The age-herald., 1901-12-01
The New York HOO. g

and concluded that under the primeyal forests there were valuable mines. AL once he secured options on the property, established his mining rights and went to work The result is to be read in the reports of the rich properties known as the Norrie mines.
 am sorry to report the death of that charming woman and hospitable hostess, Mrs John Whipple of Newport. Her husband, John Whipple, Is one Of the best known of the Newporters, and was Identified with a set of men who made Newport what it Is. Mrs. Whipple was a daughter of the late Thomas Swann, who was Governor of Maryland. He was for many years a summer resident of Newport and built a villa on the Cliffs. From her father Mrs. Whipple inherited large estate. She leaves two sons MT. Thomas Whipple and MT. Shirley Whipple, and four daughters, Mrs. Benjamin Weaver, Mrs. Pemberton H. Powell, Mrs Clarence H. Wighting- ton and Miss Jennie Whipple.
 
 Twinkle" Cutting, the son of Mrs. Brockholst Cutting of New York, is very III of pneumonia at his bachelor apart ments at Newport, His condition at the present moment is very alarming. J. NeilSOH I1OWdIu IS diSO AAA at his mothers house. Nelson Is suf- fering from complication of diseases. He is a brother of Tom" Howard, who married, Sprigy Post, a sister of Mrs. Fred Vanderbilt and Mrs. J. Lawrence Van Alen. No two men are better known and more popular than these two men, who are just in the forties
 
 Regie Rives has taken his defeat at the polls very much to heart. He was beaten by a few votes when a candidate for supervisor on the board of super visors of Duchess County, where he has a country seat. He ran as Democrat in a. strong Republican district. His de- feat has chagrined him and now he has sent in his resignation from many of fees of trust. He says 1t is because he is going abroad on account of his wife's health She was Miss Mamie Bulkley, Ned Bulkley's youngest daughter. Reggie Is the brother of George L. Rives, who was recently appointed by Seth Low as corporation counsel.
 There is no- truth in the story that Rancocas has become the property of William c. Whitney, I know that it has not and will not Mrs. Alien has no in- tention of selling the farm Pierre Loril- lard made famous the sporting world over. She proposes to run it herself Whitney wants it, but he can't get It.
 ssss ! The '.stork has visited the Alfred Vanderbilt's. He arrived on Sunday with a little boy. The Vartderbilts were married in January and the stork came in November, and all society is counting ten on it's fingers Well, this puts two lives between Reggie Vanderbilt and the iresiduary estate. When the late Cor neliusn died he very carefully provided that if his son Alfred died without heirs the residuary estate should go to his son Reginald.ia now say, Well, if Alfred should die and his son surviv- ing him should die without issue, the property would ige to the French's through the child,si mother. What irony of fate this would be!
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 The family tree of the vanderbilts can be likeneds to the aApas of Ceylon. It's deadly shade is obscuring all the old { sksanickerRockers, K s.a .,s. Dinner dances are now the most talk ed of among the entertainments to be. There are two that come close together which will be composed of the same guests, and at which the debutantes will be out in full force. The first is to zpts BiNtil pSa JdUic5 lhooScNCit IeoOoc-5 welt, for his daughter, Miss Helen Roose- Welt and the second by MT. Henry Sloane on December 19, to introduce his elder daughter, Miss Jessie Sloane.
 Miss Roosevelt, it will be remembered, had everything in readiness for her com ing out last season, when her grand mother, Mrs. Roosevelt, died, and all invitations were recalled. Miss Roose- welt is one of the most charming young girls in New York society, with most gracious manners rather English in ap- pearence, having, lived so long abroad, and with a. very brilliant complexion. She has spent a great deal of time In Washington the last two or three years, and will go on later, at the time of Miss Alice Roosevelt's coming out reception. Miss Sloane's dinner dance will be for the girls just coming out this year and the college men who can get off for one night, but, of course there will also be goodly showing of older society people. Indeed, invitations will be very general,