New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Summer Travel to
Catsk kill Resorts
Shows Big Increase
Arrivals Set a Record for
Corresponding Period of
ANY Other Year; Many
Noted Cottagers OH Hand
Special Dispatch to The Tribune


SAUGERTIES. N. Y, June 1s.-Sum-
mer travel to the Catskill Mountains
through the Saugerties gateway has
been heavy during the last week, and
through the Kingston gateway to the
Catskills and the Shawangunks has en-
ceeded all records for the correspond
ing period of any previous yeor. Ulster
and Delaware counties are proving
their growing popularity.
Vacationists to the Saugerties sec
tion of the Catskill-Shawangunk region
are interested in the announcement
from Woodstock that the Market Fair
Will become regular institution, and
also that The Maverick weekly concerts
Will commence tomorrow. The Nav
erick will include among this years
members Mario laurent, bsrytone with
the Metropolitan Opera Company
Flag Day was observed in most of
the larger communities in Ulster and
Delaware counties with appropriate ex-
ercises AT Kingston the exercises
were conducted by the local lodge of
Eiks, Gs~I the principal address was de-
llvered by Judge William D. Cunning
ham, of the Court of Claims. Celebra-
tions fthe oldfashioned sort are
again coming into favor in the region,
and July a will find many of them
among the mountain and valley vii
lagos the principal celebration being
at Stamford. Saugertiess celebration
VIII be part of its Old Home Week,
which opens on July 1.
Catskills Baseball Teams
Are Making Good Showing
Motoring, golf and tennis continue
IN unabated favor, while the popular
ity of baseball shows no signs of
diminishing in this region any more
Than 1t does elsewhere in America. The
Saugerties ties has been giving a good
account of itself and the Lake Mohonk
aggregation of players has been play
ing fast and snappy ball since it's first
game in May. Stamford's team is be-
ing organized.
To the delights of trout fishing,
which has as many followers as at
the beginning of the season in April,
have now been added those which ac-
company fishing for black bass, the
season for which opened on Thursday.
Inc State Conservation Commission
has announced that the black bass is
a true American fish-that it is Amer
lean born and American bred. And to
this description has been added the
comment of fishermen in this vicinity
that the bass fights like true Ameri-
can and is so fair in his engagement
that he arouses the admiration and
wins the friendship of his opponent.
Maud Adams, who comes to SAUCER
ties each year on her way to her sum
mer home at Onteora Park, is expect
ed soon and will find along her route
that her friends are more numerous
than ever since Union Colleg at Sche-
nectady has conferred on the degree of
Master of Arts. The summr cottages
of Nine. Galli-Curci and Julia Marlowe
shelter their owners in the near future.
Ulster and Delaware Take
Care of Disabled Soldiers
Both Ulster and Delaware counties
are devotihg much attention to the
care of disabled soldiers who are re-
gaining their health under the delight
full conditions to be found in the
mountainous regions of both counties
throughout the year. AT Willow and
Woodstock several large farmhouses
have been converted into homes for
the disabled soldiers who receive much
attention from the people Of the en-
tire region. Mrs. Else Knaught. .of
Kingston, after remodelling her home
on Albany Avenue, offered it for the
USE VI SoluleTS uufllg CIe summer
months, and the society folks Of Kings
Con and vicinity have raised $4,000 for
its maintenance during the months of
July and August. Mrs. Knaughts resi-
dence for many years contained the
finest private observatory in eastern
New York, but it has now been dis
mantled.
Many local charities will benefit un-
der the will of Miss SarGN B. Reynolds,
of Kingston, which has just been pro-
bated. Two-thirds of an estate Of more
than $150,000 is given to religious and
charitable enterprises. The historic
First Dutch Church of that city is
beneficiary to a large extent. This
church, whose history and records date
back uninterruptedly to 1869, is visited
annually by tourists from many parts
of the country who are charmed with
its architectural beauty 1t was de-
signed after the cathedrals of South
ern France. Of equal interest to visi-
tors is the old Senate House, now
owned by the State of New York, where
the first constitution of the state was
adopted; the court house, built in 1918,
on the site of the old court house
where George Clinton was inaugurated
as first Governor of New York, and
Clinton's grave and monument in the
historic churchyard across the street
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