The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-14
NOTES IF THE WEEK IN WORLD OF SOCIETY Need of Dormitory Room at
 Girls School NOTES HERE AND THERE Movements of We'll Known People and Social News of Interest-TabIe
 d'Hote Dinners at
 the Club.


 trial school at Montevallo this autumn for lack of accommodation shows that the recent appropriations were not made any too soon. As 1t Is, the increased appropriations have to be divided among the several needed Improvements and will not be entirely expended in dormitory room. Only $5O,OOO of the $2OO,OOO is avail able annually. Plans for the new dormi- tory will meet the demand next year, but the present hundreds of young girls in this state are deprived of the practical training afforded by an industrial school because there is no room for them.
 The several department at the school are always crowded. The dressmaking de- partment is one of the largest in the school. The millinery classes will be filed In the business departments, stenography typewriting telegraphy, the classes are large and the instruction is the best that can be obtained. Other branches of school work. the literary department, the art and music classes. are doing their part towards the higher education of young women and the faculty at the Montevallo school is composed of women of superior attachments, who know the conditions un- der which they work and to whom the purposes of the school appeal
 Considering the advantages to be de- rived from such an institution as the Montevallo school it is hard to think that a single girl desirous to enter the school must be refused admittance on account of inadequate facilities. This number 1,ag fafa tIa hundreds of ambitious Alabama girls awaiting an opportunity to fit themselves for the several professions they feel will make them selfsupporting.
 While the cool evenings of late have made the alfresco dinners at the club not as comfortab ble as on the warm nights of the good old summer time, yet within the club cafe delicious table d'hote dinners will be served to those who prefer the cafe instead of the veranda. Tonight. as usual. dinner will be served followed by dancing, which usually begins about 9:3O or>hestra will play and there will be sev- eral dinner parties although nothing of a large and formal nature.
 
 Mrs. J. Rivers Carter has returned from Old Point Comfort.
 Dr. and Mrs. Travis ]. Drennen of Hot Springs, Ark, are in Birmingham
 Mrs. Willie Drennen Russell will lea ve the first of October for Orlando, Fla. the winter home of the Drennen's. Mr WaltRr iS 1at bo and Mrs Russell will go to New York
 MT. and Mrs. Rumph and Miss Rumph will take possession of a house on Six teenth street. between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, the first of October Miss Alice Rumph the artist. has been staying at the Margaret Allen school during the summer with her aunt, Miss Rumph. Her studio is there and she has been doing portraits besides her water color work.
 Mrs. Zac Smith and her party have sailed for America
 Mrs. F. G. Stevens is expected to ar rive tAs week in New York from Europe
 Miss Doliska Wilson returned yesterday from Tennessee.
 A latter day incident of more or less interest to south erners is just now go- ing the rounds which has brought out a strange stroy of squandered money hallucinations and the futile attempt of colored woman to break into Euro pean society The Farmers Loan and Trust company, trustee under the last will of Catherine Ann Ten Eyck, who died in 1S93 is seeking to have the estate partitioned. Alfred C. Cowen of POS Broadway. New York. is opposing on behalf of eight defendants who con test the will of Mary E. Shaw one of the legatees under, the Ten Eyck will
 The Ten Eyck woman was @ mulatto Her husband who had been a servant of the old Dutch Ten Eycks. accumu- lated as a caterer $50, ,000 before the civil war. He was accounted the wealthiest colored man in the north His wife had served in the Holcomb and the Enoch families. When he died he bequea tn ed his entire estate to her so the story goes.
 Among her servants was Mary E. Shaw, for whom she developed a strong a ffection. and whom she made her resi- duary legatee. with authority to dis pose of it by will to such person or persons as She Sn Ould see nt.
 In possession of property Mary Shaw that she was fitted for high CT society than that of Minetha lane and Macdougal street; that she was, in fact, a queen, and would have to go to Europe to be recognized. It came out at a hearing before the surrogate that she left her husband and went abroad with John Mazet. West Indian ne- gro.
 A atlr loxx haf Alnp spent not far from Sl00000 in storming the citadels of fashion in London. Paris, Berlin and Vienna. but the citadels remained in tact, and Mary re- turned to America broken in health. She made a will bequeathing $50 to her husband John William A. Shaw, and the remainder of the trust estate to friends, relatives. the Tuskesee institute, and other institutions
 Lawyer cowen filed a brief of 5000 words. with forty-nine authorities. in which he contends that person Is not a corporation; that Mary Shaws will did not. therefore. comply with the terms of Catherine Ten Eysck's and he even attacks the validity of the char ter of Booker Washington's educational institution.
 Mir. and Mrs. John R. T. Rives and Masters Vellpean Rives and Albert Cor don Rives left today for Washington. D. C.. Newport News. Va, and Tulla homa, Tenn. They will visit the James town exposition and relatives in Vir- sinia and Tennessee before returning to Birmingham.
 Mir. Nat W. William has returned from a three weeks business trip to New York.