The evening times., 1896-08-24
SUPERB SOCIETY MANSION
Whitney Home, Where Ii Hung Chang
Will Be Entertained.
bouts of wellKnown People.
Gossip of the Gay World Here
asa and elsewhere.

The home of cX-Secretary William {.
Whitney, at the southwest corner OF ffth
avenue and Fifty-seventh street. New York.
where President Cleveland will receive
the Chinese envoy, was built nearly twenty
five years ago by Mrs. Frederic W. Ster-
ems, Row the Duchess til Dino, who inherit
ed a fortune from her father
To furnish her superb home Mrs. Stevens
imported interiors tIoln Europe, Including
a set OF drawing-rooin furniture. which Is
said to have cost $1oo,0Oo, from tie
Chateau MontrEorenci in France, and beat
,iful old Spanish tapestries.
About u dozen years ago Col. Oliver II.
Payne, brother of the late Mrs. Whitn.:,
purchased the house from Mrs. Stevens,
or the Duchess I'll Dino, and gave it to bis
sister The house was much changed and
improved by Mr.. and Mrs Whitney, the
exquisite and cosby interior furnishings
having been irade under the personal di-
rection of Mrs. Whitney.
The hallway is OF carved oak. the draw
ing-room, which faces Fifth avenue, is one
of the most beautiful in New York, while
the dining -robn is a spacious one in the
VI kut It HdHo Va thC iOoa
are covered with embossed leather. The
crimson receptiun-room on the first floor,
which has stained glass windows facing on
Fifty-seventh street, is upholstered In Grim
son velvet brocadc, and very richly fur
nishea. Mr.. Whitney's private reception
room i S to the right OF the main entrance.
and is connected with the large hailwaysby
a separate hallway
A chief attraction OF the house isthc spIen-
did ba allrooIn which wa added to the house
BY Mr.. and Mrs. whitney. At the time II
was built about six years ago. it was coz
sidered the finest dancing hall in the Uni
ted States.
This magnificent room. which extends
the entire length of the house, with Two
windows opening upon Fifth avenue. Is IN
cream and gold with panels of carved ivory
The first entertainment given in the loom
took place early in 1880, and the reception
AMI bail upon the occasion of the social
debut of Miss Pauline Whitney, now Mrs.
Aimeric Hugh ragct. occurred in December,
1892
1t was magnificent entertainment for
which 800 invitations were issued Until
Mrs WhitDey's death. early i'll 1898, the
house was the scene of many receptions,
dances. dinners, and musicals TIE recep-
lion and wedding breakfast in honor Of
Mr. and Mrs Paget last November was the
last large entertainment given within its
walls
Three thousand people attended the lawn
| concert last night at Congress Hall. Cape
May, given in honor of the distinguished
| diplomats who are spending the summer
| there-French Ambassador Pateno,re. Mex
can Minister DR.. Romero, and Venezuelan
Minister Andrale.
| It was the most select affair of the
| season. the wealth aud beauty suu,mering
| there turning out en- nlasse. The porches
| of the big hotel could not accommodate
| The crush of people, and the spacious lawn
| aud the pavihous on the beach were
| utilized.
Ministers Romero and Andrade and q
party of ladies' occupied one OF the balconies
| of the hotel, from which they could com.
nand splendid view of the porches, the
avn and the pole, from which the flag
| IlIumiua,ions were made.
Twenty-four artists, under the leadership
Of the celebrated Maestro Simon Hassier
rendered the select program arranged, ant
| several pro ninent vocalists sang. The
| program opened with the overture, Mari
tana," and the numbers following were
! II Trovatore, euphonium, obligato; tenol
solo, Pregiera; John B. Linehan, Handel's
Il Know That Ny Redeemer Iveth," ant
violin Solo by Snilschmidt.
Then followed novel and pleasing
feature of the entertainment, salute
l fIa,r NE
Venezuela and America. The full or
chestra rendered the national airs of
these countries as the national ensign o I
each nation was flung to the breeze.
From the top of the hotel dozen calcium
lights were focused upon the flags as the ,
were slowly drawn up to the top of the
pole. There was the greatest enthusiasm
displayed as the flags went up.
When the American flag. magnificent
silk affair forty by twenty-five feet, was
run up, the Immense assembldge arose tC
its feet and sang ''The Star Spangled Ban.
rer" and .'The Red, White and Blue
DR.. Congosto. the Spanish consul at Phla-
delphin, was also one OF the distingUi shed
guests of the evening. occupying a seat in
the new pavilion with party of friends
Miss Mathilda Praeger of Baltimore II
visiting Mrs. D. L. seike, No. 1926 sixtl
street northwest Miss Praeger is one O.
the most talented pianists of the Monu
mental City.
Miss Louise Russell of No. 912 Eleventh
street southeast and her friend, Miss Glars
Kcyser, Of Keyser. Md, left the city Sat
urday fer months visit among friends a,
Salisbury, Nd.
Mrs. Cameron and Miss Martha Cameron
wife and daughter of the senior Senator
from PENNSYLVANIA, have sailed for Europe
on the steamer St Paul
Mrs Frank ]. Metcalf has gone to Ash
land, Mass, to visit relatives of her hus
band. She will be joined later by Mr.
Metcalf, who will spend his vacation homo
One of the prettiest and most popular
| girls at Atlantic City this season Is Mis-,
Helen Evelyn Tally. the daughter of Mr.