The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-27
ABOARD 4 FERRYBOA7
Society Sails Up the Hudson to
Benefit St. Katherine's
Home.

A few energetic and determined women
accomplished what many deemed Inn
possible and made the moonlight sail'
In the twin screw f~erryboat BremenisuE
the Hudson River an unqualified sue
cess. Everything conspired to make, the
sail delightful; the moon and stars shone
brightly ON the peaceful waters, the
weather was neither too cold nor too
hot and excellent music, sweet flowers
and accomplished dancers made the time
pass pleasantly. The boat was so com
p1etely fnetamorphosed that it is safe
to say she hardly knew herself. Electric
lights blazed from bow to stern, leaving
but a few cosy corners on the decks for
the moonlight to brighten. Flowers were
everywhere. The ladies' cabin, used as
a ballroom, was filled with the choicest
OF f1owers from the co~nservatories of
Castle Point. Roses. lilies and carna-
tons were placed wherever 1t was pos
sible to put them. A veritable garden
was made of the promenade between the
cabins. Here palms, rubber trees and
towering plants were used. The supper
rooms and dressing rooms were also
filled with flowers.
As the boat started from Hoboken there
were already many on board from Jersey
City, Newark, Orange. Summit, Eliza
beth, Morris Plains and Morristown, and
at Fourteenth street, New York. there
were many more guests VINO had come
to enjoy the novelty of a sail, on a
f~erryboat, and incidentally benefit st.
Katherine's Home, Jersey City, for
which purpose the "sail' was given.
Ihe visitors. as they arrived. were re-
ceived by Mrs Archibald Alexander, who
DlannR0 the nffa1r Mrc hnrno~tCk,,~.
Mrs. Goodhue Livingston. Mrs. Richard
Stevens, Mrs. John Wiimerding' Mrs.
t Augu M.n zabrdskie, Mrs James Flem-
NJ. Hughes, Mrs. Henry H. Walker and
Mrs. H. I. Garrettson. These ladies, as
1ndeed, the majority of those present,
nets. -
AS soon as the vessel was we'll started
On her journey the Floor Committee,
g. Hall. John g. Nesser, Erskine Hewitt,
Wright Post John Freeland, Seymour
E /; Cromwell, William Bayard Blackwell,
Francis B. Stevens, Jr., Stephen Van
Rensselaer,, and ]. 8. oddie, made all
on board happy by startling dancing to
the music of Lander's Band.
Supper was served in the vicinity of
Tarrytown, shortly after eleven O'clock.
A little beyond this point the boat was
headed for home, which 1t reached about
Among the guests were Mrs. Edward
a. LIE Roy, Jr:, Mrs. John Lyon Garai-
ner, Miss Gardiner, the Misses Zaibriskie,
Mrs. Paul Dana, Mrs. Rowland Davis
MIS-. Duncan Elliott, the Misses Shipper,
MISS Miss Lilly Hamilton
Rowland Russell. Mrs. Hilborna Roose-
yelt Miss Elite Shipper. Mrs. Courtlandt
arker Mrs. Benjamin S. Church. Miss
Angelica Schuyler Church, Miss Anna
PEABODY, Miss Edith Hall, Miss Maude
L. Hall, Mr.. Willis Reese, Mr.. George a.
sullivan, Miss Marie, Miss Wilmerding.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer ROBE
Mr. James NJ. Cummings, Miss Edith
Jay Miss Adelaide Katie, Mr.. Richard
b Lyon. Mr.. and Mrs. Egerton L.
Winthrop, Jr.. Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Web
Ster, Mrs. Leon Albeit, Jr.. Mr.. and Mrs.
J. Campbell Mahen, Miss Maben, Mr. J.
G. Maben, Jr., Mr.. Robert Booraem, Mr..
Boudinot Colt, Mrs. Oliver S. Garter,
Miss Carter, Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Col.
gate, Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Van Rens-
selaer, Miss Elizabeth Van Rensselaer,.
Mr. and Mrs. George B. Post, Jr., Mr..
and Mrs. Walter jackson and Mr. and
Mrs. ]. Walter Wood.