New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-23
Greatest Season LenoX Has
Had in Years Is
Opening.

Ieno1 Aug. 22.-Every incoming train is bearing
Ienox villa owners and tourists from the seashore
10 the hills. With the passing OF midsummer
Lenox is coming into fits own. Now that the wood
bne is coloring and the hydrangeas are taking on
their frosty tints. when days warm and nights
are cool the guest at the shore is turning his
lsndward again. The best season Lenox has had
IN years is opening. Hotel clerks say that never
have few guests cancelled their engagements
and IL the houses twice as large they would
be filed throughout late August and September.
What 10 do with the automobile tourist who is
knocking for entertainment at the hosteries is al
ready a serious question Mattresses are in de-
rnznd in Lenoz. Stockbridge end Pittsheld
There will be only spectacular Lenox feature
this fall. That will be the hunt races No tennis
tournament will be held at the Lencx Club be-
cause Of the few expert tennis men in Lenox this
season There Will be no gclfng events Lindsay
Fairfax and William D Sloane have given I'D
their plan for a series of afternoons at the Ienox
Golf Club. at which the women of the cottages
would be asked TO attend and assist Lack Of
interest IN golf is the given Samuel Froth-
ingham and David T. Dana are the only repre-
sentative Lenox golf players now taking part in
tournaments They are entered in the Stockbridge
tourney IN the first week in September and they
viii play IN the Berkshire County championship
OF the 2Sth. The Berkshire County champion is
TOW Malcolm McBurney. of Dr. and Mrs.
Charles McBurney, OF Cherry Farm. Stockbridge.
he won some renown a member of the Har-
ward golf team and has the Stockbridge cup
in S-ockbridge. Nj McBurney is now abroad but
viii return in time TO take part in the county
match and the Stockbridge tournament. He will
lie scratch man in both. Waiter Tuckerman
Clevey Chase golfer and brother of Miss Emily
Tuckerrnan, Of Ingleside Hall. in Stockbridge, is
also entered in the Stockbridge competition.
on Wednesday Peace Party Chapter Daughters
Of the American Revolution, met at the Hotel As
piuUal for its annual outing Mrs. Victor Sorchan
and Ms Caroline King Duer arrived at the hotel
this week on automobile from Newport to
Long Island. Mrs. Henry S Deshon. Mrs Frank
lin Farrell Miss Estelle Farrell. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H
Moffat Nj and Mrs. Walden Williams Mr. and
Mrs }. Il Hoadey. Mr.. and Mrs W. W Powers
Nj and Mrs. Frederick J. Wood Mr.. and Mrs
E H. Newell Herbert Newell Richard Newell
Andrew Mattison and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Chad
wick and their family have been some of the late
arrivals.
No week since the season opened has seen so
much entertaining and there has been 4 round Of
luncheons. dinners and teas. Mrs. Samuel Froth-
i1gham. Miss Anna 3 Shaw. Mrs. Richard Starr
Dana. Mrs CiraUd Foster. Mrs. Charles Carroll
Jackson Mrs John L. Alexandra. Mrs. Thatcher
n Adams Mrs, John S. Barnes. Mrs. Robert Win
thrcr. Mrs, William B. Bacon. Mrs. Francis g
Barlow and Mrs. Frank X. Sturgis have enter
tanned.
OF $4,000 by F Augustus Schermerhorn to the
Charles Sedgwick Library and Reading Room as an
endowment were announced this week The Lenox
Library Association also acknowledged gifts OF
r. maintenance.
In the hunting field this fall will be number
q new riders. The Misses Vera and Gladys Blood
good daughters OF Mr.. and Mrs. Hildreth h Blood
good and Herbert Shaw VIII ride in the meetings
If the hounds Mr.. and Mrs. Robb de Peyster Ty-
t,s have invited and the hunt club has accepted
-ra Invitation for breakfast At Ashntully Farm,
r. birmingham. on september ;. The run to the
bounds VIII He across the birmingham Valley IN
October AZ and Mrs. Fildreth X Bloodgood. OF
NV Marlboro viii entertain lie hunt club at
f..lfst and the hounds Will h tried for the first
tine in that town
Alexander sedgwicl VIII preside at the ami
rsary exercises Of the Laurel Hill Association at
laurel fIill on Wednesday, September The prin-
cf7al speaker will be Frederic s Lamb, president
al the Architects League of New York whose
r,-,, will be ARTS and Crafts This topic was
s-7r-r.ted because OF the recent establishment in
stockbridge Of q school in manual training by
Mrs. oscar Issigi. Frederic Crowninshield viii
make some remarks There will be sclentlhc
illustration Of tree doctoring by MI Byrne OF Bos-
Ton an expert in the and preservation of trees
47a xiii take an old tree on Laurel Hill in need
q care and show the members of the association
what can be done il the way Of beautifylnS II and
saving il from decay
Stockbridge Is TO raise a Taft and Sherman
banner Joseph II. Choate has been invited 10
speak at the ceremony. Heaten Hall has been
flied this week. Admiral z. H c Leutze, of New
port arrived on Wednesday. Miss Mary p Grin
nell Dr. and Mrs. Howard Williams, Of Passaic,
y J; Benjamin W. Libbey, of Elizabeth. n. J.;
Mr. and Mrs. Henry b Reed. of New York, and
Dr. and Mrs J. ". McLane Guy r. McLane and
Henry 4. Wheeler, Of Brooklyn. late arrivals.
Mrs c W Townsend and Miss Daisy Townsend
Of New York: Mrs. H. A. Lowell. of Jamaica, Long
Island; James McCutcheon and W. s. McCutcheon,