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Section ANNUAL RESORTS AM) TRAVEL SECTION Daily ANNUAL RESORTS AND TRAVEL SECTION NEW YORK CITY, SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1928. FIVF TFNT? Grrlw I SEVEN CENTS rut New iorlt i RUSH OF CITY DWELLERS TO SUMMER RESORTS BEGINS; WARM DAYS OF JUNE GIVE PROMISE OF FINE SEASON AVI if. m0 CNTR J) i A ii i 01 4 4- i 7f 4 3 'J four pfor vViVFROM wfpOQCHtS Of ATHAMSi XTHEOOU uc crnnnr mm i al-'c runutm mi CATS KILLS I FALLS 1 1 Catskill Mountain Resorts Opening; Big Rush Expected When Public Schools Close Famous North Woods Camps Opening Up; Airplanes Bring Adirondacks Nearer to City is V'. (Special to The Eagle Lake Placid, N. June 16 Principal among the many factors to make the Adirondack more youthful, more Intimate and evun more friendly will be two vehicular bridges across Lake Champhm.

Work upon the foundations for the Srst of these, between historic Crown Point on the New York side and Chimney Point on the Vermont side, will be completed this year and it is expected that the bridge Itself will be ready for use August of 1929. Also the United States Senate recently approved construction of a of the former Inn with the former annex bv an addition of the uniform height of four floors, which of itself contains 105 rooms, each with bath, another elevator and other modern appointments. One of the features of this addition, which overlooks the incomparable Upper Saranac and the mountain ranges beyond, is a largs sun parlor on the lak front, glazed ith ultra violet ray glass and opening direct from the main lobby. lasino Rebuilt. Also the Saranac Inn Casino has been rebuilt and much enlarged.

The ballroom, 44x80 feet, may also be used as a movie theater with a seating 600. and there is a large tea 100m with soda fountain; a kitchen and two private dininz rooms, a rhil. 111' CQLEQRGOK, N- second bridge at the northern end of the "lake of magnificent distances" between Rouses Point on the New dren's playroom and a room for cm. HEW. BRIDGE TARES TOURISTS TO ALL MUSIC BROADCAST AT WILDWOOD BEACH Heavy Booking for Season Reported by Hotel Men in All York shore and Alburg.

Vt. Many new State highways, some completed and others rapidly Hearing completion, will bring principal points within the Adirondack region more closely in touch one with the otiier pioyees. Among those from Brooklyn who will spend July at Saranac inn are Judge Marcus B. Campbell of the Eastern District of the United States Court and Mrs. Campbell.

Mr. and Mrs. William M. Cn.iu. CAPE MAY RESORTS cream tint, which correspond with the furnishings of apple-green wicker.

The draperies and rugs harmonize with the cream and green color scheme. Mrs. Harry Joseph, a member of the younger set, will act as hostess at the club this season. A series of dinner dances have been arranged to take place during the summer and a golf tournament on July 4 will attract numerous golfers. Visitors vouched for by members of the club may use the course by paying- the green fee and many of the hotel proprietors are taking out memberships in the club to enable their guests to use the course.

Mr. and Mrs. Cecil C. Van Valken-burgh of Brooklyn, who pass a part of the summer here, were among the enthusiastic golfers seen on the course recently. Mr.

and Mrs. Charles E. Rickerson of Brooklyn, who have taken a house here for the season, have become members of the club. Albert B. Unger.

Assistant District Attorney of New York City, who has a summer home at Athens, near here, is seen on the golf course frequently. Professor E. M. Lehnert of Hunter College and a party of geological students from the college have been passinj a few days at Rusack's Shady Lawn Inn. While here they studied the geological formation of the mountains and later left by motor on a tour of the Adirondacks.

where they will continue their studies. The dance hall at Shady Lawn Inn has been greatly enlarged this season, and numerous events are being planned by the management for the entertainment of their The Salisbury House management have announced that their advance bookings are in excess of last year's, and the hotel already has a number of guests. Saint Joseph's Villa has been one of the most popular houses with the June vacationists in search of a homelike place In which to rest. At Woodburne Inn and Glen Mary. Parts of Sullivan County, all with the cities of the low-I lands.

