New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-17
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will sell programmes. souvenirs. candy
and flowers are Miss lesson Thayer,
Mis-, Dorothy Battle, Miss Susanna
Warren. Miss Ada Norfleet. Miss Emily
Montague. Miss Josephine Green and
Miss Adeline Ilotchkiss.
The Ball for Our Own Poor" to be
given az the Hotel Biltmore next Fri
day evening, will have as It's chief nov
city "Pierrot and Pierrette" panto-
mimic dance by Miss Lorraine Mishler,
who made her debut in Chattanooga
this season, and George Rule, OF the
same city.
. The ball. as the title indicates, is
given for the benefit of the poor of New
York. The list of patrons is headed
by President Wilson. Governor Whit
man and Mayor John Purroy Mitchell.
Others on the list include Senator Elihu
Root. United States Senator-elect James
W. Wadsworth. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Cornelius y. Bliss, jr., and r. Fulton
Cutting.
Among the patronesses are Mrs.
Whitman, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs William
X. Vanderbilt. Mrs. +. II. Hartman,
Mrs. Willard ID. Straight, Mrs. August
Belmont. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Irs. Charles Dana Gibson, Mrs. John
HAYS Hammond. Mrs. l.. ID. Morgan,
Mrs. Henry ". Taft. Mrs. John II. Flag
Ter. Mr.. Edwin Gould, Mrs. William
Douglas Sloane. Mrs. George Wicker
sham, Mrs. c. c. Bliss, Mrs K. Fulton
Cutting. Mrs. Thomas T. Gaunt, Mrs.
Howard Carroll. Mrs. Samuel Sloan.
Mrs. Arthur Iseln, Mrs. c. b. Alex
andcr. Mrs. Percy K. Pyne, Mrs. Alger-
non :. Sullivan. Mrs. Lindsey Tappin,
Mrs. Ira Barrows and a score of other
women anxious TO aid those in .iinancia!
distress.
Forty-five men we'll known in the So
cial world have volunteered to act as
the floor committee under the chair
manship of George II. Sullivan and
Lindsey Tappin. Among the number
are j Henry Alexandra, Anthony j.
DreXel, jr., Stuyvesant Fish, jr., Loril-
lard Spencer, Charles Van Rensselaer,
killiaen Van Rensselaer, and Emlen VI.
Drayton.
Large blocks Of tickets have been
sold by the committee of arrangements
and by the Hotel Biltmore, and it is ex-
pccted that many more will be dis
posed of before Friday night. The adj
mission cards are sold at s. each and
IN connection with the dance.
The proceeds Of the ball will be ad
ministered by the Association for I'm
proving the Condition of the Poor. Of
which Cornelius y. Bliss. ir., is the
chairman. Every penny made will be
distributed where the dollars will do
the most good, there being no carrying
charges. The Hotel Biltmore has given
the ballroom, the engraving has been
donated by one Of the patronesses, and
other minor expenses have been met
that every available penny may be dis
tributed.
All the boxes and a very encour-
aging number Of tickets have been
sold for the New York City's I'm
employed Benefit Society Ball. to be
held az Sherry's on Thursday evening
Mrs. Artemus c. Plummer, who founded
the Unemployed Benefit Society, has
arranged with Miss Gertrude Robinson
Smith, Miss Anne Morgan and Miss
Maud Wetmorc TO turn over the entire
receipts of the ball to the Vacation
War Relief Committee, in order TO offer
immediate positions in the committees
workrooms TO girls out of employment.
who viii put 70 work manufactur-
ing hospital necessaries and making
comfortable garments for the wounded
soldiers.
An interesting programme is being
arranged by Mrs. r. W. Hawkesworth.
II will be made up OF exhibition dances
by Miss Joan Sawyer and Mr.. Harcourt.
Thomas Allen Rector and Miss Rena
Manning. and Miss Marrot and Mr..
Draper. There will also be singers. Two
orchestras will alternate for the dance
music
Among the girls on the programme
and flower committee are Miss Audrey
Osborn, Miss Marjorie Curtis, Miss
Mercedes de Acosta. Miss Beatrice Olaf
lin, Miss Julia Edey, Miss Marjorie
Hancock and Miss Dorothy Hancock.
On the ways and means committee