The sun., 1919-06-22
LENox, Mass, June 21.

> hotels. forecasting great
summer OF prosperity for the hotels
and boarding houes In the hills. Since
late May all of the hotels have been
filled. The week end business. owing
to the fine condition Of the roads be-
tween New York and the Berkshires,
Is the largest that the houses have
known. The average running time by
automobile from New York into the
heart OF the hills 10 now but n little
more than i've hours, It has been
made In less than four hours. but
safety demands a i've hour schedule
to Great harrington.
Pittsfield will celebrate the Fourth
OF July with a reception for its SOL
diers and a gala night. in which fire.
works will be featured. There will be
] 900 men who saw service in It's
morning parade. with an airplane to
ny overhead the veterans. Col. William
Z. Cole Of the Regular Army and
Lieut.-Col Charles w. whittlesey of
the lost battalion" a former Pitts
field man. have been invited to take
part In the parade.
Several large entertainments have
been given this week. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles K. Crane of London. who are
visiting his mother. Mrs Zenas Crane.
in, Dalton, gave a dinner and dance
for twenty friends at the Hotel Aspin-
wall; Miss Helen ". Drake of Chicago
entertained friends at luncheon at the
Hotel Aspinwall; Mrs. Thomas Flour
iey Of Pittsfield gave a luncheon at
the Maplewood. entertaining for her
mother, Mrs. Miguel r. Martinez, who
is shortly crossing to Spain to open
her ancestral home near Madrid. At
Mrs. Flournoy's luncheon were Mrs.
Richard Lathers. Mrs. Christine
Ritchie, Mrs. James w. Hull, Mrs.
Henry A. Francis. Mrs John Power
Mrs. George Tilden, Mrs. Arthur H.
Rice. Mrs. Charles w. Power, Mrs
William A. Whittlesey, Miss Anna
L. Dawes, Mrs. Phillip Weston, Mrs
Winthrop Crane, Jr, Mrs. Harry
Brigham, Miss May Wolf. Miss Colt,
Miss Frances Colt and Miss Mary
Dutton.
Parties IN stockbridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Sedgwick
entertained in Stockbridge in honor OF
their guest. Mrs. Charles s. Minot of
Boston; Mrs. .Newbold Morris gave a
dinner to meet her sister, Mrs. Walter
p. Anderton Of New York. and Mrs.
John f. Alexandra was hostess at din
ner at Spring Lawn.
Late cottagers arriving in the Berk-
shires this week were Mrs. George
Griswold Haven. Charles Lanier. Mrs
David Lydig, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Baty Blake, Mrs. Carlos M. de Heredia
and Mr.. and Mrs. Arson Phelps Stokes.
Jr.. Mrs. Robert Winthrop and Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Parsons. -
~ Mrs. Langdon Albright of Buffalo
has taken the West estate on Onota
Lake In Pittsfield.. Mrs. Albright Is an
aunt Of Miss Gertrude Watson OF New
York. whose Onota farm is near by.
= Mrs. Frederic s. Coolidge of New
York has arrived in Pittsneld. Her
son, Albert Sprague Coolidge. is hav-
ing plans made for a large country
house to be built on the summit OF
South Mountain In Pittsheld.
Mrs. Nina Larre Duryea of New
York has been stopping this week with
Mr. and Mrs Daniel Chester French in
Glendale.
The Berkshires have a notable ar
lists colony this year. These artists,
with Walter Nettleton at Stockbridge
as chairman, are already preparing
for the annual exhibition to be held in
the Casino in Stockbridge in August.
The death last year of Frederic Crown
inshield in Capri, Italy, removed one
of the best known OF the men who
have made the Berkshires famous
PAINTING ground. Mr.. Crowninshield's
latest works have been collected. They
arc to be shown in many cities in the
United States. ..
Mrs. Crowninshield has opened the
studio Of her late husband and has in
vited his friends to visit it. where are
still number of his finished works.
Many Settled for Summer.
Walter Nettleton, landscapist; Miss
Lydia Field Emmett. Mr.. and Mrs John
c. Johansen, portrait painters; Miss
Marie o. Kobbe, August Lukeman and
others are settled In Stockbridge.
Daniel Chester French is at Glendale,
Miss Emily Winthrop at Lenox. H.
Bolton Jones and Francis Jones at
Egremont. Bart Blommers. son of the
great Dutch painter. has established
an art schol and studio at New LenoX.
He has built up a considerable follow
ing as landscape painter. The elder
Blommers. who died in 1918. was n
figure painter.
While there will be no golf tourna =
ment at Stockbridge this year. the ten
mis- committee has announced a tennis
tournament to be held in August at
Stockbridge. Mrs. Edwin T. Rice, chair
man Of the tennis committee. will an
nounce the date next week. Mrs. Rice
and her daughter. Miss Helen Rice,
will play In the tourney. Capt. Arthur
Walker and Writ D. Walker. sons of
Mr. and Mrs. James r. Walker OF Chi
cago. who are in Stockbridge, will also
enter. There will be tennis tourna-
nents in August and September at
Lee and Pittsfield. The annual Berk-
shire county golf championship will be
played at Pittsfield in September.
Joseph p Mcmahon OF Wh.testone
l.. l., who came to Lenox this year TO
teach golf. broke the club record foy
nine holes this week. making a SO.
Harry Hampton of Richmond, Va, had
held the record, with 81.
Walter c. Humstone. Willard d. Ed
mister and others Of the Brooklyn
colony In Pittsfield are playing daily