Evening star., 1902-03-04
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM
Society Anxiously Awaiting
Prince Henry's Return.
MANY FRIENDS THERE
ELABORATE PREPARATIONS FOR
THE VANDERBILT DINNER.
The Luncheon Given by Captains Of
Industry Has Provoked Much
Comment.
MANY FRIENDS THERE
pecial Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

NEW YORK. March 3. 1902.
The host Of admirers Of Prince Henry So
cially are looking forward with interest to
his return. The dinner Of Cornelius Van
derbilt, jr., to the prince wild be given on
March o. and will be in every way a superb
affair, arranged in the very best taste.
Sherry will have charge Of the menu. and
the guests will sit in the banquet room OF
the Vanderbilt house at 10th street and 9Th
avenue. No expense nor pains will be
spared in the decorations, in which Amer
lean beauty roses and the German and
American flags wiN be conspicuous. 1t is
said the guests will be presented bronze
busts of the kaiser and Prince Henry, and
silver busts Of President Roosevelt. Nine
sembrich and Nine. Melba will sing. and an
orchestra of hundred pieces will pay. OF
those who were first asked to the dinner
several will be unable to be present. Mrs.
Astor had intended to sail this week, as had
also the Harry Lehrs. Mr.. and Mrs. James
A. Burden are in California and Mrs Og-
den Goelet is in Europe. Mr.. and Mrs.
now. and Mr.. and Mrs. Whitlaw Reid are
en- route to California. The dinner list in
ciudes the following names, for some of
which others will be substituted:
List of Invited Guests.
Mrs. Astor. Mr.. and Mrs. John Jacob As
tor, Mrs. Ogden Goelet, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
Iam K. Vanderbilt, jr.. Mr. and Mrs.
Hamilton Nick. Twomby. Mr.. and Mrs
John r. Drexel. Mr. and Mrs. Royal Phelps
Carroll. Mr.. and Mrs. Cooper Hewitt, Mr.
and Mrs James A. Burden, jr., Mr. and
Mrs. Whitney Warren. Mr.. James A. Bur-
den, Mrs. Richard Gambril. Mrs. Duncan
Elliott. the Marquise de Talleyrand Peri
CORD Mr.. and Mrs Elisha Dyer. jr. Mr.
and Mrs. Edmund Baylies, Mr.. and Mrs J.
H. Hammond Mr. and Mrs James A Still
man. Mr.. and Mrs. Pembroke Jones. Mr.
and Mrs. Egerton Winthrop. Mr. and Mrs
Harry Lehr. Mr.. ard Mrs. Edward Ber-
wind, Mr.. and Mrs. William Payne Thomp
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Whitehouse
Mr.. and Mrs. Stuyvesant Rutherford. Mr.
and Mrs Stuyvesant Fish, Mr.. and Mrs
Whitelaw Reid, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Mackay and Mr.. and Mrs. c. Oliver Iselin.
There is some little speculation as to how
the selections of Captains of Industry to
attend the luncheon to Prince Henry were
made. A captain of industry. If the list is
any criterion. may be a banker, an inven-
tor, railway president, a physician, an
astronomer, a rear admiral. a statistician,
a librarian. an insurance officer, a mer-
chant. This is sufficiently catholic method
of choice. but the trouble was that it drew
the line all the more severely against a
multitude of conspicuous men in exactly
the same lines Of work. who. naturally
could not see what claim to captainsnip
their associates had which they did not
precisely what basis or bases the line
was drawn. and no one has appeared anx-
iOus to avOW responsibility for the con-
struction of the list.
Blizzard Ruinous to Bill Boards.
The intermittent blizzard has played
havoc with theatrical bill boards and the
city, to use the vernacular, has been en-
tirely "repapered' twice in the last ten
days. Some idea of how financially impor-
tant an item it is in the contemplated out
lay for a new theatrical venture may be
had from the recent account of local man.
ayers paper man. The production to
which this particular expense account was
charged was put on about three weeks ago.
1t is burlesque pure and simple, and con-
sequently required lavish "papering." A
first edition Of board and stand sheets was
ordered from lithographng concern at
cost of Zoo. With this edition the city
was both papered and carpcted-or, as the
paper men call it when a show Is to be an
nounced with unlimited sple endor Circus
billed For wall space, fence and board
privileges. all of which are controlled by the
bill posters trust. another $1,000 outlay
was required. Three days after the town
had been papered with the burlesque, the
first instalment of the blizzard arrived. The
work was undone in night. 1t was done
over the next day. The manager conforms
in all known particulars to the specifica-
tions Of a hustler" The blizzard was
perniciously active, however and 1t blotted
out and soaked up the paper mans efforts,
almost before the paste was dry. He esti-
mates that to the elements alone an un-
looked-for item amounting to 5000 must
be charged.
Financiers Going to Europe.
]. Pierpont Morgan. accompanied by Nor
man B. Ream of Chicago will sail for Eu-
rope next Wednesday. Previous TO Mr.
Morgans sailing for Europe in April Of
last year, 1t will be remembered, much
concern was felt over the effect his
leave taking would have upon the market
and the status of pending deals. Contrary
to general expectations stocks continued to
boom. and the market was rampant until
May 8, when the upward movement cul-
minated in the panic which accompan MED
the corner in Northern Pacific. In the
present situation Mr.. Morgan's departure
will be construed in various ways. Those
who have been fearful of a break in the
market will be made to feel easier. on the
theory that conditions such that the
| most prominent figure in the street, who
represents the largest stock holdings ever
concentrated in the care of one man, feels
warranted in taking leisure, while, on the
other hand, the most hopeful bulls will
have their ardor cooled reasoning that Mr..
Morgan would not be leaving the country If
any great bull campaign were Immediately