New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
Camp Sites, Free
For Asking, in
The Adirondacks
Only Condition Is That Re-
cipient Must Build Cottage
Costing at Least $500
in Lake Placid Region
Special Dispatch to Tho ryssuxe

recently organized Trade Board Of the
little village Of Wilmington, in aid
Of its big sister resort, Lake Placid.
With every camp and cottage here
leased weeks before the opening Of tho
season Of 1920 many who desired such
accommodations here in the heart Of
the Adirondacks found it impossible to
obtain them. 1t is this situation that
the new Trade Board, Of Wilmington,
of which Thurlow Bell is president;
Frank E. Everest, vice-president, and
Alfred Sweet, secretary. proposes to
remedy. The only restriction included
i'll the announcement issued this week
by the board is that any structure
erected on any Of the hundreds Of sites
to be given away shall cost not less
than $500. Tax exemption for period
of two years is guaranteed on all
camps and cottages constructed.
Wilmington is little village thir-
teen miles from Lake Placid at the
northern entrance to Wilmington
Notch, one of the scenic wonders Of
the Adirondacks. The village is on the
West Branch of the AuSable River and
at the base of Mount Whiteface. 1t
boasts electric lights and good water
supply.
Along with the announcement goes
one TO the effect that Frank E. Everest,
vice-presdent of the Wilmington
Trade Board and proprietor of the
Whiteface Mountain House, has offered
free of charge a tract of land of 1000
acres in the vicinity of Quaker Noun
tain, foothill of Mount Whiteface,
to be laid out as a golf course, supple
menting the seven now in use almost
continuously at Lake Placid.
Members of the Lake Placid Yacht
club have found the week busy one.
The trustees met Thursday and dis
cussed matters that are to come be-
fore the annual meeting next Monday.
races that will be started soon and
members of the summer colony are
preparation for the sail races.
Campers and cottagers recently ar
rived include Jesse Livermore, who has
arrived with his family at High Knoll,
their Signal Hill summer place.
Among golfers there is interest in
the return of the Rev. J. ]. Joyce
Moore, rector of St. Andrews Episco-
pal church of Philadelphia, an ardent
golfer and donor of the Clerical Cup.
He is accompanied by Mrs. Moore and
their son Paul, and has opened for
the season his Signal Hill cottage.
Hawk sland camp, for many years
the summer place fthe late Bishop
Henry Goldman Potter, has been opened
for the season by Philo C. Fuller of
Detroit.
Miss Doris Kenyon, star in "The
Girl in The Limousine" is spending
few weeks at her camp on Silver Lake
with party including her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. James B. Kenyon and
Capt. E. E. Henderson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Ruggles, Barney Parker, of
New York, and Mrs. Snedeker of
Brooklyn.
Stephen Farrelly of New York and
sojourning at Whitefacb Inn, have
gone to the Farrelly camp on Lake
Placid. His son, Theodore S. Farrelly,
Is entertaining Webster w. Stetson of
New York.
Among those recently arrived at
Whiteface Inn are Miss Helen M. Have
myer and her brother John F. Have
meyer of Ardsley- Hudson, who have
joined their mother Mrs. John F.
Havemeyer for the season at the Inn
where the party occupies Balsams Cot
tage.
Camp 1nwood, Whiteface Inn, is
again occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. w. F.
Hoffman and family of East Orange
and New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Good, of South
Orange and New York, occupy Over
brook Lodge for the season.
Recent arrivals from New York at
Whiteface Inn include Mr.. and Mrs. E.
Marie McKernan, Mr.. and Mrs. B. H
Scott and Mr.. and Mrs. R. ]. Cuddihy
Colonel Fred T. Cardway, of New
York, is sojourning at the Stevens
House, accompanied by Mrs. Cardway
Mr.. and Mrs. jacques Coini, of New
York, are at the Stevens House for the
summer.
Among others returned during the
week is Mrs. w. A. Seymour, of Pei
ham. who has one Of the Stevens
House cottages. She is entertaining
and later will be joined by her sons,
G. v. C. Seymour, and Walter Allan
Seymour jr.
Mrs. Agnes McCosker, of Brooklyn,
Is at the Stevens House with her
daughters, Miss Margaret and Miss
Kathyrn McCosker.
Others from New York recently ar
rived at the Stevens House include
Harry Hazard.
Benjamin N. Bushe and party, Major
and Mrs. w. C. Harty, Mr.. and Mrs
Walter S. Mack, Walter S. Mack jr. and
H. H. Chandler.
DR.. and Mrs. Charles G. Koehler, of
Brooklyn, have arrived for the season
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. B. Johnston, OF
New York, are at the Grand View
With them are Mr.. and Mrs. H. M
Behre, Of New York.
Mrs. T. w. Caldwell, of New York
is at the Grand View as are Mr.. and
Mrs. F. E. Miller, Mrs. M. A. Morris
Judson Morris, Theodore Winter. Mr
and Mrs. Thomas Robb jr. and Mrs. A
C. Whitney, all of New York.
Among those at Northwoods are Mr.
and Mrs. Maxwell Geffen, Of New York;
George L. Kirchgasner, of Railway, N
j., and Mrs. Anna Shields, of New York
Twosome cottage at The Pines was
opened this week for Mr.. and Mrs
Theodore Beran, Of New York, who
will spend the season there. Among
others spending the season at The
Pines are Mrs. M. Barr and son, Of
New York.
Those from New York among recen,
arrivals at the hotels include DR.. and
Mrs. L. L. Finch and son, Mr.. and Mrs
-sszvI Morley, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry G
Nauss, w. r. Farrell, R. B. Kirkbride
Mr.. and Mrs. H. l.. Coe, Charles D.
Plummer, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. F. Reed, Mr.