New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25
At the w inter Resorts

Lakewood, n. j., March 24.-The re-
sort was launched upon its spring sea
son this week and an unusually large
number of sojourners have arrived to
participate in the programme OF out
door sports and indoor social activity.
Easter usually brings the banner crowd
of the season, and with the holiday
fortnight away hotels are practically
filled. The warm days this week called
many out of doors to resume the sports
curtailer by the winter. The Laurei-in-
the-Pines Riding Club held its initial
haunt through the woods and fields
Thursday morning. Among the new
members Of the club out with mounts
this week were Miss Florence Hedley,
Miss Francis Hedley, Miss Marjorie
Francis, Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin l..
Bolt, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick +. Knapp,
OF New York; Mrs. George l.. Shearer,
Miss Shearer, of Chicago; Miss Eliza
beth Russell, of Detroit, and others.
The annual three-day trapshooting
tournament of the Laurel House Gun
Club next week will be one of the big
sporting features of the early spring
here. 1t will begin on Thursday and
continue until Saturday afternoon. It
will consist of three big events-the
Lakewood 16-yard championship, the
Lakewood Handicap and the Maplewood
100 event, for a gold medal offered by
William F. Dunspaugh, president Of the
Maplewood On. H. Gun Club. There
will be 81 900 in added money and sew
cral other silver cups.
A great deal of attention is being
given the plans for the first annual
show Of the Lakewood Kennel Club,
which will be held on Saturday, April
Il. Thus far nearly $1,000 in cash and
many silver trophies have been given
by members of the club and dog fan
ciers throughout the East. Among
those who have made entries TO date
are Mrs. z. C. Waller. Hollis, N. j.,
elbows and toy poodles; Mrs. Leslie W.
Hall, of Haworth, n. j., Pekingese;
Mrs. Rae r. Allsop, of West Nyack, n.
Y. ST. Bernards; John Blackwood,
Trenton, Nj, collies; John Cans, jr.,
of New York City, German shepherd
dogs; James Conway, New York City,
bulldogs and bull terriers; George c.
Heinlein, of New York City, Boston
terriers; Edward C. Ford, of Long
Branch, N. j., poodles and Yorkshires,
Maltese and toy black and tan; A. Nc
Clure Hawley, of Brooklyn, grey
hounds, whippets, French bulldogs, Eng
lish toy spaniels, Japanese spaniels'
Brussels griffons and Chihuahuas;
Theodore Offerman, of Brooklyn, ter
riers; G.. Muss Arnolt, of Tuckahoe, y.
Y, sporting dogs and others.
The latter part of next month VIII
open the golhng season, when the an
nual spring tournament is held at the
Lakewood Country Club, April 2e, p
and IS.
Mr.. and Mrs. George P. Dunscombe
and son, who have occupied Mrs. W. b.
Leeds's Madison Avenue residence dur
ing the last month, have returned to
New York.
Mrs. George Herbert Clarke, of Mad
ison Avenue, entertained at tea this
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hays Hammond
have a suite at the Laurel in the Pines.
During the week George Z. Padelford,
Of New York, was the guest of Henry
Morgenthau, former Ambassador to
Turkey, who has been at the Laurel-in-
the-Pines for several weeks. Miss
Helen Case. of Brooklyn, and George
Elder, jr.. OF Easton, Penn, have been
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. r. S. Worth
ington, OF shawnee on the Delaware
at the Laurel House.
During the last week Mrs. William
G. Schauffler entertained at tea at her
Madison Avenue residence for Miss,
Anna NJ. Clark. of New York. Among
those calling were Mrs. Tunis G. Ber-
gen. Mrs. Elmer Z. Wentworth, Miss
Tilton. Miss Ruth Perkins. Miss Agnes
Helen Davis, and Miss Antoinette Mer-
rimsn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph de Palma are at
the Laurel-in- the-Pines for fortnight.
With them are Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison
Boyce. of New York. Al the Laurei,in-