New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-22
SOCIETIES PLAN
FEBRUARY BALLS
Knickerbocker Spectacle
To Be Held at Sherry'S
on February 9

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benefit of the City History Club viii De
held on Friday evening, February y q.
Sberrv's. II will be spectacle OF
CoIonial and Revolutionary scenes, In
Guiding Martha Washington's recep-
ton. Admission tickets, including sup
por. are So, and may be obtained from ron
Miss Cordeia Hepburn, 205 west fiity-
seventh Street.
Mrs, ClouQh c. Ovcrton is chairman
If the hall committee, and Mrs. Francis
Hunt Geer Of the junior committee
A Mardi Gras ball, under the auspices,
Of the Southern Industrial Educatlonai
Association, will be given at the RITZ
Carlton on Shrove Tuesday. February
On Mrs. James Hartman Dinwiddie IS
chairman and Mrs. Algernon Sidney
Sullivan president of the organization,
which has for its purpose the estap-
lishment Of schools and Industries IN
the Appalachian region OF the noun
tains Of the South.
& Duncan Marshall has been chosen
as king and other representatives OF
tho court arc 10 be announced. MISS
Josephine Gibson will contribute spe-
cial dance, and the tableaux Will be DC
vised and staged by John Murray An
Members Of the floor committee are
/ James NJ. Beck, jr, Theodore Roose-
/ welt PelI, Minturn Post Collins, George
/ Sullivan, Emlen Littell and Hsrry Is;
/ Jennings. The chairman IS EDWARD
/ Simmons Hall.
The ball of the Old Guard Veteran
| Battalion. which this year is to be held
/ at the Hotel Aston. on February .,
/ promises to surpass in brillisncy as
/ military spectacle any or ITS prede-
/ ceesors. The first Old Guard ball took
Mace in the Academy Of Music in 1859.
: After taking part in the military march
, a. midnight Governor Charles y. Whit
man, who is an honorary member OF the
! Old Guard, is 10 occupy box with Mrs.
( Whitman and Adiutant General Louis
q w. Stotesbury. The boxholders include
( Colonel Ardolph l.. Kline, commandant
OF the Old Guard Colonel Edward
! Hsvemeyer Snyder, Captains John NJ
/ Deemer, William A. Damcr, l., b.
Waterman, A. L. Dick, {. d. Bern
heimer. David NJ. Wood, c. VI. Huestis,
( Frank II. Clement, A. A. Bowen, John
Beme, w. d. Preston, W. Grant Cook,
| Bernardo Wall and c. II. Stephens.
Under the auspices of the National
Special Aid Society an illustrated talk
by Miss Kathleen Burke will be given
i'm the ballroom Of the Hotel Biltmore
on Thursday. Miss Burke is the hon
orary delegate to the United States and
| Canada from the Scottish Women ,
Hospitals for foreign service. She will
tell of her experience in the Scottish
hospitals in Serbia and France as well
as her interesting trip to Verdun.
The National League of Women
! Workers, New York Association. VIII
give a benefit concert through the cour-
tesv Of Philip Berolzheinner next Satur-
dav evening al Aeolian Hall. Tickets
may be obtained from MISS virginia u
r. Furmsn, Columbia Trust Company
35S Fifth Avenue. -,
The committee consists Of MISS Air-
GINA Potter, Mrs. Richard lrvin; Mrs
Isaac Seligman, Mrs. Gustavus Kirby
Miss Caramai Carroll, Mrs. Joseph w
Burden. Mrs. Philip Berolzheimer, Mrs
James Lawrence Breese, Mrs. Edward
G. Henderson. Mrs. w. X. Bond Emer'
son. Mrs. II. Otto Wittpenn, Mrs. john
Blair. Mrs. Myron 7. Borg. Mrs. Andrew
II. kellogg. Miss Maria Bowen Chaplin
Miss Grace Coffin and Miss Miriam ]
Blagden.
Among those who have taken boxes
for the annual Hampton Institute bene
At meeting at Carnegie Hall on Thurs
day evening. February J, are Mrs. Will
lam jay Schieffelin, Mrs. Edgar ,
Auchincloss, Mrs. James Stewart Cush
man. Mrs. W. Bsysrd Cutting, Mrs
Frank \. Doubleday, Mrs. Spencer
Trask. Mrs. James Tslcott, Mrs. Arthur
Curtiss James and Mrs. Levi p. Morton
The programme will consist of pict
ures of life at the agricultural and nor
NAL school. which has l 400 negro anc
Indian students, plantation melodies by
the famous Hampton Quartet, songs bI
Roland W. Hayes, the negro tenor, ant
addresses by Dr. S. c. Mitchell, presi
dent OF Delaware College, and William
Blauton, agricultural inspector at th'
! penn School. st. Helena, s. c. william
jaw Schiefelin will preside.
Under the auspices OF the junior
Committee of the American Ambulance
in Paris the Washington Square Play
ers will give q performance IN the ball
. room Of the Hotel Plaza on the after
MON Of February IA. Miss Elsie Nieol
;s chairman OF the committee, and asso
GATED with her are Mrs. Joseph
Cboate ir., Mrs. Sidney ". Fish, Mrs
Lewis s. Morris, Mrs. Winthrop Aldrich
Mrs Snowden Fahnestock, Miss caro-
Vsrrinan. Miss Angelica 5. Brown, MI
Pobert L. Bacon and Mrs. Joseph Earl
stevens from whom tickets may oe. 90
FAMED At II Park Avenue.
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