New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
Activity at Lenox.

Lenox, June 3.-No allurement is
stronger 10 the average New York
tourist than the Berkshires, and year
after year they hold their own in com
petition with the opening Of the new
trails and motorways 20 further dis
tant sections. And the Berkshires
yield no more allurement at any other
season than in early spring with the
freshness Of the foliage and vcrdure.
This week the holiday brought the
tourists for brief stay. and all we're
charmed. Here and there round about
the colonies there have been country
bones opened. and next week will
bring the food tide of the summer cot
tagers.
Arriving at their country places this
week were Mr.. and Mrs. Harris Fahne-
stock, Mr.. and Mrs. W. Roscoe Bonsal.
Miss Anna Blake Shaw. Mrs. Alfred G.
Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. James b.
Ludlow. Miss Helen Parish, in Lenox;
Mr.. and Mrs. James r. Walker, in
Stockbridge; Mr.. and Mrs. George +.
Becker, in Tyringham; Mr.. and Mrs.
Max Z. Butler and Mrs. Alfred P. More
wood. in Pittsheld.
A public sale of the effects Of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. George Westing-
house at the mansion house has been
held this week. Mrs. Westinghouse
was a collector OF curious things and
the house was verltable treasure
house of odd pieces OF many countries.
The mansion house is 20 be dismsn-
tied to make room for Mrs. Wander
bits new residence.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hall Walker.
of New York, whose Italian gardens at
Brookside, in Great harrington, are
among the finest in the land, VIII re-
sumo their entertainments for the sea-
son June Is, when Harry Rowe Shell
ley and an orchestra will give reel
tai. The following evening ball viii
be given at Brookside, which ~ill be
the first of a series.
George Baty Blake, who returned
this week from Fort 0glethorpe, Geor-
gia, training camp, has arranged with
the school authorities for training
company of high school boys under the
leadership of Samuel rockingham.
Mr.. Blake has collected a fund OF $3.50
for the expenses of equipping the boy
company. Mr.. rockingham, who saw
service at Plattsburg and Fort Ogle-
thorpe camps, will be instructor OF a
bows camp at Plum Island this sum-
mer.
Hotels have been having an excellent
week. Prominent people have been VS.
iting the hills. Registering az the
Maplewood, in Pittsheld, were 7.
Chauncey Anderson and party, Dir.
and Mrs. Robert A. Grannis, ir.,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Graves Ely. Mr.. and
Mrs. James G. Marshall. Morristown, y.
j., Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis G.. Dodd. ir.,
Montclair. y. j.. Mr.. and Mrs. William
Bloodgood, New York. A. Curtis Ho-
tel Mrs. william VI. Kingslani. Miss
Mary de Peyster Carey, Mrs. Amory
Carhart, Miss Marian Dinsmore. Miss
Helen Alexander. Mrs. Henry W. Haven.
Mrs. Philip B. Thompson and Miss
Betty Thompson have registered. Mrs.
J. Andrew Swan, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Page Emmons and Miss Mary F Parker
arrived at Red Lion Inn. Stockbridge.
Albert K. Shattuck has given beauti-
full prizes for the best displays OF lily
of-the-valley and pansies IN the Lenox
flower show this month. The horticul-
tural society offers 1925 in prizes and
many special prizes are announced. Co
incident with the show will be the con-
vention of the Garden Club OF America.
Headquarters for the meeting viii be
in Curtis Hotel The LenoX Garden
Club will give luncheon for the dele
gates at the LenoX Club. and there Will
be motor trips TO all OF the prominent
gardens in the region. More han 100
delegates will attend.
Charles H. Duell. of New York. has
leased the country place of the late
Mrs. Richard Watson Glider in Tyring-
ham. Miss Anna l.. Merriam, OF New
York, has leased a Pittsheld cottage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pablo CasalS have ar
rived in Stockbridge TO pass q part OF
the season with Miss Lydia +, Emmett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amso Getting Schermer-
horn and Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald l..
[ Auchincloss are passing the early sea-
son in the Lenox Club.
The new villa TO be built at Glenbur-
ME in Stockbridge for Mr.. and Mrs.
p William II. Clarke will be OF hollow tile
and stucco, 45 b. 1875 feet. two stories
! high. and will be built for all the year
use. Its estimated cost will be $4,000
Mr.. and Mrs. Cortlandt +. Bishop ars
motoring in Oregon and Washington
! They will retukn the last Of the month