Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-31
BERKSHIRE Hills.
AT 4 NEW ENGAND
\ LJNINlER RESORT.

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1,,w YORK, July 30.--The Purin ele-
never credited with anyone OF
l-5o.ira to cultivate the beautiful New
T.-,I,nd has always been spokenf and
.,'' fgured in song or story as blsk and
I.h,djing OF aspect, its sterile al ana
..,4 oray skies Offering little thawas at
tive TO the stranger; and til grim
'.-,a,+bers and stiff foremotherssevere
di.ciplinary as their own Talght,
ti,b.backed chairs, are considereto have
t,on in exact harmony with thlr rigid
surroundings.
rnis impression is subject to A sudden
.o,nIsion when one makes acdaintance
.,i,b fine interior of MASSACHUSETTS and
,ba beauties of Berkshire comfy for the
first time in many years. Dubtless the
,-imness and plainness wer character
.dc thirty or forty years age but this IA
rorad region must always hVe possessed
is wonderful quality of lNellness, lts
wooded nils and rich wales, us Jewel
l,4 lakes and unknown dpthS Oh Terms
Ind flowers and summer tGlage. All the
r,sryolous tints of earth ad air and SKY
sara tbere when Jonahan Edwards
a rate his treatise on the VIII 10 little
,laspt of "A little hOuse Stockoridge.
Wb4u Julian Hawthorne wAded shoeless
md sockless perhaps IN StOckorldge
sBovl" while his iatbr was buster in
a.. little red house neR by, writing his
rrnrr Of the House win Seven Cables"
Ind Herman Melville was doing Boys
Unrk ON the hOmeste adIarm farther along
I'M me Lenn0x road and had not yet
dreamed OF "OmOs' or 'Typee."
/ All the natural beatty was there dis
srIbuted. not only owe a township, but
Fbole county, and Drming the natural
home OF poets and s.bolars-as the Lake
kuutiy did in Endand-and making 1t
famous in the same way: long alter those
/ bo nave made 1t SO had died or been
hryeu away by til. eCAOes OF their own
Populations.
But in those day. the well-sweep, the
knb.dcwer, the wiite-washed wall, the
Ample habits and manners were still
Ia.tsrs of the situation. The ruminat-
l. "
HcOmmOu" unmolespd. The unrefective
rg likewise. Chickens were domiciled
ar the house ana we're almost part OF
iha fam ly; and trees which had been
nercIlessiy cut down by the hardy settler
we're a, scarce as pianos. There is ira
1itlOu III regard 20 oAe forest tree which
bad been allowed to remain in the town
Of Pittsdeld, but was about TO be demol-
lshed because it might be in the way OF
something or other, when dame, near
whose mouse it stood, placed herself in
front Of ii and declared they should cut
BIER down first; and, her determination be-
Jog inWuclble, the old forest tree was left
standing.
The lady is still living whose happy
thougdW suggested the first "Village
Improvement Society," and whose taste
lnd energy, aided by helpful friends, have
burned tue bare streets into shaded av-
enue,; the ragged dOOrways into velvet
lawns; the stony common into the royal
PARK.
AN EARTHLY PARADISE
1 all this beautiful Berkshire county in
It's summer robes, peopled by the-to all
jeemIug-nappiest and most prosperous
people under the sun. LennoX, the ia
nous old town, is given over to the eX-
Eealthy, and no one worth under a million
e0uld think of going and staying over
lgnt except as a guest of some resident
millionaire. The season does not begin
t.l Aug. /; but it lasts till Nov. l; and
l1e galety is not that of the Old-fashiOned
'Led-drluklngs" and Westinghouse gath
sruss, but Ut grand dinners and private
AeaTicals, IaWn-tennis and garden par
Zee, polo and club racket.
Most OF the original inhabitants have
FIJI LennoN; those who remain rent their
que tW0-stOry nOuses-upOn which they
idVe put coat of red or olive paint; and
winch they have added an awning
Ni more money, for two or three months,
hau they would have formerly dreamed
asking for selling them out altogether.
tlt widest coal oil or California excite
LEM never produced such advance in
f'Ices as LennoX has seen during the
tast nIteen years. 1t is enough to make
k"l1aTlle oedgWick turn in her grave to
iAu lille frame houses, worth about s 800.
hAdng lor $1,000 per month; and il must
late amy hemble groan over the sale
her Perch" old as she is, and not
outstanding the good price she thought
i pc -OJ Tor Il. A place which a certain
4 luuse sod for $4,000 was sold subse-
'7Huy Tor $4,000 and is considered
.o.Ju 9oQUOO. In fact, item times over"
'e"S To be the point which LennoX
I'-Ily has reached. 4 well-knowu
Fu' Iu New York society who was so
'."""'e as TO lease house several
''' ago now sublets at double there
i sue pays, and pays the expenses of her
~" summers elsewhere with the ad-
THE EARLY SEASON
i LsahoX exhibits little signs of life.
lNeIll houses, with their well-kept
"a ana porterres, their exquisite
o anu shaded walks, are given over
-''"'b, spNcrnesses and nurses. The
.1' are abroad or at Newport and
"'. arrive till August; excepting
'He IdJher, who, If he is business
A " ,''N'lu7 IN New \ ork or Boston and
O'Hto OUT on sunday. The chill
/ are IoNely, and look as if they had
/ all cut out Of a live picture book.
I.. US are thin but their faces are
lnir" VHeF eyes like RapbaePs. and
NUS coats and irOcks exact repro
lg,.,''" 70. the dress IN the last Christ
l...',l'l'uI ems story books and papers.
lr,.''''' maze Greenaway is Responsible
r5,} .'''Iou Of new American type
' "'auly. what Il marvellous dit
t.a.., 'el"cen tuCse artistic produc.
b.r, "Do lle starched little misses, with
Gi,.,c"..,,,,1'. standing out stifiy, and the
/ 5,.r.' .. "1ue boys OF less than twenty
~ THE SEASON
h,a,". dressing and none showing
torg .4e0nement is TO be found in the
lE.r mere are now many women and
/ nm 'D 'Ur non in their own right, VINO
lIs f'r tt,spend upon whim or good ma