The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-07
Weeks Social News

THERE may be Country clubs that
are richer than the Scranton
Country club; that have more
frills, more luxury, more hilarity. There
rnay be those where young men and
women can drink more wine than Is
good for them and can play bridge for
money and play golf on Sunday but
nowhere on the face OF the earth can
there be a Country club which for en-
quisite loveliness of surroundings sur
passes ours this June day. TO go to the
upper links as the shadows lengthen
over the velvet sward and the encircling
forest seems to close in more softly
dense in the twilight, and look across
to the fair mountains rising in n violet
skyline to the eastward. is to see a
picture as rarely beautiful in senti-
ment as a Corot.
Golf is langrishing just now and ten
mis- seems TO be first in favor, but the
chief point of interest Is the metamor-
phosis Of the club house. Work is rap
idly progressing and 1t Is with im-
patience that the members await the
completion of the new structure. The
change is very marked A long, low
line, classic in architecture, broken by
two gables, forms the front facade. 1t
is attached to the present building and
extends one hundred and fifty feet TO
the left, with a depth of about forty
feet. A pllared porch finishes the entire
length. and the dark pine trees form a
romantic setting as they cluster close
to the caves.
The gallery portion will contain the
bowling alleys. The first room adjoin-
ing the old part will be another living
room, connected with the one so pleas
antly fitted up at present. At the rear
will be the ladies' parlor and lockers.
1t is here that the porte cochere will
now be located-a far better arrange
ment than the one which has been in
vogue. Some day there may be sun
parlor where the present rather awk-
wardly arranged porte cochere is
placed
The dining room is to be enlarged,
taking in the Kitchens and buffers
pantry. There will be apartments ar
ranged for baths. smoking and loung-
Ing rooms, and on the second floor five
sleeping rooms for men. At the ex-
treme end of the new building squash
court will be made. Altogether the in7-
provements will be a great satisfaction.
The expense will be about S25,000
Next week will be week of we'd
dings. Several of these are of great in
terest to the leading social circles of
the city. There will be three handsome
church weddings. The first is that of
Miss Bertha Powell and Mr.. +. c. Full
Ter, who are to be married at 4 o'clock,
in the Second Presbyterian church, on
Wednesday,. Miss Helen Powell will be
maid of honor. The best man will be
Mr.. Theo. Fuller. Mrs Fellman, of
Bethlehem, will be matron of honor.
The bridesmaids will be Miss Gertrude
Sprague, Miss Bunnell. Miss Anne
Hand, of this city, and Miss Lauder
berg, of New York. The ushers will be
Messrs. NJ. B. Fuller. James Blair, jr.,
W. j. Torrey and Will Powell.
Miss Gertrude Sprague will give a
dinner on Tuesday at the Scranton club
for the members of the Powell-Fuller
bridal party. Miss Anne Hand will
have a luncheon on Monday, and Miss
Bunnell and Mr.. Torrey will have a
supper for them tonight at the Country
club.
The marriage of Miss Grace Sander
son to Mr.. Ray Fuller will take place
next Thursday night in the Second
Presbyterian church. The maid of
honor will be Miss Elizabeth Sander
son. The bridesmaids will be Miss
Susan Mcmahon, of New York; Miss
Leila Felver, of Easton; Miss Emma
Burns and Miss Helen Hand, of this
city, Mr.. Howard Fuller is to be best
man. The ushers will be Messrs.
Arthur Reed, of West Chester, Pa;
Clyde BiXler and Frank Stonecipher, of
Easton; Alfred Yetter, Raymond Sam
derson and Floyd Fuller, of this city.
Miss Sanderson and her friends will
be entertained on Monday at thimble
tea at the Country club. Miss Helen
Hand, who returned from California
last night, will give dinner on Tues
day night for the bridal party.
Miss Dale will entertain few friends
informally this morning at a porch
party, when Mrs. Leonard, of Pater-
son, N. j., will be the guest of honor.
Mr. and Mrs. w. H. Richmond cele-
brated the fifty-third anniversary of
their marriage on Wednesday,, and are
expecting to take another bridal trim
over the route of half century ago.
The McAll meeting will be held on
Monday at the home of Mrs. w. II.
Richmond. at Richmond Hill. This an
nual outing is always awaited with
great pleasure by those interested in
the McAll work.
Miss Grace Birdsall will be married
to Mr. Frederick Staff. of Philadelphia,
on Wednesday night at O'Clock, at the
Second Presbyterian church. Miss Ger
trude Lamb, of New York, will be maid
OF honor. Mr.. William Trappe, of
Philadelphia, will be best man. The
bridesmaids are to be: Miss Louise
Miss Grace Kierstead, of
this city; Miss Isabel Birdsall, of
Honesdale. and Miss Edith Feister.
The ushers will be: Willard Birdsall,
of Honesdale; DR.. John Robb, of Phila-
delphia; Forest Powell. of New York,
and Burson Bevans, of this city.
Mrs. r. j. Bennell has given an order
to the well-known artist. j. Bayard
Tyler. OF New York. for a portrait of
her father the late j. j. Albright, to be
placed in the Albright memorial library.
This will be a noble gift to the city and
Is a fitting climax to the gifts with
which this generous family has en-
riched Scranton. The Chartran por-
trait of Joseph Albright, of Buffalo.
who gave the building as a memorial
to his father, will now have as a COM