The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-09
LATE SOCIETY ITEMS.

The Intelligence which reached here yester-
day oil the death of Col Hal Dulaney caused
shock to the host of friends in this city of that
well-known Nirginiau. 1t was all the more
shock because, outside of the personal friends
of the deceased, few knew of his illness. and
those who knew that he was i'll did not appre-
hend serious consequences. Mr.. Dulaney died
at "Nellborne," the country seat of the Dula-
ney family in Loudoun County, Va a manor
that has been in possession of the family for
over century, and the cause ,of death was
what is known as rapid consumption. Mr.. Du-
laney was the senior member of the real estate
firm of Dulaney & Whiting, 1910 f street, and
was perhaps one of the best known young men
IN this city. Possessed of an immense inheri-
lance, and being fortunate in his profession, he
lived in luxurious manner, spent money
freely, though not to excess, and drew around
him large cotere of young social people who
were always ready to sing his praise. His tally
no trips on his own coach last spring were the
great trips of the season, and our
young ladies considered it pleasure
to be on the box with the finest whip in this
vicinity. One of the incidents connected with
this young mans career will be recalled now
that he has gone, and because the other par
teipant "a daughter of distinguished Army
officer OF this city, occupies prominent place
on our operate stage. lively party were en-
Toying an after-opera supper when a bet was
made that none dared to drink the champagne
out OF her slipper. One of the young men
present accepted the wager, and did sip the
wine from the beauty's dainty slipper but Col
Hal Dulaney was too much of a Virginian to
do that, and with simple remark, al prefer
my champagne in the usual way" disdainfully
turned away from the sight Col. Dulaney was
comparatively ii young man. being only thirty
seven years of age, and was looked on as the
richest man in the State of Virginia. The fu-
neral will probably take place Monday
The Unity Circle, an association of bright and
social young gentlemen, gave its first hop in
honor ad m a6n
day evening at Sheldon's Hall. About II
O'Clock the merry party adjourned to Burk-
hart's restaurant, where splendid supper was
served. Here the clever misses turned the
tables upon their attentive friends by present.
ing them, through Mr.. j. G. Cohen, with beau
tiful and elaborate silken banner suitably in
scribed, creditable piece of workmanship of
Mr.. n Meyer. The president of the associa-
ton, Mr.. 5. Lyons, accepted the handsome gift
IN neat little speech and number of toasts
were then responded to- notably by Messrs
Harry Rothschild, j. G. Cohen, l. Nordlinger,
). Mundheim, l.; Wallerstein, and few
newspaper men. The young ladies were also
courteously permitted to have something to say
on the subject, and two of them, the Misses
c. Rothschild and B. Lansburgh did
so quite credtably. Among those present were
the Misses E. Myers, G. Kaufman, c. Roths-
child, NJ. Bernheimer, T. Cohen, F. Strauss, NJ
Ettinger, B. Goodman, B. Mailhouse Il. He'll
brun, b. Lansburgh, B. Stein, l. Cohen, H. Op-
penheimer, II. Laenger, and Messrs s. Lyons,
>; u. Cohen, |. Nordlinger, II: Rothschild, s.
Mundheim, j. H. Wallerstein, d. Open
heimer, j. and j. L. Kaufman, j. Dryfus, S.
Rosenthal, Sol. Stein, B. Rosenfeld, L. jackson,
and S. G.. Gruenebaum.
Quietly, but energetically, the good ladies of
st. Stephens parish have perfected their ar
engagements during the past few weeks for hold
ing fair in the basement of the church build
ing on the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and
Twenty-ifth street, and tomorrow evening will
find the place handsomely decorated and filled
with attractive ladies, wellchosen articles inyit-
ingly displayed in artistically decorated
booths; in short, place which will offer
opportunities to young and DID, rich and poor,
to spend the evenings of the week in good
company and amidst pleasant surroundings.
1t is stated upon good authority that bicycle
having been offered for the voting contest or
condition that those two popular cergymen
Rev. Fathers Walther and Macllin, should be-
come contestants, they have good-naturedly
acquesced in the proposition, and have already
entered upon lively race for the coveted
prize.
The first complimentary hop of the winter
season was given to the friends and pupils of
Prof. Allan de &. Mueller, at Masonic Hall, on
Friday evening. 1t was very largely attended,
and among those present were Mrs. and Miss
Bynum, Mrs. w. 7. johnson and the Misses
Annie and Abbie johnson, Mr.. and Mrs j. c.
kondrup, Mrs. Clara Murphy, Mr. and Mrs.
Hanna, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Zapone, Mrs. and the
Misses Babcock Mr. and Mrs E. A. Clifford,
the Misses Stella Chapman, Carrie Borland,
Bessie Bailey, Bessie and Annie Wright, Belle
Johnson, Walsh, Mccullough, Blanche Lowe,
Morgan, Davis, Hibrew,, Mattingly, Cox, Mrs
Phillips, Messrs. Goddard, Chapman, Holdredee,
Hawkins, DR.. Rausch, Professor Smith, Nc
Dermott, Holt, Fitzpatrick, Wingfeld Lyon,
Rothrock, Needing, Rose, Dwight, Anderson,
Belding, Willett, Norton and Stout
The Baltimore Herald of yesterday contained
this interesting item: 'Mss Mary Abel, a
daughter of the late Arunah S. Abel, the
founder of the Baltimore Su0, has entered the
Convent of the Visitation at Georgetown, with
the purpose of becoming nun. Miss Abel
and her sisters were educated at this convent.
and about three months ago Miss Mary made
application for readmsson with the avowed
purpose of joining the ranks of the sisterhood
The formal initiation of Miss Abel will take
place some time during next January. the pre-
else date not having yet been named. Miss Abel
is one OF the richest women in the city, having
shared equally with the other children in the
large estate.o
Mr.. John f. Maloney and Miss Emma V.
Graves were married at st. Patrick's Church
last Tuesday morning by Rev. Father Magee.
The bride is well-known Washington belle