New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-26
LAKEWOOD DELIGHTS.
Golf Tournament Neat Month :
Coaching Rams Begun.

Lakewood. n. j. March Is (SpeciaD.-John D.
Rockefeller has acquired healthy tan in the fort
night that he has been playing golf here The
weather has been warm and sunny and Mr. Rocl
Teller has been playing on his private links e,,er
pleasant day He usually invites a few friends
down to play with him. The Rev Dr. Rufus =
Johnston, pastor OF the Fifth Avenue Baptist
Church. and Dr. Frank S. Billings and Marsha II
Field. jr.. of Chicago. his golfng companions
this week
Lakewood is looking forward to April as the best
month OF the season. The golf tournament viii be
an attraction in the week preceding Easter and
there will be great throng OF visitors here over
the Easter holiday. The automobile tournament
which begins Easter Monday and continues through
out the week. will bring hundreds OF automobiles
the resort
Lakewood society found time from it's Lenten
observance to indulge in round OF dinner parties
bridge luncheons and teas this week Mr. and Mrs
irving T. Bush gaveSa Dutch supper at their home
III Private Way, which was jolly affair and was
enjoyed by nearly forty of their friends. Mrs John
Bard Rogers was-the hostess at tea on Wednes-
DAY, and Mrs. Edward O. Shakespeare gave a bridge
luncheon on Thursday. Mrs. George Fales Baker Of
Philadelphia. gave bridge luncheon at the Country
club this week.
The coach Lakewood made the first run of the
Lakewood Hotel with a merry party of hotel pa
irons, bound for Toms River. Samuel f. Ward
OF NewYork. drove, and Miss Jessica Bruce of
Hampstead. had the box seat. The party took
luncheon at Toms River and then drove down the
shore OF Barnegat Bay TO the site Of the new
motor speedway which is TO be built there this
summer by the Atlantic Coast Speedway Associa-
ton Those who enjoyed the trip were Mr.. and
Mrs Edward Hartman Davis, Miss Grace Davis
Francis B. Tarleton Miss Louise Hosmer Miss
Dorothy Hosrner and Mrs Howard T. May, OF
New-York.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Eaiiston; or philadelphia,
dinner party in the palm OF the Lake
wood Hotel on Thursday evening for Mr. and Mrs.
II. +. De Birmingham OF Paris. who will be their
guests until after Easter. The Sunbeam Society
OF Lakewood held a successful fair in the bowling
alley OF the Laurel House Thursday. Cot
tagers and hotel patrons gave generous patronage
to the young girls who presided at the various
booths. Last year the children raised moro than
$50. and they hope to net a larger than that
a result of this weeks entertainment The
children are grateful to Andrew J. Murphy, man
ager of the Laurel House, for according them the
use OF the bowling alley for the fair.
To the winning team OF four making the best
score in the qualifying round Of the golf tourna-
ment. TO be held here the week preceding Easter
the Country Club of Lakewood viii award a hand
some silk banner trophy
Mr.. and Mrs. George II. Southland of Brooklyn
are at the Observation-Disclosures. Mrs. William Lane
aud Miss MAZE f. lane also among the Brook
lyn folks staying at this hotel.
T +. Collier, who brought the Monmouth hounds
here this week to hunt the hakewood country Is at
the Iaurel-i the Pines