The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-12
FLOWER SHOW ENDS
IN GLORY TONIGHT
Many Special Features for
Last Day, With Music by
Canadian Pipers.
TO BE AUCTIONED

THIS Ia the iast day Of the mort suc.
cessful Flower SHOW ever held In the
Grand Central Palace. The lovely old
fashioned gardens. the wonderful ross
gardens. the quaint rock gardens with
their wild flowers may b seem for the
last time. At midnight they will Be Just
pots Of plants being carried away 70
various greenhouses.
Rainbow day vas observed yesterday.
and tho pretty girls In the RED cross
tea garden helped the flowers 20 make
good the description. Most Of them APP
peared In ~varicolored Oriental costumes.
The tea garden was in charge Of the
clothing committee Of the Polish VIC
tins Relief Fund and the Serbian Re-
lief Committee Of America.
1gnace Paderewski and Nine. Pade-
rewska were the guests Of honor. but the
cores OF women who crowded into the
tea garden expecting to hear some liquid
notes trickle OF from those highly In
sured fingers were disappointed. The
pianist did not play. but he did give
NtsitOIS ~ uhItee w Sec AIii ~ NCH,
sitting as far as possible from the room
where a lesser genius was pounding out
waltxcs for the dancers.
Artistic table decoration was the fea-
ture OF the flower display. New York
hotels. which Monday carried of prizes
for their decorated tables. yesterday
offered prizes to private growers for the
same branch of the florists art. There
were twelve entries.
The hrst prize, a silver cup given by
the. Manhattan Hotel. went to Mrs. z.
Bradley OF Convent station. n. j.: Sec
ond honor went to Adolph Lewiston Of
Ardsley. N. Y. n the third award
was given to James Frazer Of Norris
town. ~. j. A silver medal was
awarded to E. l.. Meyer OF Huntington,
n. y. The other contestants were Mrs.
II. Darlington. Mamaroneck: w. b.
Thompson. Yonkers: d. q. Reid. Irving
ton-on-Hudson: Mis- Mary Bell, Bay
side: Mrs. J. II. Flagler. Greenwich.
Conn.,. Mrs. Nathan Straus. Mamaro-
neck Mrs. Sidney Rosenstein. New York
city. and Richard Delafeld. Tuxedo
Park.
A new orchid plant was added to the
show.yesterday by r D. Foote of Nor.
ristown.
The Polish Committee. which shared
In h management of the tea garden.
was made up OF Miss Blodgett. Mrs.
Linzee Bla&den. Miss Rosina Hoyt, Mrs.
r. +. Krajewski. Mrs. Boleslaw Lapow-
ska. Mrs. John Rade n Mrs. Ernest
Schelling. The Serbian Relief Commit
tee OF America Is composed Of Mrs.
Francis Hartman Markoe. chairman
Mrs. Charles r. Flint. Miss Frelinghuy-
sen. Miss Ipsanitch. Mrs. John I. Water
bury, Mrs, Valentine. J. ID. Sears and
T. Tileston Wells.
On this committee serving tea in cos.
tune were Miss Anne Brown, Miss Mar
tina Fay. Miss Hunting. Miss Lynette
| Craven. Miss Grace Jenkins. Miss Amy
Talbot, Miss jeanette Whitlock. Miss
Gladys Waterbury and Miss Emily Ford.
Among the Red Cross girls serving
were Miss Genevieve Sanford. Miss Doro-
thy Cramp. Miss Jeanette Kissel. Mrs.
Douglas Gibbons. Mrs. Cortlandt Moss.
Mrs, Joseph Hoagland. Mrs. Frank
washburn. Miss Isabel Hoyt. Mrs. Col
gate Hoyt. Jr.. Mrs. Y. r.. Rand. Mrs.
Arkley King. Mrs. Klngsland Macy.
Mrs. Karl Behr. Mrs. George Carpenter.
Miss Ruth Moller. Miss Mildred Eddy.
Miss X. Mosley. Mrs. T.. s. Ruring. Jr.,
and Mrs. Franklin S. Richardson. Miss
Marion Cameron sold bouquets and lilies.
Frank Crowninshield will auction the
princess Patricia" orchid in the tea
garden this afternoon. and Edna May
will sell n new flower creation given by
q. +. NJ. Stump.
The Canadian Red Cross will share
to-day's proceeds OF the tea garden with
| the Italian Relief Committee. There
will be dancing afternoon and evening,
with Conrad's Orchestra Miss Lucy
Gates will sing. Miss Constance Binney
will dance TO compositions of Dwight
Fiske. Tom Dodson will sing. Pauline
Curley and Mile. Bossini will appear,
Frank Pollock will sing Italian songs
and Lawrence Durant and Miss NIL
dred Gautier Rice will give an exhibit
! ton dance. Mabel Beddoe. who has
done remarkable recruiting in Canada,
will appear. as will a band Of Scotch
Canadian pipers.