New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-14
INCIDENTS IN SOCIETY.

INCIDENTS IN SOCIETY.
Miss De Forest and Miss Calender last night
gave another Of their delightful informal receptions
with music at their apartment in the Tiffany
Building. No. % East .Seventy-second-st
Mr.. and Mrs. Elbridge T. Gerry gave a dinner
party last evening at their home. No. East
Sixty-hrst-st, The guests numbered forty. After
dinner Maurice FarkOa sang.
Among others who entertained at dinner last
night Mr. and Mrs Trenor L. Park whose
guests at small tables arranged in the women's
annex of the Metropolitan Club: Mrs. ]. Hood
Vatable.
Mrs Henry Holt of No III Madlson-ave.. also
gave a dinner party followed by dance last
evening. The guests at the dance. bal de tete
as the invitations described It, We're in fancy dress
the women wearing their hair powdered and the
men having headmasks after the style adopted by
Bottom in THE Midsummer Nights Dream.
The third OF the Knickerbocker series of dances
given at Delmcnico's last night. the guests
being received by the patronesses. Mrs. E l..
Marston, Mrs. A. F.. Lawrence Mrs John Van
NOstrand. Mrs. j. W. Wentz, Mrs j. Parmly. Miss
Helen Gould; Miss Barker. Mrs. James Russell.
Mrs. Wendell c. Phillips Mrs. Manning X. Eyre.
secor, jr., Mrs. II. G Coe Mrs. G. s jenkins, Mrs
II. Bramble Wilson. Mrs 6. w. Jarman and Mrs.
Some of those present were Miss Edith slayback,
SON Macmillan. Miss Virginia Randall Miss Grace
Qunby. Miss Jean Brown Miss Grace Hodgson.
J. Gould, Edison Adams, NJ A. Stone. Frank H.
Van Orden, Alfred Fisher. ]. T. Gillespie and ]. r.
Crawford.
At noon to-day Miss Marjorie Aiken Towle.
daughter of Stevenson Towle. will be married TO
James A. c. Beales, of the late James A c.
Beaes and grandson Of the late ate , Eugene Kelly.
eighth-st. \ reception and wedding breakfast will
follow the ceremony which will be performed by
Catholic Church.
The wedding of Miss Cora Randolph and Richard
Trmble will be celebrated this afternoon at the
home Of the brides parents Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund
A number of guests from this city will go up the
cSr IN special d TSr to fhs ~
The marriage of Miss Selma Froehlich. daughter
of Or: and Mrs. David Froehlich. Of No. III East
In the Red Room at Delmonicos this evening.
The fourth Wednesday cotillon the final one for
this evening Arthur Gouverneur Morris viii lead,
dancing with Miss Agnes Crittenden Adams
A pleasant incident this evening will be the ST.
Valentines dance to be given by Mrs. Frederic ].
De Peyster, at her home, No. East FOrty-second-
in honor OF her debutante daughter. Miss Ella
Peyster as a partner, will lead the cotillon.
Arthur T. Sullivan. Of No 5s4 Frfth-ave. will also
give a dance this evening for young people. 1t will
be dance with St. Valentine features.
A dance will be given this evening at the Hotel
Marie Antoinette under the patronage OF Mrs.
Stephen H. Plum. I'd, Mrs. E. s. Mason. Mrs. R
c. Greenleaf, Mrs. Edgar Van Etten. Mrs: William
Corwin Baker, Mrs: F. W. Abbot Mrs, James W.
Benning, Mrs. Daniel E, Stafford and Mrs. Robert
Dickson.
Mrs. Gustav Edward Kissel of No. Is West Six
feminist, will give the first OF her two days at
home this afternoon
ter. Miss Alice Morton, will sail for Europe to-mor-
join her two other daughters the Misses
Morton. who are in Rome with their aunt Mrs;
for several months.
Mrs n Devereux Clapp and daughter. Miss
Edith Clapp have arranged to leave town on
Wednesday, February %. for Aiken, S. c.
The wedding of Miss Marie Calhoun Butler
daughter of General and Mrs. NJ. c. Butler Lieu
tenant Robert Whitehead McNeely, of the United
States Navy, will be celebrated at noon tomorrow
in St. Johns Protestant Episcopal Church, Wash
ngton. d. c. The ceremony is to be followed by
a breakfast at the home of the brides parents
No. 143f N-st. Miss Caroline Thompson. of this
city Will be the maid OF homer There will be no
he t lieu tenant K Gse u s. N now SOmmsnd
tenant Mark Bristol U s. n; Lieutenant Louis
Lieutenant NJ. G Butler L. 5. A. who comes from
his regiment near Havana TO attend the wedding
TO the breakfast.
Mrs. William Fowler of No 252 West One-hun-
dred-and- thirtysixth-st., will this evening enter
tain the members of the St. Nicholas Euchre Club
Mrs. Daniel p. Ingraham will give reception
with music at her home in the Strathmore Broad
February "a Mrs. Ingraham will be assisted by
her daughter. Mrs. William F. Reese.
Miss Alice Nicholson Coates daughter of Edward
Coates. of Germantown, Penn, to J. Ellingwood
Trask, OF this city
Mrs. Samuel Thomas, of No. II West Fffty-sev-
enth-st., gave luncheon In honor of Mrs Roderick
Terry yesterday Her guests were Mrs A D. Juill-
Mrs. John sloane Mrs Edwin Gould Mrs D6 HI1a
Mrs. Charles T. Barney and Mrs. Charles Stickney
Maurice Farkoa sang after the luncheon.
Two entertainments will be given on Friday for
the benefit of the Pelham Summer Home for Chill
dren, where poor children from New-York City get
hot weather vacations clean clothes and pure food
at the expense Of the patronesses and their friends
In the Pelham Manor Club house on Friday after
noon there will be magic lantern exhibition and
a gramophOne concert for children In the evening
there win be for older folk a series of national
cradle songs sung by the young people who are in
teresed In the charity. At both the afternoon and
the evening entertainments there will be a sale of
articles contributed by friends of the Home The
proceeds VII be devoted to furnishing the new
mer by Westchester women The entertainments
viii be under the direction Of the Junior Associa-
ton, or which Mrs. Secor is chairman.
THE BEARDSLEY AFTERNOON
Mrs. William F. Beardsley gave one OF her In