The New York herald., 1922-12-17
ISLANDS IN SUMNER SEAS DRAW
Bermuda's Winter
Season Launched
With Flying Start
Hotels Opened Friday and the
Cottage Colony Has Be- u
gun to Gather.
HAMPTON. Bermuda, Dec. 1s,


f it were Bermuda's custom TO
send out cards they might read
something like this: "At home,
on and after December Is. Bermuda,
Atlantic" for this week may be
said to officially mark the opening of
the winter season here. The all-season
hotels, particularly the St. George. at
st. Georges. are now entertaining an
unusual number Of regular patrons;
the members of Bermuda's exclusive
cottage colony are returning by each
steamship and the opening of the
Princess and Hamilton hotels yester-
day furnished, as it were, the crack of
the pistol for which the eager young
season has been waiting.
Just now the work of arranging for
the events of the winter season of
1929 is nearing completion and dates
will soon be announced. The events,
which include the Bermuda golf cham
pionship. the big tennis championship
taking place during the first week of
March following the tournaments on
tho Princess and Hamilton Hotel
courts. the powerboat races in January
and the annual trap shooting tourna-
lnent in April are all of an internationa
character, bringing together leaders of
the different sports from all parts of
the United States and Canada.
For golfers, there are two splendid
eighteen hole courses available and no
less than three additional nine hole
courses, affording plenty Of room for
the enthusiasts Interest centers in
a large degree about the new midocean
course, in connection with the develop
ment tract at fuckers Town. midway
between the city of Hamilton and the
town OF ST. Georges, by the Bermuda
Development Company.
The crowning feature of the new
course is the new clubhouse, formerly
part OF a great Bermudian estate.
improvements of q general nature
also have been worked upon the famous
Riddelrs Bay golf course, which Is sit
uated but a comparatively short dis
tance across Hamilton Harbor from the
city of Hamilton.
Changes in Hotels.
sojourners OF previous seasons return
ing to the Hamilton and Princess hotels
win find that changes conducive to even
greater comfort than these famous hos
telres have afforded In the past. have
been made during the summer and fall.
Much interest centers about the an
nouncement of Hamilton's new hotel
project which has for its aim the COM
pletion OF the new Bermudiana at an
outlay of S1,650 900, In time for the
opening of the winter season of 1923-24.
This new hotel which will accQmmodate
400. is to be built after plans by Warren
& Wetmore of New York city.
One of the principal features Of this
season is the rejuvenation of quaint old
st. Georges, historic former capital of
Bermuda, located on the island of ST.,
George. which is connected with the
major island group by a causeway. The
st. George Hotel, owned by Furness
Witty & Co., Ltd and recently remod-
eled at an outlay of something over
100000, is st. Georges social center
and is the leading all year hotel on the
Islands
So altogether satisfying is the steam
ship service that winter yacationists
have come to count the trip OF forty
eight hours from shivering New York to
sunny Bermuda as little more than
brief pleasant prelude TO an all season