The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-14
NEW YORK SOCIETY NEWS
Colonial Danes Give Reasons for Mrs Ryan's Interest
in the Colonial Society. But Mrs. Ryan Sees None.
BY DlEDRlcH kNlckERsockER.

gagement was announced last week to ".
Forbes Morgan, and she will now devote
herself to her grandchild, Miss Eleanor
Roosevelt very beautiful woman. who
was beloved by all who knew her. vale
Hall, the son of Mrs. Valentine Hall, has
been before the public upon several oeea-
sions. He was once very fond of amateur
theatrieals and played In little comedies
for charity. Mrs Stanley Mortimer, the
second daughter Is identified with the col
ony on Long Island, at Tuxedo afd n
Rome. Italy. She and her husband go TO
Newport in the summer and have fine
country place at Roslyn. Mr.. Mortimer
is an old polo player and member OF a
number of clubs He Is one of the best
known gentlemen jockeys In the country
and rides with the Hunt club at Rome.
He is always foremost In organizing pony
races and. steeplechases. Mrs. Lawrence
waterbury is the pride of the Hall family
and one of the most popular hostesses in
the the younger set of, society. There Is
always a little something doing at her
Newport house, and she is an extremely
clever card player; indeed, very much bet
ter than the average man: something that
can be said of very few women in or out
of society. She was brought up in a
horsey circle and, therefore, appreciates
as much as anyone her husbands sue
cesses on the polo field. With the excep-
ton of Foxhall Keene. Waterbury Is the
champion polo player Of America. Seated
in big automobile at the Jockey club
races at Newport last summer, Mrs. Wat
erbury performed the feat of eating half
of a large watermelon without removing
her white gloves-and without soiling
them. Her husband had won the melon in
a gymhana race. She is one of the few
women In society who has a racing stable
of her own, and when one of her horses
won at Saratoga last summer she was
naturally jubilant. Popular verdict says
Mrs. Waterbury is good fellow"
One of the rumors floating around Fifth
avenue drawing rooms Is that the we'd
ding of Miss Martha johnson of Macon
and w. De Lancey Kountze of Morris
town and New York, will not be a Geor-
gia event. but will take place amid the
more iposing surroundings of Fifth ave-
nue.. If this should prove to be correct
the nuptials would either be celebrated
in st. 4 Aomas' church or the Ogden Goe-
let residence, No. COS Fifth avenue. now
occupied by the Cornelius Vanderbilts
Miss Johnson Is a cousin of Mrs. Van
derbilt. That. Miss Johnson's Macon
friends are to be cheated out of we'd
ding seems probable, for 1t must be re-
membered that her New York friends
outnumber them while northern rela-
tives of the Johnsons and Kountzes are
In the majority threeato one. On the 9th
er hand many New Workers will be In the
south about the time it is. expected the
wedding will be celebrated, but while
Aiken is not so very far from Macon,
Palm Beach is over 800 miles away. Mr.
Kountze is still the guest of the john
sons, but is expected here this week. The
wedding plans will probably be announc-
ed very soon now. The Kountzes are In
town and are installed at No. East
Fifty-seventh street. Helen Kountze
married Robert L. Livingston, and there
is another daughter at home who is not
yet out. The Twombly- Burden affair and
the Kountze-J johnson wedding will be the
most important events of the late sea-
son.