The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-10-10

lamps burning low and everything point
ing TO sentiment and Irritation. Then there
will be the annual luncheons In Mrs.
Astor's picture gallery. which can always
be relied upon by each generation OF debu-
tantes. and as yet unanuounced entertain
ments by Mrs. Whitney. Mrs. Elbridge T..
Gerry, Mrs Calvin 5. Brice. Mrs. II.
Mortimer Brooks. Mrs. Henry T. Sloane
and Mrs Townsend Burden. With all these
ladies. each one OF whom presides over a
princely mansion. and has always been
governed by the most hospitable instincts,
how can New York be otherwise than
Gay2
will be the realization OF the Society OF
Musical Arts and their grand entertain
ment scheme which is to be inaugurated
as soon as the splendid new Astoria hotel
can be got ready. There are TO be eight
performances IN all two OF pantomime,
two OF vaudeville, and two VIII be de-
voted 10 ballet and two to vocal and IN
stUumental music. Each performance is
70 begin al II p. m. and continues until
1890 a. m. but what the gilded youth are
looking forward 10 with great zest and In
terest are the symposlums which are TO
succeed the entertainments proper.
Speaking OF the new entertainment at
the Astoria brings 10 mind that the re-
modelled Sherry's modern palace OF pleas
ure. with its great bali room and parIors
decorated In royal style. its superb en-
trance hall and its cafe modelled after the
most famous resorts or the kind IN Paris,
VIII be a new rendezvous for society when
the season begins. The great feature viii
be- the grand ball room on the fourth floor
which viii probably be the most magnif-
cent and spacious In the country. Ii VIII
be nearly 100 feet square and three stories
high. and be approached through a superb
oil
gold.
The new Dclmonico building. which win
probably De completed about the time that
the Astoria IS ready is expected 20 opcn
fts hospitable doors for one OF the fret
fail functions Of the four hundred and
there is a hot race between Delmonlco
and Jack Astor 20 see which shall give the
first housewarmlng
In lieu u the regular opera season the
plans of Nr p4mrosch cover season Of
five weeks Of French. italian and German
operas beginning on January r. Mime.
Melba 70 be tho principal star. and two
new works 20 be given rFo frat 'fFFaa-
hecsh." which has been a great success IN
brri'8 and the ether '-f Ulysses Home
Coming" whose success N Dresden has
been very great. Whether Mime Lehman
vii return Cor a few performance IS as
yet unsettled on account az the condition
OF her heaith. MesxTs Damrosch and Ellis
say that they wifi give the operas as gem
erous mounting as the traditions OF the
Metropolitan opera house demand
The great horse show. which has becoroa
SUCH 2 great fashionable feature az the
Madison Square Garden each sea son. PROM
fees great additional attractions to follow
its opening on November = As in raat
seasons, . VIII be rs much n not more a
show ~ beauty and fashion. as o. horses
Precr 3inx this there VIII be horse shows
- tire Westcbesfer County Aasoriatfon
that under the auspices Of che M9rrlstovvn
FIELD Club, arr The Orange County Hore@
show Assoris ton al of which viii be a.
tended by New York fashIorabIes. Tbs
Madison Square show IS always consider
- IS tho advent % fhe social season b,
town and under the portals u the garden
the leaders Of society who viii come from
AL the resorts far and near viii chat IN
their boxes about their dlfferen, exper{en-
ees of the past season, and their homes
and plans for The coming one.
The feuds and domestic quarrsls IN fash
ionAnle society are % such a wonderfully
complex character thar how they are "a
From the tine Of the quarrel between fha
Two Mrs Astors go 20 which had she right
20 be the Mrs. Aster." untn The present
qlaFreiiHE seems ~ have been almost thu
rule Ia many OF the leading society fam
lies.
Mrs. W. X. vsnderblt's divorce ~raro
her husband. and m3rriass % Mr . II
Z Belmont was TIE fruitful cause OF IN
Vulnerable dissenzions. some taking tia
i&1y : part and some her late husbands,