New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-01
INCIDENTS IN SOCIETY.

The principal social incident yesterday afternoon
was the reception with music given by Mrs. Her
mann Oelrichs, at her home, No East Fifty
seventh-st Mrs. oelrlchs received alone. The
feature of the entertainment was the presentation
of Mime. Lisa Lehmanns setting OF 'In a Persian
Garden" by Mrs Seabury Ford. Miss Marguerite
Hall. Mackenzie Gordon and Leland Langley. all
of whom also sang a number of French and Eng
lish songs. Among the guests Mr. and Mrs
Stanford White Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Drexel. Mr.
and Mrs. j. Norman De r. whitehouse. Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles A. Childs, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry L.
Burnett, Mr.. and Mrs. l. Townsend Burden. Mrs
and Mrs Pembroke Jones' Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish,
Bryce Mr Miss ESsa M and AF Ms
and MTs G B Hihouse Mn and Mrs. ". starr
Miller; George c. Munzg. Mrs; Burke Roche Mr
Henry ciews. Mr. and Mrs GeoT.e B. De Forest
Miss CalIendsr Miss De Forest dr. and Mrs A.
and Mrs John j. Wys9ng Mr. and c Me- ge
and Mrs Te 81& H. Mr Park a and Miss DAISY POST
Mrs Alexander T. Van Nest of No 81 West
Thirty-seventh-st.. also gave a reception. with
Quartet. Francis Rogers and Maurice Farkoa were
heard.
pleasant incident last evening the dinner
party given by Miss Leary at her home. No.
Fifth-ave in honor of Mrs. Aston. The large table
which the thirty-seven guests sat was decked
with clusters Of American Beauty roses. The
guests, besides the hostess and Mrs Astor. were
Mr. and Mrs. Edward n. Taller Mr.. and Mrs. NJ.
Mr. and MS MRS I Hermann oerichs Mr. and Mrs.
H9T Mr. nG Mrs MI Rc and # wilson M a3d
Mrs; Thomas Wren Ward Mr. and md Mrs rrI Pierre
Mali Mrs FREDERICK H. Bene6iGt Mrs Mrs CF Faesesk
Pearson Miss Bishop Miss Josephtsnec 6Texe g Ss
Gn Yr WeGee Atterbury Alfonso de navarro
b. c. Porter, F. A Muer-Ury and Amos X fho
Invitations were sent out yesterday by Stevenson
Towle. for the wedding breakfast of his daughter
Miss Marjorie Aiken Towle. and James Alfred
Geaves Reales, on Wednesday afternoon February
a. at o'clock at his home, No S14 West seventy
eighth-st.
William c. Whitney will give dinner party at
his home No 81 Fifth-ave.. Saturday evening
February 10.
Informal at homes will be given to-day by Mrs
George S. Hart of No. 26 West Ffty-sixtn-st; Ars-
Bradden Hamilton of No. 81 East Fifty-hfth-st;
Mrs Isaac /. Merriam. and Mrs. Henry c. Haskell
of No % West Fifty-fourth-st.; Mrs George 4:
Bonner nnf mss Mrs. Samuel FINLEY of No 60
East Sixty-frst-st., and Mrs John H. Flagier' Oh
No IS Park-ave.
The annual Charity Ball. in aid of the Nursery
and ChiId's Hospital. will be held tonight at the
Waldorf-Astoria The managers of the hospital are
confident that the ball will be one OF the most
brilliant in the long series of entertainments given
for the benefit of the hospital. All arrangements
have been carefully made for the comfort ana
Thrty-third-st., where ample provision has been
made for CLOAK rooms. eoc' fS barooms on the
Fifth-ave and Thirty-fourth-st side THOSE Wh h
hold box tickets requested to enter by the
Thirty-fourth-st entrance 1t is proDosed 10 open
the ball as near 10 o'clock possible. and as IN
former years, the grand march Will be one OF tne
features of the evening. Departing guests are re,
uuested to take carriages that Will be IN waiting ae
| each entrance
pretty wedding yesterday afternoon was that
| of Miss Elizabeth Annette StockWeH, the only
all of
Mass TO DR. T Hamilton Burch, of this city.
| which was celebrated at O'Clock in the chantry
| of Grace Church, Broadway and Tenth-st me
| small cbancel was handsomely decorated with
Mains and clusters of Ascension lilies, ana on the
altar we're several filled with lilies and white
| roses The ceremony which was performed by the
] rector of Grace Church. the Rev DR.. William X
| Huntington was accompanied by a choral service
nv a part of the supplied choir of the church Inc
| bride who walked to the altar attended by her
! maid of honor Miss Mildred Boardman, a child.
was given away by her cousin MISS Aiiee fiario"'
| Instead of the conventional white satin gown the
bride costume of white oroauelot. ui'ii,le y
| with Russian sable and gold embroidery anu
| como old lace on the corsage. Her nat was Oh
| white lace The little maid of honor wore oress
| of pink silk and carried bunch OF phA Ioses. L.
Burch who graduate of the University OF new
/ York was attended best man by MS sixteen
| vear-old SON T Hamilton Burch. jr. The ushers
| were Master Lewis G. Spence and Master hehheth
| NJ Spence. After the ceremony there was d "eu-
| 5ins, hrea kfast relatives ana
friends at the Hotel Savoy. Among the guests were
| Mr. and Mrs Lewis II. Spence, Mr.. and Mrs.
| George P Ieiss Mr.. and Mrs. Charles II. Ger
| ZACH Mr. and Mrs C. Warren Fisher. Eugene Will
! con Miss Imogen Wilson, Mr.. and Mrs. William
J Campbell. Mrs. David Babeock Mrs John Blair
| Ijr and Mrs Herman Boldt, Mr.. and Mrs Leonard
! Derbvshire Mr.. and Mrs Charles Baldwin, Dr, and
Mrs Herman Collyer DIT an9 rS 7 r Mn
| Harrington. Charles Evans. William Mann Gar
/ ence Barron and George 5. Forblsh' OF 69ston'
| Commodore T. Emerson, or BaltlTnore, anu Jonh 4
| Waggaman. of Washington. DR.. and MRS, Burch
Iii snand the honeymoon in the South, with visits
| in Washington, Old Point Comfort ana ram
| Peach Florida. In the spring they VIII san TOT
| Europe, remain abroad all summer.
| The marriage of Miss Jessie Maria Dioble Con-
! cont daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Chaffee Con-
| slant to Dr. Ira Edmund Schaffer will be SOL
| ar,rtzed to-day in ST. AIMS Protestant Episcopal
| Church St Ann's-ave. and ne-hundred-and-iorti
| eth-st
The wedding of Miss Sarah randall Wiltse.
| daughter of the late Captain Gilbert c. Witse.
| of the United States Navy to Ernest Krouse will
| take place in St. Thomas's Protestant Episcopal
Church Fifth-ave and Fifty third-st., on Tuesday
! evening February 90 The Rev. DR.. John wesley
Brown the rector will officate The reception Will
| follow at the home OF the brides mother. No u
East Fifty third-st. The couple Will san TOT Eu-
| rome soon after their marriage.
| Miss Ellen Louise Denison will be married to
Charles Curtis Pritchard this evening at the home
| of her parents Dr. and Mrs. Elery DeniSon. No.
| liz West Twelfth-st. A reception Will follow the
| ceremony. which will be performed In the presence
| of relatives only.