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The chief excitement the early part of the week in Lake Placid was the shooting of a horse on McLenathen Avenue Sunday. The horse belonged to Patrick Foley of River Street and was shot by Alfred Beaney on his own premises. Mr. Beaney said the animal was dangerous. This is denied by the family of Daniel Frasier, who lives in the Foley house and says he allowed both women and children to handle him.

Mr. Beaney told this newspaper that he shot the horse in defense of his father-in-law and members of his own family. About a week before the incident, two neighborhood children ran past the horse and he threatened them.

Last Sunday, the horse came near the Beaney house and he advised his wife to call their children up on the porch, which she did. She then took three sticks of kindling wood in her hand and tried to drive the horse on down the street. Suddenly, Mr. Beaney heard a commotion outside and rushing to the door saw his wife running back toward the house, calling for help as she went, with the horse following her with mouth wide open and gaining rapidly upon her. He rushed out and helped to turn the horse back. He then brought out his gun and laid it on the porch.

While Mr. Beaney was putting on his shoes, his father-in-law, Enos Estes, went off the porch and attempted to make the horse move on. The horse turned on him and Mr. Estes, not having time to mount the porch by the steps, managed to jump up from the ground. The horse then turned upon Mr. Beaney, who was still sitting on the steps.

Mr. Beaney grabbed his gun, leveled it at the approaching angry horse, the barrel being almost against the animal’s temple, and fired. The horse fell in his tracks and only kicked once, his head practically resting against the Beaney porch steps.

Officer Thomas Black said that the Sunday afternoon previous, he was called to take the horse off a lawn on the Grand View hill, and at that time the animal struck at him with his front feet and showed other evidence of ill-temper.

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Olympic housing

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The New York World of last Wednesday prints an interesting article regarding the plans to entertain visitors at the winter section of the Olympic Games in 1924. It reads:

Chamonix, France, Nov. 6 — How to provide shelter for the 20,000 to 30,000 visitors expected here from Jan. 25 to Feb. 5 during the winter sports events which mark the opening of the 1924 Olympic Games is the problem confronting the town authorities and French Olympic Committee now that the work on the skating rink, bobsleigh chute and ski jumps is finished.

Chamonix possesses normal accommodation for 1,500 to 2,000 transients, and by the placing of additional beds in ball rooms, corridors, billiard parlors of the hotels and pressing private house owners to let out the “guest room,” this might be increased to 3,000.

The local hotels are already booked up to the limit, and it is the present intention of the organizers to refer visitors to hotels in Aix-les-Bains and Annecy and to shuttle them back and forth to Chamonix morning and evening.

For that purpose, local excursion trains will be run twice daily and bus lines will be established.