The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-03
ELECTION BALL EARNS LARGE
SUM FOR COMMUNITY CENTRE
st. TimOthy's Alumnae Capt.
talize Holiday Enthusiasm
for. Welfare Work.

Society hit upon a real novelty as its
part of las. nights festivities. In the
Commodore Hotel IL had an election
night ball. the first OF it's kind in New
York, and while the subscribers danced
II road The national and State returns
from an illuminated screen stretched
across one end OF the large ballroom.
The ball was clever scheme on the
part OF group OF far seeing women to
take advantage of the publics high
spirits by earning dollars for charity.
The beneficiary was ST. Timothy's Com
munity Centre. and, as several hun
dred persons paid on an average Of
more than IS each. the price of the tick
cts. to participate, a substantial sum OF
money was earned.
The ball was a bipartisan affair, with
representative society in the foreground
Mrs. De Coursey Fales was the chair
man of the directing committee OH be-
half OF st. Timothy'a Alumra. Her as
sociates were Mrs. c. Thayer Adams,
Mrs. Arthur Choate, Mrs William c.
Clark, Mrs. John A. Dix. Mrs Paul
Degener, Mrs. Trubee Dawson, Miss
Hilah French. Mrs Frederick A. Cooley,
Mrs. John Kerr. Mrs. O'Donneil Iselin
Mrs. Gordon Macdonald. Mrs. r. Perm
Smith. Jr., Miss Isabel Shotter and Miss
Rosamund Sherwood, most Of whom gave
dinners In the boxes overlooking the ball
room floor.
Many others went there for dinner and
the fun that followed. They included Mrs.
Johr>Cotton Smith. Mrs. James r. Strong,
Mrs. John T. Pratt. Mrs. George Whitney.
Mrs. Fitch Gilbert, Mrs Stephen Birch.
Mrs. Robert MeKelvcy. Mrs. II. +. Davi-
son. Mrs. J. Herbert Ballantine, Mr..
Alonzo Potter. Mrs. George - Baker.
Jr.. Mrs. Clarence Mellhiser. Mrs. J. ].
Higsinson, Mrs. Daniel G. Tenney. Mrs.
e. j. Conill, Mrs. James Blackstone Tay-
Tor and Miss Lois Martin.
The party with Mr.. and Mrs Fales
included Mr.. Higginson Cabot, Miss
Currte Duke Mathews. Miss Mildred
Mitchell. Mr., Charles Brown. Mr. and
Mrs. William c. Clark and Mr.. and Mrs.
William b. Wendell
On the Junior Committee.
A huge American flag formed the only
decoration in the ballroom II no account
was taken OF the Columbia caps and
oeribboned baskets of members OF a
Junior committee under Miss Genevieve
Giendenin. The Junior girls, many of
them this years debutantes. included
he Misses Annie Burr Auchincloss.
Lucille Baldwin, Fanny S. Billings.
Peatrice NJ. Beck. Rita Boxer. Polly
Brooks. Lucy Byrd, Florence NJ. Glen
denim, Molly CoEswell Alice Davidson,
Elizabeth Lee Dodge. Florence NJ. Ellis
worth. Hester Emmett, Julia Fincke,
Ellen Mercer French, Jane Gourd. Elise
hughes. Betty Jackson, Eunice James,
Margaret Kahn. Barbara NJ. Kissel,
Katharine Knapp, Eleanor Landon,
Marie r. La Marche. Florence @. Loew.
Mary Van Rensselaer, Lorillard Katha-
fine Mackay. Wanden Esther Matthews,
Josephine Mlnott Isabel Mcmillan.
Frances Norton. Marie Norton, Isabel
Pell, Dorothy Pilot Katharine Post,
Harriet Price, Ellen Randolph. Adelaide
Zip Rhinelander. Cornelia Sage. Mar
garet Schroeder, Beatrice Starr Mary
Stevens, Mary d. Strange. Geraldine
Katharine Van Ingen and Margaret r.
Warren.
They sold at prices that no one dared
question every known variety of noise
making toy. the omnipresent tin horn
predominating. An orchestra of twenty
eight musicians under Miss Anna Byrne
tried its best TO raise above tho general
din something like harmony for dancing
purposes. but that made little difference
to the crowd. II wabbled about the floor
for one minute, stopped long enough 10
read the next flashed return and then
wabbled again to the music of its en-
thusiasm. SO It went on until 2 o'clock
this morning.
The directors had floor committee OF
men, who included Messrs. Henry Rem
wick Sedgwick, Francis Appleton. Jr.
Wyllys r. Belts. Donald Blodgett Rob
ert Ingersoll Brown, William Averell
Brown. Aired L. Curtiss Philip Cusachs.
Henry c. Gushing. Jr Leonard Cush-
ing. Trubee Dawson, Worthington Davis,
John A. Dix, Harold Downey and Charles
Duryea. Major A. T. Ellsworth. Philip
A. S. Franklin. Jr.; Philip L. Goodwin
Morgan Jopling. Albert Gould Jennings
Jr. John Kerr, r. Perry Kennard, Peter
Knowles, Donald Lamb Edward A. lie
Hoy. Jr.; J. Minturn lie Roy. George
Martin, Marshall Prentiss. Walter w
Stokes and Clarence II. Young.
Among the Patronesses.
The long list of patronesses included
Mrs. John E Alexandra. Mrs. Robert
Bacon, Mrs. Reginald Barclay. Mrs
Charles T. Barney. Mrs. Stephen Birch
Mrs C. Ledyard Blair. Mrs. Charles As
TOR Bristed. Mrs. Robert S. Brewster
Mrs Archiysld NJ. Brown. Mrs. Irving r
Bush. N-s Arthur W. Butler. Mrs
Charles Merrill Chaplin. Mrs. Joseph II
Choate, Jr., Mrs. +. Ambrose Clark. Mrs
Henry f. Cook. Mrs. Theodore Dixon
Mrs James May Duane. Mrs Devereux
Emmett. Miss Lydia Field Emmett. Mrs
G. Temple Emmett. Mrs Halliburton
Fales. Jr. Mrs Carl A. De Gersdorff
Mrs Charles Dana Gibson. Mrs. lie
Grand Criswold. Mrs. Gavin Haddcn
Mrs J. Borden Hartman, Mrs J. Amory
Haskell. Mrs. Edwin p. Hotter. Mrs
Bayard G. Hoppin. Mrs. Walter r.
James. Mrs. Oliver Gould Jen.
nings. Mrs. Rudolph Kissel Mrs
Joseph Larocaue. Mrs. Lewis Cass
Ledyard and Mrs. Goodhue Livingston.