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, its 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
| niffcent and spacious in the country. 1t
| 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
Delmonico and Jack Astor to see (which
shall give the first housewarming.
In lieu of the regular opera season.
the plans Of Mr. Damrosch cover a
season Of five weeks Of French, Italian.
and German operas, beginning on Jan.
II, Mime. Melba to be the principal
star, and two new works to be given,
the first Hash Heesh, which, has been
great success in Berlin, and the other
Ulysses Home Coming" whose sue
cess in Dresden has been very great.
for a 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
such a great fashionable feature at the Mad
ison Square garden each season, promises
great additional attractions 30 follow its open
ing on Nov is. AS in past seasons it will be
as much, If 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
will 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
Of the past season and their hopes and plans
for the coming one.
The feuds and domestic quarrels in fash
ionable society 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.
husband and marriage to O.. H. P. Belmont
was the fruitful cause of innumerable dis
sentions, 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 g. rec
ognition of her social claims, which will
doubtless prove lasting. Mrs. Belmont, who
is now abroad playing the part of 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
| plioations Of relationship that would puz-
| zle a dozen Philadelphia lawyers to olsen
| tangle The young children who coming
| upon the scene will, in many instances, have
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