The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-11
A group of Lenox summer cottagers enjoying the water sports

county court house. a fine old Colonial
building. The summer residents are the
officers of the library association, and on
Tuesday at the annual meeting many
changes took place in the board OF
officers. Grenville l.. Winthrop. who
has long been closely identified with
the library. was elected Its president,
f. Augustus Schermerhorn declining the
office because of his long absences from
Lenox. MIR. Schermerhorn endowed tho
building years ago, the funds beini
used for the permanent upkeep OF the
structure. which was built in ISIS.
William Il. Osgood Field. David Iy-
dig. Herbert Parsons, Frederick
Schenck. Giraud Foster. Manton X.
Sedgwick apd Grenville l.. Winthrop
were elected trustees. The holdover
trustees were +. Augustus Schermerhor
and Newbold Morris.
\ series of notable entertainments
were given this week. Miss Nancy G.
Wharton entertained for Mrs. Samuel
Abbott of Rome. Mr.. and Mrs. Newbold
Morris for Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Knox
Bell. Mrs. John f.. Alexandra for her
house party. Mrs. oscar Iasigi to meet
Mr.. and Mrs. william Marshall Bullitt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph IL. Choate in honor
Of their guest, Mrs. j. Montgomery
Sears. DIR. and Mrs. Constantine 7.
Dumba gave a formal dinner for Prince
Won Trachenberg and Can't. Franz Won
Papen Of the German Embassy. Miss
Anna Blake shaw gave several dinners
for MI. and Mrs. Grant Walker.
Remarkable taste IL always dis
played by the women of the S~tockbridge
villas in the arrangement of flowers.
This is largely the influence Of the art
lists colony there and the number o.
artists who compete In the various
flower shows. At the first of the spe-
cialized shows last week the attention
OF all visitors was directed to the de-
partment for floral decorations where
Miss Marie kobbe, the artist. displayed
a basket of blue delphinium, yellow
loosestrife and white meadow rue. in a
wicker basket that was judged to be .the
best arrangement in the show.
Mrs. Carl de Gersdorff. the daughte,
OF Frederick Crowninshield, the artist.
received the second award for a dish
OF columbine. There were varicolor'
in this arrangement. Also Mrs. de
Gersdorff received an award for origi-
nality in decorative arrangement by
showing a series OF small effects in
which flowers were combined with RIB
bon and net.
Among those who received honorable
mention for decorative designs Were
Miss Edith Tracy. who showed a com
bination of foxglovc n spirea Mrs
w. G.. Thompson. who had orange col
ored azaleas in n wicker basket, and
| Mrs. Walter L. Eaton for a delicate ar
! rangement OF peach bells and foSglov'
In n Japanese bowl. Among those who
showed delphinium We're Miss Mary
, Weyman, Mrs. Charles Evans and Mis-
Edith Tracy. A handsome arrangement
of rambler roses by Joseph II. Choat'
was given an award. and Miss Helen q
Buffers larkspur also won an award o
merit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph II. Choate's en-
t%ertainment of the Lenox Garden Clui
was one OF the foremost affairs of thu
season. 1t brought together l25 of thu
leaders OF the various colonies who arr
Interested in the Improvement of gar
dens. Mr.. and Mrs. Choate received II
their country house, Naumkeag. and AZ
illustrated lecture was the entertainers
for the club. After the lecture. which
was by Prof. Louis A. Fuertes of Cor
nell University o BIRDS of the Gar
dens," the company inspected the o
formal garden. one of the most refined
types of English gardens In the country
The noted rambler roses OF the place
were In full bloom and excited admira
ton. Mrs. j. Montgomery Sears, a hous'
guest, n Mrs. Btrilnaru iioilhlaH' az
sisted in serving tea.
Three dances were given this week
MIR. and Mrs. Charles Aston IIristed a
Lakeside. the Lenox Club and Mrs
Drexei Dahlgren gave the dances, Il
which were asked practically all in th'
Lenox and Stockbridge colony, TIT
Lenox Club, where Mrs. DahIgren CAV
her dance, lends itself readily to the en-
tertainment of large companies and ~
at the clubhouse did not crowd the spa
c.ous rooms and porchcs. Mrs. Dahl
gren received before n setting or W
in red, white and blue, suggestive OF tn
nations birthday,
Among those who were in LenoX 10
the Fourth were Robert Shaw Barlow. {
guest of Mrs. Francis s. Barlow Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Sedgwick, the Righ
Rev. Frederick Burgess, Bishop of tn
Diocese of Long Island Capt. and Mrs
Isaac T.. Emerson OF Baltimore, Mr.. an
Mrs. Edmund l.. Baylies and Mr.. am
Mrs. Thatcher NJ. Adams, Jr.
During the week Mr.. and Mrs. william
r.. Osgood Field arrived at HighlawI
House and Mrs. Charles Carroll Jackson
at Treadway Cottage for the season,
Nothing held in LenoX has eXcelle'
the picturesque water sports at the Man
keenac Boating Club. in which forty o
the young persons OF the cottages am
their house guests took part. Miss NJ
%Symphrosa Bristed directed the eigh
events. In the mixed canoe races of
quarter Of a mile the course was linel
with boats and the shore crowded will
spectators. Miss Josephine do Gcfsdorf
and Charles =. Reynolds proved to b'
the winners. In the final heat they VOL