The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-06-05
Motor Parties
In the CatSkilIS
Members of Cottage Colonies
Begin to Arrive-New
Summer Camp.

Special Despatch to THE New YORK HERALD.
CArsKILI, n. Y, June 4.-While the
large crowds OF holidty sojourners at the
resorts in the northern Catskills. includ-
ing Catskill, Leeds. Green Lake. Cairo.
Purling, Round Top, Windham, kis-
katom. Paenville. Haines Falls. Tan
nersville. Hunter, Lexington and Pratts-
willie have returned to their homes, the
streets here tonight are lined with au-
tomobiles. and there has been steady
stream of week end parties from other
sections who will pass the Sunday in
touring the Catskills.
Both the Community Theatre and the
Irving Theatre are crowded tonight, and
the number Of strange faces shows that
the aggregate number OF visitors is
greater than at this time last season.
The completion of a new hotel the
Norwood, at the corner of Main and
Church streets, adds another all year
house 10 Catskill. and with the Saul
paugh, the Smith House and the Heidel-
berg, gives to the place four large no
tells.
A new summer camp, under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Lapham of New York. will
be opened on the Old Snake road outside
of the village the latter part of this
month, that will bring between seventy
and eighty young persons here for the
season and add considerably to the So
cial activity of the village.
Among the members of the cottage
colony who have arrived are Mr.. and
Mrs. MARITIME Wilcoxen. who are at their
place overlooking the Hudson, and Mr..
and Mrs. Lewis Benin of New York, who
are at their home on the Vosenkill road.
Mr.. and Mrs Julian d. Hahn of
1xyn u,hn r11ar
26 passed the early part of the week
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Richards of Brooklyn,
who recently purchased a summer home
on Jefferson Heights. will occupy ii after
the middle of June.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Foote of Brooklyn
passed a part of the week with relatives
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Reilly of New
York, with their two children, made the
trip from New York to Catskill by auto
mobile. and are visiting relatives here.
Miss Rose Majilton. Miss Rose Hender-
son and Mr.. Percy Ashley of New York
have been passing the week as the
guests of Col. F. II. Beach and Mrs. e.
Hubbard on Woodland avenue.
1t is more than a century since the
construction of the Great Highway, the
road leading from the present site of
Catskill to Unadilla, n. Y, winding
around the mountains to their summit at
East Windham. gave to travellers views
of the Catskills that made them famous
for scenic beauty.
For a half century the fame given to
the mountains by artists, writers and
travellers brought hundreds to the Cats
kills The completion Of railroads into
the heart of the region opened up new
sections, and where originally Greene
county was considered as the section
known as the Catskills, because 1t was
the part best known. the railroads, max
ing 1t possible to reach Ulster and Del
aware counties, opened UP vast noun
tain park, with an area of moro than
two thousand square miles. To-day.
even with building operations stopped
since the war because of the excessive
costs. there are more than a thousand
hotels and boarding houses, a dozen
or more summer cottage colonies, with
from twenty-five to more than a hundred
summer homes. costing from few thou
sand dollars to nearly one hundred thou
sand dollars, where owners pass their
vacations.