The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-25
SWELLS STIRRED.
New York Society In a Flutter
Over the Sherry Raid.
Many Different Tales as to Its
Naughtiness.
MADE IT AWKWARD
Because Young Mr.. SeeIey Was
Married on Wednesday.
Story of Those Who Took Part
In the Raid.
rFrom the New York Journal

From the New York Journal
That dinner at Sherry's viii doubt
less become as famous in history as the
banquets of Lucullus, as the feasts OF
Nero. That dinner has already shaken
two worlds, the world of society and
the world of vaudeville. 1t must be ad-
mitted that if it shook one it must con
vulse the other for the two worlds met
there. And it was because they met
there that all this trouble arose that
all this talk is going on Incidentally
it may be remarked that one grandson
of the only P. IT, Barnum gave the dim
ner to another grandson wha. was mar
ried Wednesday, They, unWillngly, are
Erandsons worthy of the great Barn
UNI. There never was more talk about
the W0Olly Horse. or the Siamese twins
or the Egress than there has been
about this dinner.
For. as the lamented NIcAllister used
60 remark, don't you see. don't you un-
derstand- Captain Chapman in effect
raided Sherry's, sacred to Matriarchs
and RarrlarchS- captain chapman
walked in on the dinner party just as
he would into a concert hall, because he
was looking for a young woman called
Little Egypt, who should be permitted
to dance only in the darkness of Egypt
great or little. He did not find her, and
as far as he saw. save in the dressing
room, the performance was entirely
proper and therefore entirely agreea-
BILE But, don't you see, the mere SuS-
piciOn that it was not. the mere entry
OF a ponce captain upon a QluueE given
TO fine young man. who was to be
married is very. very obnoxious to that
young man and TO his father, who was
there. and TO his friends who We're
there, some of them to be his ushers at
his wedding.
Clinton Burton Seeley is a member of
the Union League club and of the
LarChmont Yacht and New York Yacht
clubs This eminently respectable
young man lives with his eminently re-
spectacle father, Nathan Seeley, at No
3 East Thirty ninth street. Nathan
Saeley belongs to the Union League, the
New York Yacht club and the New
England society.
Clinton Burton Seeley and Herbert
Seeley are his sons,
The dinner was elaborate and be-
tween its courses the artists appeared
on the stage just as did the dancers
and players to Lucullus and Nero, re-
cHning earIanded. These artists please
to remember, were furnished by Phipps
& Apuente. theatrical agents. Those
whom the diners SO loudly applaud
ed were Farmer and Rush. banjoists;
Miss Cora Routt. seriOcCmic. Miss Lot
tie Mortimer, seriO-cOmic, Miss kath-
leen Warren, song and dance artist;
the Leigh Sisters, song and dance ar
lists, and, Tor a change, Miss IlenWOOd,
of the legitimate drama, if you please
There was a Christmas tree on the
stage, on which We're suspended fine
presents for these Valudevillists who
contributed so much to the jOyOusness
of the occasion
All would have gone as merrily as
the wedding bells had not William S
Moore, another theatrical agent. called
on Captain Chapman and told him that
his daughter, known on the stage as
Annabelles a dancer, had come back TO
him in tears after being invited TO
Phipps & Alpuente's office She had
been asked, she said. to dance at the
Seeley dinner in a. costume as gauzy as
the dress wicked old Nero's dancing
girls wore
Captain Chapman and his two ward
l.nH.a i've
about that. When a woman walked
out the policemen walked in and finally
made their way into the dressing room,
which, after all, was certainly q dress
ing room. Then there was a fine how
dye do. So this is the starting point Of
che many interesting stories that fol-