New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-25
INCIDENTS IN SOCIETY.

The meeting OF the Knickerbocker Bowling Club
at the Tennis Building, in West Forty-hrst-st, yes
terday afternoon was a large and interesting one.
There some excellent bowling In the alleys for
the prizes presented by Mrs Frederic J. DE Peyster,
a handsome tea table and a silver-moun,ed cane
presented by j. Hooker Hamersley the president
Of the club The table by Miss 8. De +.
Dalton. and the cane BY the Rev. Braddn Hamil-
ton. The officers OF the club this year are J.
Hooker fIamersley. president William NJ Purdy.
secretary. and Walter Rutherford. treasurer. The
managers are Matthew Aston Wuks: Dr. Donald
VI. Cammann. Walter Rutherfurd J. Hooker Ham,
ers!ey and Schuyler Cortland Van Rensselaer,. The
Presco Ha G Butter H " MTs Phb j. Sands de- Mrs
Frederic J. DE Peyster, Mrs. Philip Rhinelander,
Clement c. Moore Mrs George + Kingsand Mrs.
J. Muhenbers Bailey and Mrs. William +; Isen-
Some Of those present were Mrs. Grenye Win
throD Miss Winthrop MIS- isaac Lawrence, Mrs.
Newbold. Miss Margaret LeverIch and Mrs. II. r. Q.
Davis
The engagement was formally announced yester-
day Of Miss Matna Riker. third daughter Of Ma
seventh-st to James Howe Proctor OF the
late Thomas Emerson Proctor, Of Boston.
The marriage OF Miss Carrie Koch to Alexander
WendIer was solerpnized at $50 o'clock last even
ing AT the home Of the brides father, Peter Koch
No 1.s2s Madlson-ave. Because Of a recent be-
reavemont in the family Of the bride only the rela-
tives invited 10 the ceremony which was
performed by the Rev. Dr. Louis Hafmann, pastor
OF the Emmanuel Lutheran Church. The bride
who wore travelling costume Of gray cloth. was
given away by her father. There were no brides
maids. maid Of honor or .ushers Franz WINNER
best man Mr.. and Mrs. Wendler will sail for
Germany on Tuesday Of next week.
Atlanta Ga. will be the scene on April % Of a
wedding that will greatly interest New-Yorkers
DR. Sinclair Tousey. of No. % West Thrty-eighth-
St. this city. and Miss Julia Gerdng. the daughter
Of the late julius Gerding Of Atlanta, are tho
contracting parties. Miss Gerdirg on her moth
er's side is Of the old Virginia Cavalier stock the
Cartwrights, and Or. Tousey is the son OF John
F. Tousey, Of BROOKLYN, and a grandson OF the
News Company lie il assistant surgeon at Roose-
Welt Hospital and chief at St Bartholomews.
Gerding's attendants are her sister. Miss Elise
Gerding. the maid Of honor. and Miss Bessie Tor
Or. Warren Gambler, president OF Emory College,
will perform the ceremony
Mr. and Nine. Theodor Bj5rksten gave the FIRST
OF TWO musicals Yesterday afternoon at their
home. No. 50 West Fifty-fourth-st Among those
who sang Miss Adea brown, Miss Hlrsch-
berg Miss Annie Gbney. Mrs Grenve Smelling
W. Klamroth. Miss A. Duncan and Theodore Bjork-
stem The music was greatly appreciated by
number. Of their friends, among whom we're Mrs
MacLean. Mrs. John l. Kane Mr.. John O. Emery
BALDWIN Mrs. Bret Hart Mrs. Isaac Never. Mr.
and Mrs. John II. Cray, Elliot Schenck, Mr.. Piz-
zareo. Grenville Smelling and Richard irwin.
Their next musical viii be the afternoon OF
Wednesday, March 81.
Mr.. and Mrs Frederic II. Benedict. Of No. West
Fifty-second-st.. gave a yesterday afternoon IN
honor Of Miss Alice Tracy Wimerdins, whose en-
gagement TO Frederic z. COudert jr was an
| nounced n fortnight ago.
London. March 24.-The Most Rev. Or. Frederick
Temple Archbishop Of Canterbury to-day issued
license for the marriage OF Colonel Villiers Hat
ton OF the Grenadier Guards and Miss Emily
! Burial Hoffman. an American woman.