The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-04
IN SOCIETY.

The festivities attendant on the wedding
of King Alfonso with Princess Ena of Bat
tenberg will make Spain the objective point
OF many New Workers. in early June. Mr.. and
Mrs. John R. Drexel, who sail in April
are likely to be of the number. Prince Alex
ander, brother Of the future Queen of Spain,
was their house guest here for several days
during the stay of Prince Louis Of Batten-
berg. his uncle. Walter Beaupre Townley
and Lady Susan Townley will no doubt be
among those invited to the wedding. They
entertained Prince Alexander in Washing
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen H. P. Pell will be
among those who nave special Invitations
to attend the wedding festivities. They
assisted Mrs. Pell's father, Col. Thompson,
in the arrangement of the social programme
Of Prince Alexander on his stay here. Mr..
and Mrs. Pell, who were cruising on Col.
Thompson's houseboat, the Everglade, are
now at Tuxedo and giving a succession Of
dinners.
Mrs. Frederic j. de Peyster's sewing class
will meet to-morrow for the first time at
her home, II East Eighty-sixth street. The
work done is for the New York Infant
Asylum. The late Frederic j. de Peyster
was president of the infant asylum. Miss
de Peyster returns this week from Aiken.
The sewing class committee includes Mrs.
Prescott Hall Butler, Mrs. John NJ. Bowers,
Mrs. LIE Roy King, Miss Eleanor lie Roy,
Schenck, Mrs. William Robson, Mrs. Frank
S. Witherbee and Mrs. j. Todhunter Thomp-
son.
Baron and Baroness Won Friesen, who
have been visiting with friends in Phila-
delphia, sailed for Germany last Thurs
day. Comte de Frsminet arrived last sum
day from France. The Earl Of Caithness ar
rived in town a week ago and is at the Abe
marie. The Countess de Chambrun returned
to France on Thursday. Lord Terence
Browne n Count and Countess Matuschka,
who have attended a succession of functions
during their stay here, sailed on the An erika
last Thursday. Lord and Lady Tngestre and
' the Hon. A.. s. Northoote sailed for England
| a few days ago on the Cedric. Lord Ingestre,
son of the Earl Of Shrewsbury, has been
with his bride to visit Earl Grey at Otta wa.
Capt. Ian Forbes and Lady Helen Forbes
of Scotland are at the Hotel Aston.
Among the wedding dates still unan-
nounced are those of Miss Cynthia Roche
and Arthur Scott Burden, Miss Fanny Iselin
and Philip Livermore, Miss Harriet Cole
man Delafield and Jarvis Pomeroy Carter,
Miss Mary Renwick Sloane and Joseph
Delafeld, Mrs. James Lorillard Kernochan
and and John g. g: F. Forster SG p Of England Miss
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Catherine Cossitt Dodge and John Shillito
Rogers, Miss Margaret Livingston Clark
son and MoRae Livingston, Miss Rosalie
Coe Campbell and Henry Slack, Miss Nan
ME Wright Brown and Harold Richmond
Talbot, Miss Marie Adele Montant and
j. Huntington Norton and Miss Ruth Bacon
and Arthur Cheney.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry S. Redmond gave
one of their series of dinners or Tuesday
night, their guests going afterward to the
musicale given by Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Orme
Wilson. Mr.. and Mrs. Redmond have
given as many elaborate dinners as any
are going South for q time and when
they return at Easter will probably make
Tuxedo their headquarters until they go
to Newport to visit with Mrs. Henry Red
mond.
Mrs. Aston sails on her annual European
trip next Saturday, March 10, on the Car
mania. Beechwood. Mrs. Astor's Newport
place, will be considerably improved and
there will be new rooms added to the house.
The ballroom was only put in some two
or three years ago and has been used not
more than two or three times meanwhile.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Laurens Van Allen will
be of the Aston family party sailing on the
Carmania. They have been in town all
winter and attended most of the smart
functions. Mrs. Van Allen is a niece of
Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbilt. whose bridal
gift was the town house. Miss May Van
Allen, like her cousin Miss Caroline Drayton,
remained abroad all winter.
It is not probable that Mrs. John Jacob
Aston will repeat her London season this
summer, owing to the illness of her father,
Edward S. Willing Of Philadelphia, Mr..
Willing has been in feeble health for some
years. He has his cottage at Newport,
which he has occupied for many years.
Last summer his widowed daughter, Mrs.
Francis Lawrence, was with him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald Ronalds will not
probably sail for Europe until Easter, re-
manning II; Meanwhile in the South, They
are to make a long trip before they settle
t dOTn viii II b New o,,it aG q fami in p shs G1Ser vS SidS
will include Mr.. and Mrs. Pierre Lorinard
Ronalds, Mr.. and Mrs. H. p. Perry, Mr..
Ronalds's mother, Mrs. Ronalds, and his
sister, Mrs. Richie, who live in London.
Mrs. Richard Townsend and her daughter,
Miss Matilde Scott Townsend, Of Washing
ton, Mns. Ronalds's mi and cousin, will
go abroad for the summer. Miss Townsend
~wheprehe assisted as maid Of honor at the
Ro~nalds-StronR wedding wore a superb
white velvet gown with blue hat and
feathers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Robinson gave one
Of the pretty lunoheons on last Sunday for
Baron Speck Won ~Stemburg, the German
Ambassador, and went later to the final
musicale given by Miss Caroline de Forest
and Miss May Calender at their apa rtment
In the tiffany House, p East Seventy
second street. Mns. Henry +. Dimock
gave one Of the Ella borate Monday luncheons.
Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock gave an elaborate