New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-03
FAUBOURC BALL
FOR THE WHITNEYS
Farewell Party Given by
Old Residents Of Wash
ingtOn Square.
! MISS ELINOR DAVIES
BOWS TO SOCIETY
Century Class Has Its First Dance
Theatre Party for Miss
Star Paris.

Luckily yoJ arc invited to attend the
Faubourg Ball. 1T the Hotel brevoor'
on January ." SO read the invitations
for the dance which was given last nisn;
by a committee composed OF old residents
OF the Washington Square District as q
farewell party for Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
PAYNE Whitney. who viii sail Tuesday
for England 10 spend several weeks
abroad \ similar affair was given eA-
actly year ago last night for Mr. ana
Mrs. Whiucy b,io to their depai ture for
Europe Last nights canoe was as sue
cossful ana brilliant as It's predecessor
and was ATTENDED by about three hundred
persons. most OF them Of the older set.
Only half a. dozen debutantes OF the sea
son were invited They included Miss
Mimi Scott. Miss Marie Taller. Miss Elsie
Stevens and Miss Margaret Rutherfurd.
Several large dinners were given pre-
vous TO the dance. Mrs Harry Payne
Whitney having eighty ia her party MI 3.
Arthur Scott Burden entertained thirty
friends. Mrs w X. Vanderbilt. j.. was
another hostess at her house, No. SO fiith
avenue. Mrs William Astor Chanler had
a party Of sixteen and Mrs. Peter Cooper
Hewitt ABOUT an equal number
The whole lower part OF the hotel which
was attractlvely decorated with Christmas
greens, Chinese lanterns and flags. was
used. The guests were received by Mrs
\. Gordon Norrie. Mrs. Edward Roscoe
Mathews and Mrs. Belmont Tiffany. who,
with Mrs William Astor Chanler, Miss
Ruth Draper. Mrs. John G. Milburn. Mrs.
John G. Miburn. jr.. Miss Alice Nicholas
Charles Dana Draper. Francis Crownn-
shield. Moreau Delano and Alexander
Keogh, arranged the dance.
The dancing was i'm the large ballroom
and tables were placed about the other
rooms where supper, which was not in
Guided i'm the subscription for the dance,
was served throughout the evening.
Among those present were Mr.. and Mrs.
Payne Whitney. Mr.. and Mrs. Austen
Gray NJ. and Mrs. William Earl Dodge
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur lselin, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. Oliver Iselin, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis lse-
lin. Mr.. ana Mrs Ernest Iselin. Mrs. Reg
maid c. Vanderbilt. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. May
nard. Mr.. and Mrs. James y. Eustis, Mr..
and Mrs Charles Dana Gibson Captain
Philip NJ. Lydig. Maurice and Francis
Roche Mr. and Mrs. Leonard NJ. Thomas,
Mr. and Mrs. j. Norman de r. White
house. Mr.. and Mrs. William Woodward
Mr. and Mrs. j. Searle Barclay, Mrs
James A. Burden. Lawrence Waterbury
J. Montgomery Waterbury, Miss Emily
Sloane. Miss Marjorie Curtis, Miss Julia
W. Robbins. Mr.. and Mrs. Egerton l..
Winthrop, jr. Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin
Guinness, Miss Marion Hollins, Mrs.
Burke Roche. Mrs. Lee Thomas Magis-
trate and Mrs Frederic kernochan. Mon
cure Robinson, Alfonso de Navarro, Ste
phen b. Elkins, Charles Appleton. Lydig
Hoyt, Thomas Slidell, Mckim Hollins,
Monroe Douglas Robinson, Elliot c. Cow
din. %, James Barney, Horace {. Steo-
bins, Charles Lanier. jr., Rawlins Cot
tenet. Major c. Creighton Webb. Worth
ington WhtehPuse Phoenix lngraham
ard Samuel D. Babcock.