Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-27
VIRGINIA HOT SPRINGS
HAS UNUSUALLY CAY WEEK
All Cottages Are Opened and Hotel
Launched on Promised
Banner Season.
ALL SORTS OF ADJUSTMENTS
There Are Picnics by Motor, Horse
back, Driving and Tramping From
Midday to Midnight, With Outdoor
Supper and Camp Fires.
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HOT SPRINGS, VA. June 26.-The
past week has been unusually gay at
Virginia Hot Springs, where all the
cottages are open and the hotel
launched on vahat promises to be It's
banner season. Picnics OF all sorts. by
motor. by horseback. driving or tramp
ing, from midday to midnight, have
been the fad this week. and the outdoor
moonlight suppers with big campfires
and roasting potatoes. apples. vans
popping away In the Goals. have been
voted the most enjoyable. An ''old
Dutch treat" picnic to which each con-
tributed surprise basket, was given
early in the week on the preserve of
the Jackson River Hunt Club. Mrs.
Edgar Bright, of New Orleans Mrs.
George Gunton and T.. Robbins walker.
Of New York. were In the party. The
trip was made by motor from the
Homestead.
Mrs. Buckner wallingford. Of Gin
cinnati. arrived on Tuesday with her
two sons. who wasted no time in get
ting the swimming. golf and tennis
instructors and a riding master booked
for several weeks lessons. They be-
gan to ride on Wednesday. Riding
holds second place this month for pop
ularity. The Misses Eleanor and Ade-
laide Landon, who are here from New
York with their parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis CT Landon; the Misses Mar
Euerite and Olga Pilson. the Misses
Grace and Sarah Merrck. Miss Eleanor
Br .ght. Miss Ida Spence. Miss Alice
Wardman. Miss Jessie Matteson and
Master Hugh Sharp are out in the sad
die almost daily.
General f. a. McAlpin, OF New York.
is here taking the cure. General Ed
ward p. Meany. Mrs. Meary and Mr..
Shannon Mcany are expected next week
for the summer, and other prominent
New Workers. AT the Homestead are Mr..
and Mrs. George Choatc Kendall. Chas.
H. Ault Miss Dorothy Ault and Walter
Cary.
Mr. and Mrs Reginald w. Cauchois
eleanor Scott), who were married
june 10 at Yonkers, are spending their
honeymoon at the Homestead. and Mr..
and Mrs. Harrison Weymouth Sarah
English Snowden) are at the Healing
Springs Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs Francis Henderson, OF
New York. are at the Homestead for
week with their little granddaughter.
Eliza "oln, while their parents. MFR.
and Mrs. Stanley L. Wolff, who are
spending the season here, are In New
York.
Mr. and Mrs. Archibald NJ. McCrea.
OF New York. who are now at their
farm, Petersburg. Va. will spend July
and August at the Homestead. Mrs.
McCrea's daughters by former mar
riage. the Misses Mercer, Margaret,
Sally and Lemoine Dunlop will ac-
company them.
Secretary OF Agriculture David F.
houston was at the Homestead for
several days this week, having motored
with G. +. Coffey and II. s. Graves, of
Washington. and j. c. Breckenridge, OF
New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Fife Symington
nave returned 10 Baltimore. after two
weeks visit here.
Mrs. Charles III. Kavanaugh and Miss
Mary Kavanaugh who will spend July
in San Francisco with Miss Kate
c:roeker. have returned to Waterford,
~ T.. after taking the "kur."
Mr. and Mrs. Decatur Axtell, OF Rich
nond. have opened their cottage here.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred b. Thatcher of
South Orange. with their two children,
have taken one of the Homestead cot
tages for the season.
Mrs Ian!el Dunn. OF Richmond. on
tertained at her summer home era
mercy Farm. with tea and bridge this
week. given for her daughters. Mrs.
sidney Buford and Mrs. George Cole
Scott.
Miss Gladys Ingalls,, who has recently.
purchased sixty-acre farm here. is
the guest this week OF her brother
Aipert IL. ingalls,, in Cleveland where
she VIII meet her mother. Mrs Mol
vile T.. ingalls,. who has been spending
June in California They will return
next week to White Cottage
MISS Elizabeth Cudahy. who is spend
ing ing 'ne summer at the Homestead with
her sister, Mrs. Vincent Walsh. re-.
turned on Wednesday from a weeks.
Visit TO her home in Chicago
Joseph Whitehead has returned ,ror,
Two weeks motor trip to New york
and Atlanta. and is with his mothar
MIS- Kelly Evans. at the Pillars.