New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-23
NEUTRALITY BALL
AT PALM BEACH
Washington Birthday Fete
Marked by Brilliant
AssembIage.
[Ry TeleRranh 10 The Trlhnns

Palm Beach, Fla, Feb. 22.-The
greatest fete given annually in the
South, the Washington Birthday ball,
at the Royal Poinciana Hotel here,
took place tonight, with probably more
notables in attendance than have been
at the ball in several years. Palm
Beach is now jammed SO full that
forty families are living on their pri-
vate cars on the siding of the golf
links, where there is a clean sweep to
the sea, and on their yachts in Lake
Worth. Now is the top notch of the
season, with a display OF fashion re-
markable even for this place and a
brilliant night life at the clubs and
cafes not duplicated anywhere this
year.
The ball tonight began at II o'clock,
after many scores of gay dinner
parties, and will continue all night, a
set supper being served at a. m. 1t
was known as the Neutrality Ball, the
flags of all nations being used in
decorating, and the popular airs Of
Germany, France and England being
played. The ballroom, over 300 feet
square, was divided into two long
arbors, framed by festooned flags and
greens in ropes against a background
of wistaria clustered about each pillar
and continuing to the roof. Between
the pillars were boxes, with back
ground of palms. The lighting was
very soft, Of tone to harmonic with
the decorations, and came from bulbs,
mostly hidden in the flowers. The
promenade extended through the trop-
ical gardens, which were roped off and
guarded.
Some Of those giving dinners before
the dance were Mr. and Mrs. H. NJ.
Tilford, c. X. G. Billings, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Earl Dodge, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick r. Frelinghuysen, Mr.. and
Mrs. Willis s. Paine, Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Untermyer, Mr.. and Mrs. Nor
ris w. Mundy, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Phipps, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard D.. Ali,
A. j. Widderson, Mrs. James Henry
Smith, Mrs. A. Sydney Carpenter, Mr..
and Mrs. Hugh J. Chisholm, jr, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert billiard, Mr.. and Mrs;
Ross Campbell, Mr.. and Mrs. Sherwood
Aldrich, Edward c. Dale, Mr.. and Mrs
Davis Calhoun, Osborne Howes, John
Liggett. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles 5.
Bracket. Stewart Wing, Mr.. and Mrs.
Vincent B. Hubbell, Baroness Won Fro
wein-Pardee, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H.
Geist, Adolph Magnus and Mr.. and Mrs
Edward B. Mclean. >,
Among others attending the ball
were Mrs. Oliver Hartman, Mr., and
Mrs. John F. Harris, John D. Grim
Minis, Mr.. and Mrs. W. Barklie Henry
Mrs. Frederick Edey, Mrs. Hamilton
Wilkes Cary, Mr.. and Mrs. John r,
Adams. Mr.. and Mrs. A. j: Drexel
Bddle, Miss Cordelia Biddle, MISS
Christine Biddle, Mrs. William Thaw,
Sd, Mr.. and Mrs. William Lawrence
Green. Mrs. w. W. Miller, Mrs. NIaai-
mir de Constantinovich, MISS Kutn
Waters, Miss Julia Edey, Harvey
Ladew, Miss Constance Robertson, MISS
Dorothy Stone-Smith, Miss Lillian b.
HYDE. James Hyde, William HYDE,
Mayor and Mrs. James n: Preston OF
Baltimore, Miss Alice Wilkes Preston
Ex-Mayor John F. Fitzgerald, MIS-
Fitzgerald and Miss Agnes tltZgeTalu'
of Boston; Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Ter
hume, Miss Katherine Terhune, pr'
Frank Billings, Frank Jefferson, Oren
p. Taft, Robert VI. Fair, MISS heleI
b. Rich, Mr.. and Mrs. G. II. SANFORD
Miss Marie Whitney, Hermann OeI-
richs, Francis Roche, Angler b; DUKE
Miss Mary DUKE, MI hHu M - $50
NJ. Salisbury, Mrs. Frederick Sterry'
Miss Prudence Sterry, George r.
Ahrens, II. NJ. Forrest, John b. Kitchen,
Miss Matilda Bigelow, Miss Dorothy
McCrea, Mr.. and Mrs. John Pullman
and John NJ. Rutherford.
Mr., and Mrs. Girsud Foster were
nresent. as were Mr.. and Mrs. John
r. TYSON, Miss Janet FISH, MISS
Eleanor Walsh, Colonel and Mrs. !.
VI. Schoonmaker, Mr.. and Mrs. F. u
Donovan. Mrs. Charles F. Choate,, r.
Dr. owen Kenan, Mr.. and Mrs: John
G King, Miss Caryl Hackstaff, Mr.. ana
Mrs. Alexander Revell, Mr.. and MRS
Henry Carnegie Phipps, Mr.. and Mrs;
John F. Phipps. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Delafeld. Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Cor
dom. Ferdinand Jelke, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
a hutchinson, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Uager. James A. Blair, jr,, stevens
FIEins. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brown
mo Michael p. Grace, Hugh inman,
Charles Inman, Fred c. lnman. Khine-
lander Stuart, jr.. Mr.. and Mrs. Harion
Kent Bolton, Mrs. George Jason
Waters, Mr.. and Mrs. II. W. Pettioone'
Mr. and Mrs. St. John Wood Mrs
Rawson Wood and Mr.. and Mrs r b.
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