The age-herald., 1901-05-19

I have repeatedly said that coaching this season would exceed in number of coaches, excellence of appointment and distance records all that has been at- tempted in former years. Willie Jay and De Lancey Kane would not admit 1t. The fact is, Willie and De Lancey are old boys now, and they measure everything by the old performances when we started from the Brunswick and talked horse in the old Knickerbocker Club at Twenty-sev- enth street. I knew what money would do. Why millions are like pebbles on the seashore and they must have expression, that is, employment. I knew the young sters would find employment for theirs Tn four-in-hands Well, was right-just as I always am, and cholly is not. The showing on Saturday last was excellent, and Willie Jay, flushed with the good wine of enthusiasm, afterward, in the Metropolitan Club, said: Dietrich if you did the coaching prospects you would have John Rockefeller, Andie Carnegie and Pierpont as office boys" That was nice of Willie, but am content with my reputation as the best informed man in the social world east of the Alieghany Hills. I have given up calling them mountains since I saw the Rockies.
 
 After a brief illness Mrs. Reynal passed away surrounded by her children She was delightful hostess, a good mother, and lived long enough to see her children married. Her son Eugene was married to Miss Fitzgerald, who were both Ill at MT. Wnlett's country seat at the same time. He was supposed to be dying at the time, but fortunately recovered Ills illness caused his mother great anxiety. Shortly after she was attacked by seri- ops intestinal trouble that finally killed her. Mrs. Reynal was the daughter of Higgins, the carpet man, who left her an immense fortune. She is a cousin of Eu- gene Higgins, the yachtsman and owner of the fine place in the Berkshire Hills, at Lenox. also of Mrs. H. Mortimer Brooks, one of the latter-day swells at Newport. She was a handsome, cultured woman and Q great favorite. For several reasons she occupied a cottage at Bar Harbor and added much to 1t by a liberal and generous hospitality. Near the Rey- nal country seat at White Plains stands a Catholic church which she erected, in which faith she died, and to which she was a convert. Her husband, Jules Key nal, was a French gentleman of a dis tinguished family. He was one of the old fashioned swell French set in New York forty years ago and popular club
  gins. she was considered a great catch, being the only daughter of a multi-mil- lionaire at a time when the Vanderbilt fortunes were not known. One of her daughters married Paul Gilbert Thebaud; her son Nathaniel, married Miss Sarah Caldwell Rutter, and Eugene, Miss Fitz- gerald.
 The George Goulds are entertaining on a grand scale at Lakewood. MT. and Mrs. Charles Randolph Snowden are among their guests. Golf and polo are the chief outdoor attractions. am a stockholder in the Gould roads. of which George is the real, active. capable head. When saw him In the thick of the mix up on the polo field wondered what would hap pen to my stock if one of those zebra shirted fellows, in swinging his mallet, should fracture the skull of my proper tvs chief manager. I resolved to insure his life to protect my own interests.
 Mrs. Ogden Mills and her daughters are going over to London to stop with the Cavendish Benticks. and Mrs. Ogden Goelet and May have gone Good old name this Ogden. It smacks of New York when fashion fourished on Great Jones street. Well, the Goelets came by 1t in the regular way, but I don't know where Darius got 1t.