New-York tribune., 1906-09-23
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Motors and horses will 20 a great extent mo-
nOpoze the attention OF the fashionable world rom
now until the opening Of the opera season.
Nearly everybody possessed OF means nowadays
owns automobiles. and II Is 20 this crcuih-
stance that must be ascribed the wonderful amount
Of interest displayed In the series OF motor races
which will eliminate in the for the Wander
bilt Cup on October g. In fact so great y the en-
thusiasm OF society the matter that its mem
bers willing to remain UP all night 70 De on
hand In the early morning TO witness the race.
Then, too. there aref horse shows horse races ana
hunting. The last is already in full swing In the
Meadow Brook district. where all the country seats
have been opened for the autumn. and there are
frequent each week, which Mrs Thomas
Hitchcock. Mrs. Adolf Ladenburg and Mrs James
y. KernOchan are usually well 20 the fore Bel
mont Park will reopen for It's fall racing season.
which promises 10 be particularly brilliant on
October s. With regard to the horse shows. there
are ary number OF them. That OF Westchester
County. held last week at White Plains. under the
presidency OF oliver Hartman, will be followed az
the end OF this week by the County Fair and Horse
Show at Mlneola az which most OF the Long Island
stables will be represented and which VIII furnish
opportunity to the Long Island colony OF New
York meet one another for the first time since
the summer After that there will be the Norris
town Horse Show. the North Shore Horse snow
Long Island. and a number OF others Wlnoihs
up with the great annual Horse Show az Madison
Square Garden.
II Is the Madison Square Garden Horse show and
the performance Of the opera at the Metropol-
itan that invariably the gayeties OF the win
ter and this year will he exception 70 the RUE
As far as the opera is concerned, the season is
likely be exceptionally brilliant. owing 70 the
fact that the management OF the Metropolitan mas
A rival in the field in Mr. Hammerstein's venture.
The Metropolitan will open its doors on Monday
November 2s with either II Puritan or Faust
and one OF the features of the season there will oe
the production Of Berlioz's La Damnation de
Faust"
II is to be feared. however. that Mrs. Astor' VINO
has been for wears so familiar a figure In pe
partarrA row m almost every performance. will be
missing this winter from her accustomed place
She has not entirely recovered from her fan down
stairs winter, and has been in so feeoIe a con-
dItiOn since her return from Europe as 20 make
necessary the attention Of physicians ana
nurses at Newport Her daughter, Mrs George
OgiIvy Haig is with her AMI Colonel John Jacob
Astor with his sister Mrs. VI. Orme Wilson. and
her husband. who have been summoned from Eu-
rope are due here Tuesday. and will go 70 her
st once their arrival
Among others on their way home or about 20 sail
from Europe are Justice and Mrs. Francis NJ
Scott Miss Margaret Scott and Mrs. Higgins. the
mother Of Mrs Scott. who due here the day
after tomorrow; Mr.. and Mrs Levi p. Morton and
Miss Morton. who will sail Thursday. Mr. and
Mrs r Ecerton Webb. who will sail for New York
on Friday: Colonel oliver n Payne. Mr. and Mrs
John B. Baker and the Hon. Hugo and Lady Eve
lyn Barring who will return the week after next
and Mr. and Mrs. Ross Amber Curran. who
are booked 20 sail October p Mr.. and
Mrs Frederick W whitridge. who have been
a abroad since they went TO Madrid IN the early
rner TO represent the United States the wedding
OF the King % Spain. will sail for New York
October 2S They at their place in Scot
land.
Among the weddings the near future Is that
Of Miss Annie willetts and Samuel Roosevelt outer
bridge, Tuesday next at skaneateles. y. Y.
where Mrs. Joseph c. Wtlletts. the mother of the
bride. has a country place. Miss Wiletts. who is a
niece Of Mrs. Theron c. Strong and of William 5.
p. Prentice. will have her bridesmaids Miss
Marion Willetts. Miss Marguerite Slack. Miss Ma
riOn LitchheId. Of Brooklyn. and Miss Daisy Turner
of Chicago. Frank Outerbridge will be the best
nan for his brother. and the ushers will be George
Carey. De Forest Hicks. William A. Willetts
James T. Terry and Rutgers Jewett.
Just a week later Gordon NJ Buck now of New
York and member OF the University club. but
hailing from Virginia will be married az Wheeler.
Ala TO Miss Carrie Wheeler. daughter OF the late
General Joseph Wheeler. the well known cavalry
leader, who died last January. Miss Wheeler is
well known in New York. where she lived for
time with her father at the Waldorf
on the following day. Wednesday, October 8. Miss
Margaret Livingston Chaner. daughter Of the late
John Winthrop Chaner will be married 10 Richard
Aldrich in the Episcopal church at Red Hook and
afterward there will be small reception at
Rokeby. the country place Of Miss Chanler at
BarrytOwn- on he Hudson. y. Y. She will have
no bridesmaids and will be given away BY her
brother. Winthrop Chanler- The bridegroom will
have MIS- brother. Chester AIdrch. as his best man
At Washington that afternoon Henry Ives Cobb
u, OF New York. will marry Miss Caroline Postle-
thWaite at st Johns Church Among the attend
ants OF the bride will be Miss Janet Fish Miss
Edith Sanger Miss Ethel Seckcndorrf Miss I.eonora
Cobb Miss Alice Parker and Miss Grace Bell and
Miss Constance Bacon. Of Boston. The bridegroom
who will give his farewell bachelor dinner toward
the end of this week at the Harvard club. will
duke Tilden. jr, Franklin Abbott. Julian l. Pea
body. Blair Fairchild and Wendell Blagden. His
brother. Cleveland Cobb, will he his best man.
Miss Evelyn Biight's marriage to Mahlon Sands
follows on Thursday. october IL. at Newport Mrs
Gerald Lowther wife OF the British Minister TO
Morocco. who was expected for her sisters we'd
ding will be able to the Atlantic In con-
sequence Of her delicate health
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hunter Potter who were
married few days ago and who have been spend-
ng their honeymoon az Belvoir IsIand-Spencer /
Trasks camp Lake George-hav= now arrived !
at Aratoma Farm Katonah. where they will spend