The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-19
N soCfErY.

NeN fhurSday being tho auniveruax,
o. phaksspeares birthday the PLAYERS
Guo VIII celebrate 1t, q 10 It's custom b,
giving . ladies' day, at the club house
Srnmercy Park. There IL a deal of wire
tS u,', n,e going on among the fair friends o.
peare Birthday Club Of New York viii
hoa rs annual dinner. Numerous parties
nave been arranged to attend the perform.
ance az the Victoria Theatre of AS You
Lake II for the benefit Of vassar College.
The Performance in the open Of Al
rou Lake It at South Field, Columbs
University, on May II. will have a fashion.
able auaiience William C. Whitney, mrs
cornelius Vanderbilt. Mrs. Charles B.
alexander. James Stillman James Spever
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. ri. Fairfield
Osborn. Mrs. Harry B. Hollins, Mrs. George
Jay Gould, Mrs. Archer N. Huntington.
Mrs. George q. Haven and Victor Nora
WITT are among those who have taken
boxes.
| Mrs. Herbert Sanford Carpenter Of 77o
Madison avenue will soon leave town for
ner country place at Ardsley Her
daughter, Miss Cora Carpenter, who will
come out next winter will SPEND the sum-
mer travelling In Europe. Mrs CARPENTER
gave one OF the elaborate luncheons OF
the week on Thursday, when the table was
and mignonette.
Henry Ingersoll Riker will give bache-
Tor dinner at Delmonico's next SATURDAY.
! night, when his guests will include his
brothers. Herbert l.. and Daniel @. Riker,
Alfred Swayne, Rufus r. Graves. Charles
L. Riker. John L. Riker, I'd, Samuel T. Gil
ford, Edward Ditmars and DR.. j. r. Whit
ing; Jr, who will attend him at his wedding
with his cousin, Mise May jackson Riker,
Of the Incarnation. The bride will give
dinner in honor Of her attendants the same
night, at the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John L. Riker, 10 West Fifty-seventh
street.
Ga-rct Bergh Kip gave his farewell bach
ell !. dinner last night at Sherry's, when he
entertained some outside guests as well
as those who will attend him next Saturday
AT his wedding with Miss Garcia de Peyster,
at the old de Peyster country seat at Tivoli.
Special cars will convey the guests from
here mere and the country houses Of the neigh
6orhood will be filed with guests this week
In anticipation OF the nuptials.
The engagement was announced on
Thursday Of Miss Edith Little and the Rev.
John Williams. assistant rector of the
Church Of the Heavenly Rest. The we'd
ding will be in the fall Miss Little is a
daughter OF Nj, and Mrs. Joseph J. Little
q ~ West Forty-fifth street. Mr.. and
Mrs. Little and their family will shortly
leave town for their country place at Bed
ford. n. Y. The Rev. Mr.. Williams, like
the Rev; DR.. d. Parker Morgan, the rector
OF the Church OF the Heavenly Rest. is a
Welshman by birth.
A number Of the relatives and friends
Of John Garrison Jay. Jr., will attend his
wedding tomorrow afternoon In the Pine
Street Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg,
Pa. with Miss Marguerite Soeiliac. Mise
EdnhNan Cortlandt Jay, sister of the BRIDE
groom, will attend as maid Of honor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Efingham Maynard,
nee Ives, are passing their honeymoon at
j. Pierpont Morgans camp in the North
Woods. Their wedding in Calvary Church
at noon on Tuesday was a brilliant one.
She wore some superb diamond ornaments.
One that stretched quite across the front
OF her corsage was presented by Miss Anne
Morgan, one Of the bridesmaids.
Mr.. and Mrs. Levi p. Morton and the |
Misses Morton will return from Europe |
this summer and will take possession Of their |
large new camp on Eagle Island in the |
Adirondack. 1t is expected that the |
Marquis and Marquiee de Bosom Perieord
will also come over. In which case. II will be
the nrst visit OF the Mortons son-in-law to
this side. Mr.. Morton's former camp, on
the upper Saranac Lake. has been rented |
for the season by Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Riy-
ington Pyne OF 80 East Thirty street.
The big country house OF Arson Phelps
Stokes at Noroton, Conn, will have its house
warming In June. when the marriage Of his
Inn
and Robert Hunter will take place. Mr..
and Mrs. Stokes are renowned for their
hospitality and will entertain a large num-
Der Of guests on this occasion. Both of the
married daughters had big weddings. That
OF Miss Sarah Stokes and Baron Halkett
Heavenly Rest and was followed by a gen.
eral reception at the Stokes residence on
Madison avenue. Miss Ethel Phelps Stokes
and John Sherman Hoyt were married at
Lenox, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Greenley. nee Ipness
who had a home wedding last week, will
soon sail for Europe and will pass the sum-
mer travelling on the Continent. Mr.. and
Mrs. George Inness Of las WestFifty-eighth
street will give a bridal reception for their
son in law and daughter in the fall. The
after Is granddaughter Of the landscape
painter, the late George Inness.
A big June wedding will be that Of Miss
Harriet Taylor and Count Giuseppe della
Iherardesca. Miss Taylor. who is a
laughter Of Henry A. C. Taylor OF New
York and Newport. has a fortune in her
,wn right. which came to her from her
grandfather. Moses Taylor. an old-time
Jew York INGREDIENT. who fitted cut one
Il the first American Arctic exploring
|eets. Count Ghere rdesca ps esed a couple
4 winters in New York before he bccame
n atteche Of the Ite liz n Embf ssy at VIZ sh-
ngton several mont his ego. Probably the
cunt and Countess Alberto della Gherar-
esca, the latter formerly a Miss Fisher
Z this city. who live In Florence, will come
yer for the occasion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick X. Trask, nee
acquelin, are now away on their honey
noon, After their wedding on Wednesday
, Grace chantry Mrs. Trask's parents.
ir. and Mrs. John H. Jacquelin. gave