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...1840s a rangy, big-boned, imaginative young Vermonter named Apollos Smith operated a boat through the northern canal connecting Lake Champlain with the Hudson River. In the course of a hunting trip Apollos was enchanted by the chill beauty of the Adirondacks and decided to open a sportsmen's lodge on the Saranac River near Loon Lake. He built it himself, with a living room and kitchen on the first floor and eight thinly partitioned sleeping rooms upstairs. Board and lodging cost $1.25 a day; no women were admitted. From a barrel of whiskey standing in a corner guests...
...Phelps Smith alone stayed on. As shrewd and eccentric as his father, Phelps added to his holdings until he had some 30,000 acres of Adirondack resort land, including 23 miles of navigable waterway and ten lakes. Neighbors like Edward F. Hutton and Ogden Reid collected their mail from Paul Smith's township postoffice, used electricity from Paul Smith's Light & Power Co., shunted their private cars onto a railway spur that the Smiths built from the New York Central at Lake Clear Junction. When the old hotel burned to the ground in 1930, Phelps Smith remarked that...
...meeting. Last week Dartmouth was worried, for still holding was the balmy weather which had ruined half the winter for more than 70,000 ski addicts on the Eastern seaboard, forced cancellation of snow trains, hit the purses of hundreds of winter inn-owners throughout the White, Green, and Adirondack Mountains. Even the world snowshoe championships at Ottawa Jan. 30 had to be run on snowless ground. Dartmouth feared it would have to import snow for its ski-jumping. But oldsters could remember no year in which snow did not finally fall in time for the Dartmouth Carnival and sure...
Most famed educational wanderer is Adirondack-Florida School, which opened last fortnight in cabins on the shore of Clear Pond near Onchiota, N. Y. After the Christmas holiday Headmaster Kenneth Wilson, a onetime Princeton instructor, will move his 24 pupils and six tutors to Coconut Grove, Fla. Swank Adirondack-Florida specializes in outdoor life, provides canoes in the Adirondacks, a beach and 35-ft. cruising sloop in Florida. Tuition is $1,500 plus extras. Enrolled there this year are George Nichols, grandson of J. P. Morgan, and Drayton Phillips, son of William Phillips, U. S. Ambassador to Rome. Alumni include...
...record for the Garmisch run. Like Stevens and a French team, which brought a streamlined sled, Kilian failed miserably last week, wound up in seventh place. Swiss teams took first and second. Three days later the U. S. won its only gold medal of the Games when an Adirondack guide named Ivan Brown, with his neighbor Alan Washbond at the brakes, won the two-man bob-sled championship, after breaking the course record three times in four trips...