Airplane transit, which during (Special to The Eagle.) I ually corning into vogue and is being Liberty, Sullivan County. N. well developed. This is the camp June 16-Resplendent in a rich cloak tr'P motorists. Tents and full sets of kitchen utensils are carried on of verdure, nature wonderland is behind and each nignt tnp party stops once more gay with beginning sum- wherever the way may have taken, mer life.

The early season rains have Camping sites have been established lent to the region a refreshing at- in many places in the Shawangunks $750,000 Sportland to Open June 30. Wildwood, N. June 16 Pioneers in many innovations for the entertainment and pleasure 6f vacationists, Wildwood and Wildwood Crest plan two improvements this year that are certain to add much to the pleasure and enjoyment of every person who visits the resorts. Music on the beach during the daytime, broadcast in order that all who loll around the wide stretch of sand or go into the ocean to bathe may at the same time enjoy the latest in musical novelties and selections, will be one of the things pioneered here this year. Tim nthni.

n'ill Ka 4Vin rl at i nn ff mcsphcre for which Sullivan County and each night nnds them well ten- has long been famous. The Catskill Mountain resort season, ushered in Decoration Day with the official opening of many ot -the resort hotels and boarding hoiises, promises to be one of the most successful of recent years. 1 Advance bookings for the season are In excess of those of last year and indications are that the Catskills hove resumed their old popularity with vacationists. The big rush will come when the public schools close. The increase in popularity tco may be attributed to the fact that the Chambers of Commerce and hotel proprietors throughout the section, realizing the needs of the modern vacationist, are co-operating to give the summer visitor every advantage, and the Catskills have become one of the most modern resort playgrounds to befound.

Splendid 9 and 18 hole golf courses In practically every hamlet th; mountains will delight the golf enthusiast, while the new swimrrii.g pools at many of the hotels where bathing formerly has not been featured, will appeal to the lover of water sports. riding, bathing and boating may also be enjoyed. The Catskills, renowned as the land of Rip Van Winkle, are known no enly because of their beauty, bat also for thoir accessibility. The low rate of transportation to the resorts in the Catskills, by the palatial Hudson River Day Line steamers. New York Central and Weft Shore railroads and the Saugerties and New York steamboat company service between Saugerties and New York and return, combined with splendid roads for motoring on both the east and west side of the Hudson attract many visitors.

A night boat service, southbjund between Catskill and New Yor'c Is now available, the Hudson River Navigation Company stenmers stopping at Catskill each night for passengers. An improvement this year winch will be of interest to motorists visiting the section will be the new concrete toad between Catskill and Cauo, on the Mohican Trail, which has been under construction and is expected to be rushed to completion July 1. The toad from Catskill to Palenvillr, via the Rip Van Winkle Trail which was under construction last year, is now finished and is a great improvement. New Club at Catskill. Catskill.

with its splendid hotels tnd boarding houses, is will equipped as a summer resort, and the colony is added to by the appearance during the summer of many prominent Brooklyn folk who have summer homes here and who take an active part in the social life of the town. An added feature which will delight the vacationist is the new Country Club, completed last year. The nine-hole golf club Is In splendid condition this season, and a majority of the summer residents are members of the club. The clubhouse, which faces the green. Is one of the most attractive in be found in the Catskills.

Of mod umea wiin wunsis. remaps nit popular camping region is in the government property around Sundown, Grahamville and ClaryviUe. Where Fish Abound. Great Egg Harbor Bay Structure Thrown Open to the Public Yesterday. (Special, to The Eagle.) Cape May Court House.

June 16 Conscientious and persistent setting forth of the attractions of Cape May County resorts is bearing fruit and hundreds of this year's visitors will be peopb entirely new. The lure of the sea has lost none of its magic power, even though people are restless and forever awheel. There will be a larger representation of Westerners than ever before. Even blase New York is turning its attention to Cape May resorts. Visitors who come by motor will find the roads in fine condition and more miles of concrete leading to the county than ever before.

Those who come within the next week will have Of the eaily calls of spring, that to the angler Is perhaps the most in-; Sportlandi $750,000 home of sports being constructed on the boardwalk at 23d st. This mammoth home of sports will be the greatest arena of shank and family of Garden City have made their usual season reser vation at the inn and will again occupy Greenway Cottage Also Mrs, F. K. Diefendorf of 311 Lincoln Brooklyn, has reserved Bavswater cottage at the inn for the season. Westport Inn, on the opposite side of the mountains, is another center popular among sojourners from Brooklyn and Long Island points, which has been the scene of extensive improvements.

