New-York tribune., 1901-08-04
SOCIETY'S SUNDAY REVIEW

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oV than wildly gay The tendency to live in the
open and TO take active interest in out-of-door
sports Is growing year by year. The automobile
Is new pleasure. and these fascinating but costly
ana therefore rot yet vulgarized toys have made
II possible to travel long distances bringing
try places 1Sthin easy visiting access OF one an
otheF Even at Newport the interest is more
less divided between yachting and "bubbling" as
IL Is commonly called. Other resorts have taken
to golf. to bathing to driving and TO tennis and
polo. But at none of them has II been n rush of
great things. and yet every agrees that 1t has
been most delightful and enjoyable summer.
Newport. in the usual order of things. comes
hrst Life there is more complex than anywhere
else. The social calendar has tomorrow the first
OF a series OF dinners by Mrs. William Astor. and
the rest Of the week shows other dinners and
few few dances Last evening Mrs Joseph Stevens
Ernesh EnEos gave garden pa PSrsy s for her
noon. but the majority of the fashionable set have
several dellghtfIl parties on the Nourmahal and
broke Jones and Mr.. and Mrs. John r Drexel have
entertained on their yachts. Bergers has become
CIambake Club has also had % quie run. anu This
week Mrs. Frederick Nelson gives a dinner and
Mrs Charles NJ Qelrichs has a large dinner there
for Miss Lille Oelrichs and Peter Martin.
The automobile race is another one OF the events
OF the near future. and, nearly all the promi-
nent cottasers have motors-there are some three
hundred OF these machines at Newport-there will
be much interest in the Already one hears
talk Of the tennis tournament and the horse show
IN way a minor note. as these two events mean
its second month and perhaps the season may be
prolonged until the middle of September.
The Duchess of Marlborough Is not coming to
America. and Marble House, at Newport. will not
be tsnanted this year. II is shut as tight as
possible, and all the handsome marble work is
boarded over. There Will be patent medicine
Guadrille at the fancy rustic dance which Mrs.
SgyyesaRt Fish VIII have IN the the mi; midde lie of Of the the
which Mrs Cornelius vanderbilt VIII give at Beau
lieu for Miss Johnson. her cousin Mrs William
Miss Blight at the Country Club
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney have settled
at their cottage at Newport for the summer. Mrs.
Whitney did not exactly relish the idea OF leaving
America and being far from her mother. with
the attractions OF Scottish deer forest. The
young couple VIII do some entertaining Mr and
Mrs; r. Rollins Morse will get into their new house
at Newport by to-day. II Is st In rather cha
town untii tomorrow or Tuesday. when her New
port house viii be ready FOR her
There Will be delegation of fashionable people
at Saratoga this week for the Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Mackay passed through the city the day
before yesterday route for the place, and
2@w esta5shsd S NJ there Mr. g and Mrs Cornelius
biit, Jr.. will later. Richard Wilson. jr. has
q
2t OF guests during race month. and Mr.. and Mrs;
FoNhall keene are due there to-day They Will
remain for the season.
From the fact that General Lloyd Bryce has just
purchased plot on the northeast corner OF Fifth.
ave. and Ninety-seventh-st for $Si5 900. and has
assumed that ne has decided upon following the
IIfr Irend uptown and upon upon Joining the colony Of
mansion in Washington Square. which has been
long identified with the name OF Mrs Bryce's fam
ily the Coopers.
Three debuts will take place on three successive
evenings at Newport fortnight hence. On Au-
gust 10 Miss Gwendoleyn Burden Will be presented
to society at dance given by her mother. Mrs. 1.
Townsend Burden. at Fairlawn. on the following
night night, Mrs H. Mortimer Brooks has dance at
night after that Mrs WILLIAM Payne Thompson VIII
friends and acouaintances at a dance given in her
honor at the golf club.
Mrs. William Astor gives tomorrow night at
Beeehwood the first OF her series of large dinner
parties this season at Newport
Egerton l.. winthrop and RawIns L. Cottenet
left town yesterday for Newport.
Miss Ellen Drexel Paul. who has been staying
with her aunt Mrs John X. Drexel at Newport. is
Gray. G. present Tue S"''' 'e'' " ''' '0"'' 0"'''0"
There are a number of well known people at Mar
ragansett just now, among them being Mr. and
Mrs. j. NJ. Waterbury, who are at the Mathewson.
and Mr. and Mrs Eric Dahlgren. Mr.. and Mrs. Fl.
Brevoort Kane and the Misses Bouvier. who are
cottages. Mr. and Mrs Reginald DE
Koven staying at the Hotel Gladstone.
Mr.. and Mrs. John A Hadden. Jr. who now
at Riehheld Springs. to Bar Harbor next week
stay with Mrs Hadden's mother. Mrs. Daniel
Torrance.
Mr. and Mrs E. Ellery Anderson spending the
summer at Richfed Springs. quartered at the
Darlington.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Chesey Richardson at Cedar
hurst Long Island. Mrs Richardson and her son
will go the mountains later In the season
Edward De Rose and Mrs. De Rose. who was
Miss Varnum: Mr.. and Mrs A. D. Juilliard and Mr..
and Mrs. George Rutledge Gibson still at
Tuxedo.
Southampton is TO have gymkhana next Satur-
day afternoon in front OF II. G. Trevor's place. |
under the auspices OF the Southampton Horse Asso
ciation The governors of the association consist of
Charles T. Barney, George r. SchierfeIin. DR.. T. |
Gaiard Thomas. Stephen Peabody, James L. |
Breese. Henry T. Howland. H. w. McVickar and
George c. Clark. The annual horse show. al
ready announced In this column, takes place there
on August 23 and ~.
Elihu Root. the Secretary OF War. is his coun-
try place at Southampton for brief stay.
Preparations already being made at Newport |
for the horse show which opens there in the first
the demand for boxes surpass those Of all previous
years