New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-16
SOCIAL ASPECT or THE OPENING.
CHARACTER OF THE AUDIENCE-PEOPLE
WHO WERE PRESENT.
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Boston, Oct. 15.--If one wished to tell VINO were
present the opening of the music hall this
evening he would have to transcribe large portion
| of Boston society blue book The representatives
! of art, learning business and society out in
| force. Had it been a New-York affair it would
doubtless have looked more brilliant for the peo-
| pie of New-York take to gay raiment more gener-
| ally and more quickly than the people of Boston
| Nevertheless it was a brilliant audience for
| Boston A larger number of dress coats is seldom
seen, but the women preserved the general
Jenny Wren kind of sobriety in color. Dur
| ing the symphony evening gowns and
| clawhammer dress coats are seldom seen here,
whereas they are the rule at the Philharmonic
certs and similar entertainments in New-York
But the list Of patrons of the symphony concerts
runs much deeper into the social list here than
do the corresponding lists in New-York Here the
symphony concerts stand not only for themselves
in the department Of artistic entertainment they
also I'LL the place that opera does in New-York
But Boston has learned to affect a disregard for
gala dress which would sadly interfere with New
Yorks enjoyment Of anything which brings few
hundred people together. Boston begins hurrying
out of its rooms ten minutes or so before
the end Of the programme is reached in order to
tch suburban trains and streetcars. The unat-
tracttve appearance of the old music hall was
calculated encourage this unsocial behavior. II
is among the dreams of young social philoso-
piers that the order of things may bring about
changes in the attitude of Bostons people toward
life. After they have to admire their own
appearance in the CHEEKY surroundings, in the
CHEEKY environment which Symphony Hall offers
them il is thought that they will have less desire
to hurry from each others presence. Then they
may gradually learn TO don festive attire and
eventually offer restaurants inducements keep
II o'clock at night. But perhaps these young
New-York have made them forget the seriousness
and soiemnity OF artistic enjoyment
cises this evening was variously made up; Mr.; II;
l. Higginson, who is at once the lessee of the hall
seems TO have taken a peculiarly characteristic
to his taste and he die not look upon the occa-
sion as one for money making Such view, in
he has ever INDUCED in connection with his labors
it, assuming the burden of its maintenance free
isst he nh TIiIT he nreserLled sgainSF fSnobIe
uses. Mr.. Higguson tonight showed his fellow
stockholders IN what spirit he conceived his trus-
dred-were his guests They formed one distinctive
element in the audience, although they Were not
guests, the guests Of the architects, builders and
guests since 10 him fell the cost Of the elaborate
fair representation from Nev-York MI McKim
Messrs. Kendall and De Gersdorff, from among
his associates, also Stanford White and Mrs.
White Among the musicians were John K. Paine,
Walter Damrosch, Frank Damrosch George ";
Randolph, the last director of the Peabody Con-
Professors Charles W. Eliot, Wallace c. Sabine and
T. W. Hooper Of Harvard and Professor Cross, OF
the Mussa chusetts Institute of Technology Here
and there scattered through the listeners were J,
Montgomery Sears Mrs. J. 1. Gardner, Albert A.
Pope n W Blackman c. A Coffin, Robert Treat
c. Cabot George l. Peabody, Elliot Hubbard jon
athan Beebe Mrs s. L. Aspinwall +, Gordon Dex-
ter Mrs. Lucy B. Lowell, Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus
Heminway. Mrs John c. Gray. Henry w. Swift,
?. Shattuck Dr. Z. H. Bradford. DR. z. G. Cutter.
Mrs J. j. storrow, Mr. and Mrs H NJ. Whitney,
J. K. Lothrop, J. J. Putnam, Charles E Getting,
Mrs G. H Shaw. T. Russell Sullivan DR.. Mixter.
r. ". Emmons, G. NJ. Low, Gordon NJ Lane. JEFF
Ames Mrs r R. Perkins E. B. Hagar. Chan
ming Lilly Henry T. Glider, Miss Ethel Stockton.
Mrs. l. c. Fenno, T. w. Lawson. Charles E SamP-
son ". p. Blake, George Maxwell, Of New-York;
Mrs G. Putnam Mrs owen j. Wister, of Phila-
deiphia Miss Cary Mrs Agassiz Charles T Head,
c. s. Stoddard. Mr. and Mrs. Ehen 5. Draper
Al!in DanfOrth. Mrs. Richard Cary Mrs John
Lowell Dr. F. q. Balch, Alexander Steinert Henry
r Reid Miss Reid Frederick Emory, 7. II
Cabot Mrs Charles Fairchid, William Lawrence.
Dana Estes. Mrs. Ellen II. Weld, Francis Billiard,
O. W Mnot. 8 Lothrop ThOrndike. b. d. Leavitt,
r NJ Cushing I. S. Tuckerman. r. W Hopkins.
Richardson II. s. Drew Elisha s. Converse. Ellen
NJ Heminway. Mrs. n. w. Rice, A z. Pillsbury'
Nathan Matthews, A. Shumann. Eben D. Jordan,
G p Curtis Clement S. Houghton. Henry Cabot
Lodge Charles r. Goldman, George L Perkins,
Mrs s. +. Peabody, Andrew c. Wheelwright'
Mrs Samuel Allen. Z. N Farnsworth. William
Fndicott Or. Paul Thorndike, Samuel Winslow. II.
II HuuneweIl and Mrs. Thatcher Ioring. There
were many hundreds more equally eminent with
these the various walks Of life, but this list
must To indicate the character of tho au-
dtncs that participated in the beautiful and his
t-s4r fugsticsL