New-York tribune., 1908-05-24
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Memorial Day. on Saturday will as usual open
the summer season 1t will fnd New York society
scattered in the country houses around New York.
at suburban resorts and at the country clubs.
which, in accordance with their annual custom.
have organized extensive programmes Of sports
and open air pastimes for the day. Among other
features of the week will be the racing at Bel
mont Park which to close Saturday
the polo tournament at Great Neck Long Island.
and the horse show at Philadelphia. which opens
Tomorrow lasts until Friday and always at
tracts number of persons from New York to
the Quaker City. Among those who have al
ready gone to Philadelphia Mr. and Mrs
Reginald c. Vanderbilt There Will be several
charitable entertainments of note and Of
interest to the fashionable during the week
among the most important being the garden
party to be given Wednesday afternoon by
Mrs. Frederick D. Grant at Governors Island for
the benefit of the New York branch Of the Army
Relief Society. In the OF bad weather the
fete will take place IN the officers clubhouse It's
object is raise funds for the relief OF dependent
widows and orphans Of officers and enlisted men of
the regular army. Among those interested in the
affair with Mrs. Grant Mrs ]. Perpont Nor
gan Miss Helen Gould, Mrs. Louis Fitzgerald and
Mrs. Richard Aldrich.
Marriage bells will ring almost continuously
throughout the month June the series Of we'd
dings being opened tomorrow week by that Of Miss
Grace Chaplin. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Alfred
Chaplin TO William Beverley Rogers. in Grace
Church. Mrs. j. Gordon Douglas will be the bride $
sole attendant. ut the bridegroom will have A
number of ushers. among them William Rhine
lander Stewart, jr, Alexander Keogh. Kenneth
Budd. Stuyvesant Fish. jr.. and Albert Zabriskie
Gray
Miss Dorothy Reads marriage to F. RutIa1~.
Davis follows Tuesday in the Church OF tho
Incarnation, where the Rev. Dr. William, NJ
Grosvenor will perform the ceremony. The bride
who is daughter OF George r. Read. Of the New
York Coaching Club. by his first marriage will
have her sister. Mrs. John Irving Downev as
matron of honor. and Miss Louise Corwth as maid
of honor. The bridesmaids will be Miss Eleanor
Hastings Miss Florence Alker Miss Certruda
Bovee. Miss Ella Buck Miss Mildred F,srIs and
Miss Jessie ]. Kennedy Robert Barbour will he
the best man, and Harold Fowler George A.
strong, Douglas Ober. W. Warren Barbour and
Boardman Spauldng, the ushers The c.-s,,a,,-
will be followed by reception given by the ,atbor
of the bride at the home. in West 5sth street Mrs
John Irving Downey will entertain the bridal rat,
at dinner at the Hotel Astor on ths even,nz mr.
ceding the wedding.
Many weddings set for "wednesday .x
Among them is that OF Miss Gretchen How, =.
whose marriage TO Henry Ladd Corbe,t a. g,
Bartholomew Church. the Right Raw R,.,o,
David II. Greer will offciate assisted bx 81. D.
DIR. Leighton Parks, the rector. Miss A,,,a D..
body. Miss Lorraine Roosevelt. Miss Dorothy kim
Miss Rosamond Stursis Dtxey. OF Boston: Miss
Ehzaoeth sherman Hoyt and Miss Edith Iandon
will be the bridesmaids while Miss Elizabeth tIo,,.
will be her sisters maid OF honor. Elliott Cor
bett, OF Portland Ore. will be his brothers hast
man, and another brother. Hamilton Corbett AMI
Julian and Francis Peabody. Henry and C;urdon
Parker. William b. Boulton. jr.. Gardner r. Perr,,
and Roderick McClay will be the ushers Tho cers
mony will he followed by a reception given nv tbs
parents of the bride Mr.. and Mrs Henry P.asa
Hoyt, at their house. in East 10Th street
St Peters, West Chester. of the most pic,-
uresque churches In westchester County has hee,
selected by Miss Juliet Stanton Ades for her mar
HsaSs to Dr. RayHAAR Tew1aARA - New Hsy~a.