The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-07-12
WOMEN IN A
WAR OF BRAINS.
Newport Society Leaders En-
gagged In a Curious Combat.
MRS FISH WRITING A NOVEL.
Mrs. 0sIrichs Will Write a Play but
Will Not Hurry Her Lahors.
TROUBLE CAUSED BY AUTOMOBILES.
They Game Together At Newport and Tho
I've Women Said Sharp Things to Each
0thN-Upp:r Tendon Stirred.
TROUBLE CAUSED BY AUTOMOBILES.

A fierce war for social supremacy is
paign is being conducted on lines essen
TALLY different from those which have
marked the course OF former feuds.
The present campaign Is to deal In
brains. and to set small STOCK on the ad-
vantages of millions and ancestry.
The declaration of war in the present
instance was made by Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish.
She gave a dinner last week and failed
to invite Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs. This
was the first intimation Newport had that
the friendship between Mrs. Fish and
Mrs Oelrichs had received a serious set
back.
Ine incident set tongues Tagging. and
all sorts of rumors kyere heard as TO the
cause for so open slight.
An automobile is the direct cause or
the rupture. When the craze OF auto
mobila seized upon members OF the fash
ionable world, Mrs. Fish lost no time Ia
mastering the intricacies of driving the
horseless carriage.
Since the fad started she has possessed
three or four machines of different makes
and has openly boasted that she is the
best lady automobilist in this country.
COLLISION AND CONVERSATION.
The new electric automobile which Mr..
Oeirichs purchased abroad some time ago
only arrived I'm Newport last week. IL Is
quite a modern affah, and while IL does
not possess the high speed of Cornelius
Vanderbilt's wagon, IL Is capable Oh max
ing very fast time on the road.
4Irs. Oelrichs lost no time I'm mastering
the working of the new machine, ana
within day or two after Its ARRIVAL SET
out for a spin through the fashionable
thoroughfares.
Mrs. Fish and Mrs. Oelrichs met at q
short turn in narrow street, The re-
suit was a collision for which each
blamed the other
1t is not permissible I'M swell society
to indulge I'm lurid language, but accord
ing 10 reliable reports both gave way
to spirited conversation couched In
phrases OF icy sarcasm.
During this conversation each intimat-
ed that the other knew little or nothing
about the management of automobiles
in general, and her own machine in par
ticular.
This led to a challenge. and carriages
having been disentangled. race was
begun. IL was soon demonstrated that
Mrs. Oelrichs had the fieeter machine of
the two.
At the end of the course Mrs. Oelrichs
put on full power and sent her machine
completely around that of Mrs. Fish.
Since this incident the two ladies have
exchanged nothing but the most formal
of frigid glances when they met, and at
times have been quite unable to see each
other at all.
is WRITING A BOOK.
Mrs. Fish is a woman who will never
give I'm that she is beaten. Having been
vanquished i'm one thing she Immediately
set out to "get even" through other
channels.
She began book. No one has as yet
seen the manuscript, but II Is understood
that the book is to be a novel which Will
deal principally with society, and Will
be replete In characters drawn from life,
one OF which will be Mrs Oelrichs.
In order to have time for her writing.
Mrs. Fish has given up many OF her en-
gagements during the past week.
Not to be outdone. Mrs. Oerichs an
nounced that she will write a play. She
will be In no hurry about IL. however,
for she does not believe that satisfactory
or even creditable results can be secured
by pitching haphazard into a thing of
this kind,
She intends TO devote considerable time
to preliminary study of the characters
and plot before actually beginning work
on the manuscript The play will treat of
society and its characters. too, will be
drawn from life.
One result OF the row has been to
cause Mrs. Oelrichs to hurry the work
on her new house. and she will move In
this week, and Mrs. Oelrichs will strive
hard to cast gloom over Mrs. Fish's af-
fairs
The first effort In this direction will bc
a house warming, at which some strictly
novel features will be introduced. These
are with view to outdoing anything
which Mrs. Fish has done in the way of
novelty in her affairs in the past