The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-11
NEW YORK SOCIAL NEWS Country Life Growing and Society Becoming Addicted to
 Strong Drink-Where People Are Going This Summer
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derbiit has said that he will be In thls country great deal more now, and that he will bring his horses over and race at Saratoga. Mrs, Clarence Mackay Is to spend month with her father at one of the Pinard cottages, but being in mourn ing she will not entertain. Mrs. Cutting and her son will occupy their house for the first time in several years.
 
 The one big wedding for May will be that of the Count Giuseppe della Gherar- desca to Miss Harriet Taylor. This will take place in town on May 20. The ar arrangements for the wedding have not yet been made, but 1t will be a home affair on account of the difference of religion be- tween the parties. The bridal couple will go to Italy to live in one of the palaces belonging to the bridegrooms family There will be few weddings in June. but the number will not be as large as in former years.
 The Sloanes have gone abroad for quite a time and the Stokeses have given up Shadowbrook. MT and Mrs. Westing- house will entertain at their great coun- try place, and there are the Fosters and the De Heredias who are coming out of mourning this year. MT. and Mrs. Albert Shattuck sailed on Wednesday for Flu
 
 contests in which Shattuck is interested that it will be very late before he returns. Mrs Frank Sturgis will not open her Lenox house this year, as she is going to Newport. Georgian Court is very gay, and MT and Mrs. George Gould are enter taining a great many guests. The Clafiins and others have houses full for the week. The Gould yacht has not yet arrived from England. but it Is expected this week. The Edwin Goulds, by the way, have taken the Thomas house at Ardsley. Livie Beekman and his wife are not going to live there.
 There are many eligible young men at Tuxedo Park, which Is taking on quite lively pace. There are to be ever so many week end parties, the fishing has been ex- cellent and the trees are in full leaf In fact. the birth of spring is most attractive in the suburbs. and every one who can get away from town will become rustic for few days at least. All the hotels are crowded and Long Island and Jersey are looking up to be very lively indeed. The only trouble is that so many of the summer hotels do not open up until late, and if one does not belong to a certain club set or own house in the country, there is no place to go Tuxedo is a settle ment of clubs, and the principal one is s-actly like hotel. The South Side club $ very much on the same lines, and the hotel at Garden City Is place where one can meet lot of people one knows If one cares for few days outing.
 
 I hear that Mrs. ogden Goelet has been entertaining the Grand Duke Boris in Paris and he is very anxious to come over again for another season. Mrs. Letter and her daughter will be at Newport, but they prefer Bar Harbor. They have just returned from the Dunbar and are at Washington for the present. Lady Straf- ford has promised to come over this sea- son. but not until after that of London has finished.
 MT. and Mrs. w Rhinelander Stewart sailed on Wednesday. Mrs. Stewart joins her sister, Mrs. Anthony Drexel, who IS taking a short cruise. Miss Stewart will be one of the debutantes of next winter James Henry Smith is also to leave short ly to join the Stewart-Drexel party on the other side. MT and Mrs. Willie Sloane likewise sailed for a long stay. The James Burdens. Jrs., sailed with them MT. and Mrs. Laurens Van Alen were pas sengers on the Celtic this week They are to be absent year. MT. and Mrs Tom Howard will have the Frederick Wander bilt house at Newport as usual this sum- mer as MT and Mrs Vanderbilt do not care for the city by the sea