New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
Airplane Express
SYSTEM Is Planned
For Adirondacks
Hotel Men Predict Speed
Route From N. Y. City to
Mountains Will Follow
Air Sightseeing Buses

resorts Of the glorious Adirondack
country will be matter of minutes
instead os hours when the aero vaca-
tion express system goes into effect.
Inst when this will be aas not been
announced but prominent hotel men
here predict that it must soon follow
the developments for airplane flights
throughout the summer.
Very soon the airplane "busses." each
eeuipped with AGO horsepower Liberty
motors. will be skimming through the
Adirondack bzone and passengers will
be Informed either that Mount Marcy
IS dead ahead that I'VE are now 1900
feet above Paul Smiths and the st.
Regis Chain OF Lakes" or s.erchance
that "the stretch of blue at the right
is Lake Champiain; the one at the
lett. the St. Lawrence"
The Adirondack Air Service, Inc.
which will operate q feet of six pas
senger planes during the summer and
esrly autumn, viii have its headquar-
tSrs at the village of Ticonderoga, with
booking Offices at each of the principal
Adirondack hotels. while from Lake
Placid as base, another feet of seven
seaplanes, under the direction of Major
s E. Parker, of New York, will make
daily scheduled passenger flights be-
tween Lake Placid, Saranac Lake viii
fage, Paul Smiths, on the St. Regis
Chain of Lakes; Saranac Inn, on the
Upper Saranac, and Loon Lake. Also
there will be an aviation school in
which members of the younger set will
receive instruction in the art Of flying.
Irwin r. Kirkwood Purchased
White Pine Camp for 100000
Principal changes In the ownership
of private camps in the region this
season include that at Paul Smiths,
by which Irwin R. Kirkwood, news
paper publisher of Kansas City, Mo,
early in the season acquired White
Pine Camp on Osgood Lake for $780,
GOO. The camp, which originally cost
$500, 900 and is one of ths most elaborate
in the entire region, was built by the
former owner, Archibald S. White. Be
fore their divorce Mr.. and Mrs. White
entertained in a manner that made
White Pine Camp famous. Among
their guests was the former German
Ambassador Count Won Bernstorff. One
of the unusual features of this Adiron-
dsck camp is private theater.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert S. Carpenter,
of New York and Ardsley have returned
and opened Their summer place, Camp
Arden, on Loon Lake.
At Lake Placid work is being rushed
toward the completion of the new sum-
Tner camp of Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
Stevens, which is being erected at cost
OF $4,000. It is located on the grounds
of the Stevens House. Mr.. Stevens is
treasurer of the Stevens Hotel Company.
In addition to other improvements
made at Lakesit,s Inn, Lake Placid,
early IN the season, others of more
extensive nature will be made under
the direction OF Thomas A. Leahy, man
ager, in preparation for the unusually
busy season indicated by the reserva-
tions.
Stephen A Farrelly, Of New York,
who has a camp on Lake Placid, has
been at the Whiteface Inn while max
ing arrangements for the arrival OF
his family.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. n. Kunhardt, of
New York are among the sojourners cf
previous seasons expected early at
Whiteface Inn.
Wallpaper Manufacturers to
Open Convention Tuesday
Arrangements are now perfected at
the Stevens House for the entertainment
of the two hundred delegates to the an
nual convention of the American Wall
Paper Manufacturers Association, which
opens there next Tuesday and continues
three days.
AT Ehzabethtown there is much en-
thusiasnl over the project backed by
the newly organized Chamber of Com
dam across the Bouquet River short
distance from Garondah, the beauti-
ful summer place of Frank A. Munsey.
The lake thus created would be three
quarters of a mile wide and three
miles long and the dam would cost
about $4,000. By q vote of IA to al
the people Of the town of Elizabeth
town voted to beautify the village by
erecting the dam at their own expense.
Those recently arrived at Deer's
Head lnns Elizabethtown, include Mr..
and Mrs. A. W. Hnkes, Mr.. and Mrs.
Z, A. Perkins and Mr. and Mrs. A. W.
Ellington, of Torrington, Conn, and
Mr., and Mrs. II. B. Brodie, of Mont
real. Many from New York are max
ing reservations at the Windsor Hotel,
Eliza bethtown, recently purchased by
Henry S. Duncan, where Joseph E..
Gouiet, Of New York, is manager this
season.
At Westport, on Lake Champlain. as
well aa at Plattsburg and other points
on the big lake, members of the cot
tage colony are returning. Recent ar
rivals in the Westport colony include
". 7. Bradley and family, of New
York, and w. N. Nash and family, re-
Gently returned from Pasadena, Calf
Saranac Inn Cottage Colony
Will Be Largest in Years
The cottage colony at saranac Inn,
on the Upper Saranac Lake, will be one
OF the largest in years. DIR. and Mrs.
J, b. Walker, of New York, have leased
early.
H. W. Darling, Of New York, has
leased the Lady Tree cottage and Fritz
Landenmeyr, of New York, who takes
an active part in the Saranac Inn golf
events each season, is returning with
MS family to Cosmos cottage.
Many improvements have been made
a. the Saranac Lake Country Club
quarters IN preparation for the season.
Inc fishermen among early arrivals at
that village are making some record
catches Of trout. The largest lake
trout taken thus far was that landed
early in the week by Edward Start
@nile fishing in st. Regis Pond. The
nsh measured thirty inches In length
ana weighed eight and one-quarter
pounds.
Mrs Mary Bacon, of New York, has
sased cottage on Reservoir Hill,
ssfaaac Lake. for the period of two
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