New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-06-30
SUNDAY SOCIETY NOTES.

attended. and many parties over from New
port to New-London on yachts Newport COM
plains of being very duh. and there have been no
entertainments there except a luncheon given by
Mrs Stuyvesant Fish. There is much promise
however. for this week. when the Casino opens
These incidents mark the beginning of The season.
All the other watering places will open by the
Fourth. and that day itself will see any number OF
suburban celebrations and house parties AT Nor
ristown the preparations have been most elaborate
There is to be a dance followed by fireworks and
many dinners will be given at the clubhouse
have also planned elaborate ceIebratfons and there
will be dance at the Rockaway Club
The news of the week has been very measre
One engagement has been annourced-that of Miss
Ethel Irwin to Harry Van Bergen. of Paris. Miss
Irwin is the niece of Mrs. Griswold Gray and Of
Mrs James A. Burden. and also of the late Rich
ard Irwin. She has been brought up by her aunt
Mrs Gray with whom she has lived since little
child Mrs. Burden gave dance for her some
years ago. when she passed her first season in
part of the time in Paris They were here LAST
winter. Harry Van Bergen is very wealthy. is
fond of outdoor sports and belongs TO the Union
Club. He has lived abroad for some years
The American colony abroad is rapidly thinning
out, especially the NEWCOMERS Mr.. and Mrs.
William K. Vanderbilt jr. J. Pferpont Morgan and
others have sailed and will be here this week.
Mrs. Aston will be in Newport by the middle OF
July. Among those who sailed yesterday were
Mr.. and Mrs Loriard Spencer and Mrs. Levi S.
Letter. who Is going to join her daughter. Lady
Curzon. in England; Count Stanslas Colacicchi. OF
the Papal Noble Guard. who brought the red bi-
retta 10 Cardinal Martinen: E NJ. Crackenthorpe,
second secretary of the British Embassy at Wash
z. sickles. sailed with Lord and Lady Pauncefote
W. Sherman and Miss Dorothy sherman Thomas
P F S''llman and the Misses S'illman' and C. W.
Polo will be in the ascendant this week. Tho
match games begin at Cedarhurst tomorrow. The
intense heat has no erro-s for the polo enthusiast
There Will be games going on as usual at Georgian
Court. Seabright. and at Meadow Brook, although
this week the interest will centre at Cedarhurst.
In previous summer has yachting played so
important part in social life. Everybody who can
afford ii has a yacht. and owing to prosperous
times the demand for yachts has been great that
numbers Of people have been Obliged to charter
the POSSESSION of Yacht Is almost indispensabIe
for; as far be seen, of the entertaining
ing the way in the matter
The wedding of Miss Natalie oerichs daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles NJ Oelrichs, and Peter D.
Martin of San Francisco. has been set for Wednes-
Gay, August IA. The date has not been formally
announced the church in which il will take
place has not yet been decided on. The Oelrchses
are regular communicates of ST. Mary's Roman
Catholic Church although. according TO diocesan
rules. they members of ST Joseph's congrega-
ton Mrs. Oelrtchs desires the wedding to take
place at ST. Mary's Church. but the consent Of the
pastor pastor Of st. Josephs Church must first Be OBJ
West and will not return for week or ten days.
Martin and Peter D. Martin are expected in New
port early in July. where they will remain until
after the wedding
Gerard Lowther. the British Charge dAfaires,
and the rest Of the staff Of the embassy at Wash
ington arrived at Newport last nigh:, and will
Ike their headquarters there during the remain
der Of the season
One OF the matters which have excited much COM
ment in the last week has been the attitude OF the
fashionable set at Newport TO Duncan Elliot To
judge from the manner in which he has been well
suffered in any way, In fact he has been actually
Is greater if anything. now than formerly.
There has been quite Newport gathering the
last week of the Vanderbilt family at the Breakers
have st9ying with them At present Mrs e Z saeg
bt has come from Yale for the season
Among those who have gone to Newport within
the last day or James De Wolfe Cutting,
Miss Marie Henry F. Eldrdge. who arrived thers
on board the SuItana. with John r. Drexel; Miss
Elsie Porter, daughter of the United States Am
bassador at Paris Max Agassiz, aeber R. Bishop.
and Mrs Royal Phelps Carroll
Royal Phelps Carroll Dy the Dye. IS more IN DIS
element when on the water than on land In the
relatively short time that he has been at Newport
this summer he has met already no less than SIX
automobile accidents one or two OF rather serious
character.
Henry CIews jr. accompanied by Henry Phipps.
left yesterday in automobiles. with the nten-
ton of making record run TO Newport similar to
those made by Henry Rogers Winthrop and Dunbar
Wright.
Lispenard Stewart. who has been IN town the last
week. has returned to Newport Henry Rogers
Winthrop however, is still in town
The yacht Ivanhoe purchased by Colonel Edward
De V Morreu is being fitted and viii be COM
missioned at Newport in a day or TWO by her new
owner
Among the arrivals at Bar Harbor for the sum
mer In the last week have been Parke Goodwin and
his niece Miss Natalie de Castro; Mr.. and Mrs 3.
G, Fabbri. who are occupytns Cordeld IN E1sn-st
Point: Johnston Livingston. who has staying with
him at the LIVINGSTON cottage in keoo-stj MS ms
husband and Mrs. James W. Gerard.
1t Is 10 Mrs. James W. Gerard. by the bye that
Bar Harbor will be indebted for one OF the seasons
features In the shape of a particularly brilliant
wedding namely. that OF her niece Miss Mary
Ciansvoort Edwards. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Lewis Edwards of Genesee, n. Y. 10 Count Francis
wenckham. of Austrta-Hungary. shambsrlatn 70
Emperor Francis Joseph. and an Of1Cer OF the
ters army The wedding will take place at MIS-
Gerard's villa
The Seawanhaka Corlnthian races and the enter
tainment given by the club IN connection there~nn
took large number of people out 70 Oyster pay
yesterday In fact. so intense was the dlscohlIorS
body being glad e md excuse for setting away
either to the seaside or TO the country
Miss Leary has postponed her departure from