The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-16

Mrs. whitelaw Reldl Miss Anita Sands and Miss Edith Colford will also be among the debutantes of the winter Lit tie Is known of Mss Reid, who, in &C., cerdance with the English custom has been kept in the country and the school room until the year of her debut but Miss Roach, Miss Sands and Miss Col ford, who have spent the last two or three summers at New port. place not favor able for retirement, have been much in evidence therei SC that these debutantes will be nc novelties to the fashionable set in New York when they make their first bow. They are ali the more usually at tractive girls, with all the vivacity and the restlessness of manner and mind which characterize the members of the Newport smart set
 
 | Mrs. J. Laurens Van Alen has been prominent figure this week, Her little son was christened on Monday, and there was a very notable gathering of Astors and Vanderbilts present at the ceremony and some gorgeous gifts were made. Mrs. Van Allen was, as you know Miss Daisy Post. She and her sister, Miss Spriggy Post, were great belles in New York. One married Tom Howard, for some years the favorite cotillon leader, and two years later Daisy Post married J. Laurens Van Allen and the grandson of Mrs. Astors. MfB V an Alen lS lIe HelC6 Ol nIS. erick Vanderbilt who has always been devoted to her, and Mrs. Vanderbilt gave her house as a wedding gift. The little boy has for godfather his grandfather, and for godmother the Countess of Crav- en- Mrs. Bradley Martins daughter. The Countess could not be present in this country for the christening, so that Mrs. Vanderbilt was sponsor by deputy. Mrs. Van Allen was one of the bridesmaids at the wedding of Craven and Miss Bradley Martin at Grace church ten years ago.
 Mrs. Oliver Hartman Jr., has been do- ing very much entertaining since she came back from Europe. Her lovely home at White Plains Is now finished, and house party after house party has been given there this autumn. Mrs. liar riman Is certainly one of the most beauti- | full young matrons in New York society. | She Is a southern woman, having been born and bred in old Kentucky. She was Miss Carley of Louisville. She made her debut however, at Newport, where her father and mother came to reside some years ago. All the Harrimans have been successful in Wall street and in railroads. They are a clannish family, and the brothers and cousins stand by each other. Society was pained to hear of the serious illness of William M. Harri- man, who has not been well man for several years. He is a great traveller, and | several journeys he has made He was very much interested in the Hartman expedition to Alaska some years ago. At one time he was said to be engaged to | Miss Anna Gould, but it was broken of and she married the Count de Castellane.
 Calvary Protestant Episcopal church | Fourth avenue and Twenty-first street has been chosen as the place for the eel bration of the wedding of Miss Julia L. Olin, daughter of MT. Stephen Henry Olin to MT J. Philip Benkard, on December H. Invitations to the church will be gen eral while those for the reception, whicf is to be held at the residence of MT. Olin No. 136 East Nineteenth street, will b' confined to relatives and a very few inti mate friends. as MT. Benkard's family fl in deep mourning. Miss Olin will hav' four bridesmaids, Miss Fanny Iselin Miss Anna Dodge, Miss Rosamond Street and her sister, Miss Alice T. Olin. MT Benkard, who will give his farewell bach elor dinner at the Knickerbocker club few nights before the date set for tn wedding, will have his brother, MT. J Gerald Benkard, as his best man. Tn ushers will be another brother, MT Hen ry H. Benkard Colonel George Rathbon Dyer, of the Twelfth regiment; Lieuten ant Cornelius Vanderbilt Captain Mon son Morris. Captain H. Rogers Winthrop MT. James G. K. Lee, MT. Ernest Iselil and Count Henry de Portes. of Paris, cousin of Mr Benkard.