The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-24
LsNox, Mass, Aug. 20.

ana lawn lebIlNdiS W hOA'SS~
field day and mountain climbing, have
claimed the attention of the .Lenox
cottagers this week.
The centennial of the birth OF Her
man Melville, the early writer OF sea
tales. sent numerous visitors to visit
Arrowhead, the old Colonial tavern,
built in 1765 by Capt. Daniel Busn
and bought by Melville In 1S4S. This
cid house, with its great chimney and
north piazza" are familiar to the
readers of Melville's Piazza tales
and my Chimney and J."
Mr.. and Mrs. Giraud Foster gave
the use Of their meadows at Belle
fontaine on "Wednesday for the heid
day for the Lenox horticultural soci-
ETY., composed of the superintendents
and gardeners of Lenox estates. Their
guests were the florists clubs OF Al
bany and Poughkeepsie.
Lenox club activities grow apace
with the advance of the season. George
e. Turnure, who is president OF the
Lenox Brotherhood, has arranged for
the use of the clubs golf course for
the brotherhood members. On the
tennis courts of the club Monday
morning was played the finals of the
women's singles between Miss Lee Hlg-
ginson Of Chicago. daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. George Higginson, Jr., and
Miss Margaret Blake. daughter OF MT
and Mrs. George B. Blake OF Lenox'
Miss Higginson held a handicap OF 10
She won in the first set, but Miss
Blake proved the more accurate and
sustained player in offence in the re-
naming sets, winning the champion
ship, 81, Go, 6-3.
Mrs Charles H. Campbell, wife of
Capt. Campbell, who is a season guest
Of Mrs. Edwards Spencer, gave
theatre party Tuesday night at Pitts
field.
Mrs. George Higginson, Jr, gave
another dinner dance at the Aspinwall
Hotel, taking there about twenty OF
the friends of her daughters for
week end party. The guests included
Mrs. Charles II. Campbell, Mrs. Eliza
beth T. Fenno, Mr.. and Mrs. Roger w.
| Griswold of Erie, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs.
Rudolph Kissel, Jr.; the Misses Sym
phorosa and Grace Bristed. Miss Anna
R. Alexandra, Miss Edith Bonsal.
Miss Helen rockingham, Harry
Bewick of Atlanta, Robert l.. Crawford,
Ross T. Whistler, Samuel Frothing-
ham, Jr., Machlin Davis. George d.
button, George K. Liyermore and
| Sheldon Smith.
| To have received decorations and
! certificates from the American Red
Cross for service during the war was
an honor given this week to thirty
Lenox women. Among them were
Mrs. John E. Alexandra, Miss Anna X.
Alexandra, Mrs. John L. P. Morgan
Miss Gertrude Parsons, Miss Kate
Cary and Mrs. Frederick S. Delafield
! Mrs, James Abercrombie Burden of
New York, now at Elm Court, gave a
dinner this week. Mrs. Arthur Meigs
and Arthur Meigs, Jr., of Philadelphia
are with Miss Emily w. Biddle at
Breezy Corners.
Misses Anne r. and Caroline lie
Roy Webb, sisters OF Mrs. John e
Alexandra, have been this week al
Spring Lawn with Mrs. Alexandra and
at Valley Head with their niece, Mrs
Frederic Schenck. Miss Louise Marcy
of New York arrived to join Mrs. Rob
ert B. Fulton at Hotel Aspinwall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Malcolm d. Sloane ar
. |
and were in Lerox for a part of the
week before going to the races a
Saratoga.
Hewlett Man Honored by Lenox.
John C. Greenleaf of Hewlett, Ions
Island, who married Miss Marion c
Bacon Of the Lenox colony, has beer
chosen architect for the new schoo
building to be erected in the north par
of the town.
Mrs. Benjamin c. Porter Of Ney
, York will come to Lenox the first o
September. She has leased the Judg
Bishop cottage.
Mrs. Herbert Parsons, with Mis-
Lisa Parsons. John E. Parsons q
and others of her family are return
ing to Stoneover Farm the first @
next week from Newport, where the
= are visiting with Mr.. and Mrs. Henri
? Clews.
. Mr.. and Mrs. Cortlandt r. Bisho
! and Miss Beatrice Bishop have been a
-. Tahoe Lake, in the Sierra Nevadas
touring. and Miss Bishops seventeenth
. birthday was passed on Tioga PAS
1894 feet high, by the waters q
hOIlO LAKE. lHty are returning I
( San Francisco this week and will the
l start for British Columbia. Afte
l. touring for a month more they pla
: to occupy The Naples until snow file
when they will go to New York.
Mrs. Sheldon Martin of Peapacl,
J., who had been at Cold Brook. VT
= Is visiting her sister, Mrs. Warren {
Sturgis at Dover. VT.
e Mr.. and Mrs. Edward L. Ryerson
Chicago went to Narragansett Pie
I from a short visit at the Lenox CluI
Miss Mary Parsons and Mrs. Edit
l. Parsons Morgan went to Long ISLAM
to visit with Mr.. and Mrs. Montgon
cry Hare.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Mott Sha
4 OF Boston have been stopping wit
n Mr.. and Mrs. George Baty Bake tn
week.
{ Mrs. Andrew Carnegie returned
{ Shadow Brook the first of the wee
:. accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs. Roswe
Il Miller. Mrs. Carnegie will pass II
r remainder of the season within the S,
r, clusion of the park.
$ Capt. Theodore Timpson OF Barr,
town, n. Y. arrived Tuesday to Wis
f Mr.. and Mrs. James B. Ludlow.
Q Duncan Dunscombe. son of Mr.. ar
{, Mrs. George Z. Dunscombe OF Ne
e York. who Is settled in Los Angelo
5. arrived Monday to pass a month vii