The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-01
MANY FEATURES FOR
SOUTHAMPTON FETE
Colonists Hope to Raise $780,
600 at Hospital Benefit
on August Is.
STREET FAIR NEAR LAKE
Horticultural Exhibition Ends
With Awarding Of Five
More Prizes.
Special Despatch to The Sun.


SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y, July 31.-The
women Of the summer colony are work.
ing hard for the success Of the masque
and tableaux vivants, combined with the
country street fair. for the benefit Of
the Southampton Hospital. which win
be held August is.
II is their aim to raise $4,000 for the
work Of the hospital, and from the adj
vance sale OF boxes and seats It would
seem that their desire will be gratified-
Many tickets have been sold not only
here but in the adjoining summer
colonies and a good number In East
hampton. The tableaux 10 be posed by
Gerome Brush. who has a studio In the
art village, VIII be entitled The Differ
ent Phases of the Moon," and In them
will be seen some OF the most handsome
women of the colony.
The fair, which is to be held on the
borders of Lake Agawam, will take place
in the afternoon and evening. but 1t will
not interfere with the masQue and
tableaux, which are 20 be shown In the
garden theatre. After the theatre sup
per will be served at a cafeteria on the
fair grounds. where also there will be
dancing.
Many CoIonists buy Tickets.
Some of the recent purchasers of
tickets are Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Earle
Stevens. Clarence II. Mackay. Mrs.
Henry Asher Robbins. Mr.. and Mrs
Kurnal r. Babbitt, Mrs George Quintard
Whitney, Mr.. and Mrs. Lucien Tying.
Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah Copley Thaw. Mr..
and Mrs. F. a. De Peyster, Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Van Rensselaer, Thayer. Mrs.
Eli X. Robinson. Mr., and Mrs. Alfonso
villa, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E. Mitchell
Mr.. and Mrs. George Barton French,
Mr. and Mrs. F. Burial Hoffman, Mr..
and Mrs. William II. Barnum, Mrs
Frederick Martin Davies. Mr.. and Mrs.
Duer Irving, Mr.. and Mrs. Chauncey
olcott, Mr.. and Mrs. c. Tiffany Richard
son, George w. Curtis, Ralph Preston.
Charles Hayden and BENJAMIN Nicoll.
Boxes in some cases have been sold
twice.
The horticultural exhibition came to
a close to-day. attracting many visitors
Prizes for dinner tables decorated by
their buffers were awarded in order to
Mrs. Frederick A. Snow. Mrs. Peter B.
Wyckoff and James C. Parrish. First
and second prizes for baskets Of garden
Mrs. Robert Potter Breese and Mrs.
Henry E. Coe. The judges were Mrs.
Henry II. Rogers. Mrs. Robert P. Breese
and Miss Elizabeth Barry.
Mrs. Rogers to Give Dinner.
Mrs. Henry II. Rogers will give a din
nsr for sixty tomorrow evening at her
villa oil the dunes. to be followed by
music. Other dinners will be given by
Mrs. f. Burial Hoffman and Mrs. Rufus
L. Patterson. Mrs. Hoffman's dinner
will be followed by auction bridge.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles B. Alexander
arrived this evening from Tuxedo Park
and will be for some weeks at the
Schermerhorn cottage. which has been
leased for the summer by their son-in-
law and daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. Win
throp w. Aldrich. who now are in
Maine.
Mrs. William H. Force arrived jester
day FROM Stockbridge to be with her
daughter, Miss Katherine Force, ut the
Casa De Miranda. Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ard II. Williams have left the Meadow
Club for Islip to be with Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel T. Peters. Harry Erwin Hoy.
after a visit OF a fortnight. has gone to
Saratoga Springs. Mrs. William Flett-
mann. Jr.. has Joined her parents, DR..
and Mrs. p. F7ewellen Chambers.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth d. Schiey have
oome from Far Hills, N. j.. for a brief
stay. Mr.. and Mrs. James T. Terry will
arrive tomorrow at the Meadow Club.
Invitations to exhibit at the Suffolk
Hunt Horse Show have been sent out
1t will be held on the afternoon OF
August 30 on the estate of Mr.. and Mrs.
p. Ashton de Peyster, Cobb road, Water
MIL The show committee includes Col
Robert Means Thompson, chairman
John T. Berwind. F., Burial Hoffman.
Richard Newton. Jr., II. Mortimer
Brooks. Qoodhue Livingston, Rufus L.
Patterson, Henry T.. Coe, Clarence H.
Mackny. Harry Pelham Robbins, Thomas
3. Clarke, Benjamin Nlcoll and Charles
Steele.