New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

opec'd' OtSDutch TO Th6 Tribune
BERKSHIRE HILLS, Mass, July %.
New York and Boston will be
brought within an hour of Lenox and
Stockbridge by an airplane passenger
service which Mr.. Cortlandt Field
Bishop proposes to establish. He is
now in Paris and London studying the
aerial service there. 1t is proposed
to have series of trial flights early
this fall and to have regular service
established by the opening of the 1923
season.
With the airplane the New York
business man can leave his home at 6
IN the evening and arrive in Lenox for
dinner. He can arise at 7:3O a. m. and
be in his Office in New York before the
stock market opens. Scores of villas
would be built and Lenox and Stock
bridge awould experience one of the
greatest booms of any inland resort in
America. Mr.. William B. Osgood Field
has large field vest of his villa ad-
from which number of flights have
taken place the last few years. Mr..
Bishop, who has one OF the largest
estates in LenoX, owned the first BIZ
cycle and the first automobile in Berk-
shire; he was the first summer resident
to make fight in balloon and later
IN an airplane, and has been a pioneer
in other sports.
Mrs. Nina Larre Duryea described
in an interesting way the magnificent
Sicilian estate of the Duke of Bronte
with its beautiful gardens to the Lenox
Garden Club Council, which met OH
Monday at the villa of Miss Marion
Davies. In the company were Mrs Ed
wards Spencer, Mrs. Richard C. Dixey,
Mrs. John d. Alexandra, Mrs. Frederick
g. Crane, Mrs. Carl A. de Gersdorff,
Mr.. and Mrs. Banyer Clarkson, Mrs.
Leeming, Misses Mary and Gertrude
Parsons, Heloise Meyer, Anna Blake
Shaw and Emily w. Biddle.
Berkshire visitors are interested il.
the heroic figure OF Victory, holding
aloft an American flag, which Mr.. Dam
iel Chester French, the sculptor, is de-
signing at Glendale. 1t is to be placed
on a monolith and will be installed in
the park south of the War and Navy
Building at Washington as a memorial
to the men of the 1st Division who lost
their lives in the World War.
Mrs. George Roosevelt and Miss l..
G. Roosevelt, of New York, are at the
Mount Everett House, in South Eyre
mont, for the season. This hotel has
the Mount Everett state reservation
for background. Others there are
Mrs. Franklin Quimby, Mrs. Paul M.
Apsley, the Rev. Edgar NJ. Thompson,
Miss ella Thompson, Mrs. Kilburn Kill
mer. Mrs. L. M. Kissam, Mr.. and Mrs.
r. Y. MacGovern, Mr.. Frederick NJ.
Crossets, of New York, and MIR. c. T.
Bono, of Scarsdale, N. Y.
Mr. Fvopcic ,i,,,o% L. 80. -
the national stars at the annual golf
tournament of the Wyantenuck Coun-
try Club at Great Darlington, which
will be held August 2, 3, and s. He is
to be guest of MI. John Shepard at
Sage's Ravinc, Sheffield, over the tour
nament The prizes consist of the
presidents cup for the first sixteen,
offered by Mr.. Charles l.. Wetherbee;
the Berkshire Inn cup for the second
sixteen, the Wyantenuck medal for low
score in the qualifying round and a
trophy for the runner-up of the first
sixteen. On the tournament committee
are Mr.. Edward P. Davis, Mr.. Denison
D. Dana, Mr.. Heyliger de Windt and
Mr.. R. Stuart Hawthorne.
The Stockbridge golf course, divided
by the Housatonic River, offers many
pleasant hazards. Miss Adele S. Ham
WIN ~, llGU Cic "a LUc pcSJ
woman's scores of the week. She was
playing with her cousin, MIR. w. Doug
las Burden. Among other players were
Mr.. and Mrs Marshall Prentiss, Miss
Esther Rowland, Miss Genevievc Car
penter, Miss Margaret D. Blake, Mr..
and Mrs. Marshall Prentiss, Mr.. Casper
C. de GersdorA', who made the course
in 50, Mr.. D. Percy Morgan jr., Mr..
Herbert l.. Mills. Mr.. Francis r. Apple
ton jr. and Mr.. Robert FL. Nelson.
Mr.. and Mrs. a. ]. Drexel Biddle, of
Philadelphia, inspected several villas
while ct the Rcd Lion Inn at Stock
bridge during the week and may lease
one for September and October. Among
ether arrivals at the inn arc Mrs.
Dwight Parker Robinson, Mr.. and Mrs.
William R. Laidlaw, Mr.. and Mrs. r.
J. Godfrey, Ny. and Mrs. H. 0. Adams,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. Convert lwait Mrs.
Frank S. Carter, Mrs. James l.. Hand,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles IL. Zimmerman,
Of New York. Mr.. and Mrs. Louis K.
Hyde, OF Plairfield, N. j.; Captain ans.
Mrs. Chester Wells, of Chevy Chase.
Mrs. Hattie E, Todd, Miss Anna Hart,
of New Haven, Conn
Leading black bass fishermen at
Heaton Hall, in Stockbridre, so far this
summer arc Mr.. Harold Land and Dir.
John w. Taylor, Of New York, each of
whom caught sixpoundcr from Lake
Mahkecnac on Wednesday. On Tues
day night Miss Minnie r. e,s
New York, entertained eight friends al
a dinner party at the Hall A 'ais
there include Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Wins
low, Mrs. Fitch w. Smith Miss 'sai'
NJ. Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. G. Wright.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. French, Messrs.
Robert J. Garfield, F. r. Pearson and
7. S. Russell.
Judge and Mrs. Walter Evans, of
Louisville, Ky.. arrived at the Maple
dood Hotel in Pittsfield on Tuesday for