The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-29
LENOX'S GAYETIES
PLANNED FAR AHEAD
Many Interesting Events Ar
ranged for Coming Month
i'm Bcrkshires.
USUAL ARTISTS EXHIBIT

r.ENox, Aug. 2s.-Next week will
mark the beginning Of the late Lenox
season. a period from September TO No
vember, when every country place In
the Berkshires has its house party and
big entertainments follow each other
without interruption. II Is the time
when all OF the paominent sporting
events are held. when the hotels are
filled to their utmost and the round of
entertaining begins at breakfast time,
when riders meet at an appointed villa
after a morning canter to enjoy a cold
roast. The interval between breakfast
and luncheon is usually passed IN
golf links or tennis courts or In ex-
cursions into the Businesses Of the hills.
either by horse. automobile. or on foot.
Every afternoon is busy. for tennis tour
naments started at the club courts have
the finals on the courts at country
places, where hcstesses serve tea under
the shade of vine covered pergolas or
IN old fashioned gardens. In the eve
ming there are dinner pa rites. Septem-
her too is the season of dinner dances.
Lenox has another ~favorite after dinner
entertainment in the form OF organ re-
citals and musicales.
SOI1e a II inc eHTlN nNGntG nf inc mall
saason ,re , dance at E,s,ovar ,ha
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onnnins da, - ,h, :.
exhibition In the Casino in Stockbridgc,
also next saturday Miss Kneeland's
garden party and fair for the benefit
OF st. Georges Episcopal Chur h at Fair
Lawn on Wednesday. September 3 Mr..
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last wcok and Win bor ,InnS ,ha
villa and various buiI5inys on the mn.
er,y. Frskino PARK was m,da h, mt
fling half a dozen fnrms which NJ.
Westinghouse bought aho,, 1855 Che
personally supcryised The LAYING ont 90
the property. The viii, has a chs rp;-
ing prosper. II looks out across L.au-
rel Lake Miles NJ snacious white roads
thread their way by graceful turns
through vast swceps of lawn. dotted
by beautiful old elms. cross five massive
bridges. an artificial lake. and encircle
the white villa, which stands half a mile
from the entrance on an elevation OF
land rising abruptly three hundred feet
out Of aurel Lake.
Mrs. Vanderbilt went 10 Lenox from
New York in June after the filing OF
the will of her husband, which gave his
country place. Oakland Farm, in New
port, to his eldest son by a former mar
riage. She leased Shadow Brook, the
largest of l.enox villas, from Spencer l..
Shotter Of Savannah, Ga. This prop-
erty with It's English manor house. an
estate on which Mr. and Mrs Arson
Phelps stokes spent more than a million
dollars, has been also offered to Mrs.
Vanderbilt.
A number Of Americas foremost,
artists and sculptors do a large mar, Of
their work i'm S~tockbridpe and Ienox
They give each wear an eybIbition in the
Stockbridre Casino Senterhar A hos
been set for this wears exhibitIon.
Paintings and statuarv have been re-
ceiyed from Daniel Chester French.
Frederic CrowninshieId. Walter Settle-
ton, Clark Greenwood Voorhees,. Aupus-
tus Lukeman. Miss Marie q a
Gardner Symons. Emil Carlson Disnes
Carlson, Martha Wheeler Raxter. Ellen
T.. Rand. lydia Field Emmet, w T.
Darlington. Edna Hilton. Walter /,
Palmer. Thomas Shields clarke Helen
Clarkson. Narp,re, FItzbuph Rr,vn
Robert H. Nesbit. Daisv King n Rnl'
ton Jones, Ben Foster, A. r. Van Lear
and W. l.. Remington.
Lenox cottagers were very much
pleased by the acceptance of the vail
10 the rcctorship of Trinity Enisconal
Church hy the Rev, William La wrenre
Wood. lie was invited in June TO taka
Temporary charge of the parish He
came to Lenox from London in ,July and
was this month ordained as n nrles, ~
the church in Northeast uarbor' Me. nv
the Right Rev. David II. Greer. Bishon
of New York. The yestry OF the church
extending the call to the Rev. Mr.. Wood
were Charles Lanicr. Leonard c. Peters.
Harris Fahncstock, Newbold Morris,
Herbert Parsons. +. Augustus Schermer-
horn and Edward Macdonald. The Rev
Mr.. Wood Is twenty-seven years old. n
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Chalmers Wood of
New York. He married last spring Miss
Laura Cass Garfield. daughter Of Mrs
Frank Gray Griswold. The attractive
rectory at Trinity Church is being re-
decorated and made ready for occu-