The New York herald., 1922-05-07
.ew Riding Club
Will Repive Famed
/ Berkshire Hunt
Nh. Brenton Crane Pomeroy
Sand Mr.. Donald M. Weston
II Form Organization.


LENox, Mass. May 8.
~ RGANIzATION this week of the
Pittsfield Riding Club by Mr..
Brenton Crane Pomeroy and
Mr.. Donald NJ. Weston means a re-
vival of the Berkshire Hume that was
the glory of Lenox fifteen years ago
With hunt breakfasts, fox bunting,
paper cnases and gymkhana games.
Members include Mr.. Winthrop MUIR
ray Crane and his daughter, Miss
Barbara Crane; Miss Rosemary Crane,
Mr.. Zenas Marshall Crane OF Dalton,
DIR. and Mrs. Brace w. Paddock, Co..
William Fl. Eaton. Miss Hope and
Miss wilmot Eaton, Mrs. Brenton
Crane Pomeroy, Mr.. and Mrs. Donald
Mcpherson of Chicago, Messrs.
Thomas F. Plunkett. William Thomp-
son Rice, Henry James, Charles H.
Wilson and Augustus McKinstry Gls-
ford.
Mrs. Frederick S. Coolidge has en-
gagged the Vending String Quartet Of
Stuttgart, Germany, to come to this
country and play at her September
festival on South Mountain near Pitts
field. 1t also will play while in this
country at Yale and Harvard. Mrs.
Coolidge is spending week in New
York. She is to sail on the Maure-
tania May 16 for the London season
and later she will go to the Continent.
AIRS. Frederic CrowninshieId, who
PASSED the winter In Rome, SIS back IN
Stockbridge and opened her house on
Wednesday. Others who opened their
homes hero this week were Mrs. Daniel
Payne Griswold, the Geranium Cottage
al Lenox. and Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel
Chester French, Chesterwood at Stock
bridge.
rrhe Stockbridge Golf and Tennis Club
MAS opened for the season on Monday.
Ten holes are being played at present.
There Is talk of enlarging the clubhouse
from plans drawn by Mr.. George b. de
Eersdorff.
MIshe Frelinghuysen villa on Kemble
&treet in Lenox is to be occupied by a
member of the Frelinghuysen family
This season for the first time in fifteen
Xears. Mrs, Henry Winthrop Gray of
New York sent word this week she will
Arrive early in June and her sister, Mrs.
Charles l.. McCawley of Washington,
N.s c., is TO be with her a part OF the
hnn fu In.
weHter of the town opposite Trinity
Ehsrrch. The late Thatcher NJ. Adams
had 1t for several years.
Y Miss Marion Hague has leased her
little cottage on Yale Hill at Stock
4a;igo to Brig.-Gen. Samuel Essue Till
nian of West Point, who will arrive
early in June.
Mr. and Mrs. William z. S. Griswold
ere spending the early season at Old
Lyme. Conn, where Mr. Griswold has
built a villa on the Shore property that
has been in the family two hundred
Nears. Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Wolcott
Eriswold of Erie. Pa.. who had Mr..
George u. Turnure's house in Lenox
4ast year, are to have cottage near
Them.
2Alr Turnure last night formally
Scpuled the new bowling alleys of the
Lcnox Brotherhood by rolling the first
Dali at the dedlcauon. Tne alleys are
q portion OF his gifts TO the brotherhood
representing more, THAN $4,000. and he is
having plans drawn for a new club
house.
Z Miss Theresa and Miss Lee Higginson
have returned to Rock Lawn from Bos-
ton, where they were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frencis Lee Higginson,
Mr.. and Mrs. Juan II. Meyer of New
York have been spending n few days al
Eden Hill. their villa at Stockbridge.
Extraordinary precautions have been
taken this week to protect the Whitney.
Schermerhorn, Swami, Greylock and
Mount Everett State reservations in
berkshire from forest fires which have
ragged all around them. WatchmO1 have
been on duty day and night on the fire
lowers and guards have been ready for
Telephone calls.
MIR. and Mrs. Loyal Allan Osborne
.who spent the winter in Brazil and
,DSuenos Aires. are back at their place
Ain stockbridge for the summer.
1 Mr.. Frank l.. Warri1. Jr., who has
lbeen with the allied commission ir
sParis. has returned TO this country and
Us visiting his parents at wyndcote
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