Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-08
And FLOWERS.
4 Beauty and Wealth In
the Sanctuary.
EASTER SUNDAY IN NEW YORK.
a Gotham Preachers opinion-Some
Able Sermons-TaImage's Two
Watches--Socieiy Gossip
dramatic Notes.

NGHJt VI blS DEE l-ANO pldSc ia NllO Npiih
has Easter Sunday been celebrated with
higher appreciation Of the spirit Of the day
than in this city. For the rich it was day
of new bonnets and fine trappings for the
poor day Of hard-boiled eggs and pretzels.
There Is but one New York, one Fifth
avenue, and one such sight in the world as
this famous street presents on Easter Sun
day. Yesterday the weather was perfect
until the grand promenade was over-a
crowded pavement of moving humanity,
bright with new raimcnt, gay. flowers and
glad countenances on both sides the avenue
for nearly two miles. There were many
handsome and some beautiful women; but
why do so many females powder and rouge
their faces' BY this repcllant fashion they
neither excite the envy Of their own sex nor
the admiration of the other. This monde
Ceptve artifciality was a blotch upon the
beauty of the living panorama.
Hardly had the sun climbed up the eastern
sky when the affairs of Christendom
twinltled with lights and the sweet breath of
flowers mingled with floating incense be-
fore the tabernacle of tho risen Saviour. All
the sorrowful wailings Of Golgotha were
hushed and the dark trappings OF woe were
stripped from the temples. Through her
thousand aisles and chancels went the re-
ioicing church in wonderful professions of
scarlet and purple, and white and gold, The
bells clashed joyously in the steeples, the
choirs burst into wild chants, the lamps
burned high in the sanctuaries and cleaning
chalices were upifted before the knceling
multitudcs.
A cloudlcss summer sky greeted the Easter
dawn and New York turned out of doors ar
rayed in the splendors of fashion. The
parks were crowded, the streets were pa
geants of variety and the windows bloomed
with flowers. Everybody seemed to take on
the spirit of the day. From the goddess man
who had eaten hard boiled eggs at breakfast
and ventured forth in search of frolIc to the
meek girl returning from mass there was
something suggestive of brightness Ill every
face. He was Il tough pagan who did not
wear a sprig of some sort.
That Easter is social event no man could
doubt who saw the cafe lions sauntcring to
church, prayep book ir hand. Men whose
greatest Joy is to sit in the window of club
house and talk society scandal all the year
round, deserted their impious haunts and
Enelt before the upifted cross. Men of fin
ance, bilious with greed, sat in the front seats
of the churches.
WHERE THEY WENT TO CHURCH.
The families of the fashionable world, as a
rule, attended their own churches in the
morning. At Grace church were Mr. and
Mrs David Wolfe Bishop, who inherited most
of the Catherine Wolfe millions; the Hon
and Mrs. John Jay who have one of the first
pews in the center aisle Hamilton Fish and
the Hon. and Mrs. William M. Evarts.
1--WE have some of the oldest families in
town in our church." said the sexton of the
and Twelfth street. EASTER ] saw here MIR.
and Mrs. John Taylor Johnson and their two
daughters, Mr.. and Mrs William Butler Dun
can and Mr., and Mrs. Paul Dana. Mrs.
Griswold Gray, the beautiful widow of Wash
ington square; Mr.. and Mrs. Ames Van Wart
and Miss Van Wart the heiress, you know,
and Mr.. and Mrs. John Minturn.n
Old Peter Stuyvesapt is buried in old St
Marks church on Ninth street near Second
avenue. Among notable people who attended
worship in old St. Marks We're Mr.. and Mrs.
Bcecsman de Peyster MIR. and Mrs. William
Remsen and Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Remscn,
Mrs. Killean Van Rensselaer, and Mrs
Martha J. Lamb the historian.
One of the most interesting congregations
in town was at St. Georges, further up Sec
ond avenue, at Fifteenth street and Ruther-
ford place. The Hon. and Mrs John Bige-
low had one of the front pews; Colonel and
Mrs. Willie Jay and their two pretty chill
dren were there, also Mr. and Mrs. William
Schieffelin, and hundred pretty girls, who
delight in hearing MIR. Rainsford lntone the
service.
st. Leo,s church gathered the most notable
congregations of fashionable Roman Catho-
lies downtown. Mr.. and Mrs Adrian Iselin,
Colonel and Mrs. De Lancey Kane, Mrs.
Jules Reynal and Mr.. and Mrs. Cordoba. In
Colonel George Nj. Bliss who is a convert to
the faith since his marriage, and his beauti-
full bride.
Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs.
w. II. Vanderbilt and Mr.. and Mrs Seward
Webb were seen in st. Barthoomews, on
Madison avenue, corner of Forty-fourth
street, and Mr.. and Mrs. Chauncy M. De-
pew worshpped at the same place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt went
TO the Church of the Heavenly Rest, on Fifth
avenue, above Forty-tifth street.
1.-The milliuaires' church," as the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian, on the corner of
Fifty street, is called, had an excep-
tonally interesting congregation at the Sun
latr inn hn h
Usher and his wife; Robert Bonner, MIR.
William Jaffray, the millionaire dry goods
merchant; Mrs. Josephine Aver the widow
of the patent medicine manufacturer, her
sons and her daughter, Mrs. Preston.
The Gould family attended worship at DIR.
Paxton's church, on West Forty ty-second
street, opposite Bryant park, and here was
seen Herbert II. Bishop the oil king, his
wife and u large family of children
Mr.. and Mrs. John Rockefeller went to the
Central Baptist church, on West Fifty
seventh street, of which DIR. Armitage is
pastor, aud Mr. Charles Pratt, the other oil
millionaire, was seen in Emmanuel Baptist
church, st. James place, Brooklyn.
The Astor family, INCLUDING John Jacob
Astor Mr. and Mrs. William Waldorf, Mr..
and Mrs. Coleman Dayton, Mr.. and Mrs.
Roosevelt and Mr.. and Mrs. Orme Wilson
went down to Old Trinity on lower Broad
way, where it is their wont TO assemble
every Easter Sunday.
Mrs Hicks Ford was seen in her pew at
ST, Francis Xavier's on Fifteenth street.
EASTER DIAMONDS.
"Really, I'm glad Pm u Christian" sighed
a beautiful woman one afternoon last week
She was not in church confessing her sins,
but in Tiifany's looking with raptured eyes
nt the great array of flashing diamonds, ru-
bies, emeralds and pearls, made into iiewers
and birds and otherpretty devices suggesting
the Easter season.
The great establishment was crowded with
people of wealth and fashion selecting gifts
for Easter.
The Vanderbilts have expended large sums
on each other and for various charities this
Easter Mr.. Frederick Vanderbilt spent
several hours at Tiffany's selecting some
pretty trilles for his young wife. One of
these was a new card case of Italian enamel
leather, with little jewelled watch encir-
cled with forget -me-nOts fastened in one
corner
These card cases are among the extreme
novelties and LADY carrying one oan tell the
exact time without searching for her watch,
This little triie cost $3.50 and with It went a
dainty bracelet of pearls.
THE CHURCHES.
Easter lilies, hyacinths, rosebuds and
smlaNs covered the communion table and
embowered the pulpit at the church of the
Messiah at the corner of Twenty fourth
street and Fourth avenue, yesterday, and
the baptismal font was likewise entwined
with gracious harbingers of spring. A ten
der touch of sympathy WAS embodied in the
IA Of iu,pnnrtallnS plaral thn font