The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-22
NETWORK SOCIETY NEWS
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New York. November H.-There is so much said about mixed family relations nowadays that I am inclined to believe the story true that is told of Senator Reed Shoot. It seems the Mormon apos- tie was invited to attend some social function in this city and he declined the honor, stating to friend that 1t would be difficult for him to explain to the el- ders at Salt Lake City how he came to countenance polygamy as practiced by fashionable Gentiles in New York.
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 By the way, Senator Clarke's daughter, who is well known in certain fashionable circles that swing around on their orbits in the Armament of which the Goelets, Astors Vanderbilts are the sun, as Mrs. Dr. Culver is seeking the severance of the matrimonial knot. This lady made her debut in the fashion of a mining camp let me see-Butte. Montana, and now glides close to the seats of the mighty in this congregatlon of the rich. She Is suing for the custody of her daughter An well-what of this? But it reminds me of the eldest daughter of another min ing man, Yessie Fair she was, Mrs. Her man Oelrichs she now is It is another story of Poverty Flats. Tessie and Her
 man are out of it. it would seem. The recent revocation of Mrs. Oelriehs power of attorney to her husband Is said to be a preliminary to further developments. Cupid in the Oelrichs household has been shedding tears for some time past. When
 Senator Jim Fair spreads his wings-it Is hoped he flew upward-he left the Widow Fair and her two daughters wealthy but fashionably obscure. Had Jim failed "to l strike it rich" these young ladies would
 probably have been parlor maids or "help', in California but as 1t was Jim left them millions. Enter Oelrichs on the scene A man of fashion, position, popu- lar, passing rich on $20000. Miss Tessie l becomes Mrs. Herman Oelrichs and she l becomes a lady of fashion. And now my lady, of the illustrious pedigree is grande dame of fashion and turns up her nose at the good old-fashioned folk who have not been benefited by trade, oil, steel. coal or railroads.
 The other sister, Virginia, or "Gennie,' as we called her when she ran barefoot In California, is now Mrs. ". K Vanderbilt, l Jr. She, too, is a grande dame. TO pc sure she has the prestige of the Vander- Ibilts to help her sit on one of the Seats of the Mighty Of course, everypody ] fly was running a ferry fifty years ago and the ancestors of the Oerichs were his customers, they being in those days l the smart people of the town. The broth ers-fn-law got along nicely together but what of that MT. Oelrichs lives in San l Francisco and Mrs. Oelrichs on Fifth ave- l nue continent between them But even this ample stretch Of Uncle sam ] broad domain seems scarce far enough. l of a better way to acquire wealth than by seeking l it at the altar but there is no better way for a woman to shake off the past and make new career
 To be an actress is seemed necessary to have a past, disgraceful if not romantic; it is now necessary to have the same dis l advantages to be lady or tashion'
 Trinity chapel was the scene Saturday afternoon of the wedding of Miss Julia Jerome Fanshawe and Loomis Lawrence i White the latter a son of Mrs. Foxhall i P Keene by her first marriage. The cer- emony took place at o'clock, and was 1 performed by the vicar, the Rev. pr l William H. Vibbert. The bride. who was given away by her father, Williams s. Fanshawe, was dressed in white Liberty silk trimmed with point lace, her tulle veil being fastened with orange blossoms. i Miss Natalie Wells, Miss Evelyn Parsons, Miss Elsie Rowland, Miss Isabel Fan shave. Miss Emily Crugan, Miss Margue- rite Robinson and Miss Mary Robinson, who officiated as bridesmaids, wore frocks of blue and mauve chiffon, with large blue beaver hats, trimmed with mauve orchids They carried bouquets of orchids. The maid of honor, Miss Lena Fanshawe, was dressed in white l Liberty chiffon and lace, with large
 white chiffon hat. trimmed with white or chids Robert Walton Goelet, J. S. Mor- ris, Harry Peters, Edmund Marvin, Aus
 tin Gray and Leighton Fanshawe were
 the ushers. while Guy Fairfax Cary was
 the best man. After the ceremony re-
 ception was given by the brides parents
 at the Hotel Netherland where they are
 spending the winter.
 The Horse Show week will be followed | by the opera season, which begins on Monday next. But the Horse Show did not wholly monopolize the attention of society during the week. There are many weddings scheduled for the next few days while on Wednesday the opening takes place of the portrait show in the Ameri- j can Art Galleries for the Orthopedic Hos pital, many of the patronesses of which Including Mrs. Vanderbilt, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Mrs, Stanley Mortimer,
 Mrs. Il. Mck. IWOmDly, Mrs. ftlcHdru Trimble, Mrs. H. Winthrop Gray Mrs. Levi P. Morton. Mrs. J. Pierpont Mor- gan, Mrs. George B. De Forest and Mrs. Jules A. MontanD are to be present. -
 Mrs. Vanderbilt and her daughter, Miss Gladys Vanderbilt. are to do some enter tainng this winter in their residence at Fifth avenue and Fifty-seventh street Mrs. Vaderbilt will give some dinners, teas and musicales, and there will be meetings of the dancing class of Miss Gladys Vanderbilt and Miss Dorothy Whitney.
 Mrs. Griswold Grey is guest of her brother-in-law and sister, Mir and Mrs. James A. Burden. Her former home here was on Washington Square and she has many relatives and friends in town. Mrs. Richard Irven is her sister-in-law. Theodore Roosevelt Pell who assisted as usher at the Crook Lentilhon wedding last Tuesday, will give his bachelor din- her next Saturday night at the St. Nich- olas club. Mir. Pels marriage to Miss Florence Cramp will take place in Phil adelphia ons November 25. MT. Pell is the elder son of Mrs. John Rowland Pell of
 East Thirty-ninth street, and a number
 of his New York friends will be present
 or the occasion. His brother. s. Osgood
 Pell will attend him as best man. and
 Messrs. James Duane Pell. Rowland Pell-
 Haggerty. Francis l.. Cramp, J. Van
 Schaick Oddie. Theodore Lawrence Bo-
 gart. Hamilton Fish Benjamin. Henry
 King Smith and John A. McVickar, will