New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-05
INCIDENTS IN SOCIETY.

The dance which Mr. and Mrs. William Douglas
Sloane gave last night one Of the most delight
full affairs of the social season. Their home, at NO.
6p Fifth-ave.. and also the home OF Mrs. william III.
Vanderbilt which adjoins II, ablaZe with ish's
and the rooms were tastefuy decorated with choice
flowers and plants The dance was not given IN the
home Of Mr. and Mrs. Sloane. but In the large In
side gallery In Mrs. Vanderbilt's house The CO.
ton. which led by J. Frederic Tams, VINO had
his partner Miss Sloane. in beautiful gown OF
white satin yelled with white mousseline de soie'
was danced at midnight Supper was served az
o'clock, the guests being seated at small tables
which in the small gallery, the dining-room
and large hallway of Mrs Vanderbilts house
Among Mr.. and Mrs Sloane's guests were Gov
ernor-elect and Mrs Morton and the Misses Mortoh'
Mr. and Mrs. George Il. De Forest. MI ana Mrs'
Egerton L. Winthrop jr.. Mr.. and Mrs ELISHA Dyer
jr.. Mr. and Mrs. Prescott Lawrence. Mr. ana MIS-
Cornelius Vanderbilt. Mr.. and Mrs Ebrdge T.
Gerry. NJ and Mrs F. Egerton Webb Mr.. and
Mrs Charles F. Havemeyer. Mr.. and Mrs. Luther
Kountze Mr. and Mrs ogden Mills, Mr.. and Mrs
c. Albert Stevens. Mr.. and Mrs. August Belmont
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore +. Havemeyer jr. Mrs.
Paran Stevens Mr. and Mrs. y. Cooper Hewitt MIS-.
Burke-Roche Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund L. Baylies'
Miss Van Rensselaer,. Mr.. and Mrs. whitney war
rem Mr. and Mrs. W. Starr Miller Mr. and Mrs
Robert Coeet Miss Anna Sands. Miss Marie WIN
throp, Mr.. and Mrs. Buchanan Winthrop, MT ana
Mrs l. Townsend Burden. Miss Evelyn Burden MT
and Mrs Perry Tiffany, Mrs. Brockholst Cutting
Miss Josephine johnson, Mr.. and Mrs Thomas
Hitchcock, Mr.. and Mrs. James i. kernochan ana
Mr. and Mrs. James NJ. Waterbury.
Mrs George Hoffman gave tea yesterday after
noon at her home No. 20 West Fifty-seventh-st.,
to introduce her daughter. Miss HOFFMAN Inc de-
butante was assisted by her mother and Miss Elsie
Clews. Miss Elizabeth King, Miss Alice tracy
Wilmerding Miss Ethel Ketchum and MISS hunt
One OF the most elaborate coming-out receptions
nv Charles
Wetherbee at the buckingham Hotel, in Fifth
ave- in honor Of her daughter and only child. Miss
I.l.ah Hooper Wetherbee Assisting the deputante
were her other and Miss Blanche Nones MISS
Albna Yale. Miss Hattie Jackson. Miss Virginia
Cary Miss Annette Stewart. Miss Frlda Marsh
Miss Beatrice Richardson. Miss Mary Brown, MISS
Hatzcnbach and Miss Adelaide Doremus. The re-
cepton was followed by dinner party. The favors
were solid silver
Mrs Feliowes Davis. of No. 81 West Forty-eghth-
St. yesterday afternoon gave a luncheon at her
home in honor OF Miss Alice Hastings. daughter OF
DR.. William H. Hastings. OF Boston and relative
OF Mr. Davis. The guests all young girl friends
OF Mrs Davls's daughter, Miss Marie Antoinette
Davis Besides the guest OF horror and Miss Davis
there sat at the tables Miss Ju,Iete de Neufville'
Miss Aguostni, Miss Stiliman. Miss woodward Miss
Bel. Miss Mary Kearny. Miss He.en Gailatn' MISS
Clara Lincoln. Miss Ethel Hunt. Miss Crooke, Miss
Edith Antolnette Baker. Miss Eoise Davis. Miss
Hcnop. Miss Alice Hartman. Miss Mabel Jones
Miss Katharine Hoppin. Miss Caroline Lee Miss
Mabel Lewis. Miss Elsie Cleveland. Miss Be.snap,
Mss Bessie Stokes and Miss Elizabeth Hare
The first meeting this season Of Mrs John l.
Halls dancing class. which has grown TO the Dig
nifty OF a fu.l-felged ball. as Its membership num-
bers over 300 and will hereafter be known as the
Tuesday Evening Dances. held In the handsome
large ballroom IN Sherrys last night The young
people were received In the pink room by me pa
;ronosses- Mrs Han Of COuf@s; Mrs. John ErVlng
Mrs Frederic Goodrdge. Mrs. J. Lyon Gardiner
Mrs Frederic Gal.atln Mrs. William Hoppin. MIS-
Rarnarl MaclSay Mrs Frederic J. De Peysier MIS-
charles t. Sands. Mrs Lawrence Wells ana MIS-
William Rhne.ander Informal dancing preceded
the coililon which was started about lo;W cI9cK
John r Walnwrght. leading. with Miss Elsie fial
sumner was served At midnight Among the dancers
were Miss Hall. Miss Este Coster. MISS Souttcr
Nlqs Alice Mckim. Miss Fannie Dudley. MISS Mary
law Miss Edith Van Cortandt Jay, Miss Eeanor
Srrrven Miss Alice Tracy Wllmerding Miss Louise
N,oseve,, Miss Margaret Adams. Miss Ethel lselln
Miss Fuller Mss Jullette de Neufvl.le. MISS MaDel
Lewis winthrop Mckim. Herbert Parsons mayer
Robh Harold Binney. Arthur i. Sturgls i.Deh 81
ven- = W Rhineland-r. Ernest T.. lori.ari
lanes = Bacon. Horace Gal.atin GrenVlHe W IN
throp DE Ruyter Holllns. George Morrison r.,
Mis- Beatrlz Henderson. the Misses pe;aur!l MISS
Tceser Lowell Lincoln and Edward llvingsion
Mrs Samuel II. Valentine OF NO ~ East rity
seventh-si gave dinner last evening at when ,ne
table decorations were pink roses ana fnslsh
v.o,c.i Ther. was either music during the dinner
Among those present were Mr.. ana MIS- a. !;
nix Colonel and Mrs. O. J.. Gillespie MI anu
Mrs 3 Fisher johnson and A. C. Zabriskle'