The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-11
NEW YORK SOCIAL NEWS
BY DIEDRIcH KNIckERRocKER.
Mrs Astor's Annual Ball P ostponed- -Othe- Balls
 Commodore Cerry"s Musicale-A Patriotic Event

" set of people at Hydo Park Mrs. led- erick Vanderbilt In spite of her recent ac- cident, had a party of guests with hei, while MT and Mrs. Archibald Rogers hau houseful of people. At White Plalhs and throughout Westchester every piaeo had it's quota and more than it's quot" of guests MT. and Mrs. Marion story MT. and Mrs Trenor Park, MT. and Mis. Hartman and. all the owners of the larse places thereabouts entertained
 
 Miss Marie c. Vyse, one of the most at i tractive young women In New 1ork so- | ciety, is a daughter of MT and his' Thomas A. Vyse, who years ago. were prominent in the summer colony al New port. Miss Vyse is a cousin of Mrs trea- erick Nelson, whose daughter MISS Catheen Nelson, is soon to marry MT. i Reginald c. Vanderbilt, youngest son or the late Cornelius Vanderbilt.
 Country' house parties are conducted on magnificent scale. There is no other adjective left to express #. There is special train which flies to your destina- tion, and splendidly appointed equipages to take you to the house, standing Tn q great park. Sometimes there are no less than forty to fifty guests. It may pc one Of the many country houses Of your host' There Is Idle Hour at Islip, where Will liam K. Vanderbilt is entertaining this New Year; there is the Gilbert residence on the north shore of Long Island; Bllt- more in. the Carolinas; the residence or the Sloanes, Elm Court at LenoX, which is opened for the New Year; the stately new home of the Millses, at Staatsburs, in which the old Livingston mansion has been embodied and Ophir Hall. the home of Whitelaw Reid. At all of these places there Is an army of servants. Every amusement possible is provided singers and players come from town to amuse you in mimic theatres. There are sports of all kinds every day, and dinner and dancing and cards at night The stables connected with MT. Whitney's place, at Westbury, comprise a mansion in them selves, just as do those of James B. Hag- gin, at his gorgeous place near Versailles where each noted steed, from Salvador down. has a groom and valet so to speak for himself electric lights in his stall and electric bells to call Tor oats or a drink If he should wish 1t. And this is how we celebrate the coming of the new year in the twentieth century
 
 Of the semi-publc balls whose atmos- phere is strictly social the fourteenth an- nual charity ball at the Waldorf-Astoria on January 21, and the annual charity ball, in aid of the nursery and chiId's hospital which will also be held at the Waldorf Astoria on February 5, must not be+forgotten. These balls appeal to a larger number, of people than the oth- CTS above scheduled. and many a New York woman dates her life's happiness or fate from the charity ball of such and such a year. With the growth of New York society and the dislncegration of the once powerful circle into sets, the old charity ball, which remains the one link that binds New York society of the past and present, has, of course, lost consid- erable of it's prestige. but 1t Is still fla vored by New Yorks older families, whose members, if they do not attend, send representatives and support the ball by purchases of tickets. The charitable institutions for which the ball Is given are among the most deserving in the city, and depend almost entirely for their continuance upon the receipts from the ball, so that it should be largely sup ported and attended. During the past few years, and since the bah has been given in the beautiful and appropriate sur rounding of the Waldorf-Astoria, after being held with poor success. in the Mad ison Square Garden, the Metropolitan Opera house., Carnegie hall and other places, the. fortunes of the old entertain ment have revived and 1t has been most successful of late.
 The engagement has also been an- nounced of MT. Henry B. Rollins, Jr., and Miss Lillias Livingston, daughter of Mir and Mrs. Henry B. Livingston, and whose mother was Miss Francis Red mond of Mr. Oswald C. Herring and Miss Catherine M Clark, daughter of MT. and Mrs. James Wilson Clark and of MT. Ashbel P Fitch Jr. and Miss Josephine Hoyt Smith, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Henry r. Smith.
 The opening of the Palmetto Club at Aiken Is another of the events of the week. A special train went down from New York with William c. Whitney and Miss Randolph. Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin and Mrs Valentine Mott and MT. and Mrs Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., and several others held the house warming last week, but the regular entertaining did not begin until the Whitney party arrived Tommie Hitchcock has arranged a series of hunts for January and February. There will be not only the regular drag hunts, but also coon hunts and wild turkey shooting. The woods and lagoons of the Carolinas are filled with hunters in parties James Woodward has friends with him. Richard T.. Wilson, Jr., is entertaining hunting parties on his island home. and several new hunting clubs have been opened on the coasts, where the ducks are plentiful The lagoons and marshes along the At lantic and again in Florida are feeding places for wild water fowls and there Is great slaughter from the Chesapeake and the Havre de Grace clubs to Texas.