Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-10
WHAT WILL KRIS. AsrOR DO:
Bitter social War Predicted from
that Uniucky Quadriiie.
New York World.

Society people and club men read with
great surprise and almost with incredulity
the news i'm Yesterdays World that rcs0lu-
tion had been passed by a subcommittee OF
the Entertainment Committee having IN
charge the Washington Centennial Ball, the
practical effect Of which was to shut Mrs.
Astor, the leader OF New York society. out
of the famous opening quidrllle. That
any company OF men, possessed OF social
ambition either for themselves. their wives,
or their families, should take any action
from which such result could come seemed
almost impossible. Mrs. Astor's leadership
has been so absolute and unquesiloned Tor
so many years that IL has come to be regard
ed as part and parcel OF the social fabric.
When notice OF this unexpected act OF in
standardization got about, the list OF men
making up the Entertainment Committee
was closely scanned and their temerily yig-
orOusly commented 90.
Even Wall street men, who are so bound
UP In stocks that t1cir interest IN society
matters Is Of the slightest kind. discussed
the situstion. stories OF Mrs. Ast0r's power
10 society aud OF the people she had cut and
crushed were told by the scor. ana the
affair aciuslly divided interest with the scrip
dividend declared Of the Manhattan. Even
IN Wall street Mrs. AstOr's leadership Is
recognized, and as the members Of the
Entertainment COMMITTEE are all society
men their proceedings were regarded IS the
rankcst rebellion. anil II was predicted that
she would squeeze the rebels a. the "shorisY
are squeezed 10 death in ramplnt buil
market.
one OF the points made last evening by a
well.lnfOrmed UniOn-I lub man was mat TIE
entertainment committeeman would nave
3D. .. L . "a r.f IN n "A
and Ignored the dozen prominent society
women originally named. But 70 put ASIDE
such WON n as Mrs. Aston. Mrs. Oracle
King. Mrs. Philip schuyler, sud
| Mrs. Valentine Hail after their names
had been announced in way sup
posed to be Official was 4 rudeness almost
| nconceiyable. AID these dozen prominent
| ladies have been aGr0utcd. so the friends oi
| Mrs. AsiOr assert, simply because several CT
the committeeman wish TO bring their A" ives
forward. and as their wiyes do moi belong
/ 10 Revolutionary families they can only take
places i'm the quadrille on the score OF their
/ WsshingloniAn husbands.
! Ileure the resolution OF The sub-cOmmlt-
tee. which has stirred up all this controversy
| and feeling, and which Is to the erect thlt
I the quadrile shall be danced by "good on
/ sfocA " husbands and their wives. THIS VIII
( give places to Mrs. william Waldorf A'tor
! and the wives OF two members OF the sup
commitier--ihat - 70 say, Mrs ~tllyVtsahI
F,sb. and Mrs. vii lam jay. There i one
thing certain. the prominent ladies' "hO
nave been displaced are reiolced over the
fact thlt they have o leader like Mrs. AStor
intoretirement. and they express themselves rs
onto content 20 make any social neht IN
the future with 30 experienced standard
bearer. Tbo,e who are Yeryed m such mat
ters saw that il the social power represented
by the ladies on The original list Was arrayed
against the social power represented Sy the
committee the struggle you'd be briei and
,he committee contingent would be speedily
wiped cut.
A gentleman who says that be has hsd
many conyersaii0u. with Nr. Phelps. just
returned from England and u course ire,h.
" primed about balls and etiquette ana pre-
ccdence, suggests the following rules a re-
suit Of his conferences
let the committee pass resolution de-
clariug that no wife OF committeeman SHAH
dsnce in the quadrlle. Apart from MIS-
Morton. Mrs. Hayes. and Mrs. Cleveland,
every woman in The quadrile must herself
be descended from prominent woman OF
Washington, time. No man shall dance
because OF his WHO'S descent. and no woman
becluse OF Der husblrOs descent The En'
lerianment Committee shall not overdue or
notify decision OF the general manager OF
the bail except by unanimous vote.
Ward McAIlisler, IN. manager OF the bali,
has been criticised to some extent Tor allow
ing matters to get into their present middle.
l, - SAID that he is the only man on the CON.
mittee who knows ANYTHING about balls. ana
the opinion Is expressed that, a. manager
he should not have allowed the committee 10
inlerleIe.