New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-30
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

With the Fourth on Thursday. the latter
half OF the week will be devoted TO It's
| celebration, which, so far as society is con-
| cerned, will take place out OF town. There
| are few OF the smart set who remain In the
| city for the national birthday, but It Is
made the occasion Of general hospitality at
! summer resorts and country houses. The
various yacht and country clubs will all
be en- fate and have organized either re-
gattas or gymkhanas or other sports OF
| various kinds, winding up with the inevi-
| tabl. display Of fireworks after dark. The
festivities will be continued in measure
| on Friday and Saturday, SO that the OBJ
/ servance Of the day will develop into week
end parties and last until the evening on
| Monday. At Newport. Bar Harbor and
| other places on the New England coast, on
| the Long Island shore and in the Adiron-
dacks the Fourth marks the commence
ment OF the gayeties of the season. which
will continue without interruption for eight
! weeks.
! At the Rhode Island resort Mrs. William
| Grosvenor will set the ball rolling with a
| dinner dance on Wednesday nighb while
the following evening Mrs Stuyvesant
| Fish. who has returned TO her villa. Cross
ways, for the first time in three years,
gives a dinner. followed by a dance. Ear
| lier in the day Mrs James p. KernOchun
will have her usual patriotic reception,
which for so many years has been Il feat
ure of the Newport summer.
At Cedarhurst, on the same day, the big
polo tournament begins at the Rockaway
Hunting Club, TO continue I'LL the lStn.
Teams OF the Meadow Brook, Great Neck,
Cooperstown, Point Judith and the Phila-
delphla Country clubs have been entered,
and while the contest is going on the va
rious country seats on Long Island within
motoring distance of the field will be filled
with guests. oyster Bay Will be also in
gala attire for the Fourth, in connection
with the Seawanhaka Cornthian Yacht
Club.
Incoming steamers this week will bring a
number OF well known people. Mrs. Penn
broke Jones, Mr.. and Mrs. William Douglas
Sloane Mrs. William b. Leeds and Henry
De Forest Weekes are due the day after
to- morrow. while arriving here by the Ced-
rio on the following day are ]. Coleman
Drayton and Mrs Eoen Wright, with her
daughter, Miss Anna Wright. Mrs Ogden
Goelet arrives here from Europe on Friday.
The Earl Of Dalhousie is staying for few
days at the ,Ritz-Carlton, before going To
Ottawa to be the guest OF his brother, the
Hon Alexander Ramsay, who is serving on
the staff of the Duke OF Connaught, the
Governor General Of Canada. His name
was listed on board the Mauretania, on
which he arrived here, as the Hon. Arthur
Ramsay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles +. Hoffman will
sail for Europe early next month, to re-
main abroad until October.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Goelet will go TO
Newport tomorrow .or the season
Mr.. and Mrs. Elbridge T. Gerry will go
to Newport early this week for the sum-
mer
Mr. and Mrs w Beals Kendall have
closed their horse in Gramercy Park. and
have gone TO the Pacific Coast.
Mrs. Charles b. Alexander will return 10
New York from Europe this week. On her
arrival here she will go to California for
the wedding OF her niece, Miss Jeannie A.
Crocl:er, to Malcolm ID. Whitman, on July