Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-02-10
WHEELING REGISTER SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1890.

sic is played while the guests consume
the dainties spread for their entertain
ment.
Richard Harlowe, or, as he is better
known, Dickey Harlowe, is an actor and
a swagger man combined. AS Isabella,
the Daisy Queen of Spain, he has made
himself famous. In the Seville apart
mept house he has finely equipped
suite OF rooms, and his Thursday after
Moons are considered great AFFAIRS.
Fashionable folk and lights OF the
theatrical world attend them, and both
unite in saying that Mr.. Harlowe orews
the best tea in town.
He has 8 number OF small beautifully
carved mahogany tables, each equipped
with rare china aud fine silver. Mr..
Harlowe is very fond OF his ancestry,
and likes to tell how his silver was
handed down by dozen or so Of gen.
erations.
Among TIE finest apartments in the
city are those of George NJ. Allen, who
uses the third floor Of his fathers house
AT No. Al West Fifty-sixth street. lie
also uses the top floor OF the house, ana
the splendor OF the appointments wouid
rival that of an Eastern Prince.
He has little theatre on the top moor
and sometimes the guests at a tea-drlnK'
ing are hidden to step up stairs, where
they are RECALLED with an amateur
vaude Vile show.
He is asskilled photographer, and has
A collection OF 1000 pictures, taken In
all parts Of the world. He has convert
sd many Of them into lantern slides, ana
with the aid Of big stereopticon Is ca
uable of amusing a crowd OF people Ior
several hours at time.
Mr.. Thomas Hugh Kelly, son OF the
late Eugene Kelly, has apartments In
West Fifty-frst street, where ne mas
tea drinkings He also has one OF the
finest collection OF sofa cushions In
town. This sounds a little bit odd. but
a mans popularity in tho feminine
world is measured largely these days by
the number OF sofa cushions be owns.
Judging from the quantity young Kelly
possesses he must be the most popular
man on earth.
Another phase of bachelor entertain
ing is that INDUCED in by men Ike
Perry Belmont and Eugene Higgins,
the richest bachelors in New York
society. These men are not satisfied
with suite Of apartments where they
can entertain their friends in an infor-
NAL way. They demand something
more elaborate, and as they have the
money to satisfy their demands the lat
ter are usually gratiiied.
Young Mr. Belmont has just leased
the house facing Central Park made IA
nous by the royal entertainments given
by Nine. de Barrlos, the beautiful
South American widow, who aston
ished her New York friends a year or
SO ago by marrying a handsome Span
lard. Mr.. Belmont has fitted the de
Barrios house up In s gorgeous fashion,
and In a short time will begin q series
of banquets aud receptions which will
rival anything OF the kind in splendor
in the city.
It's considered a great favor by the
women relatives or close friends Of these
bachelors TO be asked to preside as hos
tess at any Of these functions. There
is novelty about acting es the mistress
Of bachelors abode which seems TO
appeal strangely TO the feminine heart.
OF course, all the ladies who are asked
To preside are matrons. but the matrons
always REQUIRE some deputy assistants,
and these are invariably chosen from
the ranks Of the unmarried girls.
But while there IS little more glory
10 "bossing"a bachelors entertainment
| in a big house, these tea-drinkings in a
suite OF apartments are more popular as
the latter exert fascinating inhuence
which the former does not possess.