The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-21
~ SOCIETY,".

Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs is TO have a
gathering Of her friends and those Of her
son, Hermann Oelrichs, Jr., on Christmas
eve. To-day William &. Whitney will be
Of TO Aiken. =. c., for Christmas Senator
and Mrs. Chauncey NJ. Depew, who cele-
DRAFTED their wedding anniversary yester-
day In this city. will be here for the iule-
tide festivities
There il dance at the Tuxedo clubhouse
on Christmas eve. and during the day
there Will be outdoor sIorts. At Hemp
stead there will he hunt breakfast at the
Meadow Brook club, followed by fox
hunt.
There were many large dinner parties
last week Mr.. and Mrs. Elbridge T. Gerry
gave a dinner OF forty covers on Tuesday
night, and Mrs. I. Townsend Burden. Mrs.
Lucius Wilmerding, Mrs. W. Bayard Cut
ting and Mrs. II. Mckay Twombly gave
dinners, their guests going together to the
dance given by Mrs. K Fulton Cutting
by rs Aser A sen Henry Por n and
Mrs. A. Holland Forbes Mr. and Mrs
George Macculloch Miller gave a dinner
last night for Bishop and Mrs Henry G.
Potter, and Mr.. and Mrs. r. Fulton Cutting
one for Miss Alice Roosevelt. Mrs, Edward
Leverich gave dinner for her niece. Miss
Mary A, Schuchardt.
Mrs. Eben Wright Of 10 West Fifty-third
street will give theatre party tomorrow
night for her debutante sister. Miss Ger
trude Pell All the boxes at the Empire
Theatre have been taken and the partitions
will he removed. The party will assemble
at Sherry's and return there later for
supper
Miss Augusta Jay Robinson has changed
her plans during the week and now her
wedding with Commander Louis Went
worth Packington Chetwynd r. ", will
be celebrated at ST Thomas Church. Oh
Saturday. Jan. II, instead of In Trinity
Chapel. Her attendants will comprise the
daughter Of Lord Charles Beresford, and
Beryl Rhodes Of London. and Pauline
Robinson, Eleanor Jay and Katherine
Dix
r. s, r. Hit. Second Secretary OF the
United States Embassy at Berlin. gave h's
bachelor dinner last night at Delmonico's.
His guests included ". +. Hit, Payne
Whitnev. John Clinton Gray, DR., William
Hale, Milton y. Barger, II Rogers Winthrop.
Austin Gray, Jr,. and Dr. Van Buren,. who
will attend him as best man and ushers at
shi' aiiu Oi <fz
Lexington avenue will give a dance to-
morrow night for their debutante daughter,
Miss Elizabeth Maria Hurry. Mrs. Arthur
@. Sedgwick Of is East Tenth street will
give cotillon on Tuesday night in the annex
Of the Metropolitan Club for her daughter,
Miss Grace Sedgwick. On Saturday night
a dance v to he given in the ladies' annex
Of the club by Mrs. II. Mckay Twonibly,
Mrs. William A. 3 rect, Mrs. Douglas Robin
son. Mrs Robert Fulton Cutting and Mrs.
Edward n. Hartman, and the second of
Russell Landale will lead the cotiilon at
the latter.
The Countess de Castellane is to arrive
here with her three small children to-
morrow. She will pass the holidays with
Mr.. and Mrs George j. Gould at Georgian
Court. The Count Is to come over from
France later.
Invitations are out here for a bachelors
ball to DE given at Morristown. n. j.. on
Tuesday night and to be "a notably big and
brilliant affair Mrs. Louis A. Thebaud,
Mrs. ID. Willis James, Mrs. Arthur Whitney
and Mrs. Hermann Behr are among the
forty patroncsses.
Mrs, william G. Read Jr,. of ~ wes,
fHty-ITst street VIII introduce her
daughter, Miss Helen Read. to society
at series Of four Monday afternoon teas
in January. Last night Mrs. Read gave a
dinner of twenty covers for Mss Read,
taking her guests afterward to the Cri-
terlon Theatre.
Though with the holidays a. a rule the
dtbutante functions end there are still
some scheduled, AT the cotillon to be
given for Mss Elizabeth W. Clark by her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs James Wilson Clark,
on Monday night at Dodworth's. Mr..
Woodruff will lead dancing with the de-
butaute
DR., and Mrs. Alexander J Rooney of
$50 Seventeenth street, Brooklyn. have
announced the engagement # their
daughter Margaret to Edward J Byrne,
son OF Mr. and Mrs. John b. Byinc of 2i2
ST. Johns place. the wedd.n IA to take
place about Faster.