New-York tribune., 1902-01-01
NEW-YORK SOCIETY.

Society is to a great extent out Of town to-day.
ana number OF country houses and country club,
nave been opened for New Year festivities Will
lan Il vanderbilt has house party at Idle Hour
his place on Long Island. his guests some thirty
In number. having left here on a special train YES
terday afternoon. Mr.. and Mrs. Mackay have a
large party with them their new house at Ros-
lyn, and gave dinner followed by a dance last
night. Mr.. and Mrs. C. r. Alexander are entertain
ing a number OF guests at their cottage at Tuxedo
among the number being Lord and Lady Algernon
Gordon, 1ennox. Mr.. and Mrs. Levi P. Mortor
and anSe so as1 too part party staying With them az Tuxedo
and Mr.. and Mrs. Price Collier while Mr. and MIS-
Mrs seward WEBB pary Rsrf T shebnT9s 81 hb9r6sP Par D
ana Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick H. Allen one at Bolton
Priory. The New Years Eve ball al Tuxedo lasf
pisat MI was IS great success and the thing may
County Country Club.
The fashionable restaurants IN town wer, cro1dad
last night by supper parties organized for the pur
pose OF seeing the old year out and the new wear
IN. At Sherrys the orchestra began playing a
mournful dirge for the dying year shortly before
midnight at the first stroke of which every light
was suddenly extnguished and the establishment
s iStt in total darkpesS The moment the clock had
and the orchestra struck up its most lively tunes
in welcome Of 1909. New Year was likewise eeie@
clubs: many Of which kept open ho1seItSat is t6
Among other entertainments OF the evening was
the meeting at Sherrys OF the dancing class organ
ized by Mrs. Hugh J. Chisholm and Mrs David
Dows. tr. II is composed OF quite young people
that is to say OF boys and girls the members OF
the class consisting of the Misses Electa Have
meyer. Alexandra Stevens, Cornelia Peabody Edith
Constable, Gladys Roosevelt Antoinette Heikscber
Sara Hardenberg Dorothy Grinnen. Emma AcheIis
Lillian Barr Sally Dixon. Marion Cooper Janet
Blackwell. May Weatherbee Isabel Cary Mabel
Jones. Marjorie Leacraft. Mamie Brown Eliza beth
Stevens. Helen Nicholson Elizabeth Masten. Louise
Jackson. Elsie Shaw. Marie Duryee, Mildred Har-
heck, Alice Mclean, Adelaide Hegeman Marie
Van Liew. Cornelie Lee, Dorcas and Edith WIZ
Jams. Ruth Hubball, Douglas Bosworth, Marsaret
Tuttle Louise Cook. Helen Trotter Grace Ruggles
Rosale De Forest. Anne Gardener and r r VII
son, 2d, Orme Wilson, jr., J. Esmont Schermerhorn
jr., Ernest Victor Livingston PIatt. II Fairneld
Osborn, jr., HaIsted Wander Poel David and Nc
Alpin Pyle. Hicks Weatherbee. Louis Morris
Jack Lapham, Jack Church. Dudley Cooper.
Rufus Barr. Charles Jackson, Courtlandt DIXON
Oliver Wagstan John Victor. John Cornell Frank
Austin Neftei. Francis Storer George Edgen, Hor-
ace ace & Green Hugh j. Chisholm tr. David pows, Rob
lam Lane Henry stone Henry stmson Charles
nett and Doane Gardner Dancing began az Huf
o'clock and there was pretty cotllon; The favors
They Consisted Of riding crops. picture frames
Venetian neck chains and other knickknacks In the
out and the New Year in bracelets adorned with
bells presented to the girls and New Years
horns To their partners.
Mrs Hermann Oelrichs has issued invitations for
a dinner on January at her house. in East Fifty
seVenth-st-
Miss Gurnec gives dinner this evening at her
house in Fifth-ave.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt gave a luncheon at her
house in Fifth-ave., yesterday, the party number
Ing sixteen.