New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-02
TRIMMED HATS CHEAP.
At Sale Held at Mrs. Richard IrUin s
They Go Like Hot Cakes"

Mrs. Richard Twins drawing room. at No ! West
,o-,st was transformed into nlllinerss shon
Yesterday. where trimmed hats We're sole for the
;.,sht OF the Virginia Day Nursery and the LOOMS
r-o,ortil7n for Consumptives It was \ r,tIliner's
-, that did a rushing business too with Mrs
--rtr and Mrs. Harry Duryea as ''salesladIes"
ia IN the afternoon It was said the receipts
haunted 10 about $500. and the sale has to-day to
run. The "Salesladies' proved their efficiency and
the effectiveness Of their wares by selling $S7
,-b OF hats TO one customer and five hats apiece
., large number Of other women.
The hats were probably unique in the annals of
millinery. They We're trimmed by Mrs S. Barton
ranch Mrs Henry Alexandra. Mrs Harry Dur
yea Mrs Ernest Iselin. Mrs Arthur Iselin. Mrs
i,,Ils Lee Stanton, Miss Mary ToIfree Mrs Condo
Mast and Mrs Irwin. There were about one hun
s-es Of them when the sale opened. They we're all
daring and exceedingly smart. but not extreme the
refined taste Of the fastdious woman characteriz-
ing them
7, had been said that while these women claimed
70 tim the hats. it their maids who really
did the work. Yesterday at the sale Il was stated
suthorst!vely that the only assistance of this kind
IRE women had was from Mrs Twins maid who
put e TIE hat Innings.
II the dining room the carved oak dining table
was covered with milliner's stands topped by hats
and visitors took off their hats and tried on the
chapesux one after another, gazing the effect in
the glass mirror OF Mrs Twins sideboard and a
little round silver hand mirror OF silver repousse
5eTes a sweet mai, MIS- DOryea would say
picking Up perhaps little 'pinky"-violet horsehair
sss,r curved and crinkled like a sea shell. 1T
looks avfuly well on blond hair. or here-this is
che Of cur good things" The good thing" was a
triangular hat with coTnhowers and a dull green
velvet ribbon that conJrasted deIciously with them.
This toQue was made expressly to go with white
hair-ths 10 g white-haired woman in gray satin,
with great black pearls in her ears. Miss X. if
you're looking for little bigger hat than that
white horsehair you've been trying on. do see if
this tr!corne doesn't suit you It's such q charming
hat think. with that reseda ribbon quilting"
And so on.
OF course there were specials" which were
seduousy brought the attention OF every visitor
snd their extraordinary values duly advertised. The
most special special the most extraordinarily valu-
able value was a little sailor shape IN the finest
ho-seha!- braid ever seen, with insertions like
rsIenciennes lace running their delicate course
It- sr 11 INK eYze- ribb6n was twisted about
a NE pa-e I'm -. 80, $500 i,1yco1s
that rose st the high French back, completing a
symphony in sole PomPadoIT Effects cts. things said
MIS- Dryea, posing the airy trfe on her upraised
eional saiesIady'' This is what you might call
wholesale dealer Of Vaom We pouglt II s4io u Has
rot yet on the market and that he would ho!d II
70 being everything else said it is an EXCLUSIVE
i comes in black. white pink blue and Lavender.
ohiy slS You see Eighteen doIlars is the highest
price We ask for any OF our hats, and, throw
n four pluTnes, you see il really is tremendous
bargain"
hat. e white leghorn saucer, turned up iH the
banked n with pink roses and daisies. Malines
shading from pink through blue 10 lavender is
folded around tbs brim and caught at the side with
purple lilacs. daisies and roses.
The lingerie hats have also proved extremely at
tracrive. There such a drive in these Gall
Ct 8 with English embroidery. Valenciennes ruff
aings etc. that after hour only one
Two were left. and these had been kept back as
models for future customers to order from
There vas lot Of smart stiff hats OF white,
coarse straWs their bTinls transdxed by quilts and
other fancy feathers. Several 'pillboXes' vanished
early IN the game, temporarily diminishing the
stock Of this particular form of headgear although
four Of the interested in the affair trimmed
hats steadily all day upstairs in an effort 10 cope
with the incoming tide Of custom
Some OF ne women who called yesterday and
bought hats were Mrs. II. Il. HOLSTER, Mrs John
X Mccullough. Mrs. ). Borden Hartman, Miss
Ezvelyr Parsons Mrs. O. Il. p. Belmont. Mrs. Will
lam Jay, Mrs. Robert ELEPHANT, Miss Sophie Yer
non olyphanJ, Miss Ives and Mrs. Hilborne L.
Roosevelt