The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-23

Hotels Get
Boom Period
Overflow Taken Care of
to Some Extent by
Private Cars.
BY HELEN W0RDEN
Times Special Writer

saratoga IIldL we COQIOn get
rooms" said Mrs. Orson Mum.
We've taken a private car for the
Weekend"
Mr.. and Mrs. Mum, Mr.. and Mrs.
Byron Foy, Mr.. and Mrs. Andre de
Coppet and the Harvey Firestones
left Southampton Tuesday for Sara
toga. They will return Sunday night
The car is air-cooled and has two
showers" Mrs. Mum said so I
think We'll be comfortable. We tried
to get suites at the Gideon Putnam,
but they were sold out"
The Munns are practically year.
round residents of Southampton.
They come down in May, remain
until October and keep their house,
The Arches, open all winter for
weekend visits.
Mr.. Mum likes to hunt. The
duck season begins late in the fall
and lasts a couple of months. There
are also deer in the wild pine
carpeted Shinnecock Hills, back of
Southampton.
The Arches fronts on a quaint,
winding country road which borders
the Atlantic Ocean. 1t is a white
plaster house, with rust-colored
shutters and peaked roofs that sug-
geSt a French country estate. For
neXt-doOr neighbor the Munns have
the United States Coast Guard Sta
ton, cleaning white frame cot
tage, with business-like cannon or
the clipped green grass lawn.
Nearby are the homes Of Banker
Charles E. Mitchell, Byron Foy,
Chester Dale, Josiah Copley Thaw,
DR.. William Saint Lawrence and the
L. Gordon Hemmersleys.
At the end of the lane stands the
late H. H. Rogers home. 1t over
looks the hospital where he died.
His other Southampton estate, The
Port of Missing Men, is on North
Sea.
Roses of Sharon Bloom
I skipped from Saratoga to
Southampton on Wednesday. 1t was
raining when 1 left the spa. A red
sunset welcomed me to Southamp-
ton. 1T was frightfully hot" said
Mrs. George Burton French. 81
wish you could stay over the week
end. They say it will be cooler.
Then you can see what fine weather
we really have"
A hot day in Southampton would
be a cool day in New York. The
warmth is only that of midsummer
in the country. The bright sun
shine has coaXed the pink marsh
rose into bloom, thickened the foil
age of the century-old elm trees and
tipped the Rose of Sharon bushes
with thousands of pink blossoms.
Mrs. Alfred E. Schermerhorn has
the prize in Rose of Sharon bushes.
Those which surround the LindenS
are big enough to be called trees.
The name of Schermerhorn is
synonymous with Southampton
members of the family has been
been coming here for years. In that
time they have collected a series of
homes, which different persons rent
for different seasons.
Educator in Colony
Other members of Southampton'S
first families include DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Barton French, Charles Steele,
Judge Morgan O'Brien, Josiah Cop
ley Thaw, T. Markoe Robertson and
William R. Simmonds.
The president of Columbia Uni
versity lives in hospitable- looking,
natural wood-shingled house set
back on a lovely green lawn, bright
ened by all sorts OF. honey, cheerful,
colored flower beds.
Comfortable wicker rocking chairs
and tables furnish the wide white
porches that circle the house. The
upstairs verandas are edged with
white boxes of pink petunias, and
gay green-andw hite-striped avn
ings shade the windows
President Buffers home faces
Villa Mile Flori, the formal pink
stucco mansion built by Judge
Morgan O'Brien. Villa Mile Flori
is one of Southampton's picture
postcard estates. Royal blue and
pink potted hydrangeas border the
blue lime driveway. Stif1y clipped |
Italian yew trees flank the peachy
pink walls, and classical white mar
BILE figures add decorative notes to
the roof. A beautiful sunken gar
den touches up the back terrace.
In a class with Villa Mile Flori |
is Rufus Pattersons Lenoir, an es-
tate that boasts private golf
course.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Barton
French have a front view of the
course from their bedroom windows