New-York tribune., 1900-05-13
THE WEEK IN SOCIETY.

p-anars,,ons for the country are now in order
and those members Of the fashionable world who
have not arranged to spend the summer in Europe
are preparing leave town for the season. al
though only a few houses along the fashionable
thoroughfares have yet taken to boarding Up
doors and windows. Country homes are being made
ready for their owners. and In few weeks
of the large private establishments at westbury.
Hampstead Cedarhurst and RosIyn. Long Island.
as we'll as in the nelghborhood Of the Country Club
Park will be open a nd filed with guests. Already
Tuxedo has lasse Ra,l9 Seem ,bar rhe nrs1t 1
spot in the Ramapo Mountains Is Just at present IN
trartfve every iay with the spring foliage bursting
into life and the air filed with the sweet song
of birds and the perfume Of spring flowers and
plants.
In the cottage colony Tuxedo among
Others Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Mortimer. Mr. and
Mrs. Augustus ID. Juilard. who have vacated their
Colonial house for their handsome stone aEd stuccO
villa. on the site eupied by William Wal
dorf AStors home. the East Lake Road: Mr..
and Mrs. Pierre I.orillard jr. Mr.. and Mrs VIII
lam Kent Mr. and Mrs. George GTiswod. Mr. and
Mrs. Alfred Seton. jr.. Mr. and Mrs Walker Breese
Smith Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Bradley, Mr. and Mrs.
Pierre Lorillard Ronalds. jr who in the Gibson
cottage; Mr.. and Mrs. Robert McMaster Gillespie,
who are settled In their home. in East Lake
Road Mr.. and Mrs. George Gordon King. who
have vacated the Van COrtlandt cottage and are
in their home; Mr.. and Mrs. William Pier
Hamilton. in the Christopher Wolfe cottage;
Mr.. and Mrs. GrenviIle Kane, who recently re-
turned from winters stay in BERMUDA; Mr. and
Mrs. Stuart A. Coats. who have leased the Tams
cottage; Mr.. and Mrs. Henry W. Poor. in the Van
tia G0stage & Hr - and M Mrs M Ha3sy HS
French Mr.. and Mrs. French having taken posses
Rives in the Bruce Price cottage. No. {; Mr. and
Mrs. Frederick Foster Carey. in the Van Nest villa;
Mrs, Frederick A. Snow. @ who are in The Watrous
mum Cottage: his son-in-law aud daughter. MIR ana
Mrs Robert Emmet in the Garrison cottage; Ar
Murray Mitchell Mr.. and Mrs. Richard DeIafield.
onta DaSS VINO and ayG Wr ocEbPys 's v k agS
Mr. and Mrs Addison Cammack and Mrs. Charles
Henry Coster.
OF course. the important social happening OF the
at Tuxedo will be the wedding of Miss
Mary Crocker daughter OF the late Charles F.
Crocker of San Francisco. and niece OF Mrs
Charles B. Alexander. to Francis Burton Harrison.
of Mr.. and Mrs Burton Harrison. Of this city.
which, already announced in The Tribune, will
take place at 1870 o'clock on Thursday. June
T. in ST Mary's Church. 1t will be one
Of the prettiest and most notable nuptial
events of the month of roses. The church.
which is small, will be handsomely decorated with
flowers. will also be the villa of Mr. and Mrs.
Alexander where the wedding breakfast will be
served. A special train will carry the invited
guests from this city to Tuxedo. that nothing
but favorable weather will be needed 10 make the
celebration of the nuptiaIs complete. Miss CrOcker
who will be given away by her great-unce. d. o.
Mills. will be attended by five bridesmaids-her sis
ter. Miss Jennie CrOcker; Miss Harriet Alexander
daughter of MIR and Mrs Charles b. Alexander:
danghter of MIR and Mrs John j. McCook and
niece of Mr. Alexander; Miss Mary Scott daughceE
San FEansseo- Frank Lyon Polk son of Of Or pr and and
man, and Archibald G Harrison. the bridegroom's
brother his cousins, Gouverneur Morris Albert
of 81. Louis: Allen Appleton Robbins, William
day before the Wedding and Frederic d'Hauteville
will be ushers, The marriage ceremony VII De
more the gTeat-uncie Of the bridegroom. assisted
by the Rev. George Grenvie Merrill, the rector
Some of those who will occupy cottages at Lenox.
Mass, this summer, Mr.. and Mrs George
Evans Turnure. who have taken Nestledown; Mr..
and Mrs. John E. Alexandra. who have again leased
the Frelinghuysen place. Ethelwynde; Henry A C.
Taylor. the Furnss place; Mrs Mortimer who has
taken Naumkeag. the place owned by Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph H. Choate; Mr. and Mrs Newbold Morris.
the the Barlow place: Samuel ell D. BaPeoek The Living
sailed for Europe a few weeks ago and who are
expected TO return In two months, the Sands cot
and Mrs. Edward H. Litchheld, of Brooklyn. Bonnie
te s pace Owned eg MI ana MIS- ]ames "A
r. Read. the Kneeland place: Mrs George Bliss.
tage.
Notwithstanding the manifold home attractions
departures for Europe become more and more nu-
merous as each great liner leaves this port. Among
those who are now on the ocean bound for foreign
shores are Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Cromwell, the
Misses Cromwell. Colonel John Jacob Astor, who
Is going abroad to return in few weeks with Mrs.
Astor and his young son. after a winter in France;
Adrian Iseln. jr. who is going join Mrs.
Iselin and Miss Iselin who have passed the winter
OF the Continent; Philip NJ Lydig. Mr.. and Mrs.
William Lanman Bull. William Lanman Bull. jr..
Fe r' 'ge. j. Dunbar Wright Charles ID. Wetmore
Cia!les T. Mathews. Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Kelly.
Joseph Baker Bourne. Mr.. and Mrs H. Peter Mol
Ter, Edwin c. Moller, Ogden Mills. Miss MOler.
and Mrs. Archibald X. Mackay. Robert NJ Thomp-
son and Miss Sarah Thompson.
Several important engagement announced
last week besides that of Miss Elsie French the
youngest daughter of Mrs Francis Ormond French
TO Alfred Gwynne V, Ilerbiit the second living son
OF the late Cornelius Vanderbilt formal announce
ment of which authorized on Wednesday by
Mrs. Vanderbilt the mother of the young bride
groom-elect. The fact that the engagement ex-
isted was known and admitted by many friends OF
II was deferred until few days ago. The wedding
according to Mrs. Vanderbilt's announcement. will
daughter are expected 10 arrive from Europe some
time in July. They will go Newport. where they
View Mr.. Vanderbilt. who has been abroad for
several months will return in July. and will oc-
Newport, leased by him for the season.
Another engagement of widespread interest was
that of Miss Charlotte Whiting the only child OF
the late Mr.. and Mrs Augustus Whiting and niece
of Mrs. George l.. Rives and Miss Jane Whiting To
Henry o. Havemeyer. the youngest son of the late
Theodore n. Havemeyer, of this city The engage
ment of Miss Whiting Mr.. Havemeyer had been
rumored for nearly year. and it's announcement
was looked for at Newport last summer Miss
Whiting. who has ade her home with her aunt
Miss Jane Whiting. in this city and Newport since
the death OF her parents several years ago. is a