Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-03
ALL ARE NOT |DLERS
Smart Set of New York Deals
Also With Serious Problems.
WORK OF THE COLONY CLUB
Many Well Known Women Are
Among Its Membership.
CITY STOPS YERKES' ART SALE
Widow Cannot Be Found and Art
Works Are to Be Sold by
Mortgage.
CITY STOPS YERKEs' ART SALE
BY WILLIAM f. CURTIS.

BY WILLIAM f. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence of The Star and the
Chicago Record Herald.
NEW YORK, December ., 1908.
| Any one who imagines that the So
called fashionable women of New York,
the mothers and wives and daughters of
the wealth and brains of that city, and
| those who compose what is considered the
smart set of society, spend their en-
tire time in firtations and frivolity should
read the program of lectures that are
given at the Colony Club and the subjects
to be considered by the committees of
women which meet there almost every
day for benevolent, educational and civic
purposes
The Colony Club is probably the finest
club for women in the world although
there are one or two similar orGaniza-
tons in London which compare very we'll
with it in membership, in housing and
in some other respects. But no Wom-
ans club in London undertakes such
comprehensive plans for culture or pre-
tends to go in for municipal improve
ments, or the cultivation of the public
taste or charities wide and 50 deep
as those that are carried on by the men,
bers of the Colony Club
New York Women Not All Butter
flies.
Many of the wealthy women of New
York work as hard any salaried man
age for the betterment of their fellow
beings. They do not spend their entire
time at lunches and teas and dinners
and balls If you will call at the Colony
Club any morning or afternoon you will
find groups of women sitting around the
tables in the committee rooms, discussing
what good can be done in this direction
or in that. and they give their time and
money with equal generosity. There are
many women of ability among them. too,
women who are able to conduct great
enterprises, and the success of the club
is evidence of clever and careful man
agement.
The Colony Club was organized in 1903,
and occupies a colonial mansion erected
for the purpose at the corner of Madison
avenue and Both street 1t is intended
primarily for social purposes. and to fur
nish central rendezvous for the women
of New York.
Who Are in the Colony Club.
There are 700 resident members-which
is the limit-and 10 nonresident mem
bers. including Mrs. Elkins Mrs. John
Hay Mrs. r. r. Hit. Mrs. Harriet
Blaine Beale. Mrs. Margaret E. Gale, Miss
Hageman, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Mrs.
George Won l.. Meyer. Mrs. James Par
melee, Mrs Burton Harrison. Mrs. Will
liam a. Slater, Mrs. Herbert Parsons,
Mrs Posethwate, Mrs. Richard Town
send. Miss Emily Tuckerman, Mrs. James
Wadsworth. jr... Miss Alice Warder. Miss
| Edith Wetmore and others of Washing
! ton. Mrs Emmons Blaine Mrs. Marshal
| Field. Mrs. ]. Ogden Armour. Mrs. Medill
Mccormick, Mrs. Potter Palmer and others
| of Chicago, and there are also several
| members from ST. Louis and other west
ern cities.
Mrs j. Barden Hartman is president;
Mrs. Richard Irwin and Mrs. John Jacob
Aston. vice preSdents Mrs. Frances Hig
ginson Cabot. secretary. and Miss Anne
Morgan, daughter of Mr.. :Pierpont Nor
gan. treasurer
There are the usual committees found
in all clubs, and one in particular, on
| literature and art, which consists of Mrs
Walter Maynard Miss Mary Hartman,
daughter of the railway magnate; Mrs.
George C. Riggs Mrs. Harry Payne Whit
ney. daughter of the late Cornelius Van
derbilt. and Mrs. Edgerton +. Winthrop.
| jr. Under the direction of this commit
tee and the management of Miss Eliza
| beth Marbury series of lectures on
! topics of immediate interest given
| two or three times a week. There are
| subscription lectures, also, and various
| charitable enterprises.
| The initiation fee is $50: the annual
| dues are 500 for resident and SO for
nonresident members, who are elected
according to the usual practice in other
clubs.
Description of the Clubs Quarters.
The house has two entrances, one for
| members and one for guests. There are
dining rooms. both public and private. d
lecture room. winter garden, committee
rooms and d card room. although article