New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-09
LENOX COLONY IS
ACTIVE SOCIALLY
There Is No Dearth of Enter
tanning and That of the Most
Enjoyable Nature.

Lenox, Aug. 8.--The departure for
Newport of many cottagers has not
shown any diminishment Of entertain
ing here. Among the large entertain
crs this week were Mr.. and Mrs.
George E. Turnure, who gave several
dinners-one for young people in
honor of Roger Wolcott Griswold,
whose marriage to their daughter, Miss
Mary NJ. Turnure, has been set for
Saturday, September -. Before they
left Brookhurst for Newport Mr. and
Mrs. Newbold Morris gave dinner for
their neighbors, having twelve guests
at their table. Mr.. and Mrs. Giraud
Foster also gave a Sunday luncheon
and a mdweek dinner Miss Clemen-
tina Furniss arrived and began at
once a series of entertainments.
The largest affair of the week was
meeting of the Lenox Garden Club
at Great Darlington. Mr.. and Mrs.
William Hall Walker, at Brookslde,
were the hosts for the club. The
speaker of the occasion was Professor
Frederick V. Colville, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, at Washington.
This meeting was especially interest
ing because the club saw a worked-out
bit of landscape. modern successful
garden planting, the work of Ferruccio
Vitale, who learned his lesson amid
historic gardens of Italy, but has
shown his hand in America in some of
the best, as we'll as most sympathetic,
landscape treatments. At Brookside an
unusual chance was offered Mr. Vitale
for architectural development, since
the estate comprises some five hun
dred acres of billy land, an mex
haustible supply of spring water flow
ing freely from a lake covering some
ten acres, and running from there
over a cascade into a smaller lake,
emptying into the nearby Housatonic
River Here, entirely disconnected
from the villa, a walled garden nestles
between side hills, forming the open
air room of the estate. The wall which
incloses this garden on three sides is
of tapestry brick, but on the fourth
side it gives way to a loggia having
two levels. OF this loggia the central
portion is formed into a tea house.
Here it was that Mrs. Walker received
the club and, following the lecture by
Professor Colyille, served tea TO forty
club members.
Those who went to Newport for Au-
gust included Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Aston Bristed and the Misses Bristed,
Mr.. and Mrs. Newbold Morris and Mrs.
William Pollock. Miss Olivia E. Phelps
Stokes went to Bar Harbor, Mrs. James
R. Jesup TO the White Mountains, Sus-
sex D. Davis TO Woodstock, VT, and
Mrs. John s. Barnes to Dover, n. H.,
to pass August with Mr.. and Mrs. S.
Warren Sturgis.
The Hotel Aspinwall was the scene
of some interesting dances this week
MIR. and Mrs. Joel d. Barber gave sew
eral entertainments. John d. Grim
Minis and the Misses Mercedes and
Evelyn Crimmins, who were here early
in the week, went on to Saratoga.
Among prominent arrivals at the hotel
were Mr.. and Mrs 4. R. Jourdsn, Mr.
and Mrs. W. II. Marshall, Mr.. and Mrs
P. d. Stearns, Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Van
derhoff, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas T.. Mil
Ter, Mrs. Henry S. Deshon, Mrs. F. G..
Parish. Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Sherman,
Miss c. A. Sherman. Mrs. Charles R.
Fowler and Mrs. Robert +. Kelly, Of
New York.
One of the charms OF the Curtis
Hotel now is the display Of potted
plants, which are shown in the rotunda
and the dining room. All of the regu-
lar August patrons are now there, with
the exception of Mr.. and Mrs. De Witt
Seligman. of New York, who departed
this week for a camp in the Adiron-
dscks.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Adams. who
have been at the hotel, returned to
their country place at Lawrence, Long
Island. Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred n.
Beadleston. who were touring. after
passing a few days at the hotel, went
on to the White Mountains. Mrs.
Nathalie n Scott. who was AZ the Cur