New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-27
Cerebral HemOrrhage at
Country Home Ends Long
and Brilliant Career.
WAS MRS. ASTOR'S
SOCIAL SUCCESSOR
Opposed Modern Dances and
Foreign Modiste Patronage
Introduced Harry Lehr.

Garrison. y. l.. May -. NTS. Guy
vcsant Fish. wiic OF the well known
railroad man and Gnancier ana gen
orally recognized since the death OF
Mrs. Astor as the leader Of New York
society. died ate last night 10 Glen
Cliff. her summer estate here. she
lived only a few hours alter having
cerebral hemorrhaGc.
In recent Years hcr entertaining had
been on less elaborate scale than for
mcrly. but when she was stricken she
was busy with plans for a luncheon
and garden party al Glen Gin 20 open
the season here. During the afternoon
She became III. and DR.. Richard Giles
WAS summoned from Cold Spring. MIS-.
Fi.h failed TO respond 70 treatment
and died shortly before II o'clock. her
husband was with her. but her dauSn-
ter and two sons did not reach the
house in time 20 see their mother alive.
FRIDAY hcs been set for the funeral
M, other arrangements are still M
complcte Her husbands father and
several relatives are buried hero. and
II 5 believed that her body VIII be
placed IN the family plot a specia.
train will be run from New YORK, ana
+, is expected that the services VIII be
held ~ ST. Philips Protestant hpIs-
copal Church.
In the death OF Mrs Fish society has
lost one Of it's most lnterestinE'
brilliant and forceful characters. Since
tho death of Mrs. Aston New York
social world has had no real leader
but Mrs. Fish had been IN recent years
looked upon as Mrs. AStOr's successor
c;pec;aUv with the Newport set her
entertainments at Crossways. her mag
nincent place at the Rhode Island re-
.ort. were among the features OF the
season there for the last few years
Mrs. Fish. however. did not aspire to
leadership. She claimed NeW York 80,
cietv had no leader and no one wanted
Some one once asked her, How
would YOU like to lead society enc
replied. where should lead 1t to!
In point of originality, her dlnher'
and dances we're the most noteworthy
Of any New York hostess. They were
always in good taste. and the one'
oiven at the town house. - last SeN'
enty-elghth Street, were usually n th'
nature of dinners foI about hity u
sixty. followed by dancing and vaude
Vile entertainments. 10 when som,
two hundred additional friends were
invited She gave about four or theS'
q winter. Last winter what entertain
inc she did was in a quiet way "h'
limited 70 small dinners and dances.
Her last large dinner and dane
GIVEN at her New York house was OF
January 20. 1914. Among the surprise
of the evening was a welcome TO IN
Cuests on arrival by a chorus OF som
iftv canary birds. in wooden cages
hidden amid yellow groves OF toTsythl
and ionquils in the ballroom and foye
hall. Some of the guests later release
number of the birds, which -he'
about the house.
Famous Harvest Ball.
week previous to that. at slmila
aFair. she had Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon
Castle produce a new dance 10 tax
tho place of the tango and mako
which was then the craze, and whlcf
she opposed. They evolved the limo
vatior gavottc." which was danced u
tango music. with steps and poses OF
the minuet type. The dance, however
did not become popular. -.
The most elaborate affairs Mrs. + lsn
gave we're at Crossways, at Newpoi
among them being her harvest ball thI
Iouis XVI dance, which opened the
new ballroom, and her fairy tale bal
of August /. 1913, when the guests
costumes carried out the stories told III
the old nursery rhymes and larry tales
Mrs. Fish herself being dressed TO rep
resent the Queen Of the FAIRIES
Stacks of wheat. cattalls, suniio"ef
etc, decorated the entrance hall, and
floating in the air above the heads oil
the guests as they entered was a ne
.ize representation of Mother Goose
riding a broom attended by her geese
The ball was opened by professional
dancers, and after supper d part Of
the play "Bluebeard. IT," was given by
"A company of professionals.
Last summer Mrs. Fish gave IN
Oriental dinner. after which she tool
her guests TO Mrs. o. II. F. Belmont f,
Chinese fete. She arranged to give d
large entertainment about the middle
Of August, but with the breaking out
of the war she cancelled all dinner,
and dances for the rest OF the season
introduced Harry Lehr.
She also gave many brilliant anairs al
Glencliff. the Fish country place at Gar
rison -on-theH- udson. She was nstru-
mental in introducing Harry Lehr 70
society, and the two OF them planned
many unique affairs.
Mrs. Fish was prominent IN many
lines Of activity, and gave mucn time
to social welfare movements. She wa
identified with the campaign against
woman suffrage. She also was opposed
very strongly to the customs OF Amer.
can women buying their gowns abroad
claiming that American dressmakers al
home really made prettier clothes. Hei
list Of personal charities was large.
Mrs. Fish, who was Miss Marion
Graves Anthem, from famous old fam
lis of New York, was married 10 Stuy-
vesant Fish, son of Hamilton Fish, Sec
rotary of State in President Grants
Cabinet. on June /, 1876. Three chill
dren were born to them, a daughter,
who is now Mrs Albert Zsbriskle Gray.
and two sons, Stuyvesant Fish. Jr, who
married Miss 7. Mildred Dick, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Evans r. Dick, on
July IA, 1910. and Sidney Webster Fish.
Mrs. Fish was about sixty years Old.
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