The age-herald., 1901-02-17
New York Society.


the throne of India-that land of pictur- eque effects. In the spring Lord Curzon will resign his post He hopes to go tc Canada as Lord Minto expects to return to England.
 Whitelaw Reid is the only newspaper editor that ever got into the really eX- elusive set in the metropolis. Had James Gordon Bennett remained here and main tained a great establishment he could, of course, with his magnificent income and the great journal at his command, have done anything he pleased, but after a few seasons at Newport nearly two decades ago, he turned his back upon Fifth aye nue for the Bois du Bologne. MT Reid, with his own millions and those of lis wife,, the daughter of D. 0. Mills, has two splendid houses and is easily the most intellectual, and, indeed, the most distinguished man in New York society. His diplomatic career has put him at tbe head of the list. and the functions" that he gives at the superb Willard mansion on Madison avenue, the mansion that Willard built but never occupied, are the achme of refined dignity. At one of them the other evening Mime. Melba, Miss Bridewell and Sig. Scotu sang. Meba never went to the Reid house for less than 5000.
 If a decision of the Supreme Court of the State holds good, young Cornelius Vanderbilt and other owners of autimo- piles will be compelled to send a fast run ner ahead of their machines to warn ve- hicles out of the way, That is the l1w. Some of the rich young chappies in com plying with the statute, propose to re- viye the old running footman' that were kept by every nobleman in France and England a century or so ago. These fel- lows, in the livery of the house to which they belonged, ran ahead of the carriage of their lord and pushed the peasants right and left, aside so that they should not be trampled under the prancilg horses hoofs. At night these runners carried torches and looked quite pictur- esque. It is not, improbable, therefore, that in the near future relays of running footmen, preceding the autimobiles of the Astors, Vanderbilts Whitneys and scores of others of the fast set will be seen sprinting ahead of the coaches of our millionaire nobles, and shouting to he rabbe to make way for their masters.
 
 William K. Vanderbilt, Sr.-with his charming guests aboard the Valient have been examining the wreck of the Maine in Havana harbor, and are now in Flor ida. Mrs Hunt, free from the trials and troubles and tortures of the Dakota di- vorce courts, has recovered her bloom and is looking even more lovely than when she was Miss Carley. A certain financier doing business in this city, remarked of his incarceration in the city prison that it was but 'an episode in a busy man S life" Why not a marriage that was dis solved in court, merely "an episode Tn a pretty woman's life?" My correspondent writes me that the soft breezes of South ern seas, the fateful, fickle moonlight are having their effect both on the beautiful guest and the master of the yacht. Nov elists sometimes wonder what will be the final disposition of hero and heroine. Both Miss Hunt and MT. Vanderbilt have had their romances and now my correspond ent claims that they have opened a new chapter in the real land of orange blos- soms
 Speaking of Florida, reminds me that Augie Belmont is playing golf at Palm Beach. I am glad of it. I am not glad that Augie has gone away for any other reason than to demonstrate one fact, namely, that even rich men can afford a holiday. Belmont is a man of enormous affairs, and the only one of the three sons who calls himself a man of business. Al though he has been yachtsman, cross country huntsman, golf player and thai sort of thing, he has taken the time out of his resting hours either before or af ter a hard days work. Now and ther he runs over the seas, but the mission i. business, not pleasure. Ask him to tak'