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Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt paid this resort a flying visit Sunday morning. She registered at John Brown’s grave in the morning. Later she drove her car up a portion of the Whiteface Mountain Memorial Highway and visited Ausable Chasm.

The wife of the president spent Saturday night at Cragston Manor on the Keene-Elizabethtown highway at the top of Spruce Hill. Sunday night, she and her companion, Miss Lorena A. Hickok, registered at Richmond, Vermont, proceeding to Mount Mansfield before her return to Washington. Mrs. Roosevelt drove her own car, a blue Buick, and travels hatless, wearing a scarf about her hair. She has been traveling about the north without official escort. Persons with whom she has come in contact have been impressed by her interesting and cordial personality.

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Canoe slide

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As there has been some talk of converting the toboggan slide on Mirror Lake into a water chute for summertime use, a novel method of testing the incline was tried by lifeguards at the Grand View boathouse. Tying two pairs of small iron wheels connected by a shaft to a canoe, the men made a flying trip from the top of the slide to the water 50 feet below. The craft glided out upon the water without tipping or shipping any water.

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More entertainment

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Representatives of a number of local organizations met with the North Elba Park Commission Tuesday evening to discuss coordination in an intensive summer program of entertainment.

Among the entertainment features planned are the Lake Placid Horse Show, summer ice carnival, society circus, firemen’s dance and carnival bazaars, show and carnival for the benefit of the Essex County branch of the American Legion, and swimming and diving meets. An air circus to be held on Labor Day was also discussed.

A request was made by the organization heads for the park commission to seek ways and means of securing the services of a band for weekly concerts.

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Swimming stunt

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Swimming with hands tied behind his back, feet and knees tied, wearing an entire army uniform, overcoat, pack, etc., and in addition, towing a boat full of passengers is the most unusual stunt promised by Andy Gault — a soldier from Iowa — at the municipal beach here Sunday, July 16 at 3:30 p.m.

Gault says he has crossed the Mississippi River this way and also states that he got the idea in France while serving with the 64th Infantry band, where he also conceived the unique pastime of playing his cornet in the deepest water he could find.

Gault swims part of the time on his back, sometimes on his side, and a good share of the time on his breast, the latter method requiring good lungs, as he is under water most of the time. The work is all done by the legs and feet, the arms being entirely useless.

The stunt shows what a newspaper man can do when he makes up his mind to be a swimmer. Gault is a country printer-editor.

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Midnight closing

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An ordinance has been passed by the village board providing for a midnight closing of public amusement places in the village. The new ordinance, which takes effect immediately, states that “no person or persons shall keep open for the amusement of the public any dance hall, billiard salon, bowling alley, shooting gallery or any other similar places of amusement” after the hour of midnight.

Use of music in any form for entertainment in any section of the village which disturbs the rest, comfort and sleep within hearing distance is also prohibited. The ordinance is said to have been drawn up following numerous complaints of people disturbed by amusement places.

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