The Tuberculosis Society was hosting a concert by the Russian Ballet featuring Mlle. Nina Oguinska and Mr. Pierre Malakoff.

The village board, under President Fred C. Conrad (title changed to mayor in 1928), voted to “increase the police force to seven to handle record tourist traffic.”

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Two new hotels

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“Saranac Lake and the Adirondack health and recreation section of which this village is the center is undergoing one of the most extensive building booms in years, according to leading contractors and architects, with a check of new construction made yesterday by The Enterprise.

“Outstanding features are the enlargement of the various sanatoria, erection of two new hotels and a church in Saranac Lake, construction of several new lake camps, and additions to residential property in the village.

“The new Ricketson Block [The Alpine Hotel], opposite the Bloomingdale Avenue corner of Broadway, which will house a new hotel, has been built up to seven stories in height, and the exterior is nearly completed. [This is for my high school pal, Doug Bombard. Only four of the seven stories were ever finished. I worked there as a bellhop in 1946.]

“Brach & Callanan are the contractors for the new community hotel of the Saranac Lake Hotel Corporation on the old Main Street school site, are now awaiting the arrival of limestone to go ahead with the walls of the building.

“At Trudeau sanatorium a new $25,000 animal house for the laboratory was built this spring and also a new cottage for the bacteriologist, Dr. S. A. Petroff.

“The state is continuing its expansion of Ray Brook sanatorium with a new $40,000 laboratory just completed and plans are nearly ready for a $200,000 power plant.

“At Gabriels, a little farther away, Sanatorium Gabriels, conducted by the Sisters of Mercy, has started an elaborate building program, with the aid of the State Council of the Knights of Columbus. Three large buildings are being built this year, and at least two more will go up in 1927.

“The National Vaudeville Artists have announced their intention to start work immediately on a new $250,000 sanatorium building at Spion Kop Estate in Saranac Lake.

“Preliminary plans are under way for a new building for the Northwoods sanatorium of the Adirondack Fund for Tuberculosis. [There was a Northwoods Sanatorium at 9 Church St. next to the Historic Saranac Lake Laboratory.]

“Exterior work on the new Methodist Episcopal Church building at Church and St. Bernard streets is nearly finished, and the interior work will soon be under way. This will be one of the finest church homes in Northern New York.

“Foundations are now being built for a new $50,000 camp on Lower Saranac Lake for Edmund A. Guggenheim to replace the old camp building on the estate.

“At Bartlett’s Carry a new camp has been completed for Schuyler Merritt at a cost of $25,000, adding to the rapidly growing camp group that is reviving the popularity of this once famous Adirondack stopping place.”