Silver Bay in 1911 — Paul and Silas — and Silas Paine

Paul and Silas were frequent visitors at Silver Bay Association during a drought in the summer of 1911.

Not the New Testament tent-making apostles, but a team of black horses of the same name that pulled the wagon Dyer Ackerman used to deliver milk.

George F. Woodbury, an Adirondack itinerant missionary who formerly owned the team for many years, gave the horses their names.

Some visitors to Silver Bay and the vicinity — as many as 20 a day — were motoring from the south over the new Tongue Mountain highway.

“The grade is a very steep one in places and some machines have been unequal to it,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Aug. 11. “Many motorists avoid this road by going on the boat between Bolton and Sabbath Day Point.”

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ordruff, Silver Bay cottagers, motored north in their Maxwell automobile to visit friends in Elizabethtown on June 30, staying from noon until the evening.

“He informed us that a Silver Bay Association conference of 500 ended Friday morning and another slightly smaller conference was to assemble Saturday morning,” The Elizabethtown Post reported on July 6. “Silver Bay is a busy place in summer.”

Silas Paine, the Standard Oil Co. executive who had a home at Silver Bay and was a major supporter of the association, built a large reservoir west of his house, the Sentinel reported.

“The drought is affecting springs, brooks and wells quite severely, and garden and field crops are suffering severe drought — causing no small loss especially hard of farmers.”

Silver Bay Association completed two capital projects over the off season.

“The Silver Bay Association has built a large ice house on Slim Point and is putting in a new concrete bottom and sides in its large reservoir from which the hotel and buildings are supplied with water from Jabe’s Pond,” the Sentinel reported on Nov. 2.

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