New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Cottage Colony at
Alexandria Bay Is
Ready for Holiday
Hundreds of Guests Arrive
at Thousand Islands to
Remain Over Week End
for Elaborate Program
Special Dispatch to the Tribune

ALEXANDRIA BAY, N. Y, July g.
The Fourth of July at Alexandria Bay
will be appropriately celebrated with
patriotic demonstrations, fireworks,
speeches and more especially by the
large gathering of guests at the numer-
Gus villas OF the summer residents and
the arrival of large numbers of motor
parties at the hotels at this resort.
The Fourth of July always finds Alex
andria Bay rowded to overfowing,
both among the cottage residents and
at the hotels. Many social gayeties
have been planned for the amusement
Of the visitors. The first dance of the
season at the Thousand Islands Yacht
Club tonight was brilliant affair
and assembled all of the dancing set.
Interest in golf at the Thousand
Islands Country Club has been in the
ascendant during the past week. Among
the golfers on the Country Club links
recently were Mr.. and Mrs. A. Ora
ham Miles, Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac P.
Wiser, Mr.. and Mrs. George C. Boldt,
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Fellowes Morgan, Sam
uel Dalzell, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward P.
Noble and others.
Polo at the Thousand Islands is be-
coming more popular each season. In
terest among the summer residents in
this sport is increasing as the season
advances. Among the subscribers to
the boxes for the polo tournament and
the loyal supporters of the sport and
maintenance fund this season are
Commodore James H. Hammond, Fred
erick CORTLAND Penfeld, T. H. Gil
lespie, F. H. Taylor, Mrs. Samuel E.
Brown, George C.. Boldt, Mancel T..
Clark, John Devine, James H. Dawes,
P. M. Evarts, William Gilbert, w.
Langdon Hayden, Francis S. Hutchins,
George S. Hasbrouck, Mrs A. Graham
Miles, A. o. Miller, j. Norris Oliphant
F. B. Lovejoy, Edward J. Noble, E. B.
Rubsamen and Peter j. Young. In ad-
dition to the teams playing last sea-
son, there will be an entry from the
Lake Shore Hunt and Polo Club, of
Buffalo.
Many Cottagers Arrive
Prepared for the Season
Among the arrivals of the last week
were Mr., and Mrs. H. A. Laughlin, Of
Pittsburgh. They came by train to
Utica and were met by their yacht,
Pressure Isle, coming on TO the bay
via the canal.
Mr. and Mrs. Hudson P. Rose, Of
New York, who have been absent from
the St. Lawrence for the last two years,
will open their cottage this summer
and are expected to be at Rosette ISL
and in time for Fourth of July.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Mclean, Of
New York, arrived during the week and
have opened their cottage on Zavikon
Island for the season. With them are
their daughters, the Misses Isabel and
Virginia Mclean.
Mrs. Charles P. Duffy and her daugh
ter, Miss Helen Duffy, of New York.
are the guests of the formers niece,
Mrs. Andrew McNally, at her cottage on
Wellesley Island. Later in the summer
Mrs. Lawrence II. Villas, the former
Mary Moreland, Of Pittsburgh, will
spend some time with Mrs. McNally,
who is her sister-in-law.
Mr. and Mrs. A Graham Miles, who
spent last week in Montreal the guests
Of Mr.. and Mrs. F. N. eBeardmore, were
the guests of honor at numerous affairs
during their Montreal sojourn. Over
the Fourth Mr.. and Mrs. Miles will
have as their guests Mrs. John West
Hornor, Walter H. Neral, William I.
Koch, of New York, and Miss Beatrice
Mills, of Summit, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Taylor, of this
resort, entertained at dinner at their
home in honor of Colonel and Mrs.
Theodore C. Marceau Gr. and their
guests on the yacht Ervilia. Included
in the party besides Colonel and Mrs.
Marceau were Dr. w. B. Sheedy, Thorn
as l.. Tuggle and Theodore C. Mar
eeau jr.
Roi Copper Megrue and his mother,
Mrs. Stella c. Megrue, motored to the
Thousand Islands and were guests
at the Thousand Islands House during
the last week. Mr.. Megrues new play,
"Honors Are Even" will have its New
York premiere at the Times Square
Theater on August g.
Next Monday evening will be the first
motion picture exhibition of the sea-
son at the Thousands Islands Yacht
Club. Mrs. w. Langdon Hayden, wife
of the rear commodore OF the club, is
the chairman of this committee and
makes the arrangements for the pic
lures with the film companies in New