Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-22
HOT SPRINGS PREPARING
FOR R0LL|CK|NG HOLIDAY
Younger New York Society People
Are Crowtiiug to Virginia Resort
for Thanksgiving.
SPECIAL TRAIN OF ruLLMASs
Charles i. Murphy's Secret Disclosed.
His Golf Score High Because Hc,
Can't Putt With ifis Eyes Open.
Dancing of the Floss Family.
lsSpccial to rhc Times -Disna,en. /

Special to rho Times Dispntch.i
HOT SPRINGS. VA. November Eli
ono of the old-fashioned Virginia
irsh'nannikasiyines. Of the rollickinG sort.
Hmence to o. nocli OF reservations by
Inc younger New York society crowd
i inae made Ho. SPRINGS joyo4s STAMP
nrranged for.n specla, train Of Pullman
hight after the holiday, mud reach NeW
York O'clock Monday morning. This
Without Iosn I'M men ni 9a a. remain Gyes
by the L. j.. Y. Limited. tho regular
cypress There will also be nightly
bsiroom dances S viii With enteT,niims em9
also BY ispecial troup of singers. ana
ton to the usual mountain riding
which at this time or year is at i,s
SOME OF the observing ones on the
golf links found out this week why
Charles T. Murphy. the Tamnany le:td-
dred mark. though driving like a Vel
eran. He shuts his eyes every time Ia.
quits quits, Mr.. Murphy, himself cannot tell
wink, aud OF considerable duration.
senator elect oscar W. underwood,
time. However, his tee shots ara not
80 good. ON the tee Az. Murphy takes
slow, deliberate and :. certain shot,
sen,erally getting oyer 100 yards.
serving. that there seems TO lie no ond
70 the lardihoUd of the elderly James
3. Van. Allen. he will ride Il saddle
horse Tor three lIours onc day :l,id tho
next take the same trip on foot. Early
this week he walked down the railroad
Track towards Covingtou as far ~
Coles Mountain. ono OF tho highest
around here, tools the trail over 1t, ana
cnl across 70 fassitcrn i'nrin. a ""ry
rough tramp 81 AT lcas, fifteen. miles.
After luncheon there with Mr.. ana Mira
Lauren Van Alen. who had driven
being done mp that night. was n CON
spicuous figure in shc Homestead ball
of offoi man wnerS ne was perhapa the chief
young Mrs. Wilson j.. Foss, Jr. and
her husband. whom Ii. followed nrouhd
Gis monnclc.
FOsS FAMILY DANCING.
FEATURE OF BALLROOM
The dancing OF the Foss family. son
trnor Foss, of Massachusetts, here on
,ir honeymoon. WAS undoubtedly the
Hot sprines. Thcy we're yer FAMOUS ~ 1 ,oe
caily after the FIRST appearance Monday
hiBht. ana after TINT, Whenever they
vent out on the .hprr ali other dancers
quickly faced into the gallery. Ct AIR.
and Mira Castle have anything on this
young couple, Hot Springs society
strated several times before subscrib-
ing TO IL. Their rendering OF tho Max
~ TO utterly. cutclnss any other exhi-
bitions seen here this season, which is
saying mitch.
AIRS ". seward Webb visited friends
here on TucsduI. arriving from New
Nork by autoinoIile In company WITH
Macy, H.. Mrs. H. Mex. Two.ubly. and
Mrs. George Bird.
For oddities i'm entertainment, /, stag
sonvilic. gave here on Saturday might
probably will hold tho record for some
4, q To-
te"i nndcr ground. small chamber
r rtasn 1ra ~ Z pa pass 80 marr@w ana
guests 20 grab rope ana watch ,hei:
step and head room every foot Of the
way, Mr.. Crosby's guests were isnp-
rant OF what entertainment was IN
store, except that the Invitations called
Ter cowooy costume. ~ the Home
l ie H driyeh 1ty yo sri pS' into ear
rain. ordered out still without cxpla-
nuttons and up steer mopntainside.
like great guns. scrceching shells and
lurid hight OF sxploding powder. filled
ne air ;.nd II, up The rocks above
lhcn' y INC. bowling storm Tor half
mile Inside the cave was lighted be-
,ign This IL Hell faced thosc VIE
Gown the SHAFT NoGrocs dressed ~
Heyils siu"i about with spears. aud
others wore painted suits resembling
skeletons I'nntr was at n long tnbic
set with individual souvenir dishes
served by "A smnll automobile in ii
srccdway huilt in the centre Of tho
table tho cavern bciui; too narrow FOR
walters 10 serve IN the usual way.
GETS IT IN THE NECK;
STIf'F COLLAR SAVES HIM
Charles L. Drooker, OF Ausonia, Ct.
spent most Of the week feeling thank
III that his habit las been to wear q,
sstiHiy starched linen collar when golf
mar sny soifSrs or . ono or s @s 1h
with W. {. bancroft. of boston, when
some other player; identity not revealed
back OF tho reck with a ball that had
travelled perhaps one-tcnth of the dis
tancc II had started ont 10 cover. The
stefan said. Two Inches higher up. mt
The base OF the brain. the bali would
likely have killed him. Now every
ing n ball. his neck involuntarily shuts
up like n telescope.
York pE a aqfer Mrs m c. T, A siaH OF Hsw
for Ashville. y. G.. early In the week.
They are having their yacht put into
commission Tor a southern cruise. and
expect TO board her at Savannah or
= Jacksonville.
M ana Mrs, Francis lslay. Of New
luncheon at Passjicrn Farm i'm honor
or Miss Louise Russell and George
Harvey Russell
Mrs kcc!S here on sunday, and returned
late in the week. AIRS. Beck has been
taking tho cure.
Nr and Mrs. John u. Rockefeller
IT,. are still at the homestead Hotel,
and intend remaining FOR one or two
weeks more. They have been spending.
most OF their time driving.
Frank s.; katzcnback. Jr., former
Mayor Of Trenton n. j., ana Mrs.
katzanbncS are here for over the
Thanksgiving holidays. Some of the
other late New York arrivals are Air
and Mrs. j. Walter Wood. c. L. Barsier
General T.. \. McAlpin. who has como
down for q months rest: Mr.. and Mrs
Edgar l.. Marston, Mr.. ana Mrs ]. T.
Mcclure. Atr. and Mrs. Henry IIeidc
Nh: aud Mrs. James Lawrence, Mrs
Wired Henderson. Mrs. w. Is. Cow
Vtri5wait, Mr.. "nd Mrs. Walter y.
Siilman, George Stfllman, George II
!;nil. Renjamin Moore, AIr. and Mrs
Henry, w. G. hangs, Mr.. and Mrs. Yer
non Mann and Mr.. and Mrs John s.
karpen. Arrivals from Philadelphia
inclnho Mr. and Mrs James j.. Bowe,s.
NJ ana Mrs. George L. Harrison, Jr.,
isosengnrton: From t,rooklyn the rog-
iStrAtions OF the week are James Me
IlVaIly, Mr.. and Mrs L II 4,