New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Westchester Sets
Summer Record for
New York Families
Homes ON Sound and Hud-
SON Occupied by More
Persons From Manhattan
Than Before i'm History
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

MOUNT VERNON, n. Y, July 3
Never before in Westchester County
have there been so many New Workers
soJourning for the summer months
along the northern shore of Long
Island Sound and the eastern bank of
the Hudson as at the present time.
Virtually every bungalow and cottage
a. New Rochelle, Larchmont, Rye and
Oakland beaches are occupied and
some are living in tents because of the
shortage of summer houses. A number
OF wealthy New Workers who generally
GO to Europe OR the seashore are in
their mansions at Tarrytown, Ardsley,
Dobbs Ferry, Larchmont, Davenport
Neck and Rye, and as the result of this
influx of summer people, gayety and
festivity reign supreme.
Fourth Of July will be celebrated
with parades in Mount Vernon, New
Rochelle, White Plains and Yonkers,
while at the different golf clubs there
WILL be special tournaments. At the
Larchmont and American Yacht clubs.
as we'll as the New Rochelle Yacht
Club, there will be ususal holiday fes.
tlvities with a band concert in the
afternoon followed by aquatic sports,
regattas on the Sound and dinners and
fireworks in the evening.
AT Scarsdale the various organizations
of Greenville will have a big Fourth
of July celebration which will be an
ali-day affair with fireworks at night
from the top of tower on Tuckahoe
Road. In the evening there will be a
dance at the Four Way Lodge. At the
Scarborough Country Club and the
Ardsley Country Club there will be
dances and pyrotechnic displays.
Comfort Society to Hold
Lawn Party and Dance
The Comfort Society of North Pei
nam has arranged for lawn party and
dance at the town hall on the evening
OF July Is. The committee in charge
10 made up Of Miss Ruth Chaloux, Miss
Josephine Mick, the Misses Anna
Booth, Anna Auwaerter, Florence
Brockman, Fife Buchanan. Florence
Curran, Hillaire Chaloux. Ellie Voelk.
ner, Elizabeth Kurtze, Helen Voelkner,
Augusta Kurtze and Dorothy Kurtze.
Arthur ". Lawrence, of Bronxville.
mas been chosen chairman of the West
chester County Transit Commission,
which will endeavor TO solve and i'm
prove the rapid transit facilities be-
haitian. Other members of the COM
mission are David S. Murden, of the
Board of Supervisors; Elijah Yerks, of
Yonkers; William D. McQuesten and
Daniel W. Whitmore, of Mount Vernon.
and Michael J. Walsh, of Yonkers.
Miss Helen Barnard, of Rich Ave
nue., Mount Vernon, has gone to Port
land, Me-, for the wedding of class
mate, after attending the commence
ment exercises at Wellesley College.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. McClaskey, of
Mount Vernon, have gone to St. Ste
phen, N. B., TO visit Mr.. McClaskey's
mother. They will spend the balance of
the summer at Camp Douglas, N. Y.
MISS Bethiah Waterman, Of Archer
Avenue, Mount Vernon, has been grad
uated from Wheaton College, where she
was wardede the Filene prize. which
goes to the undergraduate who has beer
the most influential student and has
done the most for her college during the
year.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. II. Fox and family.
OF Haywood Road, Pelham Manor. vii
spend the summer at Salters Point
South Dartmouth, Mass.
Mrs. Howard NJ Miller has been
elected president of the Avon Bard
Club of New Rochelle. The other Of
f1cers are Mrs. Arthur c. Burnet, VICE
president; Mrs. J. Franklin Brown, sec
rotary, and Miss Renee Geddes, treas
urer.
Mr. and Mrs Charles D. spauldine
ana their two sons, of Neptune Avenue.
New rochelle, sail on July on the
Aqnftanla for tour of Europe.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. Arnold Diamo,5 80
Scarsdaie, have returned from wash
ingfon, where they spent week.
Miss Virginia Youchim. OF Sixth
street, North Pelham, is spending sew
eral weeks in Bermuda.
Thomas r. James and Howard
oDonnell. OF North Pelham, students
at Cornell University, have returned
home for the vacation.
Miss Ceiine Fassier, of Teachers
sSoliege, has retnsned to her home in
North Pelham foMths summer.