The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-23
ALL NATIONS FLAGS
FLY AT PALM BEACH
Neutrality Ball Celebrating
the Holiday Is Brilliant
Affair.
WARRIORS AIRS PLAYED

PALM BEACH. Feb. 22.-one of the
greatest fetes given annually in the
South, the W~ashington's Birthday bali
at the Royal Poinciana Hotel here, took
place tonight with many notables IN
Attendance. Palm Beach hotels and cot
tages are so crowded that forty families
are living on their private cars on the
siding by the golf links, where there
is a clean sweep to the sea, and on their
yachts In Lake Worth. II Is the height
or the season now, with a remarkable
display OF fashion and a brilliant night
life at the clubs and cafes.
The ball began at II o'clock. after
many gay dinner parties. and a sup
per was range for . o'clock in the
morning. The affair was known as the
Neutrality Ball. the flags of all nations
being used In decorating and the pop
ular airs of Germany, France and Eng
land being played. The ballroom. over
300 feet square. was divided into two
long arbors formed by festooned flags
and greens in ropes against a back
ground OF wistaria clustered about each
pillar n continuing to the roof. Be
tween the pillars were boxes will a
background OF palms.
The lighting was soft. of a tone to
harmonic with the decorations, and
came from bulbs mostly hidden in the
flowers. The promenade extended
through the tropical gardens. which were
roped of and guarded.
Some OF those who gave dinners be-
fore the dance were Mr.. and Mrs. II. NJ.
Tilford. G.. X. G. Billings. Mr.. and Mrs.
william Earl Dodge, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick r Frelinghuyser. Mr.. and
Mrs. Willis $. Paine Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
uel Untermyer. Mr.. and Mrs. Norris w.
Mnn1N Mr. aud Nra ltatrN DhinnS NJ
and Mrs. Leonard n. Ali, A.. j. Wild
derson, Mrs. James Henry Smith, Mrs.
\. sydney Carpenter. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hugh j. Chisholm. Jr, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Hilliard. Mr.. and Mrs. Ross
Campbell. Mr.. and Mrs. Sherwood Aid
rich, Edward. c. Dale. Mr.. and Mrs.
David Calhoun. Osborne Howes. John
Liggett. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles :. Brack-
EFT. Stewart Wing. MIR. and Mrs. Vincent
Il. Hubbell Baroness Won Frowein-
Pardee. Mr.. and Mrs, Charles u. Geist,
Adolph Magnus and Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Il Mclean.
Others attending the ball We're Mrs.
oliver Hartman. Mr.. and Mrs. John
+. Harris. John u. Crimmins. Mr.. and
Mrs. W. Barklie Henry. Mrs. Fred
erick Edey. Mrs. Hamilton Wilkes
Cary. Mr.. and Mrs. John f.. Adams. Mr..
and Mrs. 4. J. Drexel Riddle, Miss Cor
della Riddle. Miss Christine Biddle.
Mrs. William Thaw Sd, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Lawrence Green, Mrs. W. w.
Miller. Mrs. Vladimir de Constantine
vich. Miss Ruth Waters. Miss Julia
Edey. Harvey Ladew. Miss Constance
Robertson, Miss Dorothy Stone-Smith.
Miss Lillian b. Hyde. James Hyde.
William Hyde. Mayor and Mrs. John
II Preston of Baltimore. Miss Alice
wilkes Preston. ex-NIayor John +. Fitz-
gerald. Mrs. Fitzgerald and Miss Agnes
Fitzgerald OF Boston, Mr.. and Mrs. John
+ Terhune. Miss Katherine Terhune,
Or. Frank Billings. Frank jefferson.
Oren =. Tam, Robert NJ. Fair. Mss
Helen Il. Rich. Mr.. and Mrs. c. II. San
ford, Miss Marie Whitney. Hermann
Oelrichs, Francis Roche. Angler b.
Duke, Miss Mary Duke, Mr.. and Mrs.
Warren VI. Salisbury. Mrs. Frederick
Sterry, Miss Prudence Sterry, George
+. Ahearns, II. VI. Forrest. John Is.
Kitchen. Miss Matilda Bigelow. Miss
Dorothy McCrea. Mr.. n Mrs. John
Pullman. John NJ rutherford
Mr.. and Mrs. G!raud Foster. Mr.. and
Mrs. John II Tyson. Miss Janet Fish,
Miss Elean.r Walsh. Colonel and Mrs
j NJ. SHOEMAKER. Mr.. and Mrs. +. q
Donovan, Mrs. Charles T.. Cnoatc. Jr..
Or. owen kenan. Mr.. and Mrs. join
G. King. Miss Caryl Hackstatf. Mr.. and
Mrs. Alexander Revell. Mr.. aud Mrs.
Henry Carnegie phipps. NJ, and Mrs.
John F.. PhiHps. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Delatield MIR. and Mrs, Alexander Cor
don, Ferdinand Jelke. Mr.. and Mrs. a.
\. Hutchinson, MIR. and Mrs Robert
Hager. James \. Blair. Jr, Stephen
Elkins. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Brown
ing, Michael Il. Grace, Hugh Iuman.
Charles lnman. Fred c. Inman. Rhine
lander stuart. Jr., Mr.. and Mrs, Harlan
Kent Bolton, Mrs. Georee Jason
Waters. Mr.. and Mrs. II. W. Pettinone,
MIR. and Mrs, ST, John Wood, Mrs. Raw
son Wood. Mr.. and Mrs. +. b, Squer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward T Stotesbury
Mr.. and Mrs, Eben Jordan. Miss Doro-
thy Jordan. Mrs. James jackson. Mrs.
Harry Whitney McVickar. Mrs. Charles
Carroll Jackson. Mr.. and Mrs. Am
brose Mcneil. Jr., Mrs. Joseph Earl
Stevens. Mrs. Florence Janis, Mr.. and
Mrs. CHARLES Coke, Mr., and Mrs.
Charles /. Cragin. Mrs. William Lowe
Rice. the Misses Mildred n Elsie
French Rice, William Finn, Eugene NJ
O'Ne!l, Henry 7. Sloane, Charles NJ
Markham. Charles a. Peabody. Joseph
G. Parrish. Mr.. and Mrs. j. Z. Rum
baugh. Alfred Stillman, Adolrh Levi
sohn, Mr.. and Mrs. James Hay. Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles D.. Vail. Harry $. Black
Russell Colt. Mrs, Devereux Wilton
and Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Van Wage
ner.