New-York tribune., 1921-01-23
Dinners stOPrecede
Great Charity Ball;
Patronesses Named
Mrs. Edward III. Peaslee to
Entertain i'm Honor of Son
and Mrs. Frank Spencer
Witherbee for Daughter

Dinners will precede the charity ball
which is to take place on February l
at the Waldorf ASTORIA. One will be
given by Mrs. Edward II. Peaslce at
her home, II Washington Square, in
honor of her son, Edmund w. Peaslcc,
and another By Mrs. Frank Spencer
Witherbec, treasurer OF the ball, for
her daughter, Mrs. Charles Duncan Mil
ler, at her residence, 4 Fifth Avenue.
Mrs. Peaslees guests will include
Miss Katherine Francis. Miss Laura
Isham, Miss Landon, Reginald Living
ston, Dwight Partridge and Mr.. and
Mrs. Philip Rhinelander
Mrs .Witherbee's guests will be Mr..
and Mrs. Snowden Fahncstoc!., Mr.. and
err lie Roy. Mr.. and Mrs. Ripley, Mrs.
McCook Knox, Henry Leverich and
Frederick King.
Among the boxholders at the ball will
be Mrs Edward J. Berwind, Mrs. James
W. Gerard, Mrs. Charles B. Alexander,
Mrs W de Lancey Kountze, Mrs. Law
renee J. Gillespie, Mrs. Herbert l.. Pratt,
Mrs. Robert Livingston Gerry, Mrs.
Duncan Sterling, Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan,
Mrs Frank Spencer Witherbee, Mrs.
Paul Gilbert Thebaud. Mrs. Orlando
Manning, r. J. Oakley Rhinelander, DR..
Edward Henry Peaslec. Mrs. John San
fora, Mrs. Henry Eugene Meeker. Mrs.
Bertram H. Borden. Mrs. Algernon Sid
rey Sullivan. Mrs. Marcus Daily. DR.:
Edward L. Partridge and Lispenard
Stewart.
With It's unusually long array Of
debutantes and representative floor
committee. it will be gay ball for the
younger set. The tickets and the few
remaining boxes may be had at the
Waldorf Astoria and the uptown Office
of the Guaranty Trust Company: Miss
Florence v Doane executive secretary
1S West Thirtyfourth Street; Mrs
James w. Gerard president, 1915 Fifth
Avenue; Mrs. Frank S. Witherbee, sec
rotary, 4 Fifth Avenue; Mrs. Robert
Livingston Gerry, GO East Seventy
ninth Street, or any OF the vice presl-
dents.
Among the patronesses are Mrs. Og-
den Goelet, Mrs. Elon Huntington Hook
er. Mrs. Frederick Pearson. Mrs. Nicho-
William Sturgis, Mrs. Langdon Geer
IL Kahn, Mrs. James Lowell Putnam
Miss Eleanor Uu Bois. Mrs. c. Ledyard
Blair, Mrs. Walter 3. James, Mrs. James
B. Eaggin. Mrs. r. Penn Smith, Mrs
]. Arthur karlin. Mrs. Paul Gilbert The
baud. Mrs. Herbert l.. Shipman, Mrs
w. Watts Sherman, Mrs. Lewis Cass
Ledyard. Mrs. James Speyer. Mrs. viii
liam Church Osborn, Mrs. Vanderbilt.
Miss Annie Burr Jennings. Mrs. John
L, Alexandra. Mrs. John Henry Ham
rlond. Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mrs. Hugh
D. Auchncloss, Mrs. George j. Gould
Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany. Mrs. John r
Fratt, Mrs Snowden Fahnestock. Mrs
John a. Aspegren, Mrs. Jshn CandIer
Moore, Mrs. Linzec Blagdcn, Mrs. Harry
Harkness Flagler, Mrs. Percy A. Rookie
fel'er. Mrs. George II. Macy. Mrs.
phenix lngraham. Mrs stephen y.
Clark and Mrs. Oliver Hartman.
The New York Nursery and Childs
Hospital at Sixty-tirst Street and Ant
stcrdani Avenue, the beneficiary of the
hall. dates back to 1923. The present
building and work arc modern to tho
last touch, with everything so perfect
that even the newly born babies there
arc foot printed" immediately after
birth that there may be no possible
mistake in Identification.
The institution started as the Marion
Street Maternity Hospital, and with
this eventually was combined the
Nursery for tho Children Of Poor " om-
Ell founded through the efforts OF Mrs.
Cornelius Dubois.