The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-10
NO MORE PATRIARCH BALLS
PASSING OF THE SERIES MADE FA-
NOUS BY MIR. M'ALLISTER.

The Events HAD lest In Popularity Since Els
Death, and Yesterday the Subscribers Met
ana Decided TO Dissolve-Oidest and Most
Important or the subscription Dances
The Patriarchs, tho organization under whose
direction the Oldest and most important set Of
subscription dances in this city has been given.
was dissolved at q small meeting held yesterday
afternoon. Very few persons will know Of this
fact until to-day. A meeting Of the members to
vote on the subject Of dissolution was called for
yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the state
apartments of the Waldorf. Those who re-
spondcd wore Johnston Livingston. Elbridge T.
Gerry, William @. Whitney, Charles Lanier,
William Rhinelander Stewart. George Griswold
Haven, Edward N. Taller, Edmund l.. Baylies,
Buchanan winthrop, and Bradish johnson.
Absent members sent their votes by letter.
These were thrown out and only those Of the
members present counted. There wero ten yeas
and two nays. The two in favor of continuing
the balls are said TO have been Johnston Liy-
ingston and Il. N. Taller.
During the twenty-four or twenty-five years Of
the existence of the organization the Patriarch
balls, with the exception Of those OF the past sea
son, have been given at Delmonico's. Robert g.
Remsen, who died last year. was tho last sur
vivor Of the original members. Delaney Kane,
George Bend, II. 10 Grand Cannon, j. Fred
Tams, Thomas Howard, and Elisha Dyer, Jr.,
are among those who have led tho ~cotillons Of
the Patriarchs.
Franklin Bartlett led for q number Of years.
and he was Mr.. McAllister's choice Of all load
ers. Mr.. Bartlett led the last Of the balls, which
was given on the night Of March 2 at the Wal
ment Of these balls has been somewhat OF a fail.
ure. since the death Of Ward McAllister.. For a
u sf the 81 Say = months So a Of . each Seh'W Winter ane b sSyaal and and
ended with a Patriarch ball. On this account
the coming-out teas were compressed into the
NINTH Of and m AZ n vn nf IlnCRnhar
Al the first bail Of each winter the en-.
. Tire list Of dsbutsntes was i1ySa ar pSco seen
was apt to indicate tho young women.s, social
success or the reverse; During Ward MeAllis,
iergs qa iSs she tb mri int and ,sss oe ans. were fh w a,ws aSs
until after Mir. McAIlistor's death that the
splendor of the entertainments, considering the
balls given each season at Delmonico's cost
$4,000. Tho floral decorations were very
elaborate. The regular late course. supper was
supplemented by a light hit. 6u net affHa ir, served srrsS up
sSestra sq fnrnisb bed t fat music pSi' TWO large OF
There was never any change in the form of
the invitations, which were engraved on note
Patriarchs' names under the body Of the invita-
ton. Each Patriarch received eight as his
for the members Of his own family. but. the
others were used to wipe out special social Oh
legations; II was always possible; also: to confer sr
sending Invitations to the Patriarch balls. With
the dearth Of private functions In New York
this was no small matter. Each Of the Patri-
archs In turn sent his list Of invited guests TO
Ward McAllister. Besides these, there were Q
certain number of special invitations issued
with the general consent. The recipients Of
these were notabilities temporarily in town and
members of the Diplomatic Corps at Washington.
1t was the original specified object of the
Patriarchs not to give the balls exclusively for
one set, but to general society, and 1t was only
after the death of Mr.. McAllister that they
lapsed into small, exclusive functions.
The Patriarchs' list for the winter Of 1S96-97
follows: John Jacob Aston, Edmund L. Baylies,
August Belmont, Heber r. Bishop, George s.
Bowdoip, /. Townsend Burden, James A. Bur-
den, Sir Roderick Cameron. S. ". R Cruger. w.
Bayard Cutting, Charles D.. Dickey, Hamilton
Fish, Frederic Gallatin, j. Lyon Gardiner. FL
bridge T. Gerry, William Gihon. Ogden Goelet,
Robert Goelet, ]. Hooker. Hamersley. George
G.. Haven, Adrian Iselin, G.. Old. Iselin,
Bradish Johnson, James p. Kernochan. Wood
bury G.. Langdon, Charles Lanier. John
ston Livingston, Edward Livingston. Brad
Icy Martin. ]. Pierpont Morgan. William
Oothout, William c. Pell, Wiiteiaw Reid, VIII
liam Rhinelander, j. Hampden Robb, James
Roosevelt, James A. Roosevelt, Eugene Schief-
felin, w. Watts Sherman, Byam X. Stevens,
John Stewart. Jr., Arson Phelps Stokes, Edward
N. Taller. Cornelius Vanderbilt, James NJ.
Waterbury, William G. Whitney, NJ. Orme Will
son. Buchanan Winthrop, Egerton Winthrop.
Johnston Livingston was the President of the
organization, G. G.. Haven Secretary, Charles
Lanier Treasurer, and William c.. Whitney, w.
Watts Sherman. and the late James p. Ker-
nochan comprised the Executive Committee.