New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29
Receptions inOpen
Air Find Favor i'm
Lake Placid Region
Three Masquerade Balls,
Baseball Came Between
Women and Men and Air.
plane Flights Are Features
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

open air receptions are a form of
entertainment finding favor among
campers here and elsewhere in the
Adirondacks. These receptions, which,
like the musical teas in which mem
bers of Lake Placid's musical colony
find relaxation and inspiration, usually
are held Sunday afternoons, and short
addresses are sometimes given by
prominent men and women sojourning
in the mountains. These talks are. Of
scientific and educational value Sew
eral of them have been given by Pro-
fessor William l.. Moore, head of the
United States Weather Bureau, who
addressed the Girls Club at Lake
Placid Club last night Mrs. Theodore
Parsons, of New York, is another of
the speakers.
Preparations on a large scale are
being made for the annual Indian
council fire and pageant which is to
take place at Lake Placid Club next
Friday night. This is the most spec
tacular of the annual outdoor pageants
in the Adirondacks each season.
At special meeting of the Lake
Placid Yacht Club S. Hudson Chapman
Jr. was elected vice commodore and
William j. McConvill, treasurer of the
club, was made acting secretary.
The annual masquerade ball in the
Wigwam at Whiteface Inn was one of
the merriest of the series Tho prize
for the prettiest costume went to Mile.
Magnom of Paris, as Cupid. Masters
Edison and Hoffman Van Brunt, sons
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Van Brunt, Of
New York. representing an organ
grinder and his monkey, received an
award for the cleverest makeup. The
Misses Farrelly and their brothers, Of
Harrison, n. Y, representing Villas
army, received the award for the most
most economical costume went to Mrs.
j. Abrams, of Philadelphia, who APP
peared gowned in newspapers.
The Judges were Mrs. f. l.. O'Bryan
and l.. A. Duckworth, Of New York;
William R. Lyman, of Philadelphia;
Mrs. B. H. Divine, of Utica. and Mrs.
W. 7. Pitkin, of Hartford Conn. Fol-
lowing the unmasking there was COM
| petitive dancing, in which the prize
winners were Miss Marie Farrclly and
| Richard Farreily.
Llttlejohn of New York, entertained
twenty guests at their Camp Goose
| with Welsh rabbit party
Bridge Party Aids Fund
Hostesses for a bridge party on the
porch at Wniteface Inn at which $148
was added to the Whiteface Inn Tuber-
cular fund, were Mrs. E: L. O'Bryan,
Mrs. II. B. Good, Mrs B. H. Divine.
Mrs. William Hoffman and Mrs. T. c..
Lucas.
The mems golf championship at
Whiteface Inn was won by Arthur Van
Brunt, Of New York, and the woman's
championship by Mrs. j. j. Sweeney,
of New York.
Events of the week at Northwoods
Inn included musical and dance. Mrs.
N. [. Raymond won first prize in five
hundred party. 3
Winners of the prizes for women in
the masquerade ball at the Grand View
We're Mrs. w. II. Ebbctts, of New York.
as newsboy, first, and Mrs. Charles
Mel diner, of New York, as a bride, sec
ond. w. II. Rabell, Of New York, clad
IN barrel, won first prize for men,
and W. II. Ebbetts, as a blond was
awarded second.
AT baseball the men players defeated
the women players by the score of IL
to II on the Grand View grounds. Miss
Gladys Neidncr was catcher for the
womens team, and David MacFadyen.
dressed as woman, was their pitcher.
tlrst of the women of the summer
colony to make flight in the arplane
no" IN service here, piloted by Captain
II. ;. broad, formerly of the British
Royal Flying Corps, was Mrs. George
"A. stevens, who made the trip on a
wager with her husband
MISS Helen Havemeyer, of New York.
won the dive for girls and the swim.
ming race for girls in the annual water
sports.
Mrs. Studwell Wins at Golf
In tho WOmoD,c hon
ment at the Stevens House the winner
was Mrs. G. S. Studwell, of New York
who defeated Mrs. R. F. Dennis. of
Jersey City, 3 and in the finals.
). q. Mcmahon, of Briarciff. won
the mems handicap event, defeating
Charles Jewtraw in the finals, l up.
flrst prize for women in the annual
masquerade ball at the Stevens House
went to Miss Katharine McCosker. of
brooklyn, appearing as the Goddess of
LIBERTY. MISS Audrey Loder and Miss
Helen Dennis, both appearing as brides.
Tied Tor second honors. Warren John
son, OF New York, as Mephistopheles,
won tne hrst prize for men, and Ar
thur G. Gardner of New York. a. a
girl, Won second prize.
Other events at the Stevens House
this week included the barn dance on
ednesday evening for the benefit of
the musicians, with prizes for cos
tunes bridge party Monday after
noon and tennis tournament.
Colonel J. Hollis Wells and SON T..
r. Wells, of New York, have arrived at
.! the Stevens House.
Mrs. T. J: Lintott and Miss May Lin
tctt have joined Judge T. J. Lintott,
OF the supreme Court of New Jersey,
and Miss G. E. Lintott at the Stevens
House. -"
William Mulquecn, of New York. has
joined his parents, Justice Joseph Null
queen and Mrs. Mulquecn, at the Ste
vens House.
State Senator and Mrs. Charles E.
Russell, of Brooklyn, have arrived at
the Stevens