New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-01
Miss Carol Hartman In
formally Presented to
Kaiser at Court Ball.
BURLESQUE OF POLO
AT CLUB COTILLON
Daughters of Governor Foss Visit
German Capital After Three
Months in Dresden.
tBy Gable TO The Tribune. ]

Berlin, Feb. 2S-The brief season which
began with the Crosse Cour on January
1S ended with an exceptionally brilliant
court ball at the royal palace on Shrove
Tuesday. The guests. in addition to va
rious imperial and other princes and
princesses. Included representatives OF
the high nobility, all the foreign ambas-
sadors and their wives. members OF the
diplomatic corps. military and naval OFF,
GERS, ministers and state secretaries.
On a dais 10 the right Of the throne In
the White Hall were the women Of the
diplomatic corps, and on the other,
to the left. the wife Of the I'M
perial Chancellor. DR. Won Bethmann-
Hollweg, Princess Won Furstenberg, PIN
cess Won Pless and the ladies of the court.
Standing on the other side of Il hal!
were the Chancellor and the foreisn dip
lomats, while another group consisted OF
princes, generals, admirals and ministers.
The Kaiser and Kaiserin entered, pre-
coded by pages and court chamberlairs,
the Emperor wearing the uniform Of the
Royal Dragons, and the Ka'serin =
strawberry colored gown with a train Of
dark red velvet embroidered with golj
During the dancing Informal yrssenta
tons were made of Theodore M,,rburs,
former American Minister 10 Belgium,
and Miss Carol Hartman, now the guest
of Mrs. j. w Gerard.
one of the gayest balls this winter was
held at the Esplanade on Saturday, fol-
lowing the dinner OF the Polo Club
There were three hundred guests. A
feature of the cotillon was a burlesque
game Of polo introduced by Count Mont
gelas. The players were on mounted
hobby horses, led by real pony. Among
the guests were Prince and Princess Won
Pless, Prince and Princess Won Thurn
und Taxis, Mrs. Alfred Edward Norris
and her daughter. Mrs. II. j. Luce and
her daughter, of New York. and Mrs.
Hamilton Gordon and her daughter, of
Philadelphia.
Theodore Marburg and his daughter are
here from Brussels OH short visit.
They have been the recipients OF numer-
GUS social attentions and were enter
tanned by Ambassador and Mrs. Gerard
at luncheon on Tuesday. Other guests
were Miss Carol Hartman. Countess
Sigray, Mrs Marcus DAILY and Major
Langhorne.
Washington's Birthday was celebrated
by the American colony by delightful
dinner-d dance In the banqueting room OF
the Geological Garden. There were ABOUT
three hundred guests. and the opinion
WAS unanimous that the affair was the
most successful OF the kind ever known
i'm Berlin. Ambassador Gerard presided,
proposing the toasts of the evening, Inc
Kaiser" and president wilson and In
PRODUCING the speakers. Professors Shorey
and Coolidge and Theodore Marburg.
Dancing went on until daybreak. Unlike
the Thanksgiving Day dance, the pro-
gramme comprised only waltzes and two
steps. but the tango and one-step and the
maxixe were danced to certain extent
for. though the dances named are under
social ban, several couples took
chances and were even applauded by the
onlookers.
Professor Coolidge Immediately after
the Washlngton's Birthday dinner left for
America on the Kaiser Wilhelm III. a
farewell luncheon was rendered to him at
the Esplanade on Monday by Harry
lanes L,ucae and Others. notably Captain
and Mrs Gherardi and Major Langhorne.
Ambassador and Mrs. Gerard had ~
dinner guests the Crown Prince ana
Princess at the palace in Inter den LIN
den on Wednesday.
Among those departing for their various
castles and country houses, now that
Lent has arrived and the court season
ended. are Frau Won Meister formerly
Leila Gardner Trappmann. or Charles-
tom. Princess Hatzenfeld NildehDers
formerly Clara Huntington, OF Detroio'
Countess Hermann Won Scherrthoss
daughter of Andrew ID. Whlte) ana
Countess Francken Sierstorpff formerly
Mary Knowlton).
Miss Kate Calvin Bozeman, OF Montana
has been selected to fill the vacant post OF
directress of the American woman
Climb The date set for the CLUBS iarse
annual function Is March z.
r. w. Johnson. lieutenant commander
T. s. n. and Mrs. Johnson spent couple
of DAVIS in Berlin this week en- route Tor
America.
Esther and Helen, twin daughters or
c,overnor Foss of Massachusetts,, chap
eroned nv Miss T.. r. Butler. of Boston.
after a three months sojourn In Dresden
studvinc music and improving their
knowledge OF German. are spending
fortnight in Berlin before leaving Tor the
Tinted States. Numerous teas ana din
ners were given in their honor during the
week nv their German and American
friends in Berlin.
Thomas Morgan, successor TO h r.
skinner as consul general In Hamburg
ACCOMPANIED by his son, was the guest OF
Mr.. Skinner. now consul general IN ber-
lin NJ the Washington Birthday dinner.
The Crown Prince is enthusiastic over
tho coming racing season, In when ne
Intends TO run his own horses. Formerly
he ran a few steeplechases which ne
owned Jointly with several OF his orother
officers. always, OF course. in gentlemen
races. When the Crown Prince was the
commander at Danzig OF the Death
Had Hussars. the regiment included
champion military rider. Lieutenant Won
I,pan Krleger. Tho Kaiser has never
owned a racing stable, 80 II Is thoush'
that the Crown Princes is modest TOT tne
time being He now owns. In partnership
with Lieutenant Won Zooelttz. eleven
steeplechasers.