The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-04

more nne country dWeilnRS erecuSu ~
Highlawn, Lenox. Mr.. and Mrs. Sloane,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Mex. Twombly and DR..
and Mrs. Webb will all be in their o
houses by horse show week.
I. Worthington Whitehouse, one Of the
cotillon leaders who is likely to be much
called upon this season., Ii passing the
week ends as a guest at various country
establishments. Recently he visited with
DR.. and Mrs. w. Seward Webb at Shell
burne Farms, Vt. Mr.. Dyer had an OPP
portunity to recuperate during the sum
mer, Newport was 30 very dull socially,
Ind Is sure to be called upon to lead at
numerous smart functions.
Mrs. Henry Clews will sail from England
for her home here on next Wednesday,
November Z. Her son and daughter-in-
law. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Clews, Jr., with
whom she passed the summer, have gone TO
Paris for the winter.
A number of invitations are out here for
the wedding OF Miss Hlda Gardiner and
Joseph A. McAnerney. to take place at the
country home OF the brides parents, Mr..
M Mrs. George ". Gardiner, Mountainside
Farm, Mohawk, N. Y, next Wednesday.
November T. II will DO a big and Jolly
affair. The bride will be attended by. her
sisters, Mrs. Alfred Touissaint and Mrs.
Hugh Miller. as matrons Of honor. The
Misses Isabel McAnerney, Adelaide Knox.
Mary McElroy and Eleanor Reclenay OF
Boston will be bridesmaids. j. Preston
MoAnerney will assist his brother as best
man, and Francis MoAnerney, Bentley
Gardiner, Walter Powers, Arthur Mcclure,
Stanton Brown. Arthur Delano Weekes
and Henry Beekman will be the ushers.
Mr.. McAnerney gave his bachelor dinner
last night.
The wedding Of Miss Addie Storm Boyd
! and George Homer Tower is to take place
on Wednesday afternoon in ST. Thomas's
| Church. The ceremony will be performed
at 4 O'Clock by the rector, the Rev. DR..
Ernest NJ. Stires. Mrs. William West Shaw
will attend her sister as matron OF honor,
and the Misses Beatrice Speaight BOYD,
Nathalie Graham Boyd, Eliza kneeland
Tower and Grace Parker, as bridesmaids.
BENJAMIN Curtis Tower will assist his brother
a. best man and Dudley &. Collins, Richard
II. Dana, Jr., Henry W. Palmer. Harold b.
Clark. l. Richmond Hoxie and DR.. Leander
II. Shearer will be the ushers. After the
church ceremony William A. Boyd, the
brides father, will give a reception at his
home, - East Seventy-eighth street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wheeler Hazard Peckham
have sailed for Europe. where they will
pass their honeymoon. Mr.. Peckham's gift
10 his bride, who was Miss Ethel Arson
Steel, at their wedding last Thursday at
Grace Church, Germantown, Pa, was a
necklace of sapphires and diamonds. Mr..
Peckham's attendants included Douglas
Green OF New York, his best man, and
Robert Rutherford Mccormick, son of the
American Ambassador 10 France: All Of
the ushers were classmates at Yale or the
! Harvard law school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony j. Drexel were the
guests last week of Mr.. Drexel's brother
in-Iaw and sister, MIR. and Mrs. Alexander
Van Rensselaer,, at their fine place near
Philadelphia. Their daughter, Miss Mar
garetta DreXel, who has not yet made her
social debut, was with them.
The house taken by Mr.. and Mrs. George
W. Vanderbilt at Washington, where they
will pass the gay season, is in New Hamp-
shire avenue, between r and s streets, and
is of the conventional colonial design. Mr..
and Mrs. George Gordon King, relatives of
Mrs. Vanderbilt. who have been visiting
with her at Biltmore House, have returned
to their Newport cottage. Mr.. and Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt return to own from
Tuxedo within a fortnight. Alfred q. IAN
derbilt is now here and busy with prepara-
tions for his horse show exhibits. Mr.. and
Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt, Jr,, will prob
| ably come to their town house within two
weeks. They occupied for a time last
| season a house on West End avenue which
belongs to Mrs. Vanderbilt and was the
| property OF her brother, the late Charles
Fair. Mr.. and Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt
will 20 for a time on their return TO Idle
Hour, their residence at Oaklands, L. l.
Mr.. and Mrs. Payne Whitney will, a
usual. make frequent trips to Washington
this winter. Mrs. Whitney's mother, Mrs.
John Hay. is now located in her home at
the capital. Mr.. and Mrs. Whitney have
their own apartment there in Stoneleigh
Cnnrt Of which Mrs. Whitney, Is nnrt