The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

fred Vanderbilts will live at Oakdale Farm all this winter. The George Van derbilts are to have another winter at Biltmore and then go abroad early In tho spring Their house on Fifth avenue will not be finished until next year.
 
 The Tuxedo Club will on October s1 have a harvest home. In fact it's annual ball The entire club house will be de- corated with grain and pumpkins and grapes and red forest leaves. There will be no cotillon. but general dancing The ball will by no means end the Tuxedo season. That will continue until long ar ter Christmas There will be quite re- vival of winter sports this year, and it would not surprise me if many of the Tux edo people stayed out there all winter. Newfoundland has proved such popular place with its winter sports of all kinds and there Is such a rush there a the week end that 1t has given an impetus to Tux edo.
 The engagement of Commander Louis Wentworth ohetNynd. of the English Navy, and Miss Augusta J. Robinson, daughter of the late E. Randolph Robin son. was announced through the cable from London and made quite astir. Miss Robinson is second daughter of the late Randolph Robinson The eldest daugh- ter, Miss Eleanor married MT. James Putnam of Boston. Miss Robinson's mother was Miss Jay and the latter's marriage to MT. Robinson was made es- pecially notable and memorable from the fact that 1t took place at Katonah. at the country seat of the late John Jay, and the guests for the first time in the history of new York society, were con Veyed to and from the wedding on spe- cial train. Commander Chetwynd, IS asf "a 1l.s. ATanr4 his bride. Miss Robinson will return home in January from London. and the wedding will be celebrated here soon after. It will be notable family gather ing, as Miss Robinson's family connec- ton Is a large and important one, her aunts being Mrs. Henry G. Chapman and Mrs. William Jay Schieffelin. and her uncle Colonel William Jay.
 The Count and Countess Bosom Talley- rand de Perigord are to spend the au- tumn in the United States. The countess was Miss Helen Morton. Her father Is MT. Levi P Morton, once vice-president of the United States and man who Tor at least fifty years has been prominent in American politics. They will visit the brides father at Ellerslie-on-the-H Hudson, and then make tour of the states going west to San Francisco. The countess Is a tall, slender, amiable woman, or girl, for she is less than twenty-five years old. When she was married in Grace church last October she looked not more than nineteen; and as she swung up the aisle on the arm of her slender papa, she looked as if she might have been his wife rather than his daughter.
 
 MT. Reginald Vanderbilt Is candidate for admission to the Knickerbocker club. His uncles and his brothers and his fa- ther, the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, are or have been members of this club, ana have favored it with their presence more than any other club to which they be- long, for the vanderbilts as a rule are not very devoted clubmen. They prefer the freedom of their homes, and with the exception of Willie K. Vanderbilt, ST" who spends considerable of his leisure lime at the Knickerbocker when in town, are rarely seen at their clubs
 
 MT, Fordham Morris, for 80 many years librarian of the New York Yacnt club returned on the Kronprinz Wllheun from his now annual summer trip abroad looking in perfect health. MT. MOTHS, who is now taking life easily after many yeors of strenuous work in the legal pro fession is as devoted yachtsman as ever and predicts Sir Thomas Lipton Will not carry off the cup next autumn, even with a rev Shamrock. Through long years of successful prophecy, MT. Morris has come to be looked upon as an oracle by the older and younger members of the New York Yacht club who are jubilant in consequence over his prognostication of the result of next years international cup contest They are telling story on Mr Morris of an old sailing ship captain who, having heard of his successful fore casting the future, said to him one day. tThey tell me you're one of the best sfognosticators in the country
 It is definitely announced that the sub scription list of one hundred and fifty Of the Knickerbocker Dancing class is now filled, and that although It IS fully month before the first event of the sea- son-the Thanksgiving dance-there is large waiting list. Several new names are amorg the list, of patronesses, which has just been announced. It includes Mrs. Henry Clarke Coe, Mrs. Robert Franklin Adams, Mrs. Charles Atwood Edwards, Mrs. Edward Davis Jones, Mrs. Albert Effingnam Lawrence, Mrs. James H. Purdy, Mrs. Frank G. Barber, Mrs. Wendell c. Phillips, Mrs. Frederick Hewitt Parks, Mrs. Frederick Douglass Underwood, Mrs. Charles Lincoln Weth- erbee and Mrs. J. R. Ives.