New-York tribune., 1903-03-10

house in East Sixty-siEth-st- yesterday morning.
Its members include Mrs Prescott Hall Butler,
Mrs Frank S. Witherbee, Mrs. Dallas Bache Pratt.
Mrs George L. Kingsland and Mrs. Benjamin
Wees.
Homer Folks Commissioner of Charities, ad-
dressed the members of Mrs. Robert ELEPHANTS
sewing class at Mrs. Frederick Betts's house in
East Sixty-ffth-st. yesterday morning on city
Charities" while they were working for the Vir-
ginia Day Nursery Among those present were
Mrs Henry F. Dimock Mrs. Oliver Gould Jen-
nings Mrs. Hugh ]. Chisholm, Mrs George de
Forest Lord Mrs. Henry c. Trevor, Mrs. Richard
Irwin. Mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn Mrs John
Sloane and Mrs. George B. Post.
The retreat in the Convent of the Sacred Heart,
Madison-ave. and Ffftyfourth-st.. began yesterday
morning under the direction of the Rev. William
OBrien Pardow. 8. j.. and will continue until
March 49, Mrs Francis Burrill Hoffman Miss de
Barrill. Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, jr.. and a
number of other we'll known took part in
the various services
To-day's schedule is unusually well filled for the
Lenten season. Among the features are dinner
given by Mrs. John Jacob AstOr at her house in
Fifth-ave., Miss Leary's regular weekly musical,
in the afternoon. her house. No 5ifth-ave;
the first ot four Lenten mVn6cals given by DR..
Gerrit Smith at his studio No l42 East Thirty
thrd-st likewise IN the afternoon; Mrs Thorn
ton Chards entertainment this evening at her
house in East Fifty-eghth-st., of the Musical
Club which includes Mr.. and Mrs. Stockton Beck
man. Mrs. Henry Burden. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Riker and Mr.. and Mrs Edward McVickar: the
meeting Of the Adirondack Sewing Class, and also
of the class organized by the Pro-Cathedral Fresh
Air Committee for the benefit OF the Stanton Street
Mission, at Mrs. Richard Irv.ns house, No
West Thirty-ninth-st., and a concert given this
afternoon at the Waldorf-Astoria by Miss Leila
Livingston Morse granddaughter OF the late Pro-
fessor 8. F. B. Morse, under the patronage OF Mrs.
Seth Barton French. Mrs. William Jay. Mrs. Fred
erick Belts Mrs. Edwin Trowbridge. Mrs. Will
lam A. Street Mrs. George B. De Forest and num-
bar of other women of the fashionable set.
There will be a number of departures to-day for
Europe, those booked to sail including Mr.. and
Mrs. Pembroke Jones. who going to cruise
the Narada In the Mediterranean Mr.. and Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish, Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Lydig Mrs.
J. Clinch SmiIl, Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Drexel.
Mrs. Cary T. Hutchinson, Miss Elizabeth Perkins.
George F. Baker and the Count and Countess de
Laugler-Vilar
Edwin H Weatherbee and Miss Weatherbee have
returned TO town from New-Orleans.
Cornelius 8. Lee. who is 10 marry Miss Chloise
Hatch will give his farewell bachelor dinner
April 4 at Sherrys. His guests will include his
ushers and best man. comprising StuyveSant Le-
roy j. I.orimer Worden Delaney Kane Jay.
Thomas Manson, jr, Louis L. White, Frederick
Loew I'd and ". Dennison Hatch, tr. The mar
riaRe as already stated in this column, will take
place at st. Bartholomew's Church on April Is.
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller have arrived at
Pasadena, Cal. where they will remain for a
week.
Captain L H Baldwin OF the Ath Gurkha Rifles.
Indian Army Is on his way to this country
board the Umbria to Join Mrs. Baldwin, who Is
already here awaiting her husbands arrival Thls