The sun., 1918-12-16
CARNIVAL OF PEACE
TO Be HELD AT RITZ
Hotel and Approaches Will Be
Converted Into Fairyland
for Occasion.
TO AID FRENCH FUND
Plans for Fete Made on Bxten-
sive Scale and Gorgeous
Scene Is Promised.

At the behest Of a trio Of carnival
sprites, whose rule will be absolute,
the spirit OF war will be banished at
the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on the evening
OF December 28, when society will
gather there for an elaborate costume
ball. 1t is to be known as the Carni-
vale de Victoire- Masque de Triomphe,
and the arrangements for II are
upon such an extensive scale that the
entire first floor of the hotel has been
reserved for the event.
Mrs. Newbold lie Roy Edgar Is
chairman and J. Pierpont Morgan
treasurer OF the affair, the proceeds of
which will be devoted to the Free Milk
for France Fund, of which Nine. Foch,
wife OF Marshal Foch, is chairman in
France, and Mrs. Warren McConiha
president and Miss Josephine Osborn
vice-president. Boxes will be sold for
800 each, and admission to the ball
which will be by invitation only, will
be So.
Scaramouch Harlequin, Columbine
and all the other carnival joy sprites
will assemble. according to the official
announcement issued last night, to
celebrate victory and defeat the
dawn"
Decorations to he Feature.
The decorative approaches to tha
hall will extend to Fifth avenue and
Forty-sixth street and Forty sixth
street to Madison avenue, where large
Liberty poles. with streamers Of rib
bon, will be placed. At the Forty sixth
street entrances to the Ritz triumphal
arches will be erected
The hotel lounge will be converted
into a grand reception foyer, in which
there will be twenty seven boxes, al
ready being bought by eager society
folk. The present ceiling and lighting
fixtures will be covered with decora-
tons in harmony with the general
scheme of the carnival. The Japanese
tea garden Is to be rooted over and the
be occupie@by booths.
The breakfast room will emerge
| under the decorators hands into 9
hanging garden Of Babylon, which the
committee demands shall be a faithful
| reproduction. and the present pink re-
ception room for the night of the bal
will be transformed into a desert, or
the sands of which will be enthroned
a psychic, to be brought from Wash
| ington. and who, society has beer
! whispering, has foretold many of the
most important events OF the war
She will be called upon to predict the
events of approaching peace. and hel
desert tent rs expected to swell the
amount eventually to be turned over
| to Mime. Foch for the relief Of the
French sufferers.
SIX Orchestras to Play.
| An arc de triomphe will be erected
at the entrance to the hotels mair
| dining room, to be known as the room
de triomphe. Forty-eight moro boNe'
will be set up there, and Pegasus anC
the doves of peace will form the cen
tire of the decorative scheme. There
will be huge fountain in the centre
and In an adjoining room there vii
be a reproduction of an interesting
and historical bit of Versailles.
Six orchestras will provide the music
and at / o'clock in the morning there
will he a series of surprise features
| in which actors anu dCtItSSeS iIoii
France will have an important part.
| with Mrs. Edgar on the arrange
ments committee are Mrs. William X
Vanderbilt. Jr., Mrs. George F. Baker
Jr., Mrs. Charles p. Alexander, Mrs
Henry Clews Mrs. Charles II. Marshall
Mrs. Whitney Warren. Mrs, Francis
Key Pendfeton. Mrs. Henry Fairfield
Osborn, Mrs. Lydig Hoyt and Mrs
Frank Gray Griswold. Mrs. Rober
Low Bacon is in charge of the invita-
tons.
| Among the patronesses so far an
nounced are Mrs. Joseph S. Stevens
Mrs. Robert Bacon, Mrs. George Blu
menthal, Mrs. Charles H. Ditson, Mrs
Rose Garlic, Mrs. William Sewar'
Webb. Mrs. Robert F. Huntington
Mrs. sumner Gerard. Mrs. Oliver Har
riman, the Duchess de Richelieu, Mrs
T. Pierpont Morgan. Miss Diane de
Monte. Mrs. W. Bourke Cochran. Mrs
E. H. Hartman, Mrs. George J. Gould
Mrs. Charles b. Alexander, Mrs. Harr.
PAYNE Whitney. Mrs. Cornelius Van
derbilt. Mrs. William Woodward, Mrs
William Adams Delano and Mrs. Isaa
Chauncey McKeever.