The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-30
~ SOCIETY.

very gay. Then the town will settle down
into the usual autumnal dulness. The
Country Club closes on Tuesday. The
Thayer- Brooks wedding is scheduled for
Thursday. The bridegroom's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. +. Van X. Thayer, and his sister T.
the Misses Katherine and Susan 1hayer,
who were at MillOrook Lodge on Molly
chunkamunk Lake, Rangeley, last week :,
have already arrived at Newport. Mr..
and Mrs Thayer's bridal gift was a silver
epel gne, large and of elaborate design.
An sorts of festivities are on for Friday,
the day after the wedding. Mrs Hermann
Oelrichs will give big dinner on that night
at Rose Clii. Baroness S,illiere will give
dinner dance, which VIII be the coming
out function for her daughter, Miss Con-
stance Livernore.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Mortimer Brooks
will give dinner on Tuesdi night, which
will DE followed by a reheart OF the we'd
ding. Miss Brooks will give diamond
horseshoe brooches TO her attendants,
the Misses Katherine Thayer, Anna
! Thayer, Adelaide Randolph, Fannie IseIin,
Constance Livernore and Marion Fish.
She has already presented TO Mr.. Thayer
a gold cardcase, studded in diamolds with
his initials, and has received from him a
large diamond crescent.
The Casino will be given over to the
bench show Of the Bulldog Club of America
on Friday and Saturday. Mrs James L.
kernoChan has had much 10 do with the
management of the event. For the horse
show on Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day, sept I, s and o, all Of the boxes were
sold months ago.
The coming hunt season of the Meadow
Brook Club, under the leadership of Fox
h4ll Heene, the new NJ. +. H., will draw
many back TO Hampstead Plains after the
Newport horse show Among the house,
holders there are Mr. and Mrs. Oliver
II. p. belmont, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hitch
cock, Or, Mrs. Adolf Ladenburg, Mr.. and
Mrs. Sydney j. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
s. Stevens, Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald Brooks,
Mr. and Mrs. Payne Whitney and MIR. and
Mrs. Sidney Dillon Ripley.
Among those who will return 10 their
Tuxedo cottages directly after the New
port horse show are Mr. and Mrs. Gren-
vile Kane Mr. and Mrs Pierre Lorillard
and Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Mortimer. Mr..
and Mrs John Murray Mitchell and Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Tuckerman, who have just
returned from European trips, are already
at Tuxedo, as are Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis B.
McCagg, who left Newport yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward j. Hancy will open
their Tuxedo cottage on Tuesday.
Among those expected to arrive this
week from Europe are Mrs. Oliver Harri-
man, Mrs. Trenor l., Park, Miss Park, the
Messrs. Henry X. Wilson and Edward
W ison, Mr.. and Mrs X. NJ. Galloway.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph II. Choate, Jr, will
return next week and will go directly to
their new home here. They will give a
! e2eption in October.
Mr.. and Mrs Dallas Rlche Pratt and Miss
Constance Pratt, who have been travelling
in Europe for several mon hs, are expected
10 arrive here to-day. They will go at
once 10 WindSwept, their country place tt
Premium Point, New Rochelle,
Miss de Koven daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. |
Reginald de Koven, will be a Cebutan.e of !,
the coming season. She may be- presented |
here or in Washingt on, where MIR. and |
Mrs de Koven have a house. Mrs de |
Koven and her sister, Mrs. Chatfed Taylor, |
are in Newport and will remain for the !
horse show.
Mr.. and Mrs Reginald C. Vanderbilt
give dance tomorrow night, which is 10
be housewarming for their new Colonial
port Some Of the guests are TO be enteI-
aimed al dinner al Sandy Point and Others
are TO dine with Mr.. and Mrs Alfred q.
at their country residence
adjacent The latter couple have with
hem now Miss May Parsons and the Mcssrs
lawrence Perkins, +. d, CoChrane and Rus
sell Perkins
There is much interest in the ball to be
given by Mrs. Ogden Gorlet nj her villa
IN the Cliffs. at which. rtmor has it, the
of Miss Goclct with the Duke
If Roxburghe viii be rormG lily announced.
Yrs Goelet Miss Goelet and the Duke
rave been in town during the past week.
With ot hers of the Newport crowd, for the
'aCht races.
Mrs. Aston will give a dinner Of eighteen
overs next Saturday night and has cards
ut also for Sept. ~, She will stay at
lockwood for couple OF weeks more
nd will then visit Mr., and Mrs. NJ. Orme
wilson before returning 10 her town resi- |
enre. Mr.. and Mrs. John Jacob Aston,
rho have had small party Of friends with |
hem on their yacht Nourmahal, are plan
ing trip to California in October.
Rumored engagements include that Of