Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-16
A Blackboard PARADE.
Pretty Society Women Join Q Process
sion at Lenox.

A Lenox dispatch to the New York Herald
says: Forty traps in line and at least hundred
pretty women drawn up in battle. Such was
the sight that met the eye Of the Lenox visitor
Saturday afternoon. Never before had there
been such successful trap and blackboard pa-
rsde in this village.
! Jas carriage after carriage, decorated with
flowers and foliage, rolled toward the Tebbins
fountain to take the places allotted to them by
Col. Auchmey, who had the affair in charge, .
murmur Of admiration was heard from both
sides Of the main street, which was charming
with onlookers. Messrs Clinton, Gilmore,
Woolsey, Turnure and Haven acted a. the
advance guard and to the commanding sound
Of a bugle cleared the way for the gay caval-
cade.
MRS. WHITNEY IN THE VAN.
The first blackboard on the ground was driven
by Mrs. VIM. G. Whitney, who had been unani-
mously chosen to head the procession. With
her was Mrs. Edward J. Woolsey. The ladies
were charmingly dressed in white, and as the
trap was skilfully garlanded in yellow the ef-
feet was most picturesque. The Sloane stables
white and green. Mrs. Sloane herself drove
one and her visitors, Miss Post and Miss Hattie
Roberts, together with her daughters fol-
lowed. Another extremely artistic decoration
was that Of the double blackboard belonging to
Mrs. Dwight Collier. The purple daisies were
used to the exclusion Of other color, and as
Mrs. Collier was dressed in q lovely gown Of
white and mauve the harmony was complete.
Miss Jeanne Turnure was conspicuous not
only for her good horsemanship as she handled
her tandem, but also for the taste diplayed by
the lunches Of scarlet geranium which were
knotted at the head stalls and on the collars
and saddles of the harness. Mrs. P. Cooper
Hewitt, most becomingly attired in blue and
white, was Miss Turnure's guest.
The one four-in-hand break. driven by Mrs.
George Griswold Haven, was generously orna-
mented with yellow. Mrs. Elbridge T. Gerry
occupied the box seat and inside the break
were Mrs. Frank Worth White, Miss Maude
Robbins and Mrs. Frances Barlow. One of the
very prettiest Of the two-wheel traps was the
cart owned by the Misses Stokes. This was
covered bya yellow floral umbrella. the same
color prevailing in the rest of the decoration.
Others taking part in the procession, and
whose buckboards and dog cart bore evidence
OF devasted garden and widely searched field
and woodland, where Mrs. John Carter, the
Misses Delmonte, Miss Adelina Moller, Mrs.
Fred Foterall. Mrs. Joseph Burden, Mrs. VIM
Bacon, Mrs Frances Hoffman, Miss Lily Good
man, Mrs. Mifflin, Miss Lizzie Lanier, Mrs.
Franklin White, Mrs. George Folsom, Mrs.
John Woodbury., the Messrs. Kinnicutt, Mrs.
Eunice Ives and Miss Winifred Ives.
The route lay up Main street, around Curtis
corner as far as the Frelinghuysen place, where
a turn was made through from gate to gate
back to the village and out ON the Pittsfeld
road until the woolsey entrance was reached.
Here the carriages turned in, continuing
through the park to the house, where Mrs
Wooisey was waiting to receive the party over
q cup of tea