New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-29
NETWORK SOCIETY.

Society reluctant this year to await the
great national Horse Show a fortnight hence at
Madison Square Garden, which is usually regarded
as Signalling the opening of the New-York season.
For not only have people fiocked back to town
much earlier than usual and opened their houses
for the winter, but the seasons series OF weddings,
dinners and entertainments OF kind and
other has already begun. Many festivities OF
unofficial character being planned in honor OF
Admiral Prince Louis Of Battenberg and the
officers OF the British cruiser squadron, who will
arrive here Thursday, November s-that IS to
say. King Edwards birthday-and there is every
promise of gay winter. Among the causes con-
tributory thereto will, Of course. be the excep-
tionay large number of debutantes. for whom
many balls will be given. Many of them have in
deed already had preliminary presentations to
ciety, at the autumn ball last week at Tuxedo
and at small dinner dances given in their honor.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Smith Hadden, following the
ample set by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mortimer and
others at Tuxedo recently, will give dance for
their debutante daughter Saturday next at the
Meadow Brook Club
Miss Lillian Barkers marriage to Franklin B.
Lord, jr.. tomorrow at Grace Church will be the
first of a long series of weddings scheduled to
take place between and the beginning Of De-
cember 1t will be- indeed. the first big marriage
in town of the season and will bring together
large gathering Of the fashionable set The Rev.
DR. Morgan Dix and the Rev. DR.. Ernest NJ. Stires
will perform the ceremony Miss Jessie Sloane
will be the maid of honor and Miss Ruth Twom
bly, Miss Violet Cruger. Miss Margaret Dix, Miss
Sibyl Douglas and Miss Virginia Murray will act
as bridesmaids. Murray w. Dodge. Sheldon White
house Buell. HOLSTER CORTLAND c. Dixon, Seton
Porter, W. w. White. Payson NJ Merrill. Clarence
H. Young AID Laurance b. Rand win be the ush-
ers, and C. w Laurance the best man. After the
ceremony Mrs. Fordyce Barker the mother of the
bride will give a reception her house. in 9Th
ave, which long the home CT her father.
the late Samuel D. Babcock- The young couple
are booked to sail for Europe Tuesday No
vember T. and on their arrival on the other side
will be by a French motor wedding
gift. in which they will travel the Continent
before proceeding to Egypt for the remainder of
the winter.
A number OF people will cross the East River to
Brooklyn on Tuesday to attend the wedding there
Grace Church on the Heights of Miss Anna Low
TO Herbert Grant Watson. Miss Low is daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. William p. Low and niece OF
former Mayor Seth Low. while her fance is
member of the English diplomatic service. for the
present doing special duty the Foreign Office In
London
Thatcher NJ Adams's marriage to Miss Edith A.
Jackson is for Wednesday. at Newark, N. j..
in the Third Presbyterian Church, and will be fol-
lowed by a reception given by the parents of the
bride. Mr.. and Mrs Philip n. Jackson, ut their
Newark home. Miss Edith Jackson's marriage to
Lewis Stevens, son OF Colonel Edwin A Stevens. of
Castle Point, Hohoken. took place yesterday at
Newark. Thatcher Adams will have John ID.
Adams as his hest Wednesday. and Guy
McLane, Frederick A. Schiefeln. Henry Brevoort
Kane John F. Tamage. Robert NJ. Thomas John
c. Greenleaf. Thomas L. Clark Robert c. Green
and Wllcott Jackson as his ushers.
Another wedding set for the same day is that of
Josiah Quincy. former Mayor OF Boston and As
slstant Secretary of State during the last Cleve-
land administration, to Miss Mary Honey daughter
Of Colonel Samuel r. Honey. OF this city. In Grace
Church chantry. 1t will be quiet affair and only
near relatives and a few intimate friends will be
present
At the Church OF the TRANSPORTATION tho we'd
ding OF Miss Susie T. Hall, daughter OF XEA John