The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-10

pleasure, with it's great ball room and
parlOrs decorated in royal style, it's SUI
perb entrance hall and it's cafe modelled
after the most famous resorts of the
kind in Paris, will be q new rendeZ-
vouS for society when the season be-
gins. The great feature will be the
grand ball room on the fourth floor
which will probably be the most mag
nificent and spacious in the country. It
will be nearly 100 feet square and three
stories high and approached through G
superb entrance hall finished in white
marble and gold.
The new Delmonico building, which
will probably be completed about the
time that the Astoria is ready, Is ex-
pected to open it's hospitable doors for
one of the first fall functions of the
400, and there Is hot race between
Delmon1co and Jack Astor to see which
shall give the first houseWarnling.
In lieu of the regular opera season.
the plans Of Mr.. Damrosch cover a
season Of five weeks of French, Italia1.
and German operas, beginning on Jan.
II, Nine. Melba to be the principal
star, and two new works to be given,
the first Hash sHeesh,'' which has been
a great suceesSin Berlin, and the other
Ulysses Home Coming whose sue
cess in Dresden has been very great
Whether Nine. Lehman will return
for few performances is as yet unset
tied, on account Of the condition of
her health. Messrs. Damrosch and
Ellis say that they will give the operas
as generous mounting as the traditions
Of the Metropolitan opera house de-
mand
The great horse show which has become
sich great fashionable feature at the Mad
lson Square garden each season, promises
great additional attractions TO follow its open
ing on Nov Is. As in past seasons it will be
as much, II not more show of beauty and
fashion, as of horses. Preceding this there
will be horse shows of the Westchester
County association, that under the auspices
of the Morristown Field club. and the Orange
County Horse Show association, all of which
viii be attended by New York fashionables.
The Madison square show is always con-
s1dered as the advent of the social season
In town. and under the portals of the garden
the leaders of society who will come from
all the resorts far and near will chat in
their boxes about their different experiences
or the past season and their hopes and plans
for the coming one. ,1-...
The feuds and domestic quarrels in fash
1onable society are of such a wonderfully
complex character that how they are to end
Is purely matter of speculation. From the
time Of the quarrel between the two Mrs.
Astors as to which had the right to be the
Mrs Aston" until the present, quarreling
seems to have been almost the rule in many
of the leading society families
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt's divorce from her
husband and marriage to o. H. P. Belmont
was the fruitful cause of innumerable dis
sentiGns, some taking the lady's part and
some her late husbands, until Newport SEEM
ed divided into two hostile camps. The mar
rage Of Miss Consuelo to the Duke of MARI
borough was a magnificent stroke of policy
on the part Of her mother, and forced a rec
ognitton Of her social claims, which will
doubtless prove lasting. Mrs. Belmont who
is now abroad playing the part of a fond
grandmother, is expected to return before
the season is far advanced and will doubt
less be again welcomed by New York soci-
ETY. as she was at Newport this summer.
The marriage of Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.
to Miss Grace Wilson, which caused 50 bitter
an estrangement between the son and his
parents, is reported to have been substantial
ly healed, and many facts are given in sup
port, of this statement 1t is to be hoped
that this report will prove true, even. to the
extent of reconciing the Wilson's, the Goelets
and the Wanderbilts, al three families be-
ing so intimately connected by marriages.
There is a ludicrous and comic aspect to
these queer family jars. What with mixed
up marriages, and divorces there are COM
pfcations Of relationship that would puz-
zle dozen Philadelphia lawyers to olsen
tangle. The young children who are coming
upon the scene will, in many instances, have