New-York tribune., 1902-03-18
About People and Social Incidents.

HHsTsgsri5s HSTsgS GorI Han 3 Mrs. Robert Mcpherson the
The principal entertainment Of the week bo,
ever, will be the musical given tonight bv Mr. -,
Mrs Henry W. Poor at their house al C;rar,src
Park and LexingtOu-ave. Some two hundred inv
tations have been issued The programme wbtcb
VIII be made up Of Louis Won Gaertner's Commas.
direction of Emil Paur with Kate HrDtirs-,ln n 'ne
soprano. Charles GregorOwitch as violnist an3
Hamilton Orr as pianist A
Both James Henry Smith and William c Viii.
ney have announced their intention of sailing g.
Europe soon. Mr.. Smith has chartered the Draxal
yacht Margarita, which Will be turned over -
him at Cowes about June, on the completion OF Mr.
and Mrs. c. b. Alexanders cruise in the Ne4itsr.
ranean. Mr. Smith will take the yacht into Norfh
ern waters. will visit various points along the coss-
of Norway, well as stockholm CopenhagenI anS
friends on board at the KieI yacht races.
Mrs. Robert GoeIet leaves this week for Europe
&nd sb on arr arriving there & Will i@n her Yacht the
Mrs. Albert Stevens has arranged to sail for Eu-
rope the trst week in May, and viii be absent
throughout the summer
Among those who have booked passages for Eu-
rope, with the intention of sailing between now
and the end of Nav, Mrs Anson Phelps Stokes
and the Misses Stokes. F. w RhineIander Mr. and
Mrs. William Douglas Sloane and Miss Sloane Mr.
ana MRS EIoridSe T. Gerry and the Misses Gerry.
Craig Biddle, Mr.. and Mrs. ". b Cutting ir tbe
Hon. Cecil Barring. Mrs. John Nicholas Brown Ms
Henry Clews John W Mackay. F. Grand d'Haute-
son Cammack.
Houses in the Meadow Brook hunt district ara
gradually filling for the hunting season. Among
the first Of the colony open their country places
in that part of Long Island are Mr.. and Mrs. Ham
ilton w Cary, Of No. sol Ffth-ave. They leave FOR
Europe next month, and viii return in July.
The Hon. George KeppeI. who has now entireIv
recovered his health. has returned town from,
England and Will remain here until next Juna or
July. Mrs keppel remains in London for the sea-
son.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip RhineIander have issued in
vitations for dinner their home East Thirty
Miss Helen Roosevelt, granddaughter Of Mrs
Astor, is in Washington, staying with her cousin
Mrs. William s Cowles.
William c. Whitney's return 10 town next Thurs
day from Aiken. and the breakUp-of the large party
which he has been entertaining there for the last
six weeks; will mark the close of the Aiken sea-
son. which, though less brilliant than in former
Years, has oeen gay, some, however. viii stl
6eEinninS week from tomorrow lasts till Easter
The British Ambassador and Lady Pauucefote
have terminated their visit Mr. and Mrs George
W Vanderbilt. at Bitmore, and have returned TO
Washington
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward c. Hoyt will start soon for
Hot Springs Va.
Miss Leary will have her customary reception
this afternoon, with music at her home in Fifth
Mrs. Trenor Park is about to receive visit from
her mother. Mrs Julius CatIiu. before the latter
takes up her residence for the spring and sum-
mer at Fairhoime, her place at MOrristown, y J.
The death Of Cornelius Vanderbilt Cross places
number of people in mourning. His mother was one
of the eight daughters OF Commodore Vanderbilt
Their names were as follows. Mrs. Daniel S. Tor
rance. Mrs James NJ Cross. Mrs y. 3. lie Bau
Mrs George n. OSEood Mrs. LATTE. Mrs Robert
NIvvnS, Mrs w \. Thorue and Mrs. H. r. Allen.
Mrs Torrance IS the only OF Commodore Van
derhit's children surviving.
Mrs. David Fowler Geduey's death likewise leaves
a large number of relatives TO mourn her loss She
Miss Heuriette DUer. daughter OF Nexander
Duer and granddaughter Of that William Dler who
married Catherine Alexander, daughter OF Major
General William Alexander, who claimed 10 be
Lord Stirling The only other survivor Of the third
generation of DuerS is Mrs. Henry Shear Hoyt. OF
H'ach-st-, Newport, who is in her ty-third
Year.