New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-19
CUBAN ORPHAN FAIR.
INTEREST INCREASING IN THE FESTI
VAL AT THE METROPOLITAN.
MRS. p. c. HAZARD.
At Austria Hungary Booth.

The weather has not been propitious, get the
National Easter Festival at the Metropolitan Opera
House goes on with gratifying success Yesterday
was fun of hustle and activity from floor to top
most balcony, and there was no hint OF rainy
weather there
The balconies We're crowded, both afternoon and
evening. with those who had discovered that they
are the points of vantage from which the beautiful
scene on the floor Is viewed most effectively. Rest
ing from their rambles through Austria, Holland
and Great Britain, by way of the Klondke and
Jerusalem, they watched the gay picture below.
Liberty in flowing robes of appropriate Liberty
silk. with crimson velvet caps on dusky hair. had
several charming representatives who moved fear
lessy among painted red Indians, hrted with pct-
uresque Swiss shepherds and smiled on morose
visaged Moslems.
Italian flower girls dispensed their with
discreet regard the proba bites in fixing the
extremely variable price. In little group that
sat the crimson carpeted stairs leading TO the
second balcony pretty flower girl was heard to
exclaim: "Oh, the mean thing she is undertaking
US! Well. you may have them for 81 So but they
worth 81. l perfectly certain" And the
"gilded youth" gratefully accepted the bargain-a
bunch of vioets that could be purchased In the
florists for 90 cents.
Fortune tellers abound Queen Stella is besieged
by anxious visitors. while at the Austrian booth
an amateur coins gold for the orphans. Mrs. E. c.
Hazard. mother of the young Princess Auersperg
is the favorite seeress in the Austrian gypsy camp
Other interesting portions of the Austrian attrac-
| tributed by Mr.. Brentano. The beauty book is a
work on the attainment and preservation of beauty
and the copy presented was bound specially FOR the
in heliotrope levant morocco, lined with yellow
| leather fooled in gold The case Is OF violet wa
tered silk lined with yellow satin. The voting for
| the beauty to whom It and the celebrity auto
aphs' are to be given is increasing in Interest
and tonight tomorrow and Saturday promise to
| produce a really exciting competition At present
Lady Mary Sackville leads. She is typical Eng
ush beauty with ruddy golden hair and large blue
eyes.
At the Austrian booth yesterday were Mrs
Charles R. Spraeue Miss Anna Bussert and Miss
Grace Herman the two latter looking attractive IN
eypsy costume; the Princess Auersperg who did
not permit the loss of her Jewels to depress her
| unduly, and Mrs Henry Segel
At the Holland booth which Is devoted to chill
dren's needs there several things of larger In
| terest among them antique Dutch tiles, Nankeen
! plate that belonged to Major Thomas Melville or
| the Boston Party. and is contributed by the
widow of a lineal descendant, and an ola goiu
| plated headdress from Friesand that was brought
| over when Rip Van Wrinkle boy Mrs. E. F.
| Chadwick, chairman of the committee; Miss Hax-
| ton. Mrs. Milton Haxton vice-chairman; Mrs
| Bookstaver and others were In attendance during
the afternoon and evening.
The Great Britain booth Is largely patronized and
has wonderful variety of pretty and useful things
| at reasonable prices. The attendants yesterday
| were Lady Mary Sackville vce-chafrman; Mrs.
! George J. Could chairman; Mrs. W. A Hamilton,
| vice-chairman; Mrs c. S. Carscallen, viee-chair-
| man from Brooklyn; Miss Helen Hayes. Miss Zilph
Hayes, Mrs. Chester 1. Richards. Mrs. F. j. Flicker.
Miss Ethel Pearsall and Miss Helen Stewart. These
divided the afternoon and evening
The United States band from the Navy Yard
played in the afternoon, by courtesy of Admiral
| Philip and in the evening the band from the He
| brew Orphan Asylum by permission of David Adler
and the Board of Directors.
The Studio is attracting great deal of attention
and the silhouettes 30 cents fayorte
feature The artists on the committee have added
pen and ink sketches from life at 81 and water
! color life sketches at S. The committee is de-
srous to have it understood that all the pictures
in the gallery outright gifts from the artists
represented. all of whom of established reputa-
ton. The paintings marked at lower prices
than the artists would ask in their studios.
Mrs. r. NJ Shurten, Miss Susan NJ. Ketcham,
Miss Estelle Nichols Hatch and Miss Alice c.
Bussing were In attendance Yesterday Mr.. Shurt-
left, too, gives much time to the Studio.