The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-13
LENOX, MASS.

LENox. Mass. June 12.-Mrs. Alfred
u. Nanderbilts selection Of a summer
home was IN the midst of a literary
land. Shadow Brook. the country place
of Spencer =. Shotter OF Savannah. GA.
which she leased this week. was named
from the rivulet on the estate where
Hawthorne. who was in Lcnox In 1850.
wrote tho Tanglewood Tales.
The great English manor house with
its park of 900 acres fronting n quarter
uf "A mile on Lake Mahkeenac and ex-
tending TO the top Of Stockbridge Noun
tain is ono of the largest private homes
In the country. II VAS built hy the late
Nnson Phelps Stokes and was first occu-
pied In 1894. Mr.. stokes ten years ago
sold the estate to MIR. Shotter. n here
has been held the annual balls Of the
berkshire Hunt and other famous events
by the Lenox colony. The house is set
half way up the mountain at an altitude
OF 900 feet and Is OF the motor high
WAYS.
The Lenox Club will be the centre Of
social life this season. and there will
held the Fourth OF July fireworks and
sports. The club will give dances at
the clubhouse on July ., 3 and 8, and
the programme Of sports will include
the annual Fourth of July golf handi-
cap In which both men and women will
play.
Miss ~Symphorosa Rristed will have
charge OF the water sports which will
he held on July , at Lake Mahkeenac
Boating Club. There will be seven events
canoe races. swimming races. fitting
events, tub races and diving. About
forty entrants will take part. Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Aston Bristed will give a
dance at Lakeside on the evening Of
July ..
With the opening ~ Hote, Aspinwall
next saturday and of Heatun Hall In
the midweek the resorts In the hills will
all have been opened. BOOKINGS ind
cate the banner year for Lenox and the
Berkshires. one Of the greatest auto-
mobile highways IN America has been
opened across the IIoosac Mountain. To
an elevation OF $500 feet the highway
! climbs by a 6 per cent. grade to the
pinnacle Of Florida Mountain and then
winds gracefully down again. The road
cost the state OF Massachusetts $780,
000. and with its concrete bridges across
the Deeriield River represents the most
g. silly piece of highway work undertakes
by state . builders In America.
Many new c~ottagers are represented
N the Berkshire Hills cottage list. DR.
Constantin Thedor Dunba. the Austrian
Ambassador. and Nine. Dumba have the
Poplars cottage on the Middle Stock
= VI use t'hbs ms III was pil1t TIC
Philip j. Sands house. noted for It's hos
pitality Mrs. Drexel Dahlgren with her
daughters. the Misses Katherine and
Madeline Dahlsren. who were presented
iu society last winter. have the Bel-Air
cottage Of Miss Caroline Morgan Mime.
Coucll OF Havana, wife OF a Cuban
banker, who toured all over New England
last season ard settled on Lenox a. heI
place OF country residence. has n lease
OF Belvoir Terrace. the country home
~ the late M. and Mrs. Morris *
Jcsup. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles II. Chapir
of New York are at the Merrywood.
In Styckbridge there are many inter
estlng newcomers. Mr.. and Mrs. Lau'
renee Il. Stoddard. Mrs. F. Norton God.
dard. Mrs. Mansfield Ferrey and Mrs
beverly c. Duer have taken places there
and In birmingham Or. and Mrs. Roya
Whitman ave settled for the season,
Stockbridge will be the golf centre OF
the hills this season. Its golf cours,
has been reconstructed and three new
holes have been built. $50 yards. 900
yards and SEQ yards. which will make
the course 5000 feet long. Francis
Ouimet will he an entrant in the an
nual ournament In ~mid-August.
In Pittsfield there will be a distin
guished company of former United States
army officers. Major-Gen. and Mrs
John II. Brooke. Brig.-Gen. and Mrs
T.. z. Stever. Brig Gen. and Mrs. Jane,
Brattle Burbank and Col. and Mrs. War
rem +. Newcomb are among tho colony
settled there.