The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-20
Society in New York.
sY DIEDRIcH KNIcKERBocKER.


New York, April 1s.-Something Ii
wrong in the way our young
people are growing up. almost
believe the old lady was right who said
she would rather go to funeral than to
wedding. She meant that she hated af-
terclaps. When q friend was dead there
was no future worry when q friend Ia
married no one knows what viii happen
Whoever supposed Baby Belle Nelson.
who married Arthur Kemp. or Miss Lor-
Hard, who married 6ufferin Taller, would
30 soon be off to Dakota in search OF sin
gle blessedness? The times are out OF
joint. Mishts, not matches. are being
made at the hymenal altar.
But when they marry, these daring
young adventurers let us bid them God
speed, and wish them well. This Is the
season for mating and couples are daily
starting off for the sacred haven Of con-
nubial felicity. During the past week.
among the voyagers were: Miss Harris
horn to DR.. Carter. at st. Thomas, upon
a stormy day; of Mrs. Alexander to Mr..
Ponner, at st. Bartholomew, on We'd
son, of Boston, on the same day, and or
Miss Mary Arden PARROT to Mr.. Henry
Schroeder at Grace Church on Thursday.
On Saturday, Miss Edith Connery, the
daughter of Mr.. Thomas B. Connery was
married to DR.. J. N. Martin, or Mamaro-
neck. at ST. Regis's Chapel.
There will be comparatively few we'd
dings this coming week. The largest Will
be that of Miss May Manchester Russell,
the daughter of Mrs James Russell, to
Hector Harold Havemeyer, at the Maoi-
son Avenue Reformed Church on Wednes-
day. The wedding will be unique from
the fact that there will be an ADDITION TO
a maid Of honor a matron or honor. MISS
Havemeyer the sister Of the bridegroom,
viii be maid of honor, and Mrs. Isaac
Hallem Jenney, a sister of the bride, will
be the matron of honor. Miss Grace Bal
lards, Miss Alice Quakenbos, Miss Ger
trude Hencken, and Miss Marsh Reese,
of this CITY, will be the bridesmaids. Mr..
Arthur Havemeyer will be best man, and
the ushers will be Mr.. Raymond Have
meyer, Peter Gilsey. John Sayre Martin,
Jr., Isaac Hallem, Jr., Charles s. Reese
William R. Wilooxs Charles r. Ranerty
and PIERRE S. Ross.
Miss Bertha Gillett, q daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs Emslie M. Gillett, will be mar
ried to Lieutenant William Patterson. U.
s. A., at Trinity Chapel on Wednesday
afternoon, at four o'clock The wedding
will be more attractive than the ordinary
and conventional nuptial events OF the
season, as the men of the bridal party
with few exceptions will be In full uni
form.
Miss Jane Gillett will act as her sister
maid of honor, and there will be severai
bridesmaids, among them Miss Charlotte
a. Dew
vibert, Miss Anna Mott, Miss Rita Bur
CESS and Miss Leonie Lentilhon. TWO 1T
tie flower girls, Mildred Giliett and Ber-
tina Purdy, will be in attendance
Mr.. Edward Kurtz Crook will act as
best man, and the ushers will be Lieu
tenant Edward T. Donnelly and Richard
O. Jordan. u. s. A, Messrs. Charles N
Wsndt and Alfred Rocker, Jr., OF SQUAD.
ron A; William A. Evans and Sutherland
Irving.
Miss Gf7Iett will entertain her orioes-
maids at luncheon tomorrow, and Lieu
tenant Patterson will give his rareWeii
bachelor dinner at the Princeton GfuD TO-
morrow evening.
The details for the wedding Of Miss Ro-
sale w. de Goicouria, daughter OF Mr'
and Mrs. Albert v. de Goicouria, to Mr..
w. Scott Cameron have been completed.
9vf,e ceremony will be performed at noon
on Wednesday, April 30 in St Barthoio-
mew's Church, Madison avenue and For
ty-fourth street, by the Rev. ID. Brioges'
Of Islip, l.. L, who will probably pc as
sisted by the Rev. DR.. David II. Green,
the rector of St Bartholomew'5. MISS
Alice de Goicouria will be her sister
maid of honor and the bridesmaids VIII
be Mss Carrie Edgar Miss Parsons, MISS
Barnes, and Miss Daisy Hollins. Mr..
Cameron, who has arranged to give his
farewell bachelor dinner at Sherrys on
Saturday night Of this week, has CHOSEN
MI. J. Searle Barclay. Jr., to be MS best
man. His ushers will be Mr.. Henry
worthington Bull, Mr.. Herbert T. King,
Mr., @. Sheldon Chauncey, Mr.. Woodward
Yaahcock Mr., John K. Mohr, Mr.. Harry
&. Page and Mr.. G. Foster Rawlins.
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Miss Florence Reeves, daughter of Mrs.
Katherine Van Rensselaer, Reeves, was
married to Mr.. Wilbur f. Brown, Jr. on
wednesday afternoon, in the Church or
.he Ascension, Fifth avenue and Tenth
street. The ceremony took place at ive
O'clock. the rector. the Rev. Percy Stick
nav Grant, officiating. The wedding re-
oan41on was limited to relatives only, as
the brides family was in mourning. Miss
reeves was attended by her nieces, the
Misses Marjory and Katherine st.
George.
psux-pong will never be fashionable.
Brtdee caught everybody. Ping-pong Is
voted vulgar. Do you know whyf l VIII
tell YOU. A friend of mine after dinner
endeavored to introduce 1t. The women
were too tight laced to pick the ball from
the floor when 1t fell, and the men were
100 lazy. 1t is voted q bore. 1t will do
for ballet ladies and young stock brokers.
Seth Low has yacht to take him from
his country seat to the city. Low has So
oiaI ambitions. But he is not the only man
who has yacht to do bus" service
Among others are: George ]. Gould. Pier
pont Morgan, Ed Hartman, Jack Aston,
Willie K. Vanderbilt, and Pierre Loril-
lard the latest Is Ogden Mills. He has
secured fast yacht, which he intends
10 use this late spring between his place
on the Hudson and New York Mrs. Mills
NAV go to England but It Ii still uncer-
tein. The Millses will not be at Newport
before August at the very earliest, and
nerhaps not until September. The Mills
country house Is delightfully."- situated and
the house parties there over Sunday are
verv ENJOYABLE. The Gerrys will leave at
the end of the month and will make their
usual tour in England and France The
ex-Commodore and his seal cap are as
familiar in London and Paris as they are
in New York
Miss Gwendolyn Burden has been one
of the successes of the season. She Is a
very pretty girl, although she has not
the figure of her sister, Miss Evelyn The
latter Young lady was abroad in the au-