New-York tribune., 1909-01-31
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

February. which opens tomorrow, promises TO
be gayer far New York is concerned than
in years Lent does not till the end OF the
month. and the calendar is crowded with enter
tainments of one kind and another right up to Ash
Wednesday, While a few. such Mr. and Mrs.
J. Laurens Van Allen and Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Wag-
staff, are leaving town this week for Europe, there
sign yet of exodus of the world of
fashion California, the Southern States, the
West Indies the Riviera and Egypt, which usually
begins toward the latter part of January There
several reasons for this delay, among the most
notable being the changes in the administration, in
which society is TO a certain interested and
then, too the presence here of a whole swarm
of foreign visitors of note, for whom innumerable
entertainments being organized. among them
the Marquis OF Anglesey, the Earl Of Morley.
Lady Paget. wife of General Arthur Paget and
her SON. Captain Albert Paget. of the 18th Hussars
a gOdson OF King Edward: General Sir Thomas
Kelly Kenny, General Sir Henry RawIinson. Lord
and Lady Clifford of Chudleigh. the Earl and
Lady OF Granard. who sail the day after to-
morrow; the Hon. Robert Ward brother of Lord
Dudley and Lady Mary Ward. who is a sister OF
Viscount Acheson; the Count de Polignac of the
French ducal and princey house of that name and
a grandson of old Nine. Pommery. of champagne
celebrity; Lady Dorothy Onslow. daughter Of Lord
and Lady Onslow: Lady Sybil Grey, daughter or
the Governor General of Canada, who is the
guest of Colonel and Mrs. John J. McCook for a
week; Lord Hastngss brothers, the Hon. Jacob
and the Hon. Charles Ashley; Sir George Lambert
and Sir George Young, Lord Ashburton. Prince
Windsch-Graetz and the Hon. Reginald and Lady
Margaret Walsh. the latter daughter of the Earl
OF Home
This evening Frederick Townsend Martin gives a
dinner at the Plaza for Lady Paset. which num-
Der of foreign visitors will be present and will
have the opportunity of renewing old friendships
and making acquaintance among the mem
bers OF New York society. But there will be no
dinner and musical this evening a the house OF
Mrs. Mackay. who is at Washington for a few
days staying with Congressman and Mrs Bourke
Cochran Clarence Mackay left town yesterday
with a party OF men for the shooting preserves IN
North Carolina of sporting club to which he be-
longs Mrs. Frederick Edey however. has musi-
cal this evening at her house. in West 56th street
at which she and Francis Rogers will sing and
Mrs Kelley Voley will play shortly arterward
Mira Edey, who Is of the daughters of the late
James Otis popular cotilIon leader of a genera
ton or more ago will leave town for Palm Beach
where she VIII as usual spend the spring. Mrs
william X Vanderbilt jr.. will give another OF
her musicals this afternoon at her house in Fifth
avenue Paderewski will play.
Tomorrow bids fair TO prove one of the busiest
days of the week. from social point OF view
Alfred q. Vanderbilt is scheduled for large din
mar followed by a cotillon Sherry's. TIE guests
will consist wholly OF young people. mostly married
couples and Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt will help
her brother-in- law do the honors. On the same
evening Mrs Douglas Williams Burnham gives n
Miss Susan Fish Dresser. daughter Of Mrs lie Roy