New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-06
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

chief of the Atlantic fleet, with ten bat
tleships to be followed on Thursday by
the remainder of the great armada or
fighting craft under his orders. the ten
days festivities In connection with its
presence on the Hudson River will begin.
They will include, in addition to many
official entertainments Of one kind and
another, much private hospitality, and
most of the leading clubs have arranged
TO extend all possible courtesies to the
visiting officers and give them the most
cordial of welcomes
The principal features of the visit will
be the great land parade OF some eight
thousand men OF the crews on Saturday
next, the official visit to the city OF the
President on Monday and the dinner in
his honor and for the officers Of the fleet
on Monday night, and the great naval re-
view by the President on Tuesday week.
New York is celebrated among all mari
time nations for it's hospitality to the for
eign squadrons that have visited lis wa
tiers, and is determined not only TO i've
up to its reputation, but even TO exces
everything OF the kind that has taken
place in the past, in the welcoming OF the
gathering of American warships known
as the United States Atlantic fleet during
the next ten days.
Racing once more figures on the pro-
gramme Of New York society, and on
Saturday next the first Of three meetings
will be held by the Piping Rock Racing
Association on it's new track at Locust
Valley. Long Island. under the auspices
of the National Steeplechase and Hunt
Association. Cups and purses to the value
of some $4,000 are offered by Harry Payne
Whitney, Clarence H. Mackay Thomas
Piping Rock club.
The three days October r. 10 and 70,
will include about a dozen fat races and
as many steeplechases, and will be made
the occasion OF much hospitality at the
various country seats and clubs In the
western end Of Long Island. OF course,
the races are private affairs attendance
being restricted to the members Of the
Piping Rock club and their friends and
guests. and the professional and book
making element is barred out, so that
there will be no infringement Of the pres
ent ant-racing laws
Many familiar faces will be missing
from the parterre row of the Metropoli-
tan when the opera season opens next
month. This Will be due to mourning and
to absence from the country. The Cut
ting, Bowdoin. Borden and Astor families,
as we'll as Mr.. and Mrs. E. ]. Berwind,
have all suffered bereavements since last
winter, while Mr.. and Mrs. John r.
Drexel and their children, as we'll as
Mrs. Robert Goelet, will be abroad. Mrs.
Luther Kountze, too, is only slowly re-
covering from the serious injuries sus-
tanned through a fall at Newport, and
will be an invalid for some time TO come,
and Mrs William B. Leeds has left for
Europe, where she will spend the winter.
On the other hand. Mr.. and Mrs. VII
lard ID. Straight, who passed last winter
in Picking among all the excitements OF
the instructions incidental to the over
throw OF the Chinese monarchy and the
establishment OF the republic, will have
Mrs. Charles T. Barney's box on two
nights of the week.
George g. Haven will occupy the Cut
ting box. and Colonel Robert NJ. Thomp-
son and Percy r. Pyne will share Box s.
owned by the late VI. c. D. Borden.
Hiram w. Sibley and Joseph II. Choate
will share Box IS, and Box will be
divided between Senator George Peabody
wetmore, Mrs Clarence NJ. Hyde and
Lewis A. Morris.
Mrs Robert S. Collier will share Box Is
with Columbus Cd. Iseiin, J. Wood
ward Haven and Herbert L, Pratt. and
Justice and Mrs. James W. Gerard have
the James 3. Haggin box, No. 81, for GER
tain OF the performances.
Others who will be found in their old
places in the parterre row are Mr. and
Mrs William Douglas Sloane, Mr.. and
Mrs Frank 8. Witherbee, Mr.. and Mrs.
william X. Vanderbilt. Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Payne Whitney. Mr.. and Mrs.
Payne whitney Mrs. Charles B. Alexan-
der. Mr.. and Mrs. ogden Mills, Mr.. and
Mrs. August Belmont Mr. and Mrs. J.
Pierpont Morgan. senior and Junior; Mr..
and Mrs. William VI V. Hoffman. Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Goeet, Mr.. and Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt. Mr.. and Mrs. Led
yard Blair, Mrs II. Mex. Twombly, Mr..
and Mrs Elbridgc T. Gerry. Mr.. and
Mrs Henry A. c. Taylor, Charles Lanier,
Adrian Iselin. Mr.. and Mrs George F.
Baker, Mr.. and Mrs. John Turner After
bury and Mr. and Mrs. George l. Rives.
Subscription dances will. as usual, play
an important role throughout the COM
ing season in New York, and the reports
circulated last winter, to the
effect that they are going out Of fashion,
are thus proved TO be without founda-
ton Judging from the programmes al
ready drawn up, they are just as popu-
lar as ever In fact, the organization Of
several new classes has been announced.
The most important OF these dances
(Which. II is needless 70 say. are mainly
TOR the debutantes OF the season. is the
series known as the junior Cotillons.
which will again be under the manage
ment of Mrs Arthur NJ. Dodge. They
will take place at Sherry's on December
3, January and February 4.
Then there are the Saturday evening
dances, over which Mrs. Charles r. Hunt
ington has presided for so many years,
and which, five in number. will be held
at Delmonico's on December "A and 2l.
January and Is and February s.
A new series OF dances at Sherrys on
December s and % and January "a, has
been organized by committee consisting