The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-18

House, and an invitation there during
coronation week will establish the
clailsk of any American visitor in Lon
don to general social recognition.
Brook House is at Brook street and
Park lane and faces Hyde Park. 1t
was put up by the first Baron Tweed
mouth thirty-two years ago, and is
not a handsome building from the
outside, being built of red brick, like
many of the best London residences.
In its interior fittings. though, Brook
House is one of the finest places in
London, and it is particularly we'll
adapted for entertaining. Pictures
and statuary abound in the halls and
reception rooms, and in the main hall,
fastened to the center balustrade, is
one of the proudest possessions of the
TweedmoUths, the first Boer flag
brought to England. II was captured
by the eldest son of the house, the Hon.
Dudley Majoribanks, from a wagon
near Kroonstad. There is a ball room
at Brook House. the walls and ceilings
of which, painted by Fragonard, were
transferred to this house from a
French chateau; there is a wonderfully
handsome staircase, and one of the
finest dining rooms in England.
Mr.. Reid takes Lady Tweedmouths
staff of servants accustomed to the
work of waiting on royalty as royalty
should be waited on, so that nothing
is lacking in the equipment of the
American headquarters to make it one
of the finest places in London during
the coronation week, and a place well
worthy to house such a distinguished
party as that making up the special
embassy from the United States.
But the Reds will not be the only
Americans in London especially for the
coronation to entertain on a lavish
scale. Mrs. Ogden Mills, with her twin
daughters, Miss Gladys and Miss
Beatrice Mills, and her mother Mrs.
Maturin Livingston, will be there also,
and in London will be the guests of
Mrs. Mills twin sister, Mrs. Cavern
dish Bentwick, unless they decide to
take London house themselves. Both
Mrs. Mills and her sister plan to enter
tain extensively during coronation
week, and as there are no better known
Or more popular American society wo-
men than these two twin sisters, the
houses that they occupy are sure to
be centers of social interest for Amer
leans abroad.
Mrs. William Astor, the leader of
New York society. is in Paris just now.
but she will be in London during coro-
nation week, at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. Haig. William K. Van
derbilt, who has been cruising in his
yacht, the Valiant, with Mr.. and Mrs.
Oliver Hartman, and Winfield Scott
Hoyt will go to the coronation with
his entire party. Mr.. and Mrs. w. K.
Vanderbilt, Jr., will have a house in
London, where they will do great
deal of entertaining. The Duchess of
Marlborough will spend much of her
time with her brother, and the young
er set of American society people in
London will undoubtedly make the
Vanderbilt place their headquarters
during the coronation festivities.
Mrs. Frances Ormond French, Mr..
and Mrs. Amos Tuck French and Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt will be the
guests of the Hon. and Mrs. Herbert
+. Eaton of Hyde Park. Mrs. Eaton
is Mrs. French's daughter, and is sis
ter of Mr.. French and of Mrs. Wander
bilt and she will do great deal of en-
PERTAINING for these young relatives
during the week ofcelebration. Mrs. ..
H. P. Belmont. Mrs. Herman Oelrichs
and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish will be
among a large number of American
society women who will take hotel
apartments during coronation week. OF
course, this precludes any possibility
of their entertaining save on a very
small scale; nevertheless, these women
will be conspicuous in the social life of
London during the week.
Among other Americans who have
taken houses are Mrs. Charles 7.
Terkes, Mrs. Elisha Dyer. Jr., Mr.. AL
bert o. Brown, Mr.. and Mrs. Elbridge
T. Gerry, Mr.. and Mrs. George Croker
of San Francisco. ]. Henry Smith,
Lispenard Stewart. Mrs. Gouverneur
Kortright and Mrs. James E. Kerno-
chan. William c. Whitney will be in
London during coronation week. but
has not decided whether to stay, see
the show and mingle with the social
whirl. or to get out into the quiet of
the country until the turmoil and ex-
element attending the browning of a
king is over.
Work for the Real Estate Brokers.
The socially conspicuous Americans
who are already in London or soon will
be include people from all of the larger
cities in the country, and their names
would make very long list. The
amount of the fuss and the bother and
negotiation which the preparing, send
ing and housing of this army of Ameri-
cans has ent allied is incalculable. The
is one real estate broker in New York
who for some time has had a dozen
commissions in his hands to secure
London houses for Americans who
want want to do the coronation COM
fortably, but he hasn't succeeded in
placing more than half of his clients so
far, and coronation week is getting I'M
comfortably close for those who want
London houses and haven't got them
yet.
The trouble is in getting London
houses suitable for the kind of enter
tanning that American women want to
do in London this year. There are an
abundance of such houses, but those
who own them and occupy them are
not persons to whom even large sum
of rental money for a short period of
occupancy appeals very strongly. The
Americans want houses just as they
are want the owners to step out with
out taking as much as a servant with
them, and let them step in, but there
aren't enough of these obliging persons
in London to go round. Lord Tweed
mouths renting of his home to the
Reds is said to have been a simple act
of courtesy, he being very much inter-
ested in having the head of the Ameri-
can embassy suitably housed during his
stay in London. 1t is said that enor-
nous sums of money are being offered
for well equipped London houses by
Americans, but that the English own
ers cannot be induced to let their places |
at any price. 1t seems certain that a
large number of Americans who had
reckoned on doing coronation in most
finished style, entertaining as we'll as
being entertained, will be obliged at
or stay at home.
There is alrgldy much talk of rivalry
among American women who propose
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