Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-17
THE SOCIAL MELANGE.
A Fashionable Throng Attends the Open
ing OF the Mozart Clubs New Home
Arrangements for the southside Hos
pital Beneflt-Social Chat.


moval last night. Formal possession was
taken of the new clubrooms in the Hostetter
building on Fourth avenue. These occupy
! the fourth, upper, floor and have been ar
ranged with n view to the greatest comfort
that also combines elegance and practical
| purpose. One side of the floor Is devoted to
| n large rehearsal roo 1T one end of which
hangs an oil paii tt & of Mozart, the
patron saint, crayon picture of
DR.. English, ex-Director. the founder
of the club, Director McCollum. Other ex-
officers and officers are in appropriate
| places The pictures of one or two singers
have also found a place-Patti's face may be
seen there, and flat of the oratorio singer of
| Chicago, Mrs. Johnstone Bishop. The lower
| part OF the eastern wall is devoted to the
music library, carefully covered from the
| dust. The room is spacious, airy, daintily
| carpeted, well lighted by day and we'll sup
| piled with chandeliers to light it at night
| At the reception it was full of charmingly
| dressed women-of men noted in the differ
| ent walks of life. Flowers and plants were
| scattered about in profusion, and in the
| center OF the room an orchestra played de-
| lightful muse for promenade concert.
| This room will be used by the club for re-
hearsals and chamber concerts.
Across the hall are four or five smaller
| apartments to be used by music teachers
during the day and for parlors and meeting
| purposes in the evening. In one of the par
| is one of the prettiest of his scenes of bab-
| bling brooks rocks, and trees, and deserves
! the place of honor which has been accorded
| it 1t might be mentioned here that the
| life-siZe picture of Mozart, which hangs in
| the reception rooms, was painted by Charles
Walz, one of Pittsburg's cleverest portrait
| painters. 1t is considered the happiest
| effort he has yet made. Mozart wears the
| Well-known green velvet coat, and leans
In an easy attitude against music cabinet.
1t is most interesting picture, and is not
l urh hnn Nhfr ~ a
| had small tintype and an inferior photo
| graph only to aid him in his work. Busts of
musicians are placed against the delicately
tinted walls, and in every room there is
head of Mozart A painting by Freder-
| lex Bussman in the ladies' parlor Is
| quite an example of his best vein,
Louis Himmelrich contributed two jardin-
| leres OF tropical plants, which were placed
| Ill position of prominence and evoked ad-
m1ration from every visitor. There was
| only one regret last night, and that was
| caused by the enforced absence of H. G.
| Frick, the generous President of the Mozart
Club. MIR. Frick has relieved the club of all
| its Indebtedness and assumed the expense
| of furnishing the clubhouse to the extent,
| probably, of $1,000
A light went out of Mr.. Frick's life and
| home when his little daughter died last sum-
mer, and it is this sore trouble which made
| him beg release from o pressing invitation
to be present. His name was mentioned on
all sides and his absence noted with regret.
and Mrs. C. C. Mellor, Mr. and Mrs j. P. Nc
Collum, Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Dermitt, Mr.. and
Mrs. John s. Scully, Judge and Mrs. Slagle,
Mr.. and Mrs. W. W. Ramsey, Mr.. and Mrs.
W. B. Wolfe, DR.. and Mrs. III. L. Reinecke,
Mr.: and Mrs. Henry Miller, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Med. Bryce. Andrew Bryce, Mr.. and Mrs. C.
c. Briggs. Edward and John Bindley, Mr..
and Mrs. A. D. Clarke, Mr.. and Mrs Harry
B. Brockett, Mrs. Mary ]. Bowman, John
Muir, Miss Jennie Negley, Miss Nc
ffessFy fenn,y Mr. and Mrs ffhs, Frsnier Ha5Tsy Tsy
Margaret Frazier, the Misses Leonard, Carl
Retter, Miss Reighard, the Misses Luela and
Blanche Ash, Miss Florence McLain, Mrs.
