New-York tribune., 1907-11-24
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

| Thanksgiving on Thursday next will interfere in
| a measure with tho normal course of the gayeties
of the season which is under way. For 1t is a
holiday which many prefer to spend among rural
surroundings rather than in the city. and number
| OF the country seats IN tho neighborhoOd of New
York will be the OF house parties in horror
of the occasion The marriage of Miss Edith Root
to Lieutenant Ulysses S Grant, U. s A. Will also
cause n large contingent Of the fashionable set TO
leave town Tuesday afternoon for Washington,
where the ceremony is to take place Wednesday.
The Secretary OF State and Mrs. Root are 10 such
an extent identified with tho social life of New
York where General and Mrs. Frederick .. Grant
also have hosts of friends. that IT is only natural
that many should have been asked from here, and
that spite of the wedding being solemnized IN
tho national capital. in the presence of the Presl
dent It should be looked upon a New York
! rather than as a Washington affair.
Miss Roots marriage to Lieutenant Grant Is by
no means the only wedding OF note OF the week
opening to-day. On Tuesday Miss Isabelle
Tilford. daughter OF Mr. and Mrs. Henry NJ. TIL
ford, will become the wife OF David Wagstaff son
OF Colonel Alfred Wagstafr. tho ceremony being
performed IN ST. Thomas's Church by the Rev DR..
Ernest NJ. Stires. Miss Pauline French, Miss
Nathalie Howland. Miss Beatrice Pratt Mrs Lewis
S. Morris Miss Harriet Alexander and Miss Kath-
arine Tilford will attend the bride. Alfred Wag-
staff jr will be his brothers best men, and two
other brothers namely Samuel and George Wag-
Btan well as Harry II. Peters, William w Hofr-
man. Richmond Talbot and Bernon s. Prentice. will
be- the ushers. Afterward reception will be given
by the parents of the bride their house In East
SD street.
St Francis Xaver's Church will be the scene on
Wednesday OF the wedding OF Miss Lille Bouyler
Dixon. daughter Of tho late Joseph L. Dixon to
Augustus Noel. Two of the the latter bv
his first wife. who died few years ago and who
was Miss Wilmer, will offlciate his ushers
and his brother. Pierre Noel. will ts his best man
Among his sisters who will be present at the cere-
mony. are Mrs William A Greer Mrs. Herbert
Johnston. Mrs Henry Courd and Miss Josephine
Noel After the ceremony wedding breakfast will
take place at the home OF the bride In West 10Th
street.
Other weddings of the winter will include that OF
Miss Hester Gouverqeur Hone. daughter OF Mrs
John Hone. of Gramercy Park. to Henry c. Bartol
in the Church OF the Incarnation Madison avenue
on Wednesday week: that OF Miss Gladys Mills tn
Henry Carnegie Phipps. on Saturday week at I.iv-
ingston Manor. Mrs. Ogden Mlls's country place
at Staatsburg- Hudson that OF Miss GLADYS
Vanderbilt to Count Ladislas Szechenyi which will
take place In town; that OF Miss Theodore Shonts
TO the Duo de Chaulnes, which is set for the end
of January, and for which his brother-in-Iaw and
sister, the Due and Duchesse Dues are coming to
New York. and that OF Mrs. Richard McC,reerv
who was Miss Edith Kip, to the Hon Henry T.
Coventry, younger son of Lord Coventry and
which will occur some time next month in London
Societys favOrite gathering place Just at present
is at the Metropolitan Opera House. where the
principal members of the fashionable set may now
be found on three nights week, and which has
become more their favorIte rendezvous This
is the case every winter and another Indication
of the arrival OF the latter and OF the opening of
the season is TO be found IN the fact that the
various dancing classes beginning their enter
| tainments Several of them are set for this week
and the first dance of the Junior CotilOns. which
is perhaps the largest of them all. win take place
on Tuesday week at Sherry's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton Mex Twombly are sn-