The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-08

ment may be announced soon?
Foxhall Keene who has foresworn
America for England, has recovered from
broken shoulder blade gotten while
chasing the elusive red fox across MS
country estate. Mr.. Keene is the most
daring steeplechase rider in England and
before he left New York he held that
same honor here. A little thing like a
broken rib or a smashed collar bone
doesn't worry him In the least. Ere
fortnight has sped 1t would not be sur
prising to learn that he had crumpled up
his anatomy again. He has been hurt a
dozen times by his daring riding.
| Mr. and Mrs Harry Payne Whitney
will occupy a cottage at Newport this
summer Mr.. Whitney spent last summer
| in England watching his horses run. but
he is more interested in American turf
affairs than foreign this year. His large
stable is being raced upon all the tracks
| about here, or upon the tracks opened
so far
| The announcement that Frank Jay
Gould would spend this coming summer
| in America and would transfer his rae
| ing stable to our shores from France
seemed improbable to all his friends.
could not reconcile this change of %
tude on Mr.. Gould's part at ALL You all
remember that Frank Gould sailed from
America about the time that an enter
prising New York newspaper printed
patches of his ardent love letters to Bes-
sic De Vote, the music, hall singer. At
that time Mr. Gould vowed that he would
renounce his American citizenship and
become a legal resident of France as his
sister the Duchess de Tallyrand now Is.
But Mr.. Goulds fortune Is so entangied
with rude and uncouth American anairs
| that it may be that his presence here is
necessary.
| There are those who insist that the
wedding of Miss Mathilde Townsend and
Peter Goelet Gerry. younger SOIL of Ell
bridge T. Gerry, will equal that of the
Drexel-Goud wedding in size and splen-
dor of appointments. Mrs Townsend has
a splendid establishment and entertains
| in lavish fashion Miss Townsend Is the
prettiest OF the heiresses of the capital.
| This marriage, like the Drexel-Gould
wedding, seems to confirm a new fash
ion for American heiresses as indicating
that the impecunious titled foreign for
tune hunters have been rebuffed. The
bridal gifts will probably be costly. Mr..
Gerry has very many relatives in the mill
lionaire set. Miss Townsend also is con-
delphia families and has many friends
here and also abroad.
| The palatial Piazza hotel, which houses
more members of the foreign nobility
than any other house in the United
States has within Its portals now prob
lably the most exclusive member of aris-
tocracy yet to scan Americans through
a lorgnette. She is the Princess Lwoff
Parlaghy. The princess maintains a suite
of seven rooms, a score of servants and
rides in a liveried coach. Her exclusive
ness is such that she refused to ride up
wards in the eleva tor-pardon me, lift
with the Duchess of Manchester. Wher
the princess engaged her suite she slip
ulated that when she assembled in the ele
vator that no other persons save her at
tendants might enter the car.
The Duke of Manchester was horribl,
put out over the incident when thu
duchess was expelled from the car, bu
diplomacy secured peace.
Members of the nobility at the Plaz;
now or recently there are Sir Eric Bar
fihgton, Lady Darlington, Lady Wilson
| aunt of the Duke of Marlborough, tn
| Duke OF Manchester, the Duchess o
Manchester, Lord William Cecil, Lad.
Cecil, STR Henry Kitson and Colonel Kit
son.
Frederick Townsend Martin has saile'
for Europe.
Arrangements for the marriage of Mis-
Blanche Pauline Billings, daughter O
Mrs Cornelius X. G. Billings, and Nj
| William Halstead Wander Poel, son of MI
and Mrs 8. Oakley Wander Peel, hav
been completed and 1t will be celebrate
at the home of her parents on June
The Billings family is too we'll know
for comment and Mr.. Wander Peel come
from one OF the old and wealthy Knick
erbocker families. Perhaps you woul
guess that from his name. Miss Billings
only attendant will be Miss Maragret Bi
lings of Chicago. and Mr.. 8. Oakley Var
der Peel, Jr.. will be the best man. TIL
ushers will be Messrs. Wright Barclay
Dongan de Peyster, Theron B. Strong
Lynford NJ Dickinson, Douglas Greer
Peter L. Farnum, Jr., Charles l.. Rer
ough and Albert NJ. Billings. Mr.. Vande
Peel takes an active part in athletics an