The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-14

I Whenever a Vanderbilt gives a large
1 entertainment the names of the Meal
listers are sure to be on the guest list,
| This shows pretty gratitude for it was
Ward McAllister who opened the doors
| of society to the Vanderbilt family. In
those days Mr.. sMcAllister was dictator,
and he persuaded Mrs. Paran Stevens to
/ help along the VanderbiIts Mrs. William
| H. Vanderbilt lived at Fortieth street and
Fifth avenue. When Mrs. Stevens called
Ion the millionaires wife the other lead
sers followed her example. Soon Mrs.
| vanderbilt was asked to the Patriarch
! and Assembly balls. She rewarded her
new friends well, and gave costume ball
that was the wonder of the late seventies.
Then followed the marriages of her daugh-
ters into the Sloane, Twombly and Webb
families.
Everything points to an early season
in Newport, and probably the Goelet-
tfWhelen marriage will tend to hurry up
things in Rhode Island. Those infiuen-
tial sisters Mrs. Ogden Goelet and Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, must be in Amer
| lea before June IA, and both will open
villas on the cliffs. Mrs Stuyvesant Fish
will close her place at Garrisons and
rush to Newport at the first intimation
that "her set has assembled and Mrs.
Ogden Mills will cut short her shopping
trip abroad when. she learns affairs are
moving in Newport Then there are the
Gerrys, who, wonderful to relate have
not gone abroad this year. Seaverge,
their place, will be- inhabited within a
fortnight Mrs. Pembroke Jones, on the
yacht Narada, already is at Newport, and
1nchiquin will shelter her this year. The
Harry Lehrs aret IN New York only wait
ing Developments and they will open Ard
leigh as soon as there is any reason to
believe Mr.. LehE will find his friends
there. u
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Newcomers in Newport this season
will not be many:9i Barring Mrs William
B. Leeds, Mrs. r, Livingston Beekman.
I Mrs E. R. Thomas and Mrs, Charles A.
Bristed, none is u Unusual interest. Mrs
Potter Palmer Isl merely possibility.
The visiting celebrities will include the
Princess Cantacuzene, and other Amer
leans who are married to foreigners are
expected, but until they are seen steam
ing up the bay no one will take their
coming as certain. The absence of the L.
Townsend Burdens win be of Importance.
After her success in holding the at
tention of New Workers, Mrs. Raj Parr,
of Baltimore, bids fair to become the
leader of Baltimore society. During
Horse Show week she was more in evil
dence than any other woman in the
Oriole city. Mrs. Parr is a sister in-law
Of Mrs. tom" Jenkins and in her youth
was one of the most beautiful women in
| Maryland. But her weight has increased,
and banting and athletics have failed. to
have the desired effect She has yellow
ish hair and violet eyes, and. her COM
plexion is not in need of cosmetics. Her
husband is overshadowed by the promi-
nence of his dashing wife. Mrs. Parr
often comes to the Waldorf for the big
winter affairs, and the Baltimore women
in New York never fail to entertain her.
Mrs. Parr was one of the few Balti-
moreans who caught the fancy of Mrs
Stuyvesant Fish. In fact, Mrs Fish
voted Baltimore an unmitigated bore, =
which shocked the residents. Baltimore
plumes itself on its smart society, and
with reason. Mrs. Fish permitted her
self to be entertained by Miss Lolita
Robinson, in defeTeRce to Mrs. Fish,s
friend, Moncure aabinson. She came
back to New York on the following day
Her parting words were, My first and
last visit" Mr.. and Mrs Harry Lehr
went to Baltimore with Mrs. Fish, but
stayed for few days longer. The Lehrs
also won the reputation of being conde-
scending and the Baltimoreans took that
fact SO much to heart that the visit may
have marked the fnhl appearance Of the
Lehrs in the city thai gave Harry birth.