Work upon a new 18-hole golf course which, when completed, will be one of the best in Northern New York, has been started in the great Westport Inn preserve. New Westport Golf lub Ilome. Among other improvements involving the expenditure of about $50,000 more at Westport Inn is an attractive new clubhouse for the Westport Golf Club, located convenient to No. 2 fairway, and the growing importance of Westport as a yachting center has been recognized in the erection of a splendid new clubhouse on a shore point in Westport Inn preserve. Both the new yacht clubhouse and the new home of the solf club are after plans by Russell Whitehead of New York, a prominent member of the summer colony and a member of the board of governors of the Yacht Club.

Another social center where improved facilities for the enjoyment of golf are conspicuous in this season's arrangements is Schroon Lake, where the Schroon Lake Golf club hai erected a splendid new clubhouse and has extended Its course to 18 holes. Schroon Lake Philip E. Rice, president of the Adirondack Resorts Association, has As a land for the tourist Sullivan County reigns supreme. Its beautiful mountain loads encircling der.sely wooded hills, crystal clear springs and picturesque lakes and streams have well merited its name, the Switzerland of New York State. The roads of the section are in better condition this year than ever before.

With many odd stretches completed last fall the county is fitted to cope with the ever increasing motor population. The new concrete highway leading from Port Jervis to Monticello will divert a large portion of the resort traffic from the Liberty Highway and render more accessible the region about Sparrowbush, Sack-ett Lake, St. Josephs and Merricwold. Joining the Liberty Highway at Monticello the trunk route leads through Ferndnle. Liberty, Parksville, Livingston Manor, Roscoe and East Branch.

Cater to Tourists. The last few seasons have made It increasingly more evident that the automobile has revolutionized the summer resort Industry. Formerly families would leave the city in the present summer will for the first time be introduced on a permanent commercial bnsis, will serve to link mere closely than ever the Adirondacks and the cities of the Eastern seaboard. Airplane Service. Brooklyn and points on Long Island will be but a few hours away with the perfected Adirondack air service in efltct.

Five all-metal Ford monoplanes operating between New Ynrk and Montreal via the Champlain Valley in the service of the Canadian-American Airways. will each accommodate 12 passengers and 1 000 pounds of baggage, and the schedule calls for four round trips between New York and Montreal daily, four hours being allowed for the trip between points. The passenger rate is 10 cents i-tr mile, or about $35. In addition to this through service it is expected there will also be supplementary service to points in the interior of the Adirondacks and in the Champlain Valley, notably Lake Placid. Saranac Inn.

Paul Smith's and Westport-on-Lake Champlain, and a 3)orc ambitious project contemp'ates an Adirondack beltline air service in-cl'iding all of these points and in addition Gloversville. Glens Fills, Lake George. Watertown, Ogdens-burg and Plattsburg. Signs for Aviators. Lake Placid will adopt a suggestion advanced by Will Rogers, famous humorist, to the village Chamber of Commerce and have roofs of large buildings painted with huge, easily discernible arrows Indicating the location of the aviation field, which is the best in the mountains and is to be greatly improved.

Also extensive improvements are contemplated upon the aviation field at Westport Inn, Westport-on-Lake Champlain. where improvements upon a large scale made upon the inn and within Its sistcnt. Attracted from the metropolis by the fame of the trout abounding streams of the county, each year thousands of fishermen throng their banks. More important of the haunts of the speck'ed beauty arc the Willo-weinoc, the Mongaup, the Bcaverkiil, the Neverslnk and the Callicoon. Rod and gun clubs throughout Sullivan County co-operate with the State In stocking the streams and making the region a mecea for trout enthusiasts.

