The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01
SOCIETY IN NEW YORK
By MARGARET WATTS DE PEYsrrR.


 1 given in her honor While it now appears
 that Miss Goulds social career will be
 brief, even shorter than that of her sister
 Marjorie, now Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel it will be one of the most brilliant of the | season.
 | It is said the premature announcement
 of the engagement was given to the Lon
 don newspaper by relatives of Lord
 Decies. The joy of the ancient English
 family of Beresfords, the family name of Baron Decies, over the success of their kinsman's suit for the hand of the beau tiful young American heiress so eated them that they caused the announcement
 of the alliance" as it is called in Eng
 land to be made in the official newspaper
 of royalty and aristocracy before it reached the public through the American I newspaper. .i
 Costume balls. to which New York S
 fashionable world lends it's presence, are
 not often on the calendar of the social
 functions for the season. but the one an-
 nounced for January 6, hospital benefit dance, promises to take rank among those
 of recent seasons from the number of
 prominent persons who are lending aid
 Many of the well-known leaders are ac-
 lively at work as members of the com mittee in charge of the plans. Among 1 these are: Mrs. Austen Gray, Mrs. Will
 liam Earl Dodge. Mrs. John B. Drexe,
 Mrs. Herman Oelriehs, Mrs. William K
 Vanderbilt, Jr., Mrs. Payne Whitney, Miss
 Dorothy Whitney, Mrs. Joseph Earl Stevens. Mrs. French Vanderbie Mrs. de Lancey Kountze, Miss Sybil Douglas Mrs. Arthur Scott Burden and Mrs. F.
 R. Matthews. Among the list of pat
 ronesses are Mrs. George J. Gould, Mrs Stuyvesant Fish, Mrs. Charles Dana Gib- son, Mrs. Havemeyer, Mrs. Oliver Harri- | man, Mrs Reginald c. Vanderbilt, Mrs Theodroe Robinson Mrs. James Roose- velt and a score of others equally as we'll known in society. t'f fr.t
 New York chapter. Daughters of the l Confederacy, are planning to make the | annual ball, which will be given at
 the Plaza hotel, January 16. one of the most brilliant affairs ever under l taken by the local chapter. The an- nouncement of the plans for the ball was made at the recent meeting of the chapter. At this meeting the chair man of the committee on education re- ported the placing of scholarships In different colleges to the amount of S10,000. Mrs. Livingston Roe Schuyler. who attended the late convention of the Daughters of the Confederacy at Little Rock, gave a glowing account of the convention. Mrs. James Henry Parker is president of the local chap | ter. 7'
 The December meeting of the New York society of Kentucky women was attended by an unusually large num- Der of members. The meeting was held It the Waldorf Astoria. and an inter- es'ing programme of music was car ried out Mrs. James Gamble Rogers sang a groupe of English Ballads. Miss Maria Mcdonald of Louisville, delight
 cd the guests with a number of south ern songs with guitar accompani- ment An informal reception followed the entertainment.
 Now that the debutantes have been so well entertained their elders will come in for a good share of attention immediately after the New Years fes- uv!tes have. ended. There will be rienty of dinners and dances well into February. Mrs. William ID. Sloane plans to give a cotillon on January 3. and on the following night Mrs. John h. Drexel will also give one Mrs. FL bridge T. Gerry will give a dinner dance on January IF and on January 10 Mrs. George J. Gould will give one at her city home for the formal i'm troduction to society of her second daughter Miss vivien Gould Mrs Rob- ert L. Gerry. who was Miss Cornelia harrington. will give the first inn portant large dinner dance at Shens rye son February 3.
 Dr. Ira Carlton Chase and bride, for Merly Miss Helen Irene Keatings who left for honeymoon trip in Europe after their marriage in New York will upon their return. go to the home of the bridegroom at Fort Worth Tex, where they will reside. MT. Williau Myron Bastable and bride. formerly Miss Helen Margaret Talford, who were married at the same time, making q double wedding and who accompanied Il .hem on their honeymoon. will reside in New York. Mrs. Chase Is an aunt | If Mrs. Talford and the double mar riage was performed in the Church of the Holy Name. The wedding was followed by reception at the home
 of Mrs. Talford
 Women's societies in New York are talk