The age-herald., 1901-12-29
New York Society
 In Christmas Attire

tulle, appiiqued with white roses, and carried a boquet Of red roses.
 It gave me great pleasure to sec Mrs. Pierre Lorillard again in society. She has determined to keep her place and the ball she gave for her niece, Mss Stuart Taylor or Paris, was an event or the season. To be sure her children did not attend. as they felt they would not slight their fathers memory, but in the role or the "wronged wife, she was immense She looked young and beautiful. She gave the ball at Sherry's. Everybody was there and it was delightful
 1 cannot help reiiecting how odd 1t IS that MT Sloane, as the wronged husband and Mrs. Lorrillard as the wronged wife should have both selected Sherrys and Christmas week to point to their wounded sides. This injecting in the season or good will among men some of the wrongs that men do may serve to teach the younger generation a lesson.
 William C. Whitney, in spite of the drubbing Justice Jerome gave hlm as debaucher of legislatures, flung open his great house and entertained his guests in royal style. He gave the ball in honor of his stepdaughter, Miss Adelaide Doug las Randolph, at his house. on Fifth av- enue It was the first private ball ot the winter and the leaders of New York so- ciety were out In full force.
 Seven hundred invitations had been sent out, and 1t is safe to say that but few regrets were received. It was not alone the dancing set that had been in- vited but the heads of families, as we'll as the young married people.
 MT. Whitney and his stepdaughter, who | 4l.4z rr,tt, tar the guests in the banquet hall, near the entrance to the ball room. MT. Randolph wore a costume of white tulle simply made and garnitured with lilies of the val | lev She held a boquet of these flowers
 The Whitney mansion Is too beautiful and ornate to require further deeora- | tons than the superb tapestries, broeades and works of art that adorn its walls. | therefore the floral embellishments were but incidental and they were in exquisite | taste.
 | am sorry to hear that Mir. Oliver Har- riman's III health has presented new | phase He became demented and in View of his great estate exceeding five mil lions, he had to be declared legally in- competent to manage 1t. Some years age | he retired from business and after ths 1 marriages of his many children he bcugh' ! a place at Port Chester, to pass his last years. His wife died last May, and being over seventy years of age the loss of his l life partner broke him down completely Since her death he cries and laughs hl' | ternately in a hysterical way and his mind failed him. He is described by his physicians as suffering from "senile de mentia;" but in less freezing and com monplace language he is suffering iron old age and grief. Ills mind is blanf about all the affairs of the day, of his property, and he has forgotten how tt write. And so with the commission asked for by his eight children, Oliver Harri man, Jr.. of White Plains; James bor don Hartman of Mount Kisco; Mrs. Anr H. Rutherford, James Low Harriiaai Mrs. Lillie Travers, Mrs. Emerline H Dodge Joseph Hartman and Herbert M Hartman; and the appointment by th' court, the active life of one of New York's most prominent merchants comes to a melancholy close.
 DIEDRICH sIkNICKERBOCKER. R.