LG tourism — August 1894

It was summertime, and the cottage living was easy.

“Camping parties are now in fashion. Orlando Mason, with quite a party, is spending the week at his cottage at Lake George. S.L. Crabbs, with several friends, has already spent a week at his cottage in the same vicinity.” The Granville Sentinel reported on Aug. 2, 1894.

“Judge Stoughton of Hartford, Conn., is occupying his new cottage on Stoughton Road,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls, reported on Aug 6.

“Pleasure Island has been leased by the state to an Albany club,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 8.

In other September 1894 Lake George tourism news collected from historic newspapers of the region:

• “H.G. Young, general manager of the Delaware and Hudson Company, is a guest at The Sagamore, which, by the way, is nearly full of guests,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 13.

Was it a meet-up of railway officials, or just coincidence?

“N.A. Barritt, Delaware and Hudson station agent at Rouses Point, accompanied by fourteen custom house officials, passed Sunday at The Sagamore,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 13.

• “The Crosbyside is having a successful season. Among the guests is (former U.S Senator) Hon. Warner Miller,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 13.
• “A long train bearing the excursion to Lake George of Bethesda Episcopal Church, Saratoga Springs, passed through Glens Falls yesterday morning and returned in the evening,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 15.
• “The hotels are doing very well at present. A good many strangers are in town,” the Bolton correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Aug. 18.
• It was not the best of years for fishing.

“Fishing parties who go to Lake George find the lake very pleasant and can while away their time swaying in their hammocks, but get very few bites unless it is now and then a mosquito,” The Granville Sentinel reported on Aug. 31.

• A communications infrastructure project was in the works.

“A meeting will be held at the Lake House, Lake George, Monday afternoon next at four o’clock to take steps preparatory to the organization of a company to build and equip a telephone line between Bolton and Caldwell. The stock will be taken by hotel men, and it is estimated the cost to each subscriber will be about fifty dollars (the equivalent of $1,841 in 2024 dollars),” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 11.

• William A. Cambell, a Union College student, defeated W. Bair of New York to win the men’s championship at the Lake George tennis tournament at The Sagamore Hotel, The Morning Star reported on Aug. 20.

Bertha Putnam, a student at Bryn Mar College, won the women’s championship.

“There was a large crowd present, and the playing was brilliant.”

• A garden party to benefit the Mountainside Free Library was scheduled for 10 a.m. Aug. 29 at Dunham’s Bay.

“Dinner and refreshments will be served on the grounds. The steamer Mamie will leave Caldwell for the garden party upon the arrival of the 9 a.m. and 11:30 A.M. trains,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 21.

• “Paul Rubens, the well-known pianist, will give a recital at the Fort William Henry tomorrow evening,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 22.
• “At The Sagamore regatta yesterday Walter J. Lapham of Glens Falls won second prize in the gentleman’s singles and W.H. Wing of Glens Falls second price in the canoe sailing race,” The Morning Star reported om Aug. 24.
• “The guests at the Marion House, Lake George, were entertained at a clam bake in the grove on the hotel grounds yesterday afternoon. The party was photographed by C.W. Conkey,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 25.

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