New-York tribune., 1901-02-09
SOCIETY DAY BY DAY.

s.,urday is usually duh in New-York The an
oscb of Lincoln's Birthday. when there will 3.
P,,r,ber OF country house parties for Vrin,e,
-ts viii make itself felt to-day by the departur,
~ many fashionable people Tomorrow there vii
he the usual receptions. very informal indeed bu
RON quite an INSTITUTION OF New-Hork society Mrs
Astor has crowded craving room on Sunday az
music at Miss DE Forests.
The Badminton Club meets this afternoon at IN,
Tennis Building
here next week for a tour OF the South. includinr
New-oreans.
Arson Phelps Stokes and Miss Stokes are at III,
ponce dc Leon in ST. Augustine. Fla.
Nr and Mrs William X. Vanderbilt jr sail to-
sav for Europe on board the Lucania while Dr
and Mrs. ". Seward Webb and their daughter
Frederca, start for California on February Is.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt has been laid IN with .
slight attack Of grip at Newport. where he has
been staying since his arrival there a week ago
mother, Mrs. f. o. French.
Not content with presenting his niece Mrs James
I, Van Allen. a house in town and numerous other
gifts on the occasion of her recent wedding Fred
erick ". Vanderbilt has now made her another real
estate gift by deciding over TO her the house
stables and grounds known as the Post place in
bellevue and Coggeshall aVes.. Newport. The
1Toperty which occupied for a number Of wears
E he late William Post father of Mrs Van AIen
agures in the books being worth S2 sl6 which
poses Indeed, It is much more valuable.
Dinner parties viii be given this evening by Mrs
n Orme wilson Mrs. II. de Berkeley Parsons and
Mrs Edmund i. Baylies.
Mrs " Bayard Cutting gave dinner party at
bsr house No. q East Seventy-second-st last
f1p Mrs
son party in the middle of the day. Mrs Wilber
A. BloodEo ID gave an at home Yesterday after
noon for Nine Homer at her house, No. 49 East
Thrty-foulth-st
The Friday Evening Dancing Glass met at sher-
rvs last night the guests being received by sew
eral of the patronesses. including Mrs Benjamin
{ Church. Mrs John c. Wolfe Mrs. H Fairfield
osborne, Mrs. Edward Curtis and Mrs. H. Wolcott
Robbins. The cot!llon was led by John Van Sehack
Oddie, jr.. with Miss Waring, and the faNors in
cluded number OF pretty giIts, such as embossed
next meeting Of this dancing class VIII take place
on Apri! T.
The entertainment given by the Misses Preston
AZ the Naldorf-Astoria yesterday well at
tended. Miss Preston gave a Spanish dance and
there We're songs by Miss Emma Carus SignOr
Emilio Gorgotoa and Others. The Misses Preston
are the daughters OF the former Haytian Envoy
at Washington, who once the dean Of the
Diplomatic Corps there, and the entertainment
Of Mrs. G. Oliver Iselin Mrs. Douglas Robinson
Mrs J. Hooker Hamersley, Mrs Ogden Mills, MIS-
John Jacob Astor. Mrs George b. De Forest, Mrs
2 H. Hartman, Mrs Astor and others.
Mrs Lewis Jones gives luncheon party ST
Valentines Day for Miss Caroline B. De SauIes
Mrs Robert Naclay Bull has issued invitations for
a dinner party on "Wednesday evening next
Under the patronage of Mrs. Delaney Kane
Mrs Paul Thebaud Mrs. Robert ]. Hoguet. Mrs
Floyd-Jones and Mrs. L. p Di Cesnola a kirmess
and reception Will be held Monday evening at
sherry's by the Alumnae Auxiliary Association Of
the Champlain Assembly. The proceeds viii be
devoted 10 The maintenance OF chair OF literature
!. the Catholic Summer School al Clin Haven
ssses named from Mrs William II. Pulleyn, the
president Of the association from its treasurer,
Mrs Charles Murray No. 1929 Madlson-aYe., and
from Daniel ]. O'Conor. No. 30 West Sixteth-st.
The Guild Of ST. Barnabas for Trained Nurses
IS planning concert, 10 take place al the Wal
sorf-Astoria Saturday evening February l6 The
musical arrangements in the hands Of Bruno
Huhn, who win be assisted by the following mu-
sicians: Miss Anna Slade. soprano; Hobart Smock,
tenor; Heinrich Meyn, barytone; Clarence de Vaux
Royer, violin, and Nine Van den Hende cello.
The proceeds OF the concert Will be devoted TO the
guild house fund. Among those interested in the
guild Mrs. James Il. Aldrich, Mrs. James w.
Markoe, Mrs Charles D. Stickney, Mrs. Wheeler
H. Peckham, Mrs. Richard Hone Mrs Irving Grin
nell, Mrs. Holbrook Curtis. Mrs. Beverly
Robinson Mrs. Frederick Edey, Mrs. Henry
Willard Mrs. Henry c. Potter, Mrs. Charles
+ Barney, Mrs. Francis Delaheld. Mrs. Vernon
n. Davis Mrs. A. Ernest Gallant. Mrs. Henry
Holt, Mrs. Richard NJ Hoe. Mrs. James Hartman
Mrs Richard ". Hunt, Mrs. Valentine @. Hail.
MIs samuel Keyser, Mrs. j. Frederick Kernochan
Mrs Levi p. Morton, Mrs. Jules A. Montant, Mrs
Post, Mrs I3eeknan De Peyster, Mrs ". Gilman
Thompson. AIRS. Francis Dana Minsow. Mrs. Gren-
on the Rev. DR.. William 5. Rainsford and other