The sun., 1919-04-20

noon Of Saturday. and some Of these
will endeavor to win the silver loving
cup offered by Major Clifford b. Har-
mon. The pilot flying the longest dis
lance to reach the ball will receive the
prize.
Major Harmon made the formal
OFFER of the cup in a letter to Major
Godfrey H. Bonnell. secretary OF the
Air Service Memorial Fund. The for
ner Is one Of the pioneer aviators in
this country, holding flying license No
s. He was the first man to fly over
Long Island Sound. and now holds the
balloon. record for duration. Having
just returned from France he is keenly
interested in the future Of aviation in
the United States and especially in the
memorial fund.
Mrs. Vanderbilt's committee also has
accepted the responsibility for the dis
tribution OF large allotment OF tickets
for the ball. On 1t are Mrs. Herbert
l.. Satterlee, Mrs. Charles Cary Rum
sey. Mrs. Frederick W. Whitridge,
Mrs. Benjamin Thaw. Mrs. Warren
McConihe. Mrs. Grayson NJ. p. MUIR
ply, Mrs. Laurence l.. briggs. Mrs.
John r. Drexel. Mrs. Frederick r.
Brakeman. Mrs. George f. Baker. Jr..
Mrs. Walter E. Maynard, Mrs. John
Purroy Mitchell and Mrs. William
! Woodward. These women are devot-
Ing most Of their mornings at head
quarters to details OF the arrange
ments for the ball, under the super
vision Of Mrs. Vanderbilt and with the
cooperation Of Major Bonnell, secre-
| tary Of the Air Service Memorial Fund.
and his staff. Thousands OF invita-
lions have been sent over the country
! by aerial mail service. Mrs. Charles
! A. Van Rensselaer, Is cooperating with
the committee.
Lieut.-Col. Grayson NJ. p. Murphy Is
treasurer Of the fund and Major
IT, omas r. Hitchcock is chairman of
! the aviators' committee, made up of
niers who were in army, navy and
marine air services, many of whom
| saw much active service. These in
clude Lieut.. Col. Phillip Carroll. Ma
! jor Godfrey II. Bonnell, r. F.. c.; Ma
! jor Frederick Brakeman, Major Frank
Page. Lieut.. Roger Poor and Lieut.
| Camille de Carlo, Royal italian Flying
| Corps
All OF the famous "aces" now in
| this country are on the committee.
which includes among army air SER
vice fllers Major James Meissner, Capt
F.. V. Rickenbacker, Lieut.. Francis
Simmonds. Lieut.. Paul F. Baer, Capt
Douglas Campbell, Lieut.. Haywood F.
Cutting. Lieut.. Edward Donovan
Lieut.. Bradley T. Gaylord. Lieut.
Thomas B. Hitchcock. Jr.. Capt. Ar
thur r. Jones, Major Kenneth r. Lit
tauer, Lieut.. George Tiffany, Lieut.
Cornelius B. Whitney. Lieut.. Alan
! Winslow and Lieut.. George r. Young
Naval fiiers on the committee in
clude Lieut.. A. ]. Lowrey. Lieut.. w
c, McAdoo, Jr.. Lieut.. Gordon Balch
Lieut.. II. L. Benjamin, Lieut. r. w
| Knowles. Lieut.. David Coddington aud
Lieut.. II. N. Slater.
On the programme committee, o.
which Miss Marion Tiffany Is chair
man. are the Misses Genevieve Glen
denim, Ethel Carhart, Grace Bristed
Symphorosa Bristed, Audrey Hoffman
Geraldine Graham. Theodore Tiffany
Florence C.endenin. Katherine Kent
Julie Lentilhon, Sheila Byrne, Me-
LISA Yuille. Margaret Flint, Evelyr
Smith. Geraldine Adee, Marguerite Ca
perton, Dorothy and Violet Cumming
Margaret Schroeder, Katherine Mackay
Mabel Satterlee and Margaret Kahn;
also Mrs. Stanhope Nixon, Mrs. Lo
renzo Mitchell Henry. Mrs. Rawsoi
Wood, Mrs. John Wolfe, Mrs. Sylvia
nus Stokes, Jr.. Mrs Charles De Loo
sey Oelrichs, Mrs. William Sturges
Mrs. Angler B. Duke, Mrs. John Wan
amaker. Jr., Mrs. James LenoX Banks
Jr, Mrs. Spencer Kennard. Mrs. Philil
Rhinelander and Mrs. Robert g. Gam
nell.
The patronesses include Mines
Oliver w. Bird. Arthur Scott Burden
; Newbold lie Roy Edgar. Sydney W
Fish, James W. Gerard, Clifford E
Harmon. f. Burial Hoffman, Otto +
Kahn. Hermann Oelrichs. Percy F
Pyne. Charles Cary Rumsey, william
j. Schieffelin. William ID. Sloane, Ben
jamin Thaw, Belmont Tiffany, Harr,
, Payne Whitney. Norman de r. White
house and Arthur u. Woods.
Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt, Jr., an
all the members OF tho executive com
mittee will have dinners in advance O
the ball at their respective homes Of
Saturday evening.
In betB of the Virginia Day MUIR
sery. an institution that dates bacl
nearly half q century. an entertain