New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-19
UESTCHTSTEKS LATEST IRIEMPU.
THE ENTERTAINMENTS GIVEN THERE LAST
WINTER BY JOHN c. FURMAN AND OTHERS.

THE ENTERTAINMENTS GIVEN THERE LAST
WINTER DY JOHN c. ruRMAN AND OTHERS.
Wcsiclc.tcr County has always Lad The good luck
10 be lannon's for something. There Is a difference
Of opinion often 10 what Is rs chief claim TO fame
but there /, never the slightest doubt that its claim
should be- most freely Acknowledged. One man VIII
tell y0u that Wcs'chcstcr County established lis r"pl
iaiom a long ago the Revolutionary Wa. and that
therefore all men must pay honor to It. That l. a
good argument too. Not n few people will declare
that wcslclcstor County should down on the pages
~ history ~ having the IarChmOnt Yacht Club for
It's own II Is safe TO say that no members OF this
fortunate organization will disput" that asScrtion
Bat the good oil Wcstchcstcr ctizcn-hc Of tile soil
who Is sweep OF hills. It's te ftnged Shores It's
handsome woodlands and It's slopng hclds-wlll say
that Is the aFcimont club that Is honoTd by being
iu the lamoi, comfy. However that may be- he l.
RI sb man who VIII deny that the clubhouse is on one
Of the prcc,t spots OF The earth and that all around
it is lovclincss
The man who loves horses ana races can md enough
Glory for one county I'm the fact that Morris Parh big
gest of all the racccOures lies within the honorcd
boundaries Of Westche>trr County.
II fl wcrc not for Wcstch"ster County New-lovk
might not have any water her citizens might b. thirsty
all the lime or taking the alternative, might drink 50
much beer 10 become foreigners ard thus he ds
iIanch-cd ana though this would not be- so great
slp-,c 10 Hcpubl cans-,or tie Democratic lesil or
have practically DISTINGUISHED them already, 50 thit
they are bccornlng used such msiortunc-it would
be- extremely hard OF Tammany, which knows GOOD
thing when II has 1t and doesn't like to let 90 OF It,
Moreover II there hadn't been any westchcster County
and consequently no watershed there there wouldn't
have been any aqucduct. And II there had nor been
any aauoiuct there wouldn't have been so many ilch
Tammany contractors, and so tile Wigwam cheis also
sing the fame OF weschestcr County
Then there Is Chauncey VI. Depew! II WestchcstcT
aAA
Peckskil It would still have become famous, Tor VINO
does not know that It In Pceksal cradle that
Mr.. Depew mapped ont HE campaign OF eioauehce
and witt II Westchcster County had been Just big
enough TO hold Pcekskl and II Peek kill had been W
ldg enough to hold the Dcpew house, ana the Depc"
house had been bigger than was necessary 10 nc
commodntc that cradle Wcstchestcr County would ST II
have been as famous rs one county well couid De.
I'm, the latest claim Of this already famous county
rests ON om-thing entirely different from everything
that has yet been mentioned That Is way west
chester County has. 1t i, always surprising peopc
Last winter II wns continuous surprise Party. u
va, the scene of repeated brilliant social entertain
mcnts Wcstchescr County has long hal the snartc,t
Of smart sets along It's beautiful sn0ie' IN sulnhSr
II remained for people 10 see nlaih'nih us so.'.
prominence In the winter Of ls0.!'' IL !, 10 VIVA,
iit"ii H., called the sugar and cOidAge colony that
great part this social brliancy OF the last ,'nNon
VA. due. The Iavemoyrrs entertained grcal d'aL
will av>htc,. and splrndor. In the county. John C.
turman burst forth social lSht 81 cAreuic Di,i"hcs
He Is "A bachelor, but no married man win si,i,
Stat cond have kept open house on m;rr geicr
,,. .ooIc linn no Though iach lors not ted
tn .ntrl tain In more than perlnnciory wly-a pre-
fond f. nav ynuro nal del Is wny-ls guests wer TO b"
numbered moi by pairs, bat Icy the score AMI he fcl
loved the best traditions Of having ones friends at
romnir; place by keeping III M With him for several
d~ys-iatnl genuine !" Ii us parlie'' lie ad m ~
over to assist him his sister. Mrs j. VI. Waterbury,
Il, rs,lf ,lwa,s "A most Generous cntcr ihr
SOL t, las no yet ce's T. al abou Mr. Furman,s
;. perim,nt He has bought Il house In New YORK
civ and it Is supposed that when I'll" new star does
moi shine I'm Wcetciestr County he means q at ID sial
hoze ont in New DIRK, but such was the woncer OF 1t
all last winter that many people loyal 10 the county
a. o,,. n Hnrem River relieve tta social fupCilon
on Manhattan Island equal this the latest fame OF
N.e for