The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-29
NO v|RG|N|ANS IN
. HIS SOCIETY LIST.
New York Social Arbiter Names
Members Of American
Peerage,
ONLY SO IN THE "PRovINCEs"
Outside Of New York and New
port He Couldn't Run Total
to an Even Hundred.

lives in Madison Avenue. New York
and who as ,philanthropisti Is iden-
has ais written a book which he calls "rhs
Ultrafashionable Peerage of America
What brings his book into public view
is his assertion that there are only
America outside of New Yctk and New
port, and none of these according to
his frame-up. resides in Virginia. The
cities. boasting these ninety nine fash
:onable- elect as residents are, in the
order of their standing: Washington,
Chicago, San Francisco. Boston. Phila-
delphia, Baltimore, Providence and
Buffalo.
The following ninety-nine souls corr
prise this very small minority:
Washington-Mr and Mrs. George
Peabody Wetmore, the Misses wetmore
hnd the ws Messrs Wam Is mrs
Richard Townsend and Miss Mathilde
Townsend (now Mrs. Peter Goelet Ger
ry). Mr.. and Mrs. Perry BELMONT, Mr.
Mrs. James w. Wadsworth, the Misses
Margaret and Catherine Cameron. Mrs.
Levi z. Letter. Hamilton Fish and the
Misses Fish, Mr.. and Mrs. Beckham
and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth.
Chicago-General and Mrs. Frederick
D, Grant, Mrs. Potter Palmer. Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph S. Letter, Mr.; and Mrs.
ilppshi Y hS lpi iii' AVA % A'AsAi
shall Field.
San Francisco-Mr. and Mrs. Peter D.
Martin. Miss Jennie A. crocker and
Charles Templeton Croker.
Boston--N1iss Eleanor Sears, afr. and
Mrs Prescott Lawrence, Miss Prescott
Lawrence. Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Van
Rensselaer, Thayer. Mr.. and Mrs. Hollis
Danieison, Mr.. and Mrs. William Phil
Rollins Morse and Mr.. and Mrs. Lars
Anderson.
Philadelphia-Mr and Mrs. Leonard
NJ Thomas (nee Oelrichs). Mr.. and Mrs.
Craig Bifdle. E. Moore Robinson, Mr..
and Mrs. William 2: Carter and Mrs.
anthony J DreXel Mr. and Mrs, James
ston sullivan. Mr.. and Mrs Joseph Wild
ener. Mr.. and Mrs. George D. Widener.
Edward Willing Mr.: and Mrs Paul
penckla Mills, Wiling Spencer and
Baltimore-Miss Lota Randolph Rob
inson, the CAROLS OF Carrollton, Henry
Walters and Dr. and Mrs. Henry Bar
ton Jacobs.
Wealth Making Inroads.
Wealth is making far more rapid in
roads upon Baltimore society. Mr., de
Lyon Nichols affirms, than upon that
of Philadelphia When Mrs. Harriet
Lane Johnston, who did the honors OF
the White House as Harriet Lane on
the visit of the late King Edward
tthen Prince of Wales. was the leader
of Baltimore society, birth and breed
| ing was the sine qua non Of social &C
tent sceptres of social supremacy in
Baltimore is swayed by the great
granddaughter of a cobbler Anent pa
trician lineage, on the other hand. COM
| bned with ultra-smartness, Miss Lota
Robinson, of Baltimore is cited by Mr..
de Lyon Nichols as a typical ultra
smart American belle. Born in Viz
ginia. a Observation-Disclosures OF the
Randolphs and Beverly Robinsons.
| Miss Lota Robinson is one of Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish's most intimate friends,
and will be one of the central figures
Of the coming Newport season s, ouo
Grenville Merrill. nee Dresser.
| Geneseo N. Y.-The Wadsworth fam
lily.
Providence,Mr and Mrs Y. Watts
Brown. the Goddards, OF Hopeton
House: Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Ives Cam
NELL. Mr. and Mrs. William Gammell,
Nh Mr and MT Ivo Il s NeTos hiae,f does
not claim to be contestant in the
ultra-fa shionable arena He is contenr
to be "Palatine of America'-that is.
he Is governor-general of the National
whose requirements as to lineage are
the most difficult Of any colonial or
ganization in America. The member
| ship is divided into PaaAnes and
| Landgraves. To be Palatine one has
| to be lineal descendant of a cavalier
who settled In America prior to ESQ
and who has son, or grandson, or
himself a member OF the British no.
| bility. The candidate also must be
able to trace his lineage In a direct
line back to forefather of cavalier
antecedents who was parsonage of
importance in the seventeenth century,
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
State Accountant Qualities.
Carlton Mccarthy qualified yesterday