New-York tribune., 1903-04-18
NETWORK SOCIETY.

NEW-YORk SOCIETY,"
Mrs John Jacob Astor has been placed in mourn
ing by the sudden death early yesterday morning
at Philadelphia of her mother. Mrs. Edward s.
Willing.
The Omnibus Club, an organization founded last
winter met last night at the Constable Studio, No
% East Sixteenth-st the entertainment taking the
form of Rural Fete" and Country Fair Bu-
collie costumes de rigueur. This will probably
be the last of the many amusing parties that have
had their scenes in the Constable Studio which Is
about to be given up by Mr.. Constable.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt drove the Pioneer yester-
day on It's daily trip to ArdsIey. the coach having
been chartered for the day by the Ladies Four
INLAND Driving Club of New-York. of which Mrs.
Thomas Hastings is president. The other members
of the club include Miss Helen Barney, Miss Mabel
Gerry and Miss Eleanor Jay. The Pioneer has been
retained for to-day by Mr.. and Mrs Reginald
Rives.
Several dances figured yesterdays calendar.
Among them the last OF the Friday cotLllions
at the WaIdorf-Astoria, Frederick K. S. Woodruff
leading with Miss Helen Olyphant The guests
were received by the patronesses, among whom
were Mrs Woodbury. c. Langdon Mrs Talbot Oily
phant, Mrs. Marshall c. Lefferts. Mrs. Frederick J.
de Peyster and Mrs. Charles A Peabody, jr.
Mr. and Mrs Percy Pyne have leased Camp
Pyne Brook, on the Upper Saranac n the Adiron-
dacks, for the coming summer.
Mrs. Luther Kountze left town yesterday for
Tuxedo to spend the week end with Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert R. Livingston.
Dinners were given last night by Mr. and Mrs
James A Burden sr., at their house in Fifth-ave.,
~ Mr.. and Mrs. George r. Sheldon. at their
l. &c In East Thirty eighth-st for Miss Ella
Guthrie and her fance Eugene Sands Willard. and
by Mrs Hugh J. Chisholm, at her house No. s13
Fifth-ave. for her son. Hugh J. Chisholm jr
Her guests included Miss May Weatherbee Miss
Isabel Kirkpatrick. Miss Douglas Bosworth Miss
Eleanor Hoyt, Perry Beadleston. Dudley Cooper
Kenneth Hoyt and David Pyle. Afterward Mrs
Chisholm took her party on TO the last dance Of
the at Sherry's of Mrs. David Vows dane
ing class, where the cotiIlon led by Dudley
Cooper.
The Grolier Club gave a reception Yesterday
afternoon. the guests being received by Mrs Will
lam Loring Mrs. Arthur H Scribner. Miss Have
meyer Mrs. Richard H. Lawrence and Mrs. Ed
ward Mansfield. In the course of the reception F.
Hopkinson Smith delivered an address on the
Quality Of the Picturesque"
Tonight there will be the last of the so-ca1led
dances for young people in the Annex of the Metro
politan Club, a dinner given by Mr.. and Mrs z.
Lyman Short. at their house in West Thirty-sev-
enth-st- for Mrs J. Bruce Ismay who was Miss
Florence Schiefelin. and to-day number of we'd
dings. among them that of Miss Emily Lyon daugh-
ter of the late Samuel Knypers Lyon. to Augustus
Fleming King, at the Church of the Incarnation
Augustus King is nephew of Mime. Waddington.
widow of the French statesman and ambassador
of that name. reception will be held after the
wedding at the home Of the bride. in East Fifty
seventh-st
1t is tonight that Garret Bergh Kip. who Is to
marry Miss Garcia de Peyster on April o. gives his
farewell bachelor dinner at Sherrys.
Dudley Dupignac. who is TO marry Miss Sarah
Smith next Tuesday. gave his farewell bachelor
dinner last night at Delmonico's, the party com
prfsing his best man and ushers whose names have
already appeared in this column.
Henry I. Riker. who is TO marry his cousin, Miss
May Riker. gives his farewell bachelor dinner at
Delmoncos to-day week
Mr.. and Mrs. George F. Baker leaves town at the
end OF the month for Tuxedo.
An entertainment, mainly Of musical character
took place yesterday afternoon No $40 West
Twenty-hrst-st- IN aid of the Orthopaedc Hospital
for Crippled Children. The programme comprised
impersonations by Miss Beverley Sitgreaves songs
by Herbert Witherspoon and Mrs. Francis La Well
man and cimbale playing by NJ. de Macy. the Hun
garian artist. Mrs Douglas Robinson, jr Mrs
Marion Story, Mrs. John Hobart Warren Mrs
Charles de Rham Mrs. James Abercrombie Burden
and Miss Whitney were among the patronesses