The sun., 1908-08-23
IN SOCIETY.

James W. Ellsworth Of Is East Ffty-third
street. TO Bernon Sheldon Prentice. son OF
Mr. and Mrs. w. 8. P. Prentice Of So East
Fifty-fifth street. Miss Ellsworth came out
four years ago: She has spent much time
1905 from Harvard. where he was prom
inent socially. He was the Harvard lawn
tennis champion one year. He is member
Of the Racquet and Tennis, Union and Har-
ward clubs Of this city. No date has been
set for the wedding.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Peabody Eustis
probably will stay In New York after
European trip on which they start early
in November They had very pretty
wedding on Thursday at the Hermitage. the
summer home OF Mr.. and Mrs. William A.
Street, on the Rumson road.
The wedding OF Miss Bowditoh and Francis
Otway Byrd will take place next Tuesday
at Albany. Mr.. Byrd's attendants will
Charles Dana Draper, Charles w. Hanford,
T. L: Higgins. j. l.. Saltonstall and Frederick
Swift.
This week will see the wipdup of the
Newport season. practically. though some
cottagers will stay for the Horse Show.
which begins on September. 1. Boxes are
held by Alfred @. Vanderbilt. who will have
friends with him for the occasion at Oak
land Farm, and Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald c.
Vanderbilt who will have house party
at Sandy. Point, their Portsmouth place.
Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Drexel will arrive
from Europe too late to occupy their box;
Commodore and Mrs. Elbridge T. Gerry will
+ be in the box they have secured, with mem
bers OF their family. They will go on after
ward to their place In the Catskills r before .mS
Mrs II. McK. Twombly. who are still abroad
| have one Of the boxes. Mrs. William b.
Leeds has O box, and also Capt. and Mrs,
Philip NJ. Lydig, who will soon return to
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward j. Berwind will
give the last Of their series Of dances for
| the season next Saturday night at their
| Newport establishment. They had large
party last night, preceded by dinner
Informal dances were given on Wednesday
| night by Mrs. T. Shaw Safe at Ocean Lawn
and on Thursday by Mrs. William Gammell.
Mrs. James p. Kernoohan. who has given
several dinners and affairs in the Newport
season, will give dinner tomorrow night,
Johnston Livingston. Jr.. has been the
guest Of Paul Rainey during the week at
! Newport. T. Sufern Taller has passed
much Of his time there for the past several,
| days with Mr. and Mrs. Gould. Paul j.
Rainey after the Horse Show will take q
shooting party to the far West. This will
include Ogden Livingston Mills. Alexander
Brown. Joseph Hartman and others
An out Of town wedding Of the week will
be that next Wednesday Of Miss Florence
A. Keode and Richard NJ. Webster at Fair7
mont. MINI. The bride is the only daugh-
| ,f<h he lota T
! Of an old Maryland family. Her mother.
now Mrs. Thomas X. Bottomley Of Winnie.
| bago Minn., was Miss Emma Edison OF
Wisconsin. Mr.. Webster, who is a. Ken
place Of special counsel in the Post ONCE
| Depar tment at Washington, where the
couple will be at home 10 their friends after
! October in an apartment at the Revere.
They will pass their honeymoon at Niagara
and In Canada
Next Friday Miss Alice Grosvenor will
| give her bridesmaids dinner at the cottage
| OF her mother. Mrs. William Grosvenor. at
Newport Her wedding with Dudley Davis
takes place there on August 81.
Among those who gave dinners on Tues
| day night at their Newport cottages were
Mrs. Ogden Mills. Mrs. james Laurens
| Van Allen, Mrs. Edward c. Knight. Jr..
Mrs. T. Shaw Safe. Mrs. David King and
Mrs. Charles F. Hoffman: Dinners were
given on Wednesday by Mrs. Robert Goe-
let, Mrs. Philip NJ. 1ydig. Mrs. Charles F.
Hoffman, Mrs. Craig BiddN and Mrs Elisha
Rss Mr. Mrs. soS ySsn r wYpsGns Mn Mrs. 9sass sss
| p. Kernochan and Paul j. Rainey gave
| dinners on Thursday night and Mrs. Ogden
| Mills gave her second during the week on
Friday. There were several big dinners
last night, the guests going later to the
Lady Augusta Fame was at Newport
the past week. Lord Grannard remains the
guest at Newport Of Mrs. Ogden Mills
| Lady Herbert and her sons Michael Her
bert and Sydney Herbert. returned to
England on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
on Thursday. The lads are at Eton and
! came over with their mother during the
illness OF their grandmother, the late Mrs.
| n. T. Wilson. Lady Herbert has been for
the last few weeks with her father, Mr..
Wilson. now considerably improved 10
and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. at Newport.
| The Hon Mrs. Bruce-May and James Bruce
Nav, Bart, OF Kent. England. have been
| at the Belmont during the week.
Edward T. Stotesbury OF Philadelphia
will probably be the guest Of friends at
Newport for the Horse Show with his daugh
/ tere, Cno mlS5eS CuitH ~. ctotcSOuTy anu
Frances B. stotesbury. Very likely they
will occupy the box taken by Alfred G.
| vanderbilt. The Stotesburys have been
! in England during the summer and re-
| turned TO remain on this side at all events
until after the election. Mr.. Stotesbury,
| who has not heretofore interested himself
| In society matters. is very much a club
man, belonging to leading clubs In other
| places as well as to the Union, Metropolitan
| and others here.
| Mrs Ronalds Of London. now on her first
visit over here for many years, will 60 on
| to the White Mountains next week as the
guest Of Mrs. Joseph Stickney.
Mrs. Potter Palmer Is prolopging her
stay on this side longer than she had in
tended. She is just now in Wisconsin
win a little party Of relatives including
her father, II. H. Honore, her brothers,
Adrian G. Honore. H. II. Honore, Jr, and
| her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs
| Honore Palmer.