The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-24
MRS. PEMBROKE JONES BALL
LEADING SOCIETY EVENT OF SEASON
North Carolina Lady Whose Elaborate So
cial Functions Outshlne All In the
Seuart Set


Senart Set
A special to the New York Sun from
Newport gives the following account OF
a magnificent entertainment given by a
North Carolina lady on Thursday night:
The most elaborate society event of the
season thus far took place tonight at
Freidheim, the HavemeyeP villa, occu-
pied by Mr. and Mrs. Pembroke Jones.
1t was a combination vaudeville show
and ball. and it outshone the affair of
last season. Previous to the arrival OF
the guests dinner parties were given by
Mrs Stuyvesant Fish, Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt, Jr., and Mrs. Ogden Mills.
The villa was magnificently decorated
with flowers, palms and plants, and the
electrical display was brilliant, special
feature being made of this part of the
decorations. American Beauty roses were
used by hundreds in the several rooms
of the cottage, in vases and banked on
mantels and on the tables in the drawing
room. which with the enormous palms
used formed a beautiful entrance to the
theatre. The broad piazzas were trans
formed into a grape arbor effect.
The theatre and dancing pavilion were
white and pale green in tone. Ten thous-
and water lilies were arranged in
streamers on the ceiling and the side
walls score of plate glass mirrors
lined the walls from the floor to the
ceiling. The stage decorations were also
of pale green and white, white roses and
tall stalks of white hollyhocks blending
with the scenery.
Mrs. Jones received her guests in the
drawing room, and at 10 O'Clock they re-
paired to the large tent on the lawn,
where the vaudeville show was given.
The tent was Illuminated with hundreds
of tiny lights. The guests were seated
in gold chairs.
The following was the programme;
Wartenburg brothers, jugglers; Aurice
Dagwell, songs of the day; George w.
Day, I'm Cork" De Biere and company,
illusionists Carmen sisters, banjoists;
Mile. Rialto. color dances Music was
furnished by two orchestras
The supper tent was decorated to rep
resent a woodland scene. The sides We're
enclosed with green's and the ceiling was
hung with the beautiful Southern bamboo
wire. There were forty-five round tables
for the supper, each having a centrepiece
of flowers and an electric device in the
Ispe of an umbrella.
punches of gardenias were provided
fer all the ladies at the first supper for
there was a second one, following the
cotillon. The first supper was served
after the show On the lawn there was
also tent occupied by a gypsy fortune
teller.
After supper the cotillon was danced
in the ballroom, which was added to the
villa, the dance being led by Elisha
Dyer, Jr., with Mrs. Jones. The figures
danced were novel. One was the interna-
tional figure, in which Italy, Sweden,
Switzerland, France, Holland, Turkey,
England and America were represented.
The favors were articles made in the
various countries and they were distri-
buted by young ladies dressed in costume.
Mahep the American figure was danced a
large electrical piece, representing the
globe, was rolled into the ballroom, and
emblazoned on it were the words: 1--WE
want the EARTH" While the various fig
ures were being danced the orchestras
played the national airs of the countries
they represented.
Another pretty figure was called the
Southern" figure, and it was arranged
under Mrs. Jones' personal supervision.
A huge watermelon, standing five feet
from the floor, was rolled in, and when
it had reached the centre of the ballroom
cut was made in it with a knife. 1t
fell apart and out stepped two picka-
ninnies, who distributed the favors, rag
babies and tiny watermelons During this
figure the orchestra played Way Down
South"
1t was the prettiest cotillon ever seen
in Newport. Following are some of the
favors Castanets and tambourines for
the Spanish figure, strings Of beads ana
ST. Marc bells fer Italy, wooden boxes ana
toys for Sweden. Alpine stats and sticks
for Switzerland, empire beads in bags for
France. Dutch pipes for Holland, Turkish
scarfs and fezes for the Turkish figure
and sporting prints and British lions for
the British figure. For the American
figure the favors were silver and gold
trinkets.
After the cotillon the second supper
was served in the tents. A light rain
was falling, but it in no way marred the
festivities. Then there was dancing until
the early hours of the morning.
The guests numbered over three hun
dred Among them was Miss Alice
Roosevelt, who had previously been the
guest of Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt. Jr..
at her dinner party
Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs had arranged
to give a dinner to sixty guests at her
villa. after which she was to take them
to the hall. but when the news of her
brothers death reached her she with
drew her invitations Mrs Stl1yyesant