The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-25
SOCIETY IN NEW YORK
Nv MARGARET WATTS DE rEysrER.

The summer at the Belmont country
place at Hampstead, L. I. 1t is already
being prepared for their homecoming.
Dick Wilson, a brother of Mrs. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, and Mrs. Wilson had
contemplated staying in Georgia until
June l, but | am thinking that the lure
of the racing season will draw them
north before that time. By the time Bel
mont park opens, l daresay, they will
be fitting northward from savannah.
Mrs. Vanderbilt, by the way, is having
a new winter home built in Georgia.
This is her second in two years She did
not like the first and gave orders to
have it torn down after a cursory ex-
animation of the place.
New York society displayed more than
a little interest this week in Lord Maid.
stone, the hance of Miss Margaretta Drex-
ell, who came from England to attend
the Drexel-Gould wedding. Lord Maid
stone is the future Earl of Winchelsea
and accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Anthony
]. Drexel and Miss Marguerite to this
country Lord Maidstone already knew
Armstrong Drexel but he was introduced
to q number of the young blades of
New York and Philadelphia and showed
larguid interest in meeting them.
Armstrong Drexel will be best man at
two international weddings. They are
the nuptials of his sister, Miss Margaretta
to Lord Maidstone and the other or WIS.,
count Acheson to Miss Mildred Carter.
Society women are greatly interested in
the coming fair of the actors in this city
for the benefit of the actors fund. l
have not known charity to Great great
err furore, although the coming fair can
not be classed as a charity event In any
wise. Mrs. James Speyer is particularly
| active. and will have charge OF booth.
| Among the patronesses in addition to Mrs.
Speyer are Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Mrs. Robert Goelet, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish.
Mrs William P Douglas and Mrs. Fran
els X. Pendleton.
| LADY Hadfield a sister of Attorney Cen
eral Wickersham, is booked to sail for
| this country from Japan on April 20. She
will arrive in this city late next month
and will reside at the Plaza hotel She
will visit in Washington and doubtless
will entertain extensively in both cities.
Mrs. Clarence Macliay will spend the
summer in Roslyn, L. l., instead of going
| to Europe I really wonder IL she can
| be emulating the example Of her CO.
worker in the cause of suffrage, Mrs. O.
II. p. Belmont Mrs. Belmont several
weeks ago gave up her continental trip.
! The fashionable Long Island resorts are
becoming centers of activity. Cedarhurst
| Lawrence, Woodmere and Hewletts are
| all unusually alive for this time of year
Many of the cottages are open and the
en.ing is going brisklA.
Sunday in May will see, as usual, The
stee plechase meeting of the Rockaway
Hunt club, and this Is chosen as rather
an opening day for the season. The colony
changes much from summer to winter
for, like Tuxedo, it is the fashion II
that part of the country to live In ones
own house for only a few months eacf
year and then rent 1t to some one else
1t requires quite little figuring to wori
out the financial advantage of this mode
Of life, but it has been successfully
worked out, judging from the numbers
who practice it year after year. Ther'
are many changes this year in contempia
ton. and Just what will be the outcome
OF it all only the oldest inhabitants wouit
undertake to state.
Announcement has been made by MT
and Mrs. Howard Townsend of the en-
eagement of their daughter, Sophie, t
John A. Dix, son of the late Rev. Nor
gan rix, of Trinity church. and grand
son of Gov. John A. Dix OF civil wa
fame.