New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-30
NETWORK SOCIETY.

That Lent IS near at hand Is indicated by the
fact that the Badminton Club. one OF the Oldest
organizations in the city holds its hrst meeting
OF the season this afternoon at the 18th Regi-
ment Armory. Coumbus-ave. and Sixty-nrst-st.
T. J. Oakley Rhnelander. Howard Pell. F. Ashton
de Peyster. Goelet Gallatin and Hamilton Fish
Benjamin figure the executive committee tn
trusted with the arrangement of the meetings.
which will take place every Saturday at the Arm
DRY from now on until Easter.
The Right Hon. Sir Henry Mortimer Du-
rand. the English Ambassador. Is In town. and is
staying at the Albemsrle Hotel He was the guest
OF honor at the dinner OF the Pilgrims given last
night at Delmonico's OF which account will
be found elsewhere. and Will be present tonight
at a dinner given in his honor by the Lotos Club.
At Delmonico's the organization known as the
Bachelors and SpinsteTs gave another OF their
series OF dances. Among those who received in
the afternoon Mrs. John W. Minturn. No
q Washington Square North; Mrs. Charles NJ.
Lea. No. Washington Square North. and Mrs.
Charles ]. Folsom. No. IS West Ninth-st.
Mrs. John Sayre Martin gives a large reception
this afternoon al her house In Madson-ave for
Miss Jeanne Buckley and among those who have
dinners set for to-day Mrs Frederic J. de
Peyster at her house In East Sixty-sixth-st: Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish, at her house In East Seventy
eighth-st. and Mr.. and Mrs. II. de- Berkeley Par
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Mortimer Brooks. who are at
the Waldorf-Astoria, start early next week for
Aiken. s. c.
Mrs. De 1ancey Kountze. who has been spending
fortnight at Macon. Ca. with Mira. Johnston.
returns to town to-day.
Tomorrow afternoon Miss Calender and Miss
De Forest give their usual Sunday afternoon musi-
cal at their home IN East Seventy -second-st Mrs.
William 7. Bull viii likewise receive at her home
in West Thirty-nfth-st.
Ivan Won Rubido-Zichy. OF the Austrian Embassy
at Washington, has arrived In town to attend the
farewell bachelor dinner given tonight by Count
Alexander Beroldingtn. whose marriage TO Miss
Stone takes place on Wednesday next al the
Church OF the Incarnation. Count Beroldingens
ToWnssnd and v, GSddard q Providsnde, 'ARuSl
Blight Miss Mamie Pomeroy, Miss Gertrude Wood
and Miss Mary Fowler Miss Emma Stone win be
give her daushter away,
The marriage of Lofts Haight and Miss Florence
DOUGLASS Coppell daughter o, the late George T.
Coppou. takes place on Tuesday at Grace Church.
An preparations have now been completed for
the annual Charity Bali at the waldorf-Astoria
on Tuesday next for the benefit OF the Nursery
and Chid's Hospital II is the public ball OF
the year which the fashionable world accords its
attention and a number of dinners are being
given connection herewith the hostesses after
ward taking their guests to the tall Dancing will
be uninterrupted In the ballroom, Astcr Gallery
and Myrtle Room throughout the evening Tickets
may be secured from the ball committee at No 50
Fast Fiftieth-st and also at No. lie Fffth-ave.,
No. Is West Eleventh-st. and No. al West Thirty
seventh-st
Mrs. Russell Hoadiey leaves town the day after
tomorrow for ThomasviIie. Ga, where she will
remain until April
''RigoIetto" was given last night at the opera
with Mime. Homer and NJ. Caruso IN the cast.
Among those present were Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bilt. jr. Mr.. and Mrs. H. Mex. Twombly Miss
Twombly. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Gambrill. Dir.
and Mrs. James w. Gerard. Mr.. and Mrs. George L.
Rivcs. Miss Rives, Mrs c. Il. Alexander AI- and
Mrs. William Starr Miller, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Jay Gould and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish