The New York herald., 1921-07-10
Welfare Projects
Engage Society
at Southa mpton
Bridge for Auxiliary of Har-
lem Hospital One of the
Events Arranged.
Special Despatch to THE NEW YoaK HEnALA
SOUTHAMPTON. L. L. July Q.

Mr.. ana Mrs. George L. Max
we'll at South Cottage. left on wednes.
day to sail for Euro,e. Mr.. and Mrs.
Maxwell gave a dinner for him that
night at the Shinnecock Hills Golf
Club, and among their guests were
Commander Mccormick Goodhart Of
the British Embassy, also one Of their
house party; Mr.. and Mrs. Henry e.
Coe, Mr.. and Mrs. Grosvenor Nicholas.
Miss Martha Coster, Mrs. Caspar
Crowninshield, who is here from her
home in Florence, Italy; Mr.. and Mrs.
George Barton French. Mrs. Eustace
Ballard Smith and her daughter Miss
Dorothea Ballard Smith; Miss Dorine
Arbuthnot of England, Col. and Mrs.
Henry May, Mr.. and Mrs. F. Burial
Hoffman. Mr. Albert Proctor Gray Of
London. Mr.. and Mrs Howard Elliott,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund S. Twining, Mr..
and Mrs. A. Stewart Walker, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry James and Mrs. Arthur
b. Claflin. After dinner others came
for an informal reception.
A bridge tournament for the benefit
of the tuberculosis Auxiliary Of tho
Harlem Hospital will be held next
Thursday afternoon at the villa OF Mr..
and Mrs. Rufus L. Patterson, when
tables will be provided for 500 players
Those who do not care for bridge will
play euchre or coon can. There will be
special inducements for those who make
the best scores. This tournament is
being given to pay the salary OF nurse
who follows up in the homes the cases
of the children attending the tubercu-
losis clinic at Harlem Hospital. Mem
bers of the committee all have villas
here and they are Mrs Arthur B. Clafin,
Mrs. James Denison Sawyer. Mrs.
Joseph r. Dilworth, Mrs. Caleb Wild
Hammill. Mrs. De Lancey Kountze Mrs.
Clarkson Potter. Mrs. Fairfax Stuart
Landstreet. Mrs. Charles K. Miller and
Mrs. Edward s. Moore. Tables at $50
each and single tickets at s6 may be
obtained from Mrs. Miller
There was a meeting of the board OF
! directors of the Southampton Hospital
last week Friday. when officers for the
| ensuing year were elected. AS follows
Henry Huddleston Rogers. president:
George Carton French. vice-presidcnt
Irving l.. Terry treasurer Marshall J.
| Dodge. assistant treasurer Thomas Q.
| Warren secretary, and Adrian Fl. Lar
kin. assistant secretary. The executive
committee includes Benjamin II. Bishop
and l.. F. Holbrook Belts. George
Warrington Curtis. who retired as
president OF the hospital after years in
that position, was elected honorary d.
rector.
Each season for years past there mas
been a general entertainment for the
benefit of the hospital, which IL such
necessary factor on this end OF Long
Island. Something will be done this
summer, but the character OF the en-
tertainment has not yet been decided.
Among the women OF Southampton who
will act on the committee OF auxtliarfes
and entertainments are Mrs. John @.
Peck Mrs. Charles II. Sabin. Mrs. Lyttle-
ton Fox, Mrs. John Hand, Mrs. Albert
Gallatin, Mrs. Joseph r Dilworth, Mrs.
Goodhue Livingston, Mrs. Peter 3.
wyckoff and Mrs. Frank II. Corwith.
Interest in lawn tennis here is not
confined to champions OF this sport and
tournaments are played each season by
the rising generations who later are
bound to become champions. Next week
Saturday there will begin club tourna-
ments for the Cameron cup and also for
the Lord cup. For the Cameron cup
competition is open to members and
eeason subscribers and their sons over
fifteen. This cup Is the gift OF Mr.. w.
Scott Cameron and II becomes the prop
erty of the winner of three annual tennis
tournaments. Competition for the Lord
cup presented by Mrs. j. Couper Lord,
is for ladies only and their daughters
over fifteen years OF age. and the rules
OF the United States Lawn Tennis Asso-
citation are to govern all play. The
tennis committee includes Messrs. James
Parrish Lee, Louis du Pont Irving. WILL
lam Warner Hoppln, Walter l.. Niles and
Lyttleton Fox. Entries for the matches
will not be completed for several days.
Week after next there will be tourna-
ments for the Babcock cup. open to
daughters OF members under twenty-one
years of age the Fox cup, for daughters
OF members who have not passed their
fifteenth birthday. and the Hoppin cup.
which will be played for by sons Of
members who are under seventeen years
OF age. ALL these tournaments when in
progress will keep the courts of the
Meadow Club well occupied until the end
OF next month.
A landmark OF this section, the Canoe
Place Inn. was totally destroyed by Are
last Tuesday morning and all day long
there was n constant procession OF auto
mobiles from Southampton whose occu-
pants went TO view the ruins. Since the
craze for dancing began a wing was
In the latter days OF the seventeenth
century. and each afternoon and after
supper parties from luncheons and din
ners would 60 from Southampton. This
inn was formerly post house where
before the days Of railroads the stage
coaches starting from Sag Harbor
stopped for the firrt change OF horses.
mall and passengers. then proceeding TO
New York. The inn was just between
Shinnecock and Peconic bays and near
the canal connecting the two bays.
formerly a narrow strip OF land over
which the Indians hauled their canoes
from one bay to the other This path
gave the name 90 the section. In all
probability the dancing pavilion will be
at once rebuilt and there will be no lack
of dancing accommodation In addition
to that offered by the Southampton
clubs
Mr. and Mrs. w. Butler Duncan and
their daughter, Miss Dorothy Duncan.
who have been at the Meadow Club for
several weeks. are leaving next week for
Murray Bay. Canada. where they will
remain until the end of August
Mrs Charles f. Miller, chairman OF
the finance committee of the New YorE
Exchange for Womans Work, at Sal
Madison avenue. New York city, will
have a sale for this organization at her
residence In Main street Southampton.
July 10. from 10 10 o'clock.