New-York tribune., 1886-02-14
THE JVAEK IN SOCIETY.
DANCES, DINNERS AND RECEPTIONS.

no FASHIONABLE RIVAL FOR THE AhloN-A
suAILAND EARLY" AT MIDNIGHT.
The last week has been devoted TO NUMBER
less small social festivities According 70 precehe",
however there should have been biS private pan ~
.one fashionable house Monday night wheh he Arion
was given nt the Academy of Music. For many years.
when tb mask has held well As on the evening
~ the French ball. most fashionable men have FOUND
themselves with invitation To dance at lae EeF"
In private circles This has been considered singular
dence. But Monday nothing was gong Oh u
prsyent the ged gddy youths of the town from going
n the Arion II they chose. Generally they went anu
DAYLIGHT found them thinking OF going home Eariler
perhaps some OF them had attended Mrs f. Brockhoiss
Cuttings theatre party, or Mrs saHuel S'oah rc'eP
ton or Irvings, or had met At the cfSsal "euns
| OF Mr. and Mrs Beekman de Peyster, at No. Loo "'S'
Trteenth-st Among the two or three hundred persons
at this astnamed house representatives Of tho
families Of Livingston, Hamilton Phelps and Harriet.
Tuesday seemed given up small dinners. Mrs Orme
Wilson entertained fourteen guests. MI ana ME- oIduey
Webster twelve and Mr.. ana Mrs. Benjamin H. Brlsto"
,ourteen AT the table OF Mr. and Mrs W. Irving clark
were seated ten young people, and the decorations about
! them were OF danods At Mrs. Philip Robn'ohs . ano
at Mrs Brekman's also gay company sat down 10 h'"u
,omeIy decked tables Earlier in the afternoon thero
had been receptions Mrs. f. Harrison eaniords' No.
l3 East sixty-rst-s; Miss Learys at NO % flith-
| ave. and at Mrs Charles Lords, No. 81 West Thr-
teenth-st. - .
Mrs. Robert Goeets fine house. No. 59l Fifth ave. at
he corner OF Forty eighth-st. was opened the same
evening (or night. rather for what may be caled d
! small ami early" dance. The invitations however,
sncncd II O'Clock as time to arrive. or course the
guests were late and it midnight when the dancing
! began The dancers occupied tue spacious hrst hoor
pa the mus claus hidden away In howers AT inc
foot OF the main Every where the floral decora
TONS were elaborate. They graced the chandelers
formed into pyramid OF viOets III the centre
OF the table, and bossOmed in an arch IN the haI- luo
very pretty of having flowers for faYor' was
followed In the coton Mr. and Mrs Elllott kooseNelt,
Mr. and Mrs. Walker r. Smith. Mr.. and Mrs. william
Jay James OTIS the Misses OTIS, Mr. ana MIS- orme
wilson Mr. and Mrs. Robert Livingston, Miss Wilson,
Mr. and Mrs. Ogden GCeet. Mr. and Mrs j. +. d. Lahler
Mr. aud Mrs. George Henry Warren, sir kodericA
Cameron, Miss May Brady, Miss Bowdoin, Miss fost'
Miss Bessie WcbO Mr. ana Mrs Frank Lawrence, the
Misses Remsen. Daniel Kingsford, Miss Taller l. j.
Oakley Rhneander. Mr.. aud Mrs. j. Coleman Drayton
and Broo khulst Cutting among the guests MI and
| Mrs Goeet intend TO give fine ball presently
A pleasant company gathered at Orange on Wednesday
evening when the Orange Club had its house warming
The pr sdent = s. Norris received the guests assisted
N that pleasant duty by Morris, Mrs A. I. Kirk
and aud de Barrl This was early IN the even
ing Later there dancing, and still later hhe sup
per The more or amusing Of this agreeable
evening policemans club In miniature coVereu
IN orangecol ored plush. Each lady got one Among
the GUESTS were Mr. and Mrs. FlOydJones Mr. aud MIA
J. C. wilmerIing Mr. and Mrs stephen Van Rensselaer,,
Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Wallace. Mr. aud Mrs H. A. Pot
Colonel A. ID. Palmer, senator fIsh, ANU VIZ anu
| Mrs. john Dallctt In all, 400 people were there
The weather could not have been much worse on
Thursday evening the rain and wind came from all
directions the time. Yet despite the storm
Speca train carried lot OF people down 10 Ceddrhurs
! L. f. TO dance at the ball OF the Rockaway Hunt lt
seemed hard indeed the night should be SO bad.