Adah s. Thomas DR.. and Mrs. j. r. Horner,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Mays, Mr.. and Mrs r.
N. scandrett and Miss Scandrett, W. W. and
Mrs. Blanche Fullerton Yeatman, Roanoke,
Va; Miss Rosy Weber and George Hetzel.
On November Is, when the chrysanthe-
mum show is over the Southside Hospital
managers will take possession of the Audi
torium and its beautiful floral decorations,
Their fair will make more prolonged stay
than fairs usually do-for 1t will open on
Monday evening and continue until Satur-
day night. 1t is promised to include every
thing that the imaginations ofclever women
can suggest to realize money for q noble
charity. Dinner will be served every day,
after Monday. On Tuesday and Wednesday
the Southide women will be the hosts in
the dining room. On Thursday. it
will be under the regime of Pittsburg
proper. Allegheny ladies will dispense hos
pitality on Friday, and on Saturday those
who dine will be waited upon by residents
of the East End. The Association of the
Southside, under whose patronage the fair
will be, is putting that right foot forward
which always does good work. Shopkeepers
in town are giving literally. Regardless of
denomination, churches are working side by
side. Everybody considers its success a
foregone conclusion, and all the money
that is made is to roll into the big
empty Golfers of the Southside Hospital
The General Executive Committee consists
OF Mrs. Med. Bryce, Mrs Redman. Mrs Nc
Millen, Mrs Percy F. Smith, Mrs Sweeny,
HILL Mrs. Cready, Mrs. J. NJ. Riddle. Mrs.
Cotton, Mrs. Aldred, Mrs. Taylor and the
Misses kunzler and Wallace. The other
committees formed are: Fancy work, dinner,
basket, ice cream, lemonade candy, fruit
tree, Mt. Washington table, country store
glass stand, common sense and apron BOOTH
doll booth, flowers, New England table,
chocolate stand, fruit stand and fish pond.
THE Pittsburg Harvard Club lately lost
two of its members, Mr.. Santler and Mr.
Soule, whose business removed them perma-
nently out of town. Owing to the small
membership of the club, this, which other
wise would be a matter of regret alone, is in
addition a downright calamity. The club,
though small, STANDS on firm foundation,
and, of course, every year adds to its men,
DerSnlp. Inere was TALK some Clmo ago that
quarterly dinners-chatty, informal and
altogether comfortable affairs, were to be
held during the year, in addition to the
stiff as starch event in January. There will
be four small dinners for the purpose of re-
tanning about them the hospitable atmos-
phere, given at the houses of the mem
beri. The first one doubtless will be at the
house of the President, John H. Ricketson,
Ridge avenue, Allegheny.
Social Chatter.
ONE can hear little sigh of satisfaction,
and imagine an accompanying prayer of
thankfulness, amid the blare in which the
Exposition closes. The torment of the
unawares-and what housekeeper does?-is
the string of country cousins who drop in
Unexpectedly to "do" the big show a the
Point The cousins insist-they always do
that every engagement for unlimited time
to come must be sacrificed, for they haven't
the slightest idea how sacred an engage
mer9 is TO a pair of town eyes. So from one
poi Ss~Of view the closing of the Exposition
Is not wholly matter of regret.
THE new Episcopal Orphans Home, in
Lawrenceville, to be built II little in front of
the present building, on Penn avenue, is be-
ing delayed. The managers are busy at
present trying to cut the coat according to
the cloth by sacrificing here a tower and |
there piazza. They wish to keep the build |
ing as large as the plans originally called |
for, and at the same time by making it |
plain reduce the cost 1t is now uncertain |
when the first shovelful will be taken out |
toward building foundation.
NOT much has been heard of late of the |
University Club, though it is said to be en-
joying u vigorous existence. 1t is believed |
that the intention finally is to build a club |
house similar scope to either the Pitts
burg or Duquesne Clubs However, as there |
is scarcely member of the University Club !
clubs or of both the possibility is dubious
for the success of n third. But the survival |