New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
N. Y. Society Girl
Leads COtillion at
St. Augustine Hotel
Many Dinner PartiesPrecede
Event at Florida Resort;
Bridge and Golf Attract
Many Devotees i'm South
From a Special Correspondent

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Feb. 21.-The
Valentine cotillion held in the ball
room of the Hotel Alcazar will be re-
membered as the gayest social event
ever given at the hotel. There we're
fifty couples dancing the cotillion, led
by Miss Ismar Katherine Black, of New
York. Preceding the ball a number Of
dinner parties were given in the AL
cazar grill, with the hostesses taking
their guests later to the dance.
Mrs. George NJ. Fletcher entertained
at bridge at the Ponce de Leon on Mon
day evening. Among the guests were
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald o. Page, Mrs
John Donald Maclennan, Mrs. Edward
Walsh Humphreys, Mr.. and Mrs. Ben
Jamin Atha, Herbert Lawrence, Mrs. H
Ralph, Mrs. J. H. Brown, Mr.. and Mrs,
William j. Ormonde, Edward Ayers and
Mrs. Murray W. Seagears, of New
York; DR.. Feu Smith, Of Newark; Mr.,
and Mrs. Charles F. Edgar, of Essex
Falls, N. j.. and Mr.. and Mrs. John H.
Wilcox, Of Philadelphia.
The yacht Lavina is in port, with
its owner, Commodore Arthur Curtiss
James, of New York, anu a party
aboard. They are here for a few DAYS.
en- route to Fourway Lodge, Commo-
dore James's winter home, at Cocoanut
Grove, near Miami.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Ormsby Page.
of New York, are among the newlv-
weds at the Ponce de Leon. Previous
TO her marriage last week. in St
Ihomas's Church. Mrs. Page was Miss
Dorothy Downing Dillon, daughter of
the late John Milton Dillon, of New
York.
Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey, pres
ident general of the National Society
of the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton, was the guest in whose honor
a large tea was given this week by the
MARIA Jefferson Chapter, at the club
house, on Artillery Lane. Mrs. Guernsey
recently returned from France.
Mr.. Thomas S. Wheeler. Of New
York. won first prize at the Clock golf
tournament held on Thursday in the
palm garden of the Hotel Alcazar, with
second prize going to Mrs. Richard G.
Sare, Of Montreal
Nine. Frieda Hempel, the op3ra
singer of New York is a guest of the
Ponce de Leon. Other arrivals include
Mr.. and Mrs. William Evarts BENJAMIN
Lawrence c. Haines. Mr.. and Mrs
Sidney Wilmer, Mr.. and Mrs, Edward
s. Rawson, Miss D. de N. Rawson and
DR.. f. M. Wilson, of New York; Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward G. Oliver, of Buffalo. Mr..
and Mrs. George B. Jackson. Of Pater.
son, N. j.; Mr.. T. w. Weeks. of Corn
wall the Hudson, and Mrs. NJ. /.
Pike and Miss Agnes Pike. of East
Orange, n. j.
Mr. and Mrs. William p. Kenan ir
OF Lockport, N. Y, have arrived at the
Ponce de Leon for their annual visit
kenan is one of the trustees of the
FiagIer estate and a brother Of the late
Mrs. Lily Flagler Bingham, also an
uncle of Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, whose
winter home is Krkside, on Valencia
Street. Mr.. Horace H. Flagler, of At
,enta, was the dinner guest of Mr..
kenan last night.
Father Francis P. Duffy, who ives
chap lain of the famous old 69th New
York regiment, related some of his ex-
perlences on the battlefields of France
before large audience at the Knights
OF Columbus Hall last night. In a
foursome played on the St. Augustine
LINKS this week were Lawrence c.
fiaines, OF New York; George Willetts
OF Brookline, Mass; Herbert Strong
OF the Engineers Club, Roslyn. L. +
and Donald Ross, the famous golf
architect of Pinehurst, N. C. Messra
Haines and Strong won the match.
AT the Friday night dance at the
Ponce de Leon were the Misses Do.
rothy Gordon King and Violet Gordon
King, Of New York; Mr.. and Mrs, perez
IBsa'lantine, of Newark, and the Misses
Florence and Mona Grocer. of Phila-
delphia.
Late New York arrivals at the Hotel
Alcazar include Mr.. and Mrs. James N
Glen. Mrs. John G. White, Miss lean
White, Mrs. Edward N. Roberts and
). .. Clarke jr., of New York; Mr.. and
Mrs. George NJ. Mills, and Mr.. and Mrs.
S. Cramer. of Brooklyn; Mrs.
ralmage Delafield. of Chappaqua. N.
T.; Mrs. Henry c. Clark and Geo. Clark.
OF Forest Hills, L. T.; Mrs. ]. A. Van
der Vost. Of Buffalo; J. C. Alderman.
Of Maplewood, N. j.; Mr.. and Mrs. Ar
thur 7. Simpson, of Rochester and Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph P. Ross and Miss
Eleanor Perry Ross, of Paterson, N. J.
Mr.. and Mrs. George NJ Hobert, Miss
We're Hobert and Bayne Hobert, of New