The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14
SOUTHAMPTON.

SOUTHAMPTON, L. l., Sept. 13-There
ia drawing TO close here one OF the
most successful seasons that this beauti-
full seashore resort has ever seen. Cot
tages that have stood idle season after
season have been occupied, and many
had to be turned away disappointed,
being unable to get cottage here.
The entertaining was on larger scale
and more brilliant than ever before
House parties and dances were given
in such great numbers that in some
cases two, three and even four would
fall on the same evening, and the guests
were kept busy getting from one to the
other.
Noteworthy among the dinners given
were those by Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H.
Sabin at their beautiful villa on Peconic
Bay early in the season; by Clarence II.
Mackay, when his daughter Katherine
was formally introduced at their home,
the Orchards; by Mrs. H. H. Rogers at
her Italian villa on the Dunes; by Mr.
and Mrs Delaney Nicoll and by An
drew Mellon at his new home on the
Dunes
The Friday evening hops at the Shin
necock Hills Golf Club were popular. as
was also the manner in which they
served luncheons. The Saturday evening
dances at the Meadow Club also proved
popular. Both these entertainments VIII
be continued next season.
Besides all the entertaining the sum-
mer colony found time to devote to
charitable efforts, foremost among which
were the country fair and masque of
queens held for the benefit Of the South
ampton Hospital. and which netted some
S15, 900: the pantomime dance at Mrs.
II. H. Rogers's villa for the widows and
o. T.. 49,
the white elephant sale held for the BEN
eft of the Southampton Fresh Air Home
for Crippled Children.
Mr.. and Mrs ]. z. Stevens closed their
house this week and will pass some time
in New York before making plans for
the winter. Mrs. J. G. Woodbury. also
closed her home here and Is in New
York.
Mrs. Philip D. Armour Of Chicago,
who had a cottage here last summer, is
guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T.
G. Condor on Shinnecock Hills. She has
also spent some time with Mr.. Armour s
mother. Mrs. P, A. Valentine. Mrs. VAL
entine left Tuesday to visit her son and
daughter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs Lester
Armour, at their camp at Lake Placid.
Mrs. John w. Alsop, who had been a
guest of Mrs. Charles Lindley for n
| month, left on Wednesday for her home
I at Avon. Conn.
Many from Southampton attended the
wedding of Miss Joan Livingston Allen
and Goodhue Livingston, Jr., in Christ
Church, Pelham Manor. Katherine Thaw
and Cornelia Livingston were among the
bridesmaids, and Lawrence Van Ingen,
son OF Mrs. Edward Van Ingen Richard
son Dilworth, A. Coster Schermerhorn
and Gerald Philbin were among the
ushers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan Ellsworth, who
came from England recently and leased
the Carnegie cottage here, will go to
New York soon. They have leased 925
Park avenue and will spend the winter
there.
Lord Lawrence Finley of Toronto,
who had been a guest of Mr.. and Mrs
I, b. Davis at their villa on Shinnecock
Hills, returned to Canada Thursday
The Count and Countess De Zappolo,
who had a cottage at Southampton for
the summer, will sail for France Octo-
Der for the winter. Mrs. Robert Nc
Cormick, who has had Col. Robert NJ.
Thompson's Cherisol cottage all sum-
mer. closed the place and went to Wash
ington on Friday to join her son, Sem
ator Medill Mccormick.