New-York tribune., 1901-06-16
IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
LARCHMONT, ORIENTA POINT. NEW-RO
CHELLE AND OTHER PLACES ON
THE SOUND READY FOR
SUMMER FUN.

The gayest place in westchester County at pres
ent is IarchmOnt-on- the-Sound. The many yachts
men and golfers who hail from there are fast re-
turning to their summer homes. and the colony
can now be said to be fairly well made up. Many
yachts are gathering the harbors in anticipation
OF the races between the Constitution and the Co
lurnbia The old Cup defender is quite familiar TO
Larchmonters as she has been doing her PAGES on
the Sound for several weeks.
Sailing parties and dinners board yachts are
now quite the rage. Among some of the larger
boats in the Larchmont harbor are j. I'll. Hanan
steam yacht Taurus. c. l.. RObinsons steamer.
J. r. De I4amar's English steam yacht Sagatti,
Commodore Adams's Sachem, Lloyd Phoentxs In
trepid and the BU -caneer, owned by F. L. Morrel
On June % the Lar"hmont Yacht Club will hold
fits first ladies day which is 20 be a gala oe-
casion for society pSople along the Sound There
are to be music and dinner parties all day and
dancing in the evening.
Warm weather has also brought the golt INKS az
Larchmont into wide popularity. and they are now
tlronged with players. The women seem TO pre-
dominate On Wednesday there was blind handl-
cap of eighteen holes for them, with many fair
contestants. The trophy, cup was won by MISS
Jessie l.. Flint. with score of S. Miss NJ l.
Eaton finished second Another women's handicap
of eighteen holes. medal play. is announced for
June y for a prize TO he given by Miss Pendleton
The younger ser at Larchmont is soon 70 amuse
the summer colony with minstrels and dramatics-
on June q and % company of them. who are
being coached by j. II. Gimour, the actor are TO
present the four comedy entitled School IN
! ST Johns parish house. The cast is made up or
Peter j. Kane Lester III. Riley, II. c. Perrin. H. L
Spence Thompson J. S. Flint, F. W. Flint, jr
| Roger Iamson jr Miss Morrison. Miss Allen. Miss
Flint Miss Lamson. Miss Schaffer. Miss Smith
| Miss Hindley Miss Sanger and Miss Whiting. The
mnstrels follow on June % and will also
/ be held in the parish house. one of the attrac-
! tions Of the programme will be sketch from
| "Florodora." The intcrlOcUtor is TO he George G.
| Murray. L. G. Spence and P. ]. Kane will handle
| the bones and T. J. s Flint and g l.. Perrin will
| have the tambourines. F. f. Proctor, jr., is a
member Of the company and Is getting most or the
accessories from his fathers vaudeville houses.
| Among the New-Y Workers who have recently ar
/ rived Larchmont cottages for the season MIR.
and Mrs William II. Seaich. Mr.. and Mrs. r. X.
I owens. Mr.. and Mrs. George II. Sutton Mr. and
! Mrs A 1. Hanscom. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bar
! rett. Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Van Vre1enhurgh.
| Mr.. and Mrs. f. c. Tooker. Mr.. and Mrs ]. II.
| Pe DR. and Mrs. Ellis Mr.. and Mrs. F. 5. Sails
| bury. William Boyd and family. Mr.. and Mrs
| L. \ Richards and Mr.. and Mrs. William j. Nauss
William Murray. treasurer of the LarchmOnt Yacht
| Club. and his wife and daughter will leave Larch-
mont this week for Newport, where they Will spend
! the season in their handsome villa. Alfred Mar
! shall, the millionaire who recently completed a
$4,000 home at Scotch Beach. the Sound, is now
building fine steel pier for his yacht landing
| Henry NJ. Flasler, the Standard oil magnate.
who has been in Palm Beach all winter. Will re-
| turn to his summer home at Mamaroneck this
| week. Ills large mansion at Orienta Point has
| been renovated and enlarged. Many Of Mr.. Flag
| ler's friends from the South will be among his
\ guests this summer f. II. weatherbee. who is
! now at Waytes Court. Mamaroneck is building a
| fine steam yacht At City Island. and has also
] Gently purchased a jib and mainsail boat called
the Bubble for his who is fifteen years old.
/ Mr.. Weatherbee's house is close the Sound. and
/ he has fine private pier. from which he and his
! boy sailing frequently Mr.. and Mrs. F. II.
! Constable have closed their mansion at Orenta
/ X.
| the automobiles. another member of the Larch-
which he calls the MistraL J. b. Cobb. hrst vice
president Of the American Tebacco Company. VINO
] Is living In the Hamilton place at Orienta this
| season. has purchased the handsome home IF the
! late F. W. lockwood. a Standard Oil man who
IoSt ms ilie Few years ago while making trans
atlantic voyage on the steamship Mohegan. The
| surrounded by seventeen acres of lawns and gar
Darlington. old summer residents Of Orienta have
}Hst returned and opened their big country houses
! old house on the Boston Post Road which was at
one one time the home of J. Fenmore Cooper and in
which he wrote THE Leather Stocking Tales
Henry b. Stokes. vice president OF the Manhat
tan Life Insurance Company. has returned 10 New
Rochelle and opened his Lockwood-ave house
Miss Stokes and her sister Mrs. a G. Bostwick
are not entertaining this year. owing to the recent
| death of their grandmother. Mrs. Lockwood. An
! entirely arrival in New Rochelle is Dr. Theo-
| dore c. Janeway. New-York specialist who has
! leased the summer home of Supreme Court Justice
Martin j. Keogh. on Pelham Road. overlooking
the Sound. Mr.. and Mrs Keogh are in Ireland for
the season. The New-Rochelle Rowing andl Yacht
clubs are both open. and their verandas overlook
| ing Echo Bay daily thronged by yachtsmen
and guests Many of the visitors are women. On
July the Rowing Club is to celebrate ladies
day" There will be match races and aquatic
| sports in the afternoon and music and dancing
night. The biggest social affair of the week in
| New-itochee was the marriage Wednesday of
MISS Helen NJ Nelson. daughter of the late DR..
! William H. Nelson. to Henry Bogert Clark. of
Ihe late Colonel Clark. 1t was attended by about
| hve hundred society people of New-Rochelle Pei
/ nam Manor and NewYOrk. The ceremony took
/ place in Trinity Episcopal Church. and per-
| formed by the rector the Rev Dr. Charles F.
| Canedy, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Appleton of
| Philadelphia, uncle of the bride The maid OF
/ honor and best man were the brides cousin Miss
dannah Marie Strakosch. and the bridegroOm's
the little cousin OF the bride was flower sfrI and
the bridesmaids We're Miss Elizabeth Katherine
/ Morch and Miss Augustus Pinckney Mr. Clark
Lewis. Henry F. Moran. Max Strakosch Arthur tr
Most of the ushers were among Mr.. Clark's class
n1ateS n1 at Corngll Inc pride is graduate from
thusiastic golfer being\On the women's team of the
Apawamis Club The 'goling contingent and her
ding. They followed the couple to the railroad Sta
! tion. where they deluged them with rice.
| Mr.. Peck. the son-n-law of Judge Freedman of
New-York City, has leased for two years the big
| house OF John NJ. Shinn, the artist in Pelham
| Manor. The Red Rover. big automobile which
| carries yachting men from the Waldorf-Astoria TO
the American Yacht Club. is one OF the familiar
! roads finely macadam amized and the big auto
goes over them at great speed.
Mr.. and Mrs Edwin Gould have leased Osborn
c. Warner, at Irving Hudson DR. and Mrs
warner have taken the Van Lew cottage, In