The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-01-08
MORRISTOWN'S
SOCIAL WAR
Scores Of Names Expunged
From tho Register by Leaders.
REPRISALS ARE. THREATENED.
The Sighted Band Clamotng for Rs'snge'
and Promise TO Obtain Il at
Next Assembly.
REpRlSALS ARE THREATENED

New York. Jan S--Whole pages OF
names have been torn out of the social
register of that habitat of men or MIL
lions and blue blooded descendants Oh
Revolutionary heroes whose capi'ai
Morristown. n. j., Even in the iar
reaches of Short Hills. Madison convent
and Summit families have been setby the
ears because a round dozen social aroi-
ters have decreed that two score resi-
dents are no longer included in the select
-Four Hundred.
Those cast out are in no wise apasheu'
Already mailing themselves as the Forty
lmmortais." they are planning coup
that shall suffice the bitterest clamor ior
reprisals. ..,
,uss are announced" quoth several OF
the "Immortals' yesterday, we shail see
what we shall see
.Imagine such irreproachables as Mrs
John Chapman Williams ana Mis' -
Olney Hill and the Wicklif1e Throck-
nortons and Mrs. Hughes being the SUD
5ects OF discrimination. None OF these
A. n narvenu or a pauperr' CALCULATED one
sociai leader. with cheeks rejecting the
Naminp sun setting behind the hills that
frame the exclusive Morristown Golf club
house.
.wbo compris, this jury OF social ex-
merits? Really, you must pardon me.
cannot perm.is myself 10 even recah theH
names / have not been a ~tasident TOT
! more than dozen years or so. sne CON
sInued. with a disdainfui sweep OF tne
hand toward some of the newly puli,
Colonial mansions that ornament the oio
Though the profoundest indifference is
disnlayed by the Forty Immortals" and
The duly elect are extremely chary OF
discussing the matter. II was learned that
the Jury OF Social Arbiters Is composed
OF Mrs John I. Waterbury, Mrs. 6eorse
q. Frelinghuysen. Mrs. Marmaduke
Tilder Mrs Louis A. Thebaud. Mrs VIII
liam q Letchford. Mrs. Ridley Watts.
Mrs w. Austin Flagg. Mrs. Albert III.
yernam. Mrs william Shippen. Mrs.
John o. II. Pitney. Mrs. Fred w. Merrell
and Miss Rowland.
Morristown society. including the sons
and daughters OF the accepted families
heretofore has numbered exactly VIZ per-
sons Each season eighs Assemblies
are given. Usually the attendance reach
es 200. Washington hall is the scene or
the festivities
On Nov. o. the first assembly Of the
season OF 1923 was held. The orchestra
from this city was the same as hereto
fore
The patronesses included such names
as Mrs Richard McCurdy, Mrs. John l..
waterbury. Mrs Louis A. Thebaud. Mrs.
Albert H. vernam, Mira Marmaduke TIL
den. Mrs William g. Letchford, Mrs. OIL
ver Billings, Mrs. Ridley Watts, Mrs.
Charles s. Melien, Mrs. II. r. Phipps, and
such men as Augustus Revere, Barrett
Chandler, Douglas Cox, Arthur Whitney.
~
landt Nicoli, Leland Garretson and Peter
Frelinghuysen figured as directors.
But equally familiar faces that graced
former functions were missed. Some
comment arose naturally. Still. IL was
believed the big assembly scheduled for
New Years eve would md all the quon-
dam favorites OF Morristown. Short Hills
and Madison present or accounted for. II
did But those accounted for and those
present were not identical.
FAST FLEW THE QUERIES.
"why. where IL Mrs w.ckliffe Throck-
norton" queried one. Hasn't Mrs. Will
lam H. Hughes come? She used To be
one OF the committee" inquired another
And Mrs. T. Olney Hill where Is she2
.,You've heard that the Richard vii.
,iamses. who live next door TO the n
Mex Twomblys have shut up their
house and gone back to New York. sup
pose That accounts for them" ''By th'
way isn't Mrs. Abram -. Garrison here 2
So the murmur OF the ballroom an'
ladies cloak room ran as one after an
other OF the absentees were catalogued
Then whispered explanations followed
il became known that all the ancient so
cial lines had been redrawn by n coteri
Of social magnates. and 40 residents ha
been ignored In making up the list o
assembly men and women for this season
Another function r. on FOR the 23d OF thi
month and on Feb. II the pre-Lente
hall will wind up the ambitious program
of the exclusive set. and Il is expecte
that the conflict will be resumed.