The New York herald., 1921-05-29
Links Improved
In the A dirOndackS
Hotels at the Various Resorts
Prepare for an Active
Season.


ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS, N Y, May
Appropriations are being made for
a season of sports in the Adirondacks
during the summer as never before has
been enjoyed in this region.
Interest centres mainly upon golf.
and from all the principal resorts come
reports of courses that have generally
wintered well. The Rev. II. II. Pittman.
secretary and treasurer of the Cobble
Hill Golf Club at Elizabethtown, says
every effort will be made this season
to make the clubs August tournament
bigger and better than ever before.
Under the direction OF the green's COM
mittee. including Benjamin +. Stetson.
Robert Nelson and the Rev. Mr.. Pitt
man, a largo sum OF money was ex-
pended last fall in putting the Cobble
Hill links in better condition for this
seasons play.
Also at considerable expense, improve
ments have been made under the d.
roction of George Low on the course at
Hotel Champlain. Bluff Point. The
courses of the Westport Golf Club at
Westport-on-Iake Champlain and of
the Champlain Country Club at Port
Kent, also on the lake. have been put
in shape, and teams representative OF
each resort will be organized. At
players In the mountains make their
headquarters at the Leland House, the
Brown Swan Club and Bogles Hotel.
much attention also win be paid the
sport.
Lake Placds seven courses !nclud-
Ing that OF the Lake Placid Golf Club
at the Stevens House; the Whiteface
Inn course, the Russeaumont colony
course and those at Lake Placid Club,
have shown remarkable Improvement
under the spring rains and are now in
the pink of condition. Midway between
Lake Placid and Saranac Lake Is the
Meadowbrook course OF the Saranac
Lake Golf Club, where Scott North is
already In charge and predicts that
nearly double the number OF last years
players win be enrolled this season.
Tournaments for Paul Smiths.
The improved course OF the ST. Regis
River Golf Club at Paul Smiths will
be the scene Of number OF interesting
tournament events this season, in which
the st. Regis campers will be well rep
resented, as the present indications are
that the camp colony will include many
lovers or the game among the younger
set. DR.. Walter B. James. president of
the club. is confident of very active
season. Similar reports come from
Saranac Inn on the upper Saranac
Lake, where Harrington Mills last sea-
son saw the finish Of the task OF in
cfeasing the course from nine to eigh-
teen holes, making the course one oi
the most sporty in the whole Adlron-
daci region.
| Aviation Is included In the season s
| sport programme. Major S K. Parker
Of New York, who recently came from
that city In a seaplane. will establish
the headquarters of his Adirondack
squadron at Lake Placid and a daily
passenger service from Lake Placid al
nase viii be maintained to Saranac
Lake. Paul Smiths on the St Regis
chain of lakes, and Saranac Inn on the
upper Saranac Lake. In addition to a
couple OF seaplanes Major Parker will
| nave an airplane in service
| During August Plattsburg will be one
\ OF the principal centres OF interest for
| soJourners In the mountains and visitors
from across the international bound
\ airy, Tor the opening OF the Citizens
Military Training Camp for elementary
| mllitary training Is scheduled to take
place there August z. the camp remain
ing open for thirty days. This camp.
one of three for which provision is being
made by the War Department, Is TO be
Tor young men between the ages OF I6
and 30, and many of the recruits will
be from families sojourning either at
the different Adirondack hotels or at
summer places Of their own within the
Adirondack region.
William II. Howell. president Of the
Adirondack Resorts Association and also
| proprietor OF the Witherll Hotel. Platts-
\ burg. predicts that new records will be
\ made Tor motor travel to Adirondack
and Canadian resort points this season.
Cooperating with Mr.. Howell and the Of
ficials OF the Resorts Association Is
George A. McNamee, secretary Of the
/ Tourists Bureau of Montreal and every
effort Is being made to insure every pos
| sible measure of comfort and convent
| ence TO the motor tourists already com
ing over the highways from New York
and other principal cities Although
4 there has been little new construction
work on the Adirondack highways in
| readiness for this season, the old roads
have been kept in good repair and az
ford a motor tour which. taken in COM
bination with that afford, over the
motorways OF Canada, is unrivalled In
| the world.
New road construction of principal
Importance Is that through the main
\ street OF the village Of Lake Placid
which forms n connecting link between
| the State road system on the eastern
slope OF tho mountains and that on the
western slope. and that on the road
eight miles long. between Elizabethtowr
on the Quebec-Miaml highway and
Westport on Lake Champlain. The Lake
Placid road is OF brick, with wide con.
crete cutters The Elizabethtown-W West.
port road is of the usual State road con-
struction.
IL IL expected that work on the latter
road will he completed in July, For the
convenience of motorists from the south
4 the North Hudson-Port Henry road,
which connects with the State road
along the western shore OF Lake Cham
plain. is being put In good condition
for early travel and il Is expected that
the Chestehton, Hague, Ticonderoga
road. connecting with the same state
highway, also win be in good condition
for early use.
Changes I'm Hotel Mnnagements.
sojourners Of pervious seasons return
\ ing to their favorlte resorts In the
Adirondack region will note several
changes in hotels and management
These are principally at Lake Placid.
+. Paul Stevens has succeeded his
| father. tho late George A. Stevens, as
president OF the Stevens Hotel Company
the other officers OF the reorganized
company being Raymond Stevens, treas
trar 1nrtfa gtavana garrqfary