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

1f or poue C,hocolatere'' could have stepped
out of her frame into Mrs. Richard lrVn draw
ing room at No. l West 39th-st'' yesterday she
would have been surprised and pleased to find
hern.lf duplicated in a score of young girls as
pretty herself.
Only she sells chocolate, and they sold cakes and
flowers.
1t was the Childrens Guild that held the cake
sale for the benefit of the chldrens cottage CT
the Loomis Sanatorium for ConsumpuVes' Inns
section the sanatorium provides for the care OF
fifteen children under the age of fourteen week
ago Mrs. Irwin had a sale of trimmed hats at her
house for the benefit of the annex to the sana-
torium.
All the morning cakes were arriving. They drove
up in victoras 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 as 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
high class confectioners. and the dining room
flower stall
The young girls with Miss Anna Short at their
head. had displayed and marked the cakes. That
the prices were often 80 per cent above market
rates disturbed neither them nor their customers
a magnificent strawberry shortcake held the place
Of honor in the centre of the table at g 50. 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 was marked %
cents; a sheet of sponge cake. 81 so A round
cake, with currants sumbering top. brought 20
cents, and so on Jumbles, petit tours maccaroons.
hermits cupcakes hearts and rounds and lot of
other species of cakes were also represented, and
found a ready sale
Few of the cakes had been made by the girls of
the guild-their cooks responsible for them,
friends had sent them in friendly confectioners
had contributed them, out of the goodness of their
hearts
Miss Nathalie Bailey. Miss Dorothy Hayden and
Miss Evelyn Witherbee sold the cakes. Miss
Blanche Oelrichs Miss Margaret Winslow. Miss
Grace Henry, Miss Constance Schermerhorn and
Miss Elizabeth Foster were in charge of the candy
table. The Misses Anna Short Mary Ostrander'
Cornelea Landon, Gladys Roosevelt and Jean
Roosevelt disposed of the lovely carnations roses
stocks, red and yellow peoples, macs ana hIles-of-
Foster served tea at the dantest OF teatableS set
with of Mrs. Twins beautiful old silver,
barricade of a large china swan Nothing could
have been prettier than the young girls IN ther
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
erbrdge, Katharyn oakman Alice Pine Edit Edith
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 oI Davis
Hilah c. French.