New-York tribune., 1901-12-24
cHRIsTMAsTIDE AT LAKEWOOD.
HOTELS ARRANGING ELABORATE PROGRAMMES
FOR ENTERTAINING THE CoTTAGERS
AND THEIR GUESTS.

AND THEIR GUESTS.
Lakewood Dec. 23 (SpeciaD-Every hotel, cot
tage and boarding house in Lakewood is repre-
sented in the crowd which gathers at the railway
station at the hour of train arrival nowadays Ine
srnartest of closed carriages, high dogcarts ana
four-n-hand brakes dash up to the platform 10 let
out one fare, taking home little later from one
TO half a dozen expected guests. Everybody is ex-
pecting relatives friends. and the aggregate
arrival will I'LL Lakewood as never oetore at
Christmas time.
In a tour of the town the stroller notes in nearly
every window the wreath or heart or festoon or
red berried holly and evergreen, hung with gay
scarlet ribbon token of the festive spirit which
for the time dominates the house interior in all
departments The Goulds are the most extensive
decorators at this and Georgian Court, the
Casino and the stables will buried to interiors
in Christmas green's by Christmas Day The Goulds
following their usual custom, will have no friends
down for that day, spending 1t as family. and
besides the tree for the children at the big house
the army of employees will have their trees at the
Casino.
The broad iiberality of the three large hotels of
the place, each of which grants to Lakewood cot
tagers and visiting friends the freedom of the
house, simplihes cottage entertaining here. Spe-
cial attractions, largely musical enjoyed by
these cottagers, who are enabled through them to
meet their friends and acquaintances at morning.
to enjoy. without fee, the luxury and comfort OF
these ATTRACTIONS. Each OF these hotels mas ar
ing over New Years. and cottage invitations are
The Laurel House. programme viii include spe.
ciaI morning concert programmes by an orchestra
thirteen pieces. music and informal dancing eaeh
evening, a marionette entertainment for the chill
dren by Harry and Rhetta Deayes, or Brooklyn In
the music room Christmas night: sacred con,
cert on Sunday evening and the New Year DaIl
on Tuesday evening. December 81 Decorations
which will transform the public rooms are now
going up
The Ilaurel-in-the- Pines will have similarly elab
crate daily concerts late afternoon hour, in
connection the service of afternoon tea in the
lobby. There will be music and informal dancing
in the music each evening and on Sunday
evening sacred programme OF vocal numbers, in
cuding service by the Laurel Male Quartet and
solo voices in addition. The New Year ball will
be given at this house on Wednesday evening, jan
uary !. The scheme of decoration is elaborate
The Lakewood Hotel has arranged series of
special programmes to be daily rendered by its or
chestra at the usual morning hour with music and
Saturday evening will be filed by a vaudeville and
projectoScope programme and by New-York enter
tainers of we'll known ability. and there will be
music on Sunday evening The grand ball IS
attraction for Wednesday evening and, as in pre-
vious years, the lobby, corridors and ballroom will
be made bowerlike by decorations appropriate to
the season
Hotel Lenox, the Lexington, the Palmer House.
Oak Court and the Towers are smaller houses
joyable conditions for their guests In these houses
the billiard and cardrooms will be centres
of mpromptu jollities, with music and story and
games revived from olden days enjoyed about the
open fire, and with plenty of good cheer every
side.