The Callicoon Rod and Gun Club has recently planted 18 cans of brook trout flngerlings in the Buck Brook branch of the Callicoon one will note numerous Improvements which will make these attractive places among the most modern in PPr'unlty t0 the, in dress of brilliant Rose Highway" a section. us kind in the United States, housing as it will facilities for virtually every popular line of outdoor amusement. Music on the beach is expected to provide an avenue of amusement uniqtle in resort circles and certain to make a decided hit with visitors. This music will be provided through the activity of the entertainment committee of the Wildwood Chamber of Commerce, of which John J. Kay Jr.

is chairman. The official opening of Sportland is scheduled for June 30. when the great amphitheater of sports will be dedicated with impressive ceremonies following the running of a boardwalk marathon In which members of the United States Olympic Team will contest. -stream. The Liberty Rod and Gun Club is looking after the restocking of the Mongaup and Neverslnk and the members have already distributed several thousand fry at various places along their courses.

Mch Is also being accomplished in early months of May and June and remain in the country until septem Howard Hall, which was operated last year by F. Friscia will be conducted this season by O. A. Redstone of Brooklyn. Extensive improvements have been made by the new management.

Miss Sadie Halpert of Brooklyn has been passing some time in town. Mr. and Mrs. William King Kerr of Brooklyn have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs.

Frank H. OsUorn. Mrs. Edward Wellenkamp and Miss have returned to their home after having passed several weeks at Cat-skill. Mr.

and Mrs. William Earl of Richmond Hill, N. have been at the New Saulpaugh Hotel for a short vacation. George K. WilllaiiL': of the Bcvan Hotel it Laichmont, N.

was a recent visitor in town. Mrs. M. A. Phillips of Brooklyn has been the guest of friends in town.

restoring the big nsh of the region. ocr or uciooer. now, instead, ween-, During the past month several ship scarlet. Ah added convenience to motorists entering the country from the north New York, New England and New Jersey points will be Somers Polnt-Beesley's Point bridge over Great Egg Harbor Bay, which was thrown open to traffic today. This bridge, while a toll structure, will more than save motorists bound for the lower coast resorts the toll charge In time and gas if they do not wish to go through Ocean City, besides giving them a wonderful view of beautiful Great Egg Harbor Bay.

fo greet the influx of summer visitors and make them comfortable and huppy, all the resorts have been busy for months adding to their attractions Riid guests will be delighted at the provision made for their entertainment, hundreds of thousands of dollars having bren sppnt lor this purpose. ena trips nave Deen substituted ana ments 0r njite have been consianed to the main season does not get well the waters of the Delaware, a stream under way until the Fourth of July. wnlcn once abounded in the game To cope with the new motor vaca-: flsn of tnp mountains, tioner many resorts have sprung up Lenape Lake is at the present time which cater to this class exclusively. 1 the bPst trmit lake th. soctlon.

At Garages have been erected and are the annual meeting of the LenaDC Ft. William Henry Hotel Opens at Lake George Lake George, N. June 16 Formal opening for the season of the Fort William Henrv Hotel took place last Saturday. Reservations are row being made for both transient and permanent summer guests. Special facilities are provided for outdoor sports.

Including golf, tennis, boatinq and motor tours. A New York Stock Exchange brokerage office with a direct wire enables guests to keep in dose contact with the maikcU well equipped with materials and expert mechanics. On a less pretentious made many improvements, increasing the capacity nnd beautifying the appearance of the Brown Swan Club at Schroon Lake, of which he Is the owner-manager. Extensive improvements at the Scasle Musical Colony, of which Oscar Bessie is the head, and at the Leland House, owned by Albert Emerson, also feature the season at Schroon Lake. Other places on this side of the mountains at which hotel accommo- Continued on Page 2.

great park feature arrangements for scale private homes and farmhouses the season. Principal among chances at Sara located along the more popular thoroughfares have Joined the spirit Lake Fishing Club, held in the clubhouse at Lenape Lake, the following officers were elected: Herbert D. Lent, Diesident: George H. Smith, vice president, find C. A.

Adams, secretary. At the srmo time It was voted to pur-Continued on Page i. iiki East Durham, one of the smaller erately large structure, the Interior nac Inn, involving an rutlav of an- consists of a large living and dinint resorts In the is very popular of the dav and tacked out signs, BroxiP'atcly is the hotel, room comomea, tonemer witn several smaller rooms. The waUs ol a 1 Continued on Page Z. Tourists Accommodated." A new iorm ot vacationing is grad- main hotel buildin.T of eve rooms, which has resulted from iWnnecUon.