New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-25
SOCIETY AT BENEFIT
AT 5TH AVE. MANSION
Three POmeranianS Prizes at
Bridge Tournament for Va
cation Association.

and Carlos Salzedo, harpist, also APP
peared During the afternoon Nieom-
tesse de Rancougne gave talk on her
experiences in the war zones Of France
and Belgium, and showed lantern slides
from photographs made by herself.
Among those who purchased tickets
for the affair were Mrs. William H.
Vanderbilt, Mrs. Malcolm d. Sloane,
Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, Mrs. New
bold lie Roy Edgar, Mrs. Harry Payne
Whitney. Mrs. Philip NJ. Lydig, Mrs. +.
| Henry Hartman, Mrs. Archer NJ. Hunt
ington. Mrs. Kenneth Frazier. Mrs.
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Mrs. ". Bourke
Cochran. Mrs. Samuel Sloan, Mrs. Al
len Tucker, Mrs. Otto II. Kahn, Mrs.
+. y. Breitung, Mrs. Howard Cushing
Mrs. Frank B. Wiborg, Mrs. II. lie Roy
Whitney. Mrs. Michael NJ. van Beuren,
Mrs. Stanley Mccormick, Mrs. arthur
Scribner. Miss Grace Bigelow, Miss
Charlotte Harding, Miss Mary Liv-
ingston Willard, Miss Janet Scudder,
/ William A. Clark, Alfonso de Navarro
/ Alexander Harrison and Harold Rus
sell Batch.
Miss Adele Bouve Thayer, daughter
of MIR. and Mrs. William Holbrook
4 Thavcr. of Boston, will be married TO
/ Charles s. Sauibb. Of this city, to-mor-
row in Sears Chapel, Brookline, Mass;
Miss Pauline Pollard, of. Boston: VIII
be the maid OF honor, and Nancy
Thayer. sister of the bride, the flower
girl. George Sampson Squlbb, OF Pr0V-
idence, r. l.. brother OF the bride
groom, will be best man. and the ushers
will be Henry II. Sutphin, OF this city,
and Charles Edward Thayer, brother OF
the bride. Mr.. Squibb is son OF Or.
md Mrs. Edward H.. Squibb, of Brook
lvn. He was graduated from Harvard
in 1913. After the wedding trip he and
lis bride will make their home in this
city.
Miss Alice Thayer, daughter Of Mrs.
$. Van Il. Thayer, of Boston, IS the
guest Of Mrs. John R. Drexel. at l East
Sixtv-second Street. Mrs. Thayer ana
her two younger daughters, Miss Julla
and Miss Mary A. Thayer, will san on
March % for Paris, where they expect
TO DO hospital work.
A successful auction bridge tourna-
ment was held yesterday afternoon at
the Colony Club for the benefit of the
Vacation Association. The prizes were
three Pomeranian dogs. The tourna-
ment was held under the direction OIL
Mrs. James Speyer. Mrs. Wendell
Raker. Mrs. James W. Markoe, Mrs.
Archer VI. Huntington, Mrs. William
Pierson Hamilton, Mrs. Winthrop Burr
Mrs. James Byrne, Mrs. Herbert l..
Satterlee. Mrs. Hiram W. Sibley, Mrs
Egerton L. Winthrop, il, Mrs. August
Belmont. Mrs. Edward Il. Hewitt, Mrs
James Robinson Smith and Miss Anne
T. Morgan.
John II. McFadden, jr.. gave an illus
trated lecture yesterday afternoon ~
the home of Mrs. Charles Il. Alexander,
1 West Fifty-eighth Street, on the work
hoiup done by the American Ambulance
Hospital in Paris. Mr.. McFadden was a
volunteer in the ambulance corps IN
Paris at the beginning OF the war.
Mrs. George W. Schurman, of 10
| West Fifty-scventh Street, gave
/ luncheon Yesterday at Sherry's for her
niece. Miss Mary W. Munro, the de-
butante daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Munro. Her guests, numbering
eighteen, were debutantcs OF the sea
/ son.
Mrs. Philip J. Britt gave dinner
/ last night at her home, % last SeV-
| ont,-fourth Street. for Mr.. and Mrs.
/ Colin Macrac lngersoll, who have re-
/ turned to the city from their wedding
/ trin in tho South. There were twenty
+ al the dinner. Mrs. lngersoll was NJ lss
/ Marie Louise Harrison, sister OF MIS-
I Frederic j. Stimson.
Another dinner was given last nieh'
bv Mrs. Henry Clews at her residence,
/ 27 West Fifty-frst Street Mr.. and
/ Mrs. Henry Clews, jr., will sail for
Europe early in March.
Mrs. Justus Rupert gave the second
Of a series Of bridge parties yestefGday
/ afternoon at her home, is East Sew
( cnty-seventh Street.
Duke md Duchess Marine Torlonia'
Of Rome. gave a dinner last night al
the Ritz Carlton. Another dinner was
given last night at this hotel by Fer
dinand HUM.
Mrs. Walter Lester Carr gave din
ner last night at her home, % west
Fifty-hrst Street.
The regular Thursday Dinner Dance
arranged by Miss Juliana cutting, was
/ Nod last night in the Della Hobbia
,oom of the Vanderbilt. The Friday
Fyeniug Dance will be held there to-
night.
Mrs. Ogden Goelet will entertain at
dinner on Monday at her nome oVo
/ Fifth Avenue.
Mrs. Thomas Denny will give din
nor on March at her home, 81 East
/ Sixtv-second Street, for her daughter
Miss Esther Louise Denny.
Mrs. Edward A. Manice, Of 100 East
i Sixty-fourth Street, will give large
+ theatre party, followed by supper ana
/ dancing al the Biltmore, on March 10
for her daughter, Nil Dorothy Maniee'
Maurice b. and Francis G.. b. Roche
are at the Royal Poinciana, Palm
Beach.
Mrs. Charles Grenville Peters will
/ give a theatre party, followed by sup
per and dancing at Sherry's, tonight
for her niece, Miss Katherine de Berk-
eley Parsons.
Mrs. William A. Hamilton, Mrs. Lewis
Y Woodruff and Mrs. William Delavan
baldwin will give reception this after
noon at the Gotham for Percy W.
/ Muncy.
Miss Sybil Eden will give talk on
! Serbia this afternoon at the studio OF
/ Mrs. William p. Hamilton, 1l12 West
/ Thirty-seventh Street.
! - u Drcxoi ir will leaye the