camden, S.
G.. Country Club.
The camp of Mrs. Paul Smith on the
Lower St. Regis Lake has been leased
for the season by Mrs. E. K Scheftel
Of New York
Among those from New York at Paul
Smiths are Miss Martha Hedman, Miss
Davey, Miss Etherington, w. H..
Davey, Miss Marie T. Tomee and Miss
Evelyn Nesbit.
Countess Otto Salm, of New York,
mas LEASED the Williams camp on the
Lower Saranac Lake. The Mark Twain
camp on the same lake, formerly occu-
pied by the late Samuel l.. Clemens,
has been leased by Mrs Richard
School, of New York. Morris Hillquit,
of New York, has taken a cottage in
Saranac Lake village
The Upper saranac camp of Mrs.
William Bucknell has been leased by
Charles Triller, of New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Milholand are
at Meadowmount, their 1,000-acre es-
tate near Elizabethtown
Colonel John Temple Graves, of New
York, who during recent seasons has
occupied one of the cottages on the
Milholland estate, has leased cottage
in the village.
Early arrivals at Westport Lake
Champlain include. Mr.. and Mrs. j. C.
Nash and family, of New York, who
have arrived at their estate, Skene-
wood, for the season.
MIR. and Mrs. James Lenox Banks, of
New York, will again occupy the Gar
den cottage at Westport Inn.
DR.. and Mrs. Beverly Robinson, of
New York, will occupy Brick House at
Westport