New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
Lakewood Season
Is Under Way With
Influx of Guests
Country Club Golf Links To
he Thrown Open to q Far
Greater Number of Wis.
itors Than iu the Past
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LAKEWOOD. n. j., Nov. 25.---fisit-
ors returning to Lakewood for the fall
and winter season have been coming
into town steadily for the last several
weeks, until tho accumulation now
makes more than promising show
ING, and expectations are that the ro-
sort will fill up completely for the
Thanksgiving holidays.
Most noteworthy OF changes from
last season has been the sale Of the
Laurel-in-the-Pines Hotel, famous
throughout the country for the last
two decades, to Mr.. Frank Seiden, aiao
owner of the Grand Hotel, one Of the
leading houses in the Catskills. Mr..
Seiden will open tho house on Thanks.
giving Eve, and there will be q grand
ball, much merry-msking in the ma
ture of housewarming and a round
OF entertainments during tho balance
of che holiday week.
The same day, Wednesday, will mark
the opening OF Hotel Grossman, a now
hotel built by Mr.. I. Grossman, for
merly OF tho Monmouth -in-thc- Pines.
The house is one of the Finest and
largest in the resort, and is located
next to the new Hotel Elisbcre, which
opened for the season about ten days
ago. Mr, Frank Shute, formerly man
ager of tho L&urel-in-t the Pines, is op.
Grating the Laurel House, where there
IS already large gathering, mostly Of
the old vanguard which has been COM
ing to Lakewood for many years.
News Of interest to the many golf
ers who frequent the resort Is that
the Lakewood Country Club, which has
one OF the best courses In the country,
has this fall adopted a somewhat less
conservative policy than that which it
haS held in the past, 30 that the links
may be used by far greater number
OF winter visitors thar have heretofore
mad privileges at this club.
Several Of the owners Of the largo
country estates arc making their ap-
pearance, and the great majority Of
the cottages and villas have been rent
cd. Mr.. and Mrs. George Gould, who
aro abroad, will not return to Georgian
Court this winter, but the estate Is
open. and already tenanted by other
members Of the Gould family.
Mr.. John D. Rockefeller arrived last
sunday, SO quietly that several days
elapsed before it WAS generally known
that he was in town. He came by
motor from Pocartico Hills, his Tar
ITytown home, and has been devoting
himself to golf on his private links.
Mr.. Rockefeller golfs in the morning
and spends the afternoon AUTOMOBILE
ing through the pine woods, and is
said to be especially interested lust
now in whether the Paul Kimball Me
mortal Hospital, OF Lakewood, will be
able to claim donation Of 5000
which he has promised it il it will
raise from other sources q like sum
before January (.
Ir. Nelson Post Cd, Of Brooklyn, ar
rived at the Laurel House this week
from White Sulphur Springs, where
ne has been spending the season, and
VIII remain until the first Of the year,
when ne is going abroad. He will be
lo'ned shortly by Mr., and Mrs. Alber,
Il. Gallatin, Of New York.
Among other late arrivals at the
Laurel arc Miss Hazel Travis, Mrs. L.
Warren, Mr.. Ernest ]. Ruegg, Mr.. and
Mrs. @. /. Foley, Mr.. John S. Wylie.
Mr.. George Howe, Mr.. Robert Wood
Dr.. Newton NJ. Shaffer, Mr.. and Mrs
Il. NJ. Lewis, Miss Gertrude Miller, Mr.
Howard S. Bowers and Miss Priscilla
Bowers, Of New York; Mr.. and Mrs.
a. Il. Lippincott, Mr.. and Mrs. J. r.
Rollins, Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Coke Sd,
Of philadelphia; Mr.. nnd Mrs. Ralph
N: Byrnes, Of Scranton; Mr.. and Mrs
". B. Sturges, Miss Elizabeth Sturgcs,
OF Pottsville, Pa; Dir. and Mrs. Leo
Schmidt, Of Allentown, Pa; DR.. N. 3.
Friendly, Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. Haunk.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Savtile, OF Brook
lyn,, and Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Simons, OF
st. Mary's, Pa.
The Florence in the Pines is enter
tanning MIR. and Mrs. A. Murad, Mr..
and Mrs. Philip Roth jr., Miss Helene
A. Hildreth, Of New YORK; Mrs. George
A. Schultz, of New Rochelle; Congress-
man and Mrs. G, +, X. O'Brien, c. F.
X. O'Brien jr. and Mr.. Thomas A,
Hughes, Of Jersey City.
Arrivals at Bartlett Inn include Mr..
RESORTS