New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-08

eAYErY AFTER HOLIDAY QUIET

CHARITY BALI.-MiNOR ENTERTAINMENTS.
Lat week saw revival of ACTIVITY Ia fashionable Now.
York society after the iu OF the hondaya And what's
mora II Oft repeated remark means anything. many
ople were glad enough get back to town Tuesday
morning from the less gay county houses where
thAy had been sojourning at least since saturday In
some instances It had been case OF loss CAV. espec-
tally in the club houses Sunday January 1883.
. foriorn Now Years Day-bad enough TO endure any
WHORE but absolutely melancholy In rural districts.
Monday saw an immense Improvement In the weather.
but the foods OF the previous day had left
traces nearly everywhere indoors and out OF DOORS
that It WAS with relieved feelings that hundreds
Of mon and women started cityward on Tuesday When
hoy reached hero they apparently felt ready to plunge
Into diversion With enthusiastic and the result WAS that
OF the entertainments the remaining five days OF
She week went OF more brilliantly than usual
Monda, was New Years Day at Tuxedo and there at
least the effects Of Sundays rain were not DISASTROUS
There enough Of and Ice left to make coasuns
and sksLg practicable At the cottages oil was AM na
zion. The handsome gift OF 100000 FROM Mr. anu MIS-
Henry Barley caused much pleasant talk anu some
mpromptu tabeaus in the evening wero highly success
eu The Country Club OF Eseex County held Its opening
eeerticn the afternoon in Its new house In Hutton
PARK on the slope OF the Orange Mountains There was
hood music ut intervals and satisfying refreshments
we're furnished all the time. much to the comfort OF
uesta Way mp Lenox. too. there was gayety OF an
ana ass and enjoy
halves hugely and succeeded Over stockbridge there
SnSn sn pa 81 S S c
arranged In NcwYork CITY, OF course there was
maned in town Nor was the compromising and nhos-
Sitsbe basket hung out. A few sturdy old Knicker.
sturdy old but they the excep
lions that proved the rule
Great the expectations that had been aroused In
fair and manly breasts too in regard to the sub
scrption ball at Delmonoos on Tuesday night Fifty
,ia fran Of
raised q tolerable TO make merry with This was
sudicously expended in decorations, In new floor In
Tho rod parlor in excellent supper as we'll as In sew
erai remarkably proper looking foomen and retain
ers of all Under this last appellation OF COURSE
Che two leaders OF the two germans must not be IN
cluded although tho red and blue ticket busineS was
suggestve OF show. AZ usual the ball did not begin
Gill very and speedily there were heard complaints
f scarcity Of dancing men, 1t seems to be the painful
kuth that many young nen In society have been dis
osed recently to decline go to big dances at Demon-
oos They begin late and therefore, end so late that
these aniable dancers (many OF whom nave to be In
their Offices fairly early next day. don't ieei equa 10
Gs ste hours st balls ia York are mere
snectation. II there half dozen big entertain
sprivsls at certain houses but in York where only
Pine big affair aks place in an evening ana where there
Is not large class of men OF leisure. the taIdy
coners are simply adopting bad habits without excuse
II there was short supply OF men AT, 2, tue New aeSr
the young Ihen will only persist AMI stay away IRON.
few
Dance was voted a great success and likely to be I'd
rcaed year The toilets OF most OF the ladies' were
new and exceedingly pretty. The rooms were not
crowded ana the idea OF two germans proved popular
There was n great crowd at the Charity ball in the
METROPOLITAN Opera House Thursday night )us' as
there ought have BEEN Over 5000 tickets were solo,
tho boxes filed by fashionable women. and some
very pretty girls held the dancing Hoor Like all other
this winter began later than was SEN
sibo but naturally the ball could not open when there
were no dancers there Soft nearly II not quite III
o'clock when ex-Mayor Cooper and Mrs Ellis led the
grand march, 1t noticed that there were score OF
HE march It was pretty sight An agreeable depart
nre from programme OF FORMER wears was he OPEN
,,renensde broke up in lively whirl. When square
Dance is the drs number tnere Is awaSs r T,a IN.
prOveinent should be borne In mind another year. 100
ruesaav was a lively day in a matrimonial way.
Grace Church was envened with military wedding In
Che evening at 8, at least wedding NTH strong
smack OF military about It, Dr. Howard II. Hahseii OF
PHILADELPHIA then and there married the daughter Oh
General vogdes, U. S. A.-Miss Emile Keed Nogoes
The maid Of honor was Miss Lillian Gwynn, and there
were six bridesmaids Everybody an air of more
or less distinction. which was very proper thing con-
sderng that the bride is more or less related 10 aiay
cite and General Anthony Wayne she was dressed lh
white more antique and looked strikingly beautiful
After the ceremony there was crowded reception al
No FL West Twenry-Aflhst Earlier in the day Mr.
M.p,ce and Miss Remsen had got married in st. Marks
Church at D. M 1t was brilliant affair in every way
the pretty bridesmaids were white surah and point
despri.. The wedding reception was helu al tne nosu
of William RemseH the brides father, no. 20 WaVery
naee At an earlier hour Wednesday, at noon, the
the Church of the Heavenly Rest had reaa te
Holland This highly attractive weodlng
although not large one, and the breakfast whic" io
lowed at No 613 Fifth-ave. was equally enjoyable
Escrton L. Winthrop has the reputation OF giving
charming Dances aud there much regret for various
I'd ,ftatin fnpa
dance on Wednesday night recalled out OF respect
Cor the death of relative. There to be supper
first and dancing afterward Thus the early attendance
of the was to he secured 10 was an exceen' ue
and oueht 10 adopted largely After an early nour
was established the guests might DO anoweu 10
have their supper reasonably late
Among the minor entertainments OF. the week were
dinners given by Mrs Sidney Dillon Ripley. No. 3s
West Fifty-third-st Mrs. Jacob Wendell, No. East
Thirty eghthst; Mrs. J. A. hcstwick, No. 800 Fifth
ave-; Mrs. j. b. Wheeler, No. AT East Fifty seveuthst,
and Mrs Cornelius n. Bliss No 1913 Madison. ave-; re-
ceptons by Mrs E. C. Reneoict, No 10 West Fifty-rs
st.; Mrs. winthrop Wray, No. 81 Clinton-place; Mrs.
william Gihon No. West seventeenthst.; Mrs Josiah
baden No West Fifty first st.; Mrs. Douglas Burn
ham, No S West One hundred and sixty -eighthst.:
Mrs C. Abercrombe and Miss OsgoSd no. 90 S.
ave Mrs H. O. Taylor, No. 20 West Fifty-second st.:
S mss A A5's s F Ffay S0 Mrs Colgate No.
sixteenth-st. and Miss Dora Wheeler, No. 10 East
Twenty third st.
The date OF the opening Of the Berkeley Lycenm In
West Forty fourth-st, which is said to be the future
Some of the New amateur actors performances Is
still unknown to any except the working people now
IN possession The Amateur Comedy Club, however. has
firm grip upon the rst night, whether that be January
~ or later Husband to Order is the play selected
for representation that OCCASION and Miss OTIS 1t 10
said will fill the leading role. 1t sometimes asserted
that the rage private theatrcals Is constantly grow
ing in this community That hardly seems TO be the
eruth or II ~ So 1t must be admitted that the per-
a. laaa ntlllin
private thearcsls henceorh to be what their name
Implies private.
On January 10 and IL the Columbia College Dramatic
Club will give performance In the Metrop Tit an opera
House assembly rooms. playing couple OF farces en-
titied A Frghtfal Farce and b. b." matinee VIII