The sun., 1919-06-29
LENox, Mass, June 20.

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day in the Berkshire summer
4 colonies. For the first time in
three years the annual club luncheon
will be held at the Lenox Club follow
ing the election of governors and Of
e hcers There will be 100 prominent
/. ciubmen at this function. It was
omitted for three years because its
members either were abroad or were
engaged In war work. Giraud Foster,
who has been president of the Lenox
Club since 1915. will preside. This gay
affair will follow the annual meetings
Of the Lenox Club and the Lake Nah
keenac Boating Club, which are allied
examinations. There will be a golf
handicap for club members and tennis
: also will figure in the pre-luncheon
events.
p This Is the last year Of the guar
antee fund for the support of the club.
When the club amalgamated the
Lenox Club with the golf club and
took over the Grcenleaf property and
golf course a number OF men combined
to guarantee the expenses Of the club.
Now that It Is firmly rooted as a Lenox
institution there will be no need OF
further guarantees, the club having
more than doubled its membership
and having admitted women members.
On the afternoon of the Fourth the
annual water sports will be held at
Lake Mahkeenac Boating Club. The
events, under the direction Of Miss
Helen rockingham, daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel rockingham of New
York, will be canoe races. tub races,
swimming races, diving. tandem races
and other water sports. A preliminary
tryout for the races was held this
afternoon. Taking part were Caspar
de Gersdorff, Newbold Morris, Jr,
John E. Parsons I'd. Halsey Malone,
Henry Haines, J. C. O'Donnell. Misses
Edith Bonsal, Mabel L. Holden and
Lisa Parsons.
Mrs. Charles Astor Bristed and Mrs.
John e. Alexandra will have charge Of
the tea at the boat club on the Fourth.
All of the cottagers and their house
guests will gather for the events. At
night there will be fireworks at the
club and dance.
Many Guests Arriving.
Nearly all of the Lenox cottagers
will have guests for over the Fourth
anc holiday and week end dance will
be given at the Lenox Club.
At Great harrington there win be a
holiday golf tournament on the Wy
+" antenuck Country Club course and a
dance in the evening. At Lee there
win be a public celebration. at which
Mrs. Raymond T. Baker will present
a fiagpole to the public schools. In the
afternoon a golf match will be played
on the Greenock Country Club grounds.
Pittsneld will have a big public cele-
bration, with a parade OF soldiers and
sailors who have returned, and in the
evening fireworks at the playground
on West Housatonic street that has
been given to the city by ex-Mayor
= Allen H. Bagg.
Hotel Aspinwall. which win have a
largo party of New Workers. for over
the Fourth, will have dances both on
the night Of the Fourth and on Satur-
day night. There will also be dances
, at Heaton Hall. in Stockbridge, and at
dFeenOCh Inn, IN h6cs
This. week the Lenox assessors
placed the valuations on the large
Lenox estates. Joseph St. Martin Of
Holyoke, State Superintendent Of As
SCISSORS, was in Lenox to help. Mrs.
William E. S. Griswold, who inherited
&, Wyndhurst from her mother. the late
Mrs. John Sloane. is assessed on val
uation OF 1881 200, which Is the highest
valuation placed. The next largest is
that placed on Ventfort Hall. owned by
Junius Morgan and Miss Caroline Nor
gan of New York and occupied by Mr..
and Mrs, W. Roscoe Bonsal of New
York. This place Is valued at $175.-
$50. Other large valuations are
Bellefontaine, owned by Mrs. Giraud
Foster, $17S,0o0; Groton Place. owned
by Granville L. Winthrop, $4,000;
Blantyre, owned by Mrs. Robert w
Paterson. S160.600; Belvoir Terrace,
owned by Miss Eleanor de G. Cuyler
$4,000; Pine Croft Farm. the prop
erty Of the late Frederick A Scher-
p merhorn, $4,000: Stoneover Farm,
owned by Col. Herbert Parsons. $751;
900: White Lodge, owned by Albert r
Shattuck, $4,000.
Cool weather early in the week
gave impetus TO out OF door sports
Among those who rode early In the
+, morning were Mr.. and Mrs. William
E S. Griswold, who have brought q
stable of eight saddle horses to Lenox
Mr.. and Mrs. David T. Dana often
are In the saddle. also Miss Kate
Cary, George e. Turnure, Miss Be-
africa 'larka Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
rockingham and Miss Heloise Meyer.
Golf Links Were Filled.
Mrs. Frederick S. Delafield has been
seen regularly on the Lenox golf
= course. Bishop Thomas F. Davies
Newbold Morris, Giraud Foster,
Samuel rockingham, John N. B.
Churchill and w. Lloyd Byers have
been playing over the Lenox greens
= daily.
A golf course on the lawn at
Fl Greenock Inn, Lee. has been the scene
OF many matches. The present record
IS 22, held by John Peterson Of New
York. Manager Sidney G. Piers of
the inn has given cup for the best
score made during the season.
a.. The stately Maplewood Hotel, set
back from the highways under great
naples and elms. has large clientele.
Nearly every night this week there
has been dancing. BY ARRANGEMENTS
with the Country Club of Pittsfield
its guests have the use Of the new
eighteen hole golf course, acknowl.
edged TO be one OF the finest and said
10 be the most picturesque of the