New-York tribune., 1901-01-15
SOCIETY DAY BY DAY.

SOCIETY DAY BY DAY.
There is doubt but that the social affair of the
most interest yesterday was the wedding OF Alfred
Vanderbilt and Miss Elsie French at Newport, a
description Of which will be found elsewhere. The
prominence of the Vanderbilt family made this al
most Of public import. as many people who only
all the particulars OF the ceremony and reception
marriage 1t also had it's effect upon the opera
last evening. and. although the stalls and other
hold as brilliant audience usual
One of the events of last evening the fare
well bachelor dinner given by William Y. B. Kip
at the Metropolitan Club. Among his guests were
Matthew Astor Wilkes. Philip Rhinelander, Leon
ard w. Kip. Gerald Gray and Cecil Landale. The
Of Mrs Penniman the aunt of the bride. Miss Elsa
Strong 1t viii be followed by large ar r reception dsI
Miss knoWer IA anS s the @G MISS
very pretty dinner of twelve covers was given
last evening by Mrs Talbot Olyphant for her
daughter. Miss Helen Olyphant. who is one OF the
debutantes of the season. Before the dinner there
p6ant, No 80 West seventeenth-st. Miss Ruth
Perkins and Miss Charlotte Prime assisted in re-
ceving.
Other receptions which were given yesterday in
cluded the Misses Bailey No. lis West Seventy
tieth-st:; Mrs. A Holland Forbes. No. 76 East
Ftfty-dfth-st; MTs William H. Jackson and md the
Candee Weir No % East Fifty-seventh-st.
This evening the entire party which has been at
the Vanderbilt French wedding will have returned.
and many of them will be present at the dance to
be given by Colonel and Mrs. John Jacob Astor at
their Fifth-ave house. 1t will be larger affair
than usual. and there will be greater number of
young people asked. There will also be dance
given hV Nc 1IiSta tOv1 NO x
Gramerey Park, for Miss Eleanore Morris, who is
one ,s OF the deoutanteS Of the season Mr and Mrs
of the Metropolitan Club for Miss Caroline Liv-
livingston who is also a debutante of the winter.
Tuesday is always crowded evening In regard to
dinners and there will be no exception made this
evening. Many of the guests at the various din
will go afterward to the dance at the Astors'
Among those who entertaining Mrs Penn
broke JONES' No 10 West Fifty-irst-st. Mrs. Henry
Mrs Paul G. Thebaud who are to celebrate the
anniversary of their wedding at their home No, 15S
Madison-ave.
Among those at the opera last night Colo
mel and Mrs, John Jacob Astor Mrs. Ogden Goelet
and r. I. Wilson, Mrs. Wilson being detained at
Clarence Mackay. who left after the third act:
Mrs. ogden Mills, Mrs. Robert Goelet. Mr.. and
Mrs Stanford White and w. c. Whitney.
Mrs Morgan Dix gives dinner party OF thirty
two tonight In honor of Miss Fredericka Webb
and among other dinners that are announced "a
one by Mrs. Maturin Livingstone. Receptions will
be given to-day by Mrs. Berkeley Mostyn No so
West Fifty-eighth-st.: by Mrs. Robert Hoe. No IL
Gillette and Miss Gillette No. "a West Fortieth-st
Mr.. and Mrs Lawrence Van Allen are now in
Paris. They at the Hotel de Londres They
will leave very shortly for the Riviera and they
VII take an automobie trip along the famous road
Mrs. Henri NJ. Cutting Is expected in New-York
Tomorrow. She has been passing few weeks
her her Florida plantation She and John Lorimer
f Parmelee Prentice will give his farewell bach
elor dinner this evening tho University Club.
1t will be a comparatively small AFFAIR. Nearly all
OF Mr.. Prentces ushers are Chicago men, with
the exception OF his in-law-elect. John ID.
, Rockefeller tr. Mr. Prentice and his bride will
reside in. Chicago. The wedding on Thursday will
brides little nep5ew' and the guests viii not eSs
celebrated at p. at the home of the brides
parents.
The sinsom Club last evening at the home
OF Mrs. Oliver Livingston Jones. No 116 West
Seventy-second-st.. and went 10 Wallack's The
a.re After the play there was an inf Informal dance
were Mrs John n5 RgrHf BUR M Mrs JohT
two hundred members We're present.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry w. McVickar leave for Aiken
Friday. spend the balance OF the season
there. They celebrated their tin wedding yester-
day by means OF reception at the house OF Mr..
and Mrs Henry Asher Robbins their guests
prisng several Of their bridesmaids and ushers.
They received many tin pans and buckets
in honor OF the occasion, all filled with beautiful
flowers.
George Gray Ward. of No. 81 West Fifty-third-
St, announces the engagement of his daughter
Florence to Lieutenant Henry Hughes Hough
L. s N
AS the guests entered the house OF Mrs. Stuyve-
SAINT Fish on Friday last TO attend her dinner party
that night they were greeted by music in the shape
of orchestra alternating with minstrel
singers, who rendered the latest OF coon songs.
In fact the dinner may be said 10 have been pre-
Ceded by musical which continued throughout
the repast and up TO the time that Mrs. Fish's
party started for the dance OF Mrs. Ogden Mills.
Mime. Nordica the at Mr.. Bagby's must
cal morning at the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday, and
among those present Princess Brancaccio.
Baroness Fava, Mrs. l. Townsend Burden, Miss
Josephine Johnson. Mrs. Frederick Pearson Mrs.
Samuel Thorne, Mrs. r Burial Hoffman, Mrs j.
Norman De r. Whitehouse Mrs Samuel Thomas
Mrs. George Crocker. Mrs. Joseph Stickney Mrs.
William Grosvenor, Mrs. Burton Harrison Mrs
J. J. Wysong, Mrs Alexander Van Rensselaer,, Mrs
McAlster, Miss Mamie Field, Mrs. l. Cass Led
rd Mrs : ROb