The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-08-25
THE STAMPEDE TO LENOX.
Society, Tired Of Yachts, Dinners, Cos
sip and Go, Retreat 10 the Hills.
ART OF MIXING CYLLES GO UP HILL.
Miss Fair, Mrs. Cicw-, Miss McAlli-tcr.
and Many Lady Champions Want
AN Automatic Appliance-story
OF a Reconciliation.
Copyright. 1896. for The Times)

copyright, l&5, Tor the 1lmes)
LEMON, Aug. 22.-LenOX is fast re-
solving itself into one vast sanitariun
for tine comfort and the healing of the
tired IN body and weary Of spirit.
The great, low cottages mat spread
over bugc lawns like the country re-
treats" 20 which invalids 20 for
cuperaton, are being thrown open ana
made gay with hammOcks and awnings.
showing that the "Cdscs' which are TO
come 10 them are not too serious 10 en-
joy pretty surroundings. And the sta
lles are filling up with fine horses 10
O. ny the society invaiids over the noun
tain slopes until they get strong enough
TO cycle up and down such hills as AenoX
affords.
Without Lenox we should die" Is
the unanimous exclamation Of the cot
tagers. who tumble into their sylvan
retreat as soon as the Newport season
OF high dissipation is over, and getting
strong again al LenoX" is as much
Pert of the years routine as the grand
opera. or tie spring trip TO Europe.
MUST owN A MOUNTAIN.
To appreciate Lcnox, you must be
familiar with a mountain place. Fancy
seventeen hills, all rising within I'VE
miles of each other. with seventeen yal-
lcys lying between fancy seventeen
mountain sides. with drives running along
them, seventeen lovely SUBMITS. and
seventeen great, 'tgoad ridges around
the SUBMITS. and you have LenoX. There
are just Is beautiful and just as well
arranged moul tain places elsewhere
but 10 all happens that at LenOX society
happened to settle. and hence the great
Worldwide reputation of the place.
Each family at LenoX owns a noun
tain Not to have a mountain upon ones
estate shows that one has a very small
plot Of land 'adecd This would allow
only seventeen families at Lenox, but
as some Of the estates run back long
way and take IN distant hills, all can
be provided with the mountainous adjunct
desired.
The centre OF Lenox Is a small hotel,
not grand at all. except for the table,
which is exquisite The hotel itself IS
not quite as pretentiOus as the winged
farmhouse NJ which you stop 10 get
glass OF milk, nor is its Vcranda as
wide Woe to the one who lodges there.
But the table - so good and the View
80 excellent that wealthy cottagcrs drive
two miles three times a day to get
their food instead Of bringing a reluctant
chef TO LcnoN. opposite the hotel is the
post-ofhce and lying across is beautiful
little Trinity IN which Adele Sloane was
married and the gallery OF which was
entirely filled with Harvard students.
her husbands classmates.
The sloane family are az Lonox now.
And. indeed without them the place
would be as bare as Newport without
its greatest family. Their house is very
long and very low one. called Elm Court
because OF the elms that hide IL and.
as The baQinage OF the young people runs.
because so much counting has been done
beneath these same dignined elms.
The two cottages Of the Gebhard fam
lily are lust being occupied. one, the
cottage OF Mr.. Gerhard. is near little
Trinity. 10 looks like the parsonage Of
country church. Nothing about 1t sug-
gcsts luxury except the stables that lie
AT the rear. These are spacious ana
one does not wonder at hearing that
MIR. Gebhards drag. his coach his buck
board, his Y carts and hts tandem have
al been placed inside the walls this
week and that his road phaetOns are on
The way, being driven here by some OF
Tie servants.
SMALLEST WOMEN OF THE FOUR HUNDRED.
It is a luxurious household which Mr.
Gebhs nd m8.ntains. His sister. Mrs
Nelson. who Is the tiniest woman OF
the 400, lives directly opposite and Is
bringing out this season pretty daughter
eho patrOn.zcs "Uncle Freddy chides
him in public and plays at older sister
ike her mother. In the most amusing
way.
In the old bachelor" days OF Freder-
ck Gcbhard this I<erox cottage boosted
Twelve servants. all men, and as the man
shef went TO Europe every summer Mr.
Frederick was obliged 10 take his meals
At the hotel. Except at occasiCna, rare
uncheons no woman ever stepped across
he threshold OF thiJ tee gay Freddy's
place OF recuperation.
very amusing tire was had here
he a..
,ery comforting time was enjoyed here
two weeks ago. The occasion was q
Grand reconciliation scene IN circles very