New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-18
LENOX
The Social Programme Filled
Up to November.

| affairs, which will start with the mar
riage OF Miss Frances Richards New
comb TO Lieutenant Donald Armstrong
at Westover. in Pittsheld, next Thursday.
Will continue undated until November.
one Of the most noteworthy events OF
this week was the flag raising at Hotel
Aspinwall more than two hundred
guests taking part IN the ceremony on
the plaza in front OF the hotel. No flag
had ever been raised at the hotel and
! the affair was carried out with patri-
otic fervor. An orchestra played the ma
| tional anthem as a guest raised the col
ors and a salute was fired by young men
who are at the hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Duryea, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred s. stearns, Miss Ida Winter,
! Miss Bertha Winter. DIR. and Mrs John
A. TelfaIr have arrived At the Hotel
Aspinwall for the fall.
| Mr. and Mrs Robb de Peyster Tytus
have completed the programme for the
celebration of the 10th anniversary Of
| the town OF birmingham. and have In
vited the country round about TO visit
! birmingham on September and g. Mr..
and Mrs. Tytus will entertain at luncheon
on the days OF the celebration. The
chief event Of the anniversary will be
a New England clambake, at which 1t is
expected there will be five hundred
guests. This bake will he prepared by a
! famous cook. who Will be brought TO
! birmingham for the event.
Next Thursday afternoon, In the town
! ban will 10 hold ~ annual chow Of
den flowers b. the LcnoX cottagers. This
| is considered the best show of the year
and will have many interesting features
Some wonderful displays Of phloX, glad
ioi. sweetpeas. asters. dahllas. scabosa
and delphinium will be made by Mrs
| William b. O. Field. Mrs. John e. Par
sons, Mrs. William n. Sloane and Miss
Adele Kneeland. From the gardens OF
Mrs William T. s. Gr!swold will be
| shown melons and from the gardens Of
| Mrs Morris X Jesup collection Of
peaches and nectarines grown under
! glass; grapes will be shown by Mrs
Jesup Mrs Winthrop and Mrs. de Here
| dia, and collections of vegetables VIII be
! exhibited from the gardens OF Spencer
p. Shotter. Mrs. Winthrop and William
| d. Sloane Women OF the cottages will
compete in the arrangement of centre
pieces for table decoration. Our-of-door
! flowers and foliage will be used and
awards will he made by prominent
artist.
Every day in September has been taken
! for a social event. and until we'll after
! mid October the calendar is occupied
! The out-of-door events crowd each other
| Tennis is leading as a sport and at the
courts Of cottagers games and matches
will be played, 10 be followed by refresh
ments for the guests The plans Tor
| afternoons at home, auction and bridge
parties and teas are already under way
! Teachers OF bridge are coming TO LenoN
, in fiocks for the autumn when the morn
ing IS devoted to instruction and the az
| ternoons to play. So great has heen the
demand for handsome prizes for bridge
| that many makers have sent their agents
! TO Ienox to take orders and exhibitions
of bridge prizes exclusively have been
held by sales people whose specially Is
bridge prizes. Mrs. George Westinghouse
will give her annual series OF afternoons
at homo at Ershinc Park. Mrs. Daniel
Chester French Will be at home at Ches-
terwood on Friday afternoons. Mrs. VIII
lam D. Sloane will give a series Of recep-
tons.
Coming TO Lenox TO take part in the
events of social Importance are hundreds
OF house guests To the Curtis Hotel will
come large number OF guests who
yearly pass the autumn there Some or
these patrons are Mrs. William s. kcr-
nochan, Misses Frances @. and Augusta
NJ dc Peyster Mr.. and Mrs. A. +. Gallatin'
Mrs Robert Stockton. Mrs. william T..
Dayton MIR. and Mrs. r.. J. Flick, Mrs.
George b. Loring, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
=. Williams. Chandler Robbins, Edward
8 Grew. Miss Rosaile Wheeler Miss
Helen 5. Chase. the Rev. Mrs. Paul Re
we're Frothlngham. Mrs. J. :. Penniman.
Mrs Wilson Potter. Mr.. Emma CHINA,
Mrs j. Y. McsorOle. Abraham Meserole'
Mr. and Mrs. John +. Pultz. Mrs j. Clar-
ence POST Mrs. Charles Zimmerman. Miss
Zimmerman, Mrs. Charles a. Lamont and
Mrs James z. Jesup.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert w. Chaplin, who
have a residence at No. 81 Kensington
Square. London, where their daughter,
Mrs. Reese Denny Alsop Julia Chaplin,
was recently married, have arrived in
birmingham to occupy their country place
on Hop Brook for d part Of the autumn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chaplin we're members OF
tho Lenox colony for many years. Their
place was sold to Marshall Kernochan
and later TO Mrs. Edwards Spencer. while
, Mr. and Mrs Chaplin took up their resi-
dence in London. Their love OF the Berk-
shire hills called them back TO Tyring-
ham, where they bought large farm and
n farmhouse, which they have rebuilt.
Here Mr. and Mrs. Chaplin will pass the
autumn. Their daughter Mrs. Alsop. and
! their son. Louis @. Chaplin. are with them.
| Some Of the prettiest girls Of the Berl-
shire resorts are playing tennis at the
| Country Club, OF Pittsneld. this week.
An interested spectator at tho matches
| has been Mrs Ellis Knowles, of Pensa-
cola, Fla, daughter Of General and Mrs.
James Brattlo Burbank. whose guest she
| is In Pittsfield. Competing for tho tennis
prizes offered by the club are Miss
Jessica Bishop. Miss Helen Woodward.
Miss Lucy Ballard. Mrs. Philip Weston,
Miss Margaret Chesney, Miss Dorothy
Wood, Miss Margaret Hall. Miss Retta
Colon, Mrs. Cornelius =. Tyler Mrs.
| Henry d. BRIGHAM.
Miss Adele Kneeland was hostess this