New-York tribune., 1901-12-27
NEW-YORK SOCIETY.

Mrs SCHUYLER ouacrSeubush's fancy dress dance
last evening at Sherry's constituted the most I'M
portunt feature of the programme Of day that was
otherwise rather quiet from a social point OF view
The entertainment was given for the Misses Mar
guerte and Grace Ouackenhush. and the dancing
began at about 10 o'clock IL the small ballroom
There was no cotillon. supper was served in the
other rooms on the ballroom floor at n;9 p n
after Mich the dancing was resumed the dancers
selecting their partners by shcwe-inS them WIN
confetti. Among the one hundred and htty dancers
NAV be mentioned the Misses Mildred and Ethel Du
Bois Miss Catherine GrinneH Miss Harriet Hast
Inrs Miss Madeline Cary Miss Eliza beth Clark
Miss julia T'rowbridge Miss Mary Wagstaff. Miss
Helen Rogers. Miss Julia WoTthington; Miss lSa Del
Fowler Miss Alice Ripley. MISS Natalg NO l EI
Honor Barr Miss Helen stursis Miss Edna LSsw
Miss Katherine BGkley Miss Eise f0Sf.ey' SIjs HIS
Fox Miss Lillian Holmes and the Messrs MoTgan -
Ter Robert Livingston Schuyler. Franklin KiSharG, marc
son ThSm2s n Bo Edwai Cook Reese Sat
terice Lansing satteree Henry Bri3ton:, arthur ir
BGdd BGS5G Se"'sS "''''9
Anor4 the other incidents of the day were Mrs.
Alfred q Vanderbit's luncheon party at her
house at Fifth-ave and Fifty-siNth-st; MRS, tIil-
hort + Ioness musical her house. In Madison
ave at which about hundred guests We're pres,
her house. in West Fifty-third-st; and Mrs j. ),
fbfsTe mt[H partT at followed by supper given by Mr.
and Mrs w. Baydrd cutting
Mrs Douglas Campbell will receive On Tuesdays
in January at her house. in West For'y-fouTth-st-
Mrs Campbell formerly Miss ElefnoI tS9'd-
Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Mex. Twombly have is
sued Invitations for a dinner dance on January
rs at their house in Fifth-ave. 1t is for Miss
Florence Twombly.
Mrs. Charles de Kay has issued invitations for a
hsr hpuSa
twenty y-third-st.
Colonel and Mrs. Astor have taken the Edison
Bradley COTTAGE at Tuxedo. and will open 1t toward
the end of next week. making it their headquarters
throughout the winter
Among those spending the holidays Tuxedo
Mr. and Mrs Albert c. Bostwick Mr.. and Mrs.
James W. Gerard. Judge and Mrs James NJ.
Mrs. II p. Pei. Mr.. and Mrs George Rutiedge
Gibson and Miss Gibson and l. Townsend Burden
The opera tonight. although somewhat hardi-
capped from a social point of view by the number
of people who spending the holidays in the
country. bids fair to present brilliant spec
eoncerned So S%i' The arbsTe @ d siSFa much
0d he w ve on he opennr nrb n and
the attendance is therefore certain to be both large
and fashionable.
There will also be two subscription dances to-
night, namely, the meeting of the dancing class
of the one managed by Mrs Dallas Eache Pratt
Both will meet at Sherry's.
Mrs. II. De Berkeley Parsons gives a large bridge
whist tournament to-day at Eyr house in Madison
Mr.. and Mrs. George Vanderbilt's guests leave
town to-day for Biltmore in private car and will
not return until the latter part of next week The
party comprises Commander and Mrs w s
Cowles. the M3rlus de Tallevrand- -Perisord Am
bassador and Mrs. Joseph ChOate, Mrs. Edward
Spencer Meade and Joseph Hunt
Miss Celestine Eustis. daughter of James r
Eustts, ex-Ambassador to France. will be married
on January 1 10 Charles Bohlau at the house of
her sister, Mrs. George Eustis, in Aiken.
Miss Alice Davis Rochester. who is a niece or
Julien 7. Davies, will be married on January : to
Captain Charles Wendell Fenton, L. S A at
Washington, at the home of her parents General
and Mrs. Rochester. ''
The Rev. and Mrs. Oliver A. Kingsbury. OF New
Hartford y. Y, announce the engagement of their
daughter. Susie Antoinette. to A Hutchings Firth
of Bermuda. 'i'"
GENERAL EAIAIONS CLARK RETIRES
General Emmons Clark, secretary of the Roard
OF Health since 1866. retired a pension vAs
terday. He will receive $.2o0 for the remainder or
his life For many years Emmons Clark was the
ruling sprtt of the Health Department ana a,
taa same ayne he was eolone! Of the 7tS Segiraent