The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-27
Adams Party
in
Rural Haven
Indiana Artist Entertains
Annually at Summer
Home in East.
BY HELEN WORDEN
Times Special Writer


NEW YORK. July 27.-Between
~ summer stock companies and
outdoor sketching classes, rural
hamletS are learning TO know their
Eugene ONeills and Grant Woods.
Wayman Adams. the Indiana
painter. goes a step farther Every
July, he and his wife give A carnival
called The Streets OF Paris. in the
quaint old upstate village of Eliza
BEETHOVEN.
Its Just about time for the
Adamses to begin putting up their
booths and Side-Show platforms.
Mr. Adams has an art class of 80
or so students from nearby resorts
who work in his red barn. Carnival
week. they drop palettes and paint
brushes to help run the show.
ElizabethtoWn does not lack for
local entertainment In addition to
/ the Adamses' carnival. the citizens
also enjoy the sweet strains of the
music from Sol Goldbergs Do
mesticS' orchestra.
/ Mr.. Goldberg is the millionaire
hairpin manufacturer from Chi
/ cago who owns the Frank MunSev
/ estate just outside Eliza BEETHOVEN.
/ His hobby is music. Every one who
works for him has to be able to
/ play some instrument I believe
the chauffeur plays the flute. the
butler is first violin. the gardener
f1ddleS on a cello. and so on into
small symphony lineup. Mr. Gold
/ berg conducts. He lives very for
mally.
! Noted for Judges
| EliZabethtown is nine miles from
/ Westport, N. Y, the little white
/ housed village where so many du
Pont by-products are manufactured.
The du Points themselves own
luxurious lodges not far from the
factories. Elizabethtown is famous
/ for its number of judges. 1t is also
| the county seat
Among the summer coloniSts. in
addition to the Wayman Adams, are
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Untermeyer,
Otto Kreuger, Mrs. John Milhol-
land and her son and daughter.
John and Vida. Peggy Hamilton and
her mother. Mrs George Hamilton,
and the Robert BoiSsevains.
As you drive along the New York
Montreal highway above Elizabeth
town. you come to a sign which
reads, Entrance TO Meadowmount."
This is the John Milholland estate.
It was originally 5000 acres. Now it
takes in about 1900 acres of land.
There is a vast deer park. trout
stream, and a private road.
Meadowmount, the main mansion.
is leased again this year to John
/ Temple Graves daughter. Mrs.
Laura Tompkins. The big house
! has IS rooms. The barns are pat
termed after Magdalen College at
Oxford
Mrs. Milholland lives at The Lii
! laos. another Milholland home. It
was built by an old deacon about
125 years ago. The walls are more
than a foot thick. There are big
open fireplaces and picturesque lat
tice windows.
Every room in this house and the
big mansion has a picture in 1t OF
IneZ Milholland, the eldest daugh-
ter. who died several years ago. Her
work in suffrage and her beauty,
made her a nationally known figure
Chickens Form Hobby
Inez's husband. Eugene BoisSevain,
married Edna st. Vincent Mlilay
the poet.
For a time, the Eugene Boisse-
vains lived at MeadoWmount. Now
they divide their years between a
place in the Berkshires and another
on one of the Thousand Islands.
Eugenes brother. Robert, how
ever. continues to make his HON
on the Milholland estate. He and
his family have a house about an
eighth of mile from the man
sion. Mr.. BoiSsevains business is
English liners His hobby is rails
ing chickens.
The eggs and chickens which
Mary Elizabeth uses in her Fifth
av tea-room come from the BoisSe-
vain farm. The Boissevains also go
in for AYRSHIRE cattle.
Between the Lilacs and the little
village of Lewis. you pass an early
American white cottage called the
Deacons. 1t is named after two
old Deacons who settled that sec
ton of New York state.
Beyond the Deacons. lies another
Milholland home Vida Milholland
and Peggy Hamilton occupy it. They
have named the place Chimney
Corners. Vida's brother. Jonn.
vice president of the Bank of Man.
haitian Co. spends his summers in
a cottage opposite Chimney Corners.
Occupies Mountain House
High up on mountain above
Chimney Corners, Mrs. Hamilton,
Peggy's mother has built a beautiful
white house. where she lives.
The Hamiltons inherited their
fortune from two elderly Vanderbilt
relatives. sisters. who lived and
died in Paris. I believe the spinsters
were Of a generation that was con-
temporary with old Commodore
Vanderbilt.
Mrs. Hamilton has recently got
back from trip around the world
Summer visitors may bring much
that is new TO the section around
EliZabethtown. In return, this far
off region of the Adirondacks has
something novel to offer city folk.
Wild deer Craze in front yards
Bears steal apples off garden fruit
police, race over Peck O'Moonshine
Pass and crumbling headstones
above the graves of soldiers of the
War of 1912, mark an unrecorded
skirmish on the lonely BOUQUET