snce the ball had postponed, and II 1t had
taken place when date originally fixed for It, get
uug to it and home again would not have been 50 hard
Everybody who could arranged to stay there
all night Perhaps fifty persons were Kept
at the club house and Mrs. Rowland. Mrs stevens ana
Mira G owdtu had their cottages flied with guests. Al
though it was raining hardest when the special tram ar
rived from Long Island CITY, the guests forgot all about
II 80 soon as they within the club house All
was bright and cheerful the brightness and cheer
funess intensified by the contrast Win tue sOon
outside all went merry as marriage Dell-or eVeha
chime OF the same Lander's musicians hldled away ana
Pierre La Montague and James Ous led the german
which was danced ia two rooms supper was serHed Nv
the club steward at half past II at small tables 10y
this common sense device the guests were aoe really TO
enjoy their refreshment, one line table makes grea
show but generally nobody gets much chance 10 eat
| ANYTHING from 1t in comfort. Among the one hundrea
or more guests this ball were Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
| Dinsmore Nj. aud Mrs. 5. s. Rowland Mr.. aud Mrs 3
: sands Mr.. and Mrs A. NJ Dodge Mr.. Austin Coroin
and group friends, large contingent OF Moht'she''
Miss Van Dusen Miss Neil Miss Roberts Miss otls S'ss
N Draper Miss Beckuan. Mr. and Mrs Leth MI sapor'aS'
Mr. Cutting Mr. Hcnrques, ID. L. Navarro Mr' hethe'
" Mr. sandford Mr.. and Mrs. f. W. White MI ana Ml~
u Covdin Mr. ,'hauncey Mr. Story Mr.. Howard ME-
" Collier and the society representative OF the no" rum
~ Avenue stage Company The special tram re'ui"'u ~
" at half past TO bring up those untorunAe
le nest who had not able TO get anybody 10 Keep
>, them all night.
Thursdays receptions not well attended OWING 70
IL the STORM those who managed to get 10 MIS- hoper'
nIvrbans al No 20 East Forty sixth-s ana at Mrs
IT, Mollers at No East Thirty ST. had no reason
TO regret their ventures nor had those people VINO Az
&c tended Mrs John SherwoOds reading at No 10 "e"
r Thrty secoud.st Among guests there were Mrs'
Is wickham Mrs. James Grant Wilson. sir koderoA C"m
20 eron and Mrs j. L. Hartman Mrs. Parish OF No.
p West NIneteentnsL dinner IN the evening" ,n ~
twelve guests, and had her ane t this
al spring howers are the correct thihs " nave " " VIZ
I carr M Frederic A. Ward OF Remsens. Brooklyn gave
reception this day which Was % IIn2 niJI The houss
the most fashionable people on inc helSnIs. Ina
us ladies' receiving Mrs Henry W johnson ana Nrs #
he Frederic wesso% OF Of Ht 6swesd
NJ Nn Frdiy people emerging from the mist ana raia'
arrived bo6.S m No 5i adonaye where reception
was the afternoon ana n oaCT aYor ohnstons
nf ,re house al Eghh-s and fluh-ave ior the nun IN
~ ded or '' Of the season there and naturally
therefore there no lack OF dahe,ns .en H Easi
TIyrVT"signtbst entertained large party at uneneon'
Mrs sdney Dilon at No. West Thirty Se'eutuS''
oy also hsa that moro people have not cared "a
no ntemu t5 audience was small although the lecture
of ss m French-a tnat should have drawn our
= vi tnoNn New York ladies III addition To MIS- W.
no no t,og ar and Mrs L. NJ. Barlow few more were
70 o,snd,uce on Friday afternoon when inc Iane.ass
a'tnb Madame Greyille used English In Boston
80 his auiable lady much more sought Tor tha s
cd this eity-which Is New.lorks ,io LOSS l0r Blu 10
charming person with sweet voice -, ,,oo,ls ,yhs
Weddngs nave been few most fashionable PeoPIe -
IN, Intended dong apparently having got seine
a., ,,' season Yet AN exceedingly pretty nome
y, tnnk nlaro ON Thursday evening AT the h1o ty.
-. Sri f. ami Mrs Thorne Shaw, No. ~ fast 80
OF egSths inc bride and groom were MI I'ieS ~, hs
IN s6ey apd Garlic W. Harmer Owing 70 tue td,s resr
ga hrids family are mourning, only the III hs .at A.