The New York herald., 1922-07-02
Hotels and Homes
Open Early in the
White Mountains
John s. Runnels Entertains
at Willowgate-Many
Other Arrivals.
Special Dispatch to THE NEW Yo.K HmALn

WHITE MOUNTAINS, N. H., July l.
|HE opening of the White Noun
tains season is far earlier than
l. usual this year. many hotels
having already opened. while every
day all through the mountains shut
ters are being taken Off the cottages
and farmhouses, where summer homes
attract city dwellers from the West
ern, Southern. Central and New Eng
land States.
John S. Runnels OF Chicago, presi-
dent of the Pullman Company. has
with MIN until they go to Breton
Woods for the late season Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert I. jerks of New York.
MIR. and Mrs. William James of Cam
bridge, Mass. also spend part OF
every summer with Mr.. Runnels, who
is Mrs. James's father. Mr.. and Mrs.
Give Runnels of Chicago will also be
there provided they do not summer in
Europe. Mr.. Runnels has at Willow
gate, on the shores Of Lake Chocorua,
one of the finest old fashioned flower
gardens In the White Mountains.
DR.. John Finley OF New York and the
former Mrs. Grover Cleveland, Mrs.
Thomas Preston Of Princeton N. j..
have adjoining estates at Tamworth,
N. H, q little mountain village tea
miles or more from a railway station.
and here the two families spend most
OF every summer.
Innumerable camps for boys and girls
have sprung UP all over the White Noun
tains and their foothills, especially
wherever there is river or lake, and the
parents of many of these boys and girls
have either purchased summer homes
within easy distance from camp or stop
at some of the many hotels, paying fire.
quent visits to the children or having
them up for weekend.
Judge James Remich OF Concord.
N. H, and Mrs. Remich, have been
spending the early season in camp at
Diamond Pond, near Colebrook, which
attracts many New Workers each season.
The Secretary of War. John w. Weeks
Is having an imposing gate, wall and
entrance to his estate on Mount Prospect
at Lancaster, erected. Workers are
using the native pasture stone from his
pastures for the work. which is unusu-
ally handsome.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin W. Ivie OF New
York will visit their summer home on
the slope of Mount Agassiz, in Beth
lehem. this season.
nd CTor Of
White Plains, N. Y. with Mr.. and Mrs.
Joshua Clark of Boston. are spending
some time at the Mountain View at
Whitefield. On Tuesday they motored
to the Canadian boundary line at
Canaan. VT, stopping at Colebrook for
luncheon and returning by way of Dix
Vile Notch and Gorham.
Mrs. II. L. Potter and Miss Helen
Potter, who have been spending some
time with Mr.. Potter at the Equinox.
Manchester. VT, have gone to their farm
summer. Mrs. e. L. Wilkinson will be
with them.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Chandler of Cor
ham have opened their house between
Potter farm and Umbagog Camp, for the
fishing
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Conrey of Phil
adelphia are touring the White Noun
tains by automobile on their wedding
trip and have left Elm Tree Inn for
the Maine coast.
Mrs. George Barnard and Miss Flor
ence d. Emerson are leaving the North
Shore this week for tour Of the White
Mountains by automobile. with Pollys
Place. Colebrook, as their objective.
Mr.. Robert P. Peeckett Is building a
new bungalow as an addition to his bum
galow colony at Sugar Hill, N. II.
Much work is being done this month
on the New Hampshire State roads.
which are in good condition all through
the White Mountains. The four White
Mountain notches, Crawford, Franconia,
Dixvlle and Pinkham, all have fine mo-
tor roadways and the Grafton Notch.
which runs between Upton and Bethel.
Me. opens up another artery of travel
into the White Mountains.
Trout fishing is good in all the streams
and lakes OF the White Mountains. The
automobile camping grounds in every
town are patronized much earlier than
usual this season.