New-York tribune., 1901-10-20
RELATING TO SOCIETY

The last week has been passed mostly IN outsoo.
sports and pastines At the various autur- -
sorts there have been dances and dinners Ns.5o
Brook had a dance Friday evening vhieb .,
lowed dinners. and which was preceded by an -.
citing drag hunt. Staten Island is having dras
hunts from the Richmond County Club. and tbsrs
golf and tennis matches 1t is too early w.
Tor any entertainments IN town except dinners ana
affairs Of that kind. N
A gloom was cast over the Tuxedo fall ,sa.,-
by the tragic death of Frederick H. Benedict ,us
the serious If not fatal injury to GrenvilIe K.,a
yesterday afternoon. description OF which will ~
found elsewhere. Mr.. and Mrs Frederick II Rana
diet only arrived at Tuxedo last Tuesday for tbs
autumn in their automobile Mr.. Benedict beinx
most most enthusiastic driver Mrs Benedict was Miss
lead TO the postponement Of the ball which was 10
tainments which had been planned for the 0Iosr- n
future at the park. '
]. Coleman Drayton and Miss Drayton ara r.v,,
tered at the club at Tuxedo Park as guests a,
Schuyler N. Warren. Mr. and Mrs. George T.
Rives are also at the club. previous the opening
of their cottage Among others there are Mis-.
Eleanor Morris. George I. Scott. NJ Dwight Collier
stephen Peabody, Judge and Mrs. James NJ Var.
watson sumner Gerard and G. Wiiiett T. Van N.. ".
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Belts staying with M
park. Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt spent from Mondav
to Thursday at Tuxedo with Amos T. French who
on Wednesday night gave dinner in her honor
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and her daughter Miss
Gladys Vanderbilt have decided to remain at New
port until after Thanksgiving. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
c. Vanderbilt likewise at Newport to-day. stay
ing with Mrs. F. o. French. Among other mem
bers of the fashionable set who still Hnger on at
T: Shaw safe and Mrs. Reginald Norman, ali
three of whom gave dinner parties last night.
Mr. and Mrs. EIbridge t. Gerry have a hou,.
party for the week end at their place the Dela-
ware Lake. Their guests consist almost exclusively
OF young people
Levi P. Morton and his daughters. the Misses
Lena and Mary Morton, arrived yesterday from
England board the Philadelphia. and after
brief stay at their house in Fifth-ave took the
o'clock train for Flerslie their place at Rhnecr-
on-the-Hudson where they will remain until De-
ooada traI.aIIinp frockS of bIue and brOun cIn.L
respectively with dark hats, trimmed with leaves
days with her daughter Alice.
Ambassador Choate. with Mrs Choate and Miss
Choate and Rutherford stuyvessnt have likewise
arrived from Europe. while Mrs. George King and
Miss Cieorgette Kidd. who came in Friday from
Europe are established at their house in Fifh-aye
for the season.
Colonel Astor returned yesterday from his West
ern trip and went to Fernclif. his country place
at RhinebecI- Hudson. where Mrs. Astor Is
entertaining house party among her guests being
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Mrs. William Astor,
the winter viii resume her Sunday afternoon re-
ceptions early next month
Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Bloodgood Mr. and Mrs
Frederick De Peyster. Mrs ]. r. Harris and Miss
Harris are staying at lakewood Mrs Wilber
SeeseT and Mr.. and Mrs William A. Street
there until well into next month.
/ The Misses May and Emily Cross. daughters OF
Mrs. R. James Cross, OF Washington Square, have
arrived in town from Europe
Mrs Hermann Oelrichs following the example Of
Clarence Mackay. who has given a Sf,0t0 organ to
plano 70 the Newport branch Of the Young Mems
/ Christian Association
A new country club is being organized FOR the
Short Hills. Madison and Summit districts Of New
/ Jersey. The well known Wallace homestead and
eighty acres of ground lying to the north Of Nor
/ ristown Pike and Of Canoe Brook Road have been
obtained The name of he club is to Be the Canoe
B59oK Been obtained ana II is hoped to have
the clubhouse. the grounds and the links BY next
| spring.
George W. Vanderbilt is In town. He up
from Bftmore for few days look after the
alterations at his home. No. so Fifth-avs. He
will return TO Bntmore where he and Mrs. Wander
bilt will remain until after Thanksgivins-
Lakewood has opened its season, and among the
| sojourners there are Mr.. and Mrs William Rhine
| lander and Mr.. and Mrs. T. ]. Oakley Rnineander'
| The date of the wedding OF Miss Elizabeth Dusr
is fixed for November in London. The young
couple will afterward go TO Teheran Tor tner
honeymoon. Mrs Frederick Bronson. the rnothef
of Miss Bronson, will join them there this winter
Quite a number Of new addresses will appear IN
the next issue Of The Social Register" Mrs. VIII
lam Post has leased No. "a East Sixty-seventhst,
and Augustus Jay Will occupy the z l. GodA1l
house in West Tenth-st. J. Lorimer W NarGen VII
be at No SO East Eighty-second-st-, while 2 ::
| Collier has taken five years lease OF No. :
| Fifth-ave-
Mrs Devereux Clapp and Miss Edith Clapp close
| their house at Newport on Tuesday next and re-
turn to town for the winter.
The engagement OF Miss Leila Wotherspoon'
daughter of the late James Wotherspoon, to Lieu
tenant-CoIonel Asser has Just been announced
Colonel Asser belongs TO the Dorsetshire Regiment
and he Is now on the staff of Sir Reginald Wingate
in the Egyptian army he served through the SOU
dan war with Lord Kitchener Miss WotherspOon
has been travelling in Egypt, where she met
Colonel Asser. They will be married at Grace
Church Chantry Saturday afternoon Octooer
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