The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-03
IN SOCIETY,".

IN SOCIETY.
The summer resort period Is over and
society will now be found in country clubs
and houses. Thanks to the horse show
there are still few days OF gaiety ahead
for Newport. Sherrys casino at Maria
gansett Pier will be kept open until after
Labor Day. The real gaiety Of Lenox,
comprised usually In two weeks, is about to
begin. The most interesting event there
Will be the wedding OF Reginald Ronalds
and Miss Flora Scott Strong Of Erie, Pa.
Members of the Vanderbilt family are
now among those who regard America
as the place for Americans. Mr.. and Mrs.
George W. Vanderbilt. who have been at
their place at Bar Harbor for the summer,
have invited number Of friends to visit
them them at Biltm9re House, N G.; in the au.
wedding will be the occasion Of general
gathering Of the Vanderbilt family.
All sorts OF affairs will absorb the atten-
ton of the horsey crowd this week. One
which will be well attended will be the
second of the annual races in aid OF Miss
Ethel Folsom's home in Lee, Mass. held at
the Lee Pleasure Park, There will
also be gymkhana under the direction Of
the Berkshire Hunt. The annual horse
show of the Rockaway Hunt will be held
on Labor Day.
Society will be In evidence at the Casino
tomorrow for the opening Of the Newport
Horse Show. The season at the resort
began so late that neither nhatrons nor
display all the new linery bought over from
Paris, Tho horse show will continue
through Tuesday and Wednesday. There
win Re only day s interim between this and
the horse show at tenox, on Friday.
crowd. On Saturday, Sept. 2, the new
Cetarhurst Kenne! Club win hold its first
bench show at Cedarhurst, III.
The wedding of Miss Susie T. Hall and
Bryce Metcalf will be an event OF the early
autumn. Miss Hall inherited an ample
fortune. Her cousins, the Misses Corneia
Van r. and Elisabeth Fay Delafeld, and her
sisters, the Misses Elsie and Katherine
Hail. are likely to be in the list Of bridal
attendants.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald c. Vanderbilt
give Canoe tomorrow night at Sandy
Point Farm. Thanks to the horse show,
there will he any number of available men
for the dancers generally Sandy Point
Farm is some miles from Newport. Mr.
and Mrs. Vanderbilt have chung to their
country home for the past year, and as
yet there is no talk Of their coming to town
for the winter. One Of the biggest dinners
and Mrs. Vanderbilt for Mr.. Vanderbilt's
sister, Miss Gladys Vanderbilt.
Mrs. Vanderbilt, who has been one Of the
chief entertainers OF the brief Newport
season, has selected Tuesday evening for
private theatricals at the Breakers. She
and her husband, the late Cornelius Van
derbilt, gave theatricals the first two sum-
mers after the Breakers was completed.
Two plays will be given Tuesday evening.
One yin be L LII ih Tel 9u,on le y paIle
de Perigny. Francis Otis and others will
take part. Mrs. Hamilton Fish Webster,
who Is daughter of Mrs. Charles A. Post,
the president Of the Thursday Evening Club,
Is well up in French, having passed much
time in her girlhood with her grandmother.
Countess Regis de Trobriand.
There will be several hundred guests
at the Breakers Tuesday night. Tho per.
Torrance will be followed by a supper and
a dance A number of dinners are to be
given to precede Mrs. Vanderbilt's enter
tainunent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jules Blanc Nelson have
returned to their home at Garden City, L. l.,
from Stockbrisge, Mass. where they passed
August. MIR. Nelson's mother. MIS-. Fred
eric Nelson, who went to Europe few weeks
ago, will not return until somewhat later
in the autumn. Mr.. and Mrs. r. Fulton
Cutting and family, who have been at New
port, returned to their Tuxedo cottage
last week and Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Still
man returned to town from that resort.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald Brooks, who have
been the guests for the summer Of Mr..
mer Brooks, have returned to their country
William Starr Miller, who have been at
Newport, are now at their rural residence
at Staatsburg on the Hudson. Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward II. Thomaa have returned
to town.
A number Of notable guests from the
other side will DO entertained by Mr.. and
Mrs. Perry Belmont at the Meadows in
the autumn racing season. Mr.. and Mrs.
before coming over, and among others who
will visit them at Westbury are Mr.. and
Mrs. Hvfa Williams Of Sandown Park
and Lord and Lady Saville, the latter for
merly Mrs. Hellyar, who was ct Washing
ton when the late Horace Hellyar was at
Mr.. and Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt, Jr.,
will sublet the house at the northwest cor
ner Of Madison avenue and Ffty-seventh
street, Of which they took lease some
years ego. This We. entirely gone over.
at that tlme and has scarcely been occupied
since, e Mr.. and Mrs. Vanderbilt hsve BEEN
hers, thsrs and svsry,where, sIcspt G:d!:oa
avenue. They have been Of late With Mn.
whom not cruising on their yacht, and will
In . few days Be at their, country place
on Long Island In anticipation Of The Wait
Of Mr.. Vsnderbilt's sister, the Duchess Of
Marlborough.
Lord Claude Hamilton 10 one Of the titled
Britishers now expected to arrive. vloonte
and vicomtesse Philippe de Tristan are to
reach here some time In October and make
quite little stay. They will sail after
ward for the south Of France. They are
now on their wedding journey. Sir Ed