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The Lake Placid Club will celebrate its 30th birthday tomorrow, Aug. 16, with an all-day program of sports, speeches, music and fireworks.

The Club was founded by Dr. Melvil Dewey 30 years ago this summer as a scholar’s club, a little university in the wilderness, where those not very long in purse might rest and recuperate in perfect surroundings. The first members were ministers, university men and the like. In the three decades since, the Club has grown into a village itself, with its own dining rooms, chapel, theater, farms, dairies, printing press and the like.

The principal speakers at 2 p.m. at the Club on this date will be Dr. Melvil Dewey, the founder; Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin, of Park Avenue Baptist Church, New York; and Dr. Henry E. Cobb, West End Collegiate Church, New York. There will be a special concert following by the Boston Symphony Ensemble.

The sports of the day include a golf handicap, terminating in a golf tea at the Lake Placid Club Golf House at 5 p.m. In the evening at 8:15, a program of fireworks on the lake front will lend a dramatic touch. The day will end in a great masquerade ball in the Agora Theater, at which three prizes have been offered for the most original, the most beautiful and the most assuming costume.

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Flume bridge

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Yesterday at a meeting of officials held by the “Flume” bridge on the Wilmington Road, the chairman of the bridge committee of the Essex County Board of Supervisors, Willis Wells of Lake Placid, was empowered to advertise for bids on material and construction of a new bridge at this point.

It is hoped that the new Flume bridge will be completed by the middle of October. The cost will be about $8,000.

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Church progress

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Figures and estimates regarding the finances and progress on the Community Church now under construction on the site of the old Methodist building were given out by the Rev. Robert L. Clark.

On July 24, there had been received in cash toward the building fund a total of $40,346.21. At present progress, the structure will cost $95,985.26.

The mason work has been progressing slowly while two expert masons laid the trim around windows and doors and at the corners. Five or six other masons were recently added, and the sections of straight wall have been going up rapidly, the rear wall being now near completion.

When this is done, the roof boards will be put on and covered with asbestos roofing. This will be left on later as lining under the slate with the roof will be covered. When the asbestos roofing is on, the basement can be finished and used by the congregation this winter. This includes a chapel, classrooms and a large banquet room.

The main auditorium is about the same width as the length of the main part of the old church. The length of the new auditorium is about three times the width of the main portion of the old church. The floor will seat 500 easily in the pews and the galleries, 250 more if the erection of these proves necessary.