The sun., 1907-08-18
~ SOCIETY.

~ SOCIETY.
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.There is only a little left Of the Newport
season. which is regarded as ended with
the Horse Show, which falls this year on
September 2, and Z. There are two shows
which preoede. at Robin Hood Park, Bar
| Harbor, August 20. 81 and 22. and at the
and "a. Among those at Bar Harbor who
have boxes for the horse show there are
| Mrs. Elliott +. Shepard Mrs. Ernesto q.
| Fabbri. Mrs. Henry r. Dimook Mrs. Her
| bert Parsons Mrs. Frederick Pearson,
| Countess de Langier Villars, Jacob n.
Schiff. Warner NJ. Leeds, j. Pierrepont Ed
wards and Clement Newbold.
Mrs. William f. Carter will give a dinner
tomorrow night at the Bennett Club. New
port. Other festivities Of the week include
I the ball to be given on Thursday night for
and on Friday night, also for Prince Will
lam by Mr.. and Mrs. Ogden Mills. On Sat
| urday Mrs. Berwind's luncheon for Prince
| William, will be followed by garden party
at Mrs. Richard Gsmbrill's.
Prince William gives dinner Of thirty
| covers next Saturday night on the Fylgia'
His guests will include Mrs. Fish. Mr.. and
| Mrs. Lehr. Mrs. Berwind. Mrs. Richard
| Gambrill MIR. and Mrs Ogden Mills and the
| Misses Mills, and afterward there will be
other guests for the dance.
Mrs. George Peabody wetmore. who has
given dinners every week during the season.
will give a luncheon for Prince William on
| Friday. Mrs. Harold Brown. the widowed
daughter Of W. Watts Sherman and niece
of Mrs. Wetmore, now is in Europe. but her
sister, Mrs. Norrie Seller. who was Mrs.
! Ellis Hoffman. is in Newport.
| Probably the dance to be given at Berger's
| by Baron Robert de Doblhoff will be during
the Newport horse show and will follow
Immediately that Of Mrs. Berwind. 1t will
! be the first function given by a titled for
eigner at Newport for a long time. The
! Baron Is a First Lieutenant in the Royal
Austrian Dragons. Four Of the promi-
nent matrons will receive the guests at
his party
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Egerton Stevens have
been for the summer chiefly at Sea Change.
Far Rockaway. the country place OF Mr..
| Stevens's mother, Mrs. Berkeley Mostyn.
They are going TO live in Rochester Mrs.
Stevens is daughter OF MIR. and Mrs. Rich
ard Hathaway Morgan.
Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mills and family will
go 10 their country place at Staatsburg-on-
! the-Hudson on September just after the
Newport horse show. Mrs Mills win give
to-day her second big luncheon since her
return from England. These will be given
continuously now on Sundays as heretofore.
both at the country and town houses.
Mr.. and Mrs William B. Leeds will remain
at Newport until after the horse show and
| then will return to New York preparatory
| to going abroad. Their present intention
| ia TO return to this side for the Christmas
holidays. They gave a dinner Of fifty covers
last night. followed by music. 1t was their
| first entertainment and house warming at
and Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbilt.
The dinners at Newport this season are
| chiefly big Affairs That Of Mrs. Robert
| Goelet and her son, Robert W. Goelet. last
Monday night was Of sixty covers and their
| guests were seated at five tables. IL was
! In honor Of Mrs. Goelets nieces. Miss Con
| stance Whitney Warren. who came out a
couple Of seasons since. and Miss Edith
Miller, daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. w. Starr
| Miller. Mrs. Lewis Cass Ledyard. Mrs. j.
Low Hartman. Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer.
KUN, Mrs. c. H. Gilbert also gave Monday
dinners. Mrs George Henry Warren and
Mrs. Harry s. Lehr gave dinners on Tues
1 day night. On Wednesday Mrs. George
4 Peabody Wetmore. Mrs. James B. Haggin.
who had eighty guests; Mrs; u; VI I: Norrie.
1
| Sands gave dinners.
Dinners were given on Thursday night
! by Mrs William Payne Thompson, Mrs
| j. Russell Soley, Mrs. Elisha Dyer, Jr.,
| Mrs George S. Scott, Mrs. Austin l.. Flint
| Jr, and John Thompson Spencer among
| others. Mrs. A. l.. Norrie gave one OF the
big. dinners on Friday at the Clambake
| fifty covers at her cottage, the first she
| has given Mr. and Mrs. Burden will re-
| main at Newport until some time after the
horse show
Harry Payne Whitney will be this week
| at his shooting box in Yorkshire. England,
where he will have with him some of his
| particular friends, including William Payne
| Thompson, who will arrive on the other side
| on Tuesday. Mrs. Thompson. who will
| pass the remainder OF the season at her
Newport cottage. has with her Athe ton
| Blight, her father. who recently returned
from Europe. where he PASSED the winter.
Miss Jean Reid 10 expected at Newport
during the visit Of Prince William and to
/ be the guest of her uncle and aunt Mr. and
! Mrs. Ogden Mills. Miss Reid is to be one
| OF the bridesmaids at the early autumn
wedding Of Miss Florence Padelford. daugh-
| ter OF Mrs. Ernest Cunard. with the Hon.
Robert Grosvenor. Miss Reid as we'll as
: /, Mas Leila Paget and Miss Clare Frewen,
also a Iected have attended other smart
British weddings.
! Mr. and Mrs. M. Orme Wilson are likely
| 20 leave Beechwood before the Newport
Horse Show for their Long Island country
place. The house may be kept open dur
| ing September TO be occupied for q few
days by Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor.
who return from abroad early in the month.
Vincent Astor will resume his studies at
] st. Georges School, near Newport.
l. Mr.. and Mrs. Percy A. Rockefeller. with
| their children will 60 from Newport next