The age-herald., 1901-07-28
7RK SOCIETY

country. has been occupied in several yc@.@. Her father purchased 1t some years ago for the purpose of establishing farm to supply his Newport establish ment with butter, cream, milk and veg etables. He fancied that if he built him self a country home bt would afford him place to rest wien weary of business and of people. He occupied 1t for day or two at long intervals Occasionally it made a pleasant objective point for a drive, dinner party or a luncheon. Mrs. Whitney always fancied it, and she pro- poses to stay here until the gay season begins
 Among the new people the death of Richard Hecksher of Philadelphia, in the seventy-ninth year of his age, signifies very little, but to the old Knickerbockers, who remember the Heckshers of fifty years ago, 1t means a great deal. MT. Hecksher many years ago married a daughter of John Austin Stevens, Pres ident of the Bank of Commerce and of the Chamber of Commerce. Those were the days when either position brought honors
 The Heckshers, Richard and Charles, were considerable people in their day. Traditions are still passed on of the grand balls given In their Fifth avenue resi- denee at the corner of Thirteenth street. The Hecksher girls were great belles and beauties. One became Mrs John Will merding and another Mrs. Lydig. John, or more popularly speaking. Johnny Hecksher who married Steven Whitney s i daughter, is a we'll known club man and a recognized patron of the turf.
 Johnnie Hecksher is the last of the name in New York city One daughter married MT. Egerton Winthrope and the other George B. Mcclellan, and, having no sons. the New York branch became ex- tinct. The Philadelphia branch of the Heckshers, however, is well represented by sturdy males, who give ample evidence of their ability to keep the name alive in the City of Brotherly Love.
 Sir Thomas Lipton is endeavorng to charter a steam yacht for the entertain- ment of his friends during the interna. tional races, but yacht owners do not seem inclined to lease their yachts Al social events are being arranged to afford time for the yachting. The fleet of pleas ure craft will merit special notice in the history of yachting in America I an told there will be not less than three hun. | dred steam yachts afoat on that day.
 
 Of course Pierre Lorillard's will has been much discussed. Everybody knew that Pierre's domestic affairs had beer | disturbed by petticoat Petticoats have l generally disturbed the Lorillards. Such things run In families and particularly 1T the Lorillard. George was bachelor and gay, and Pierre was a family man, but gay. Mrs Pierre Lorillard was very beautiful girl and developed into a very beautiful woman. She loved her children and reared them to become fine men and women. When Pierre became gay she ob. 1ected. They lived apart. It was the old story. The man believed himself the age he felt himself to be, the woman the age she had attained. Dignity came to her | frivolity to him
 somewhere back in the eighties about | 'Si or 'SS, Pierre was at Bar Harbor. and there he met very beautiful young wo- | man, Miss Lilly Barnes, who was stop | ping at Rodicks. She was clever, frolic- some and fiattered the gay tobacconist | Well, time went on and they became great friends. sympathetic, and all that | sort of thing
 l Well, Pierre is dead, and he left about $4.0O0.0O0 to be divided in accordance with the terms of his will. Mrs Lorillard is to have an income of $50,00O a year for life, and two grandchildren are each to lave one-f1fth of the estate. All of the estate