New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-10
ALL SORTS OF CAKES.
Mrs. Richard Hr0in's Dining Room
Turned Into a ConfectiOner,s Shop.

II La Belle Chocolatiere could nave stepped
out of her frame into Mrs. Richard lrvins draw
ing room at No. l West S9th-st., yesterday she
would have been surprised and pleased to find
hernsf duplicated in score OF young girls as
pretty herself.
Only she sells chocolate and they sold cakes and
flowers
1t was the Children's Guild that held the cake
sale for the benefit of the children's cottage OF
the LoCmis Sanatorium for Consumptlves. ms
section of the sanatorrm provides for the care of
fifteen children under the age of fourteen week
ago Mrs Irwin had sale of trimmed hats at her
house for the benefit Of the annex to the sana-
forum.
All the morning cakes arriving. They drove
up in victorias and electric cabs they came afoot
in the Of rosy-cheeked maids and blue-uni-
formed messenger boys. Nice little boys and girls
brought others, announcing they handed them
in at the door that their big sisters would be along
later
At o'clock, when the sale formally opened,
visitors found the dining transformed into a
high class confectioners. and the dining room a
flower stall.
The young girls. with Miss Anna Short at their
head had displayed and marked the cakes. That
the prices We're often 80 per cent above market
rates disturbed neither them their customers.
magnificent strawberry shortcake held the place
of honor in the centre of the table at 8 So En-
circling it round cakes, square cakes oblong
cakes, layer cakes, cakes with orange, cocoanut
and pistachiO icngs nut cakes and fruit cakes
plate of little lemon turnovers marked 30
cents; a sheet of sponge cake 81 80 A round
cake, with currants sumbering top brought 20
cents, and so Jumbles, petit fours, maccaroons.
hermits, cupcakes hearts and rounds and lot of
other species of cakes also represented, and
found a ready sale.
Few of the cakes had been made by the girls of
the guild-ther cooks were responsible for them,
friends had sent them in, friendly confectioners
had contributed them, of the goodness of their
hearts
Miss Nathalie Bailey. Miss Dorothy Hayden and
Miss Evelyn Witherbee sold the cakes. Miss
Blanche Oelrchs. Miss Margaret Winslow. Miss
Grace Henry. Miss Constance Schermerhorn and
Miss Elizabeth Foster were in charge of the candy
Corneea Landon. Gladys Roosevelt and Jean
Roosevelt disposed OF the lovely carnations, roses.
stocks, red and yellow poppes lilacs and ilies-of-
the-valley
Foster served tea at the daintiest of teatabes set
out with of Mrs Twins beautiful old silver,
barricade of a large china swan. Nothing could
have been pTettIer than the young girls In their
muslin aprons sashes and mob caps
Other young girls interested in the cake sale were
stane Peabody Emma Peabody Priscilla Peabody.
Bessie Russell Helen Russell Constance Russell,
Helen Stevenson. Eleanor Stevenson. Charlotte
Thorne, Margaret H Thorne. Eleanor Townsend.
Cora Weir, Dorothy Weir. Frances P. Wendell,
Pauline Fiske Rene Gourd, Evonne Gourd, Evan
Ethel b Hartman, Hilda Hiss Gertrude V Inger-
Mollie Martin. Lois Martin Carol Murray, Gertrude
Murray, Katharyn Motley, Rosina Otis, Ethel Out
Pine. Helen Peabody Sallie Palmer. Helen c. Palm
err Lily Anthony, Katharyn Auerbach Helen Auer-
c. Alexander, Eleanor Brannon. Gertrude Cheever.
Betty Carson, Constance Chappe Louise r. Chap
Maria G. Coster Eleanor Duane Katharyn Duane
Frances de X Dickey Hester Davis, Ruth Davis;
Sybil Davis, Mildred Eagle, Resale de Forest and
Hah c. French.