New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Adirol1eiacks Hotel
q " ers Prepare
For Biggest Season
Golf Courses Whipped Into
Shape and Buildings Are
Remodeled and Enlarged
at Many Mountain Resorts
specia, Dispetch 10 q-he Tribun.


ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS, n. Y,
May 14.-Preceded by d winter OF un-
usual activity in these mountains, there
is perhaps small reason for wonder at
the manner and proportion in which
preparations for the summer season
are now proceeding. Everywhere there
| is great activity. AT all OF the favorite
resort points hotel men and camp and
cottage owners seem to be competing
in the matter of making ready, and
never before have conditions more con-
vincingly indicated prolonged round
of social gayety extending from June
well into October
For several weeks the vanguard OF
the army of motor tourists has been
on the move, and they are now descend
I ing in considerable numbers upon the
points of interest in the Champlain
Valley and the Adirondacks, visiting
famous Au Sable Charm, where Hotel
Au Sable Chasm is this season again
under the direction of Horace H. Nye;
I Split Rock, on the shore of Lake Cham
plain; the ruins of the old forts in the
! Grown Point Reservation; historic III
| conderoga, with the nearby ruins of
the old fort, and beautiful Westport,
the meeting place of the motorways
with the big waterway to which Cham
plain gave its name. Development of a
new and improved motor ferry service
from Westport to Basin Harbor, on the
Vermont side of the lake, is one of the
numerous things with which Harry P.
al.
gagged
At all of the golf centers in the
mountains, Lake Placid, Elzabethtown
Paul Smiths, Hotel Champlain, at Bluff
Point, Schroon Lake, Saranac Inn,
Saranac Lake Village and Port Kent
preparations are being made for one of
the greatest seasons of golf in the his
tory of the mountain resorts.
James A. Emerson, proprietor of the
Leland House, Schroon Lake, and Philip
E. Rice, manager Of the Brown Swan
Club, Schroon Lake, are among those
active in the promotion of golf at
schroon Lake, where there is each
season large number of players.
M. F. Whalen, who is back from
Camden, S. c., as manager at Paul
Smiths, personally supervised much of
the work of improving the links of the
St. Regis River Golf Club, of which
DR.. Walter B. James, of New York, is
president, and many sojourners in the
exclusive camp colony on the st. Regis
chain of lakes are members. Mr.
Phelps Smith, president of the hotel
company, and his brother Paul Smith
treasurer, are members of the club.
Among those active in the promotion
of golf at Lake Placid is j. j. Sweeney
manager of Whiteface Inn In the face
of almost overwhelming difficulties Mr.
Sweeney had the present Whitefacc
Inn course laid out few seasons age
and it is now considered one of the
best in the region.
The late Hon. George A Stevens
former president of the Stevens Hotel
Company, was one of the leading golf
enthusiasts of recent years in the
Placid Golf Club, extending from the
'hotel over the heights of Signal Hill
and along the shore of Lake Placid
were the pride of his heart, and his
sons, now in charge Of the hotel, have
them in the pink of condition for this
seasons play. Including the splend d
courses at Lake Placid Club, open to
members of that organization and their
friends, there are no less than seven
courses for lovers of the game at Lake
Placid, and each is this season said
to be in excellent shape.
Scott North, in charge of affairs at
the links of the Saranac Lake Golf
Club, located midway between the vii
lagos of Saranac Lake and Lake Placid
says that more players are steadily
taking UP the game and he is confident
Of being able to put a strong team in
the field this season. At Saranac Inn
the links, extended and improved at
great expense at the order of Mr.. Har-
rington Mills, proprietor of the inn
are the pride of all players on the
Upper Saranac and from camps within
a radius of many miles
Changes made in the hotels in prep
aration for this season, while not ex-