New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
Notes of the Jersey Resorts-Affairs in Societ
Garden arty. Cor
| Anna Howard Shaw
Fund all Greenwich
Memorial Tea Notable So
cial Event; 800 Attend;
Big SUM Realized; Fall
Draws Numerous Guests
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

Special DispGtch to The Tribune
GREENWICH, Conn, Sept. 1.-THE
garden party and memorial tea given by
the Fairfield County Committee Of the
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw memorial fund
in the picturesque gardens of Judge
and Mrs. Josiah T. Marean at Greens
Farms, Conn, last Saturday afternoon
for the benefit of the fund was a brill
liant society event. Three hundred
persons from Greenwich and many
other towns and cities in this state and
New York attended. There were
numerous gayly decorated booths on the
grounds and tea was served by Maresi
The guests were escorted through the
beautiful gardens. where hundreds of
dahlias, said to be the most remarkable
in the country for their size and beauty
abound, as we'll as other flowers. The at
PENDANTS on the grounds as we'll as
members of the reception committee all
wore huge dahlas, and Mrs. Marcan
looked charming in a dahlia shade pic
ture hat.
The committees in charge Of the party
were as follows: Reception committee,
Mrs. Josiah r. Marean, Mrs. T.. w.
Packard, Mrs. Arson Clarke, Mrs.
Ernest Thompson Setou chairman of
the fund in Connecticut; Mrs Win
chester Fitch, Mrs. Henry Mallory, Mrs.
William E. Refs, Mrs. Alonzo L. Cotticr,
Mrs. Helen Adams Kelley, Mrs. Herbert
D.. Kingsbury, Mrs. James A. Trow-
bridge, Mrs. e. II. Wcatherbee, Mrs.
Henry M. Day, Mrs. T. Graham, Mrs.
Miss Jennie Kent; garden committee,
Mrs. E. b. Curtiss, chairman of the
fund in Fairfield County; Mrs. Walter
NJ. Bennett, Mrs. Robert 7. McGusty,
Mrs. Edgar T. Mead, Mrs. Frederick e.
Lewis I'd, Mrs. Edward H. Peters, Mrs.
W. Herbert Wiley, Mrs. H. Durant
Cheever, Mrs. Dangertield Lewis, Mrs.
A. G. Learned and the Misses Georgia
and Emmie Day.
Miss Mary Ely, Mr.. and Mrs. A. c.
Eencken, +. Dimon Bird, Mrs. Henry
sSchwarz, Adele Thompson and others
brought parties with them.
The Shaw Memorial is to endow two
chairs, one in Bryn Mawr College for
politics, and the other in the Woman's
Medical College OF Pennsylvania for
preventive medicine.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton
entertained as their guest at De Win
ton over the week end Isaac +. Mar
cosson, war correspondent and writer,
who has just returned from abroad.
Beatrice HEREFORD Appears
In Benefit for Day Nursery
Miss Beatrice HEREFORD gave mono
logucs before a society audience which
completely filled the Indian Harbor
Yacht Club last Friday evening. AS d
result OF the entertainment the Green
witch Day Nursery is in receipt Of sew
cral hundred dollars. 1t was in charge
Of the Junior League of the Nursery, of
which Miss Helen Barrett is president.
Mrs. Leslie Coombs Bruce jr was
chairman of the committee.
Henry Dayton, known as the Grand
Old Man of Greenwich, celebrated his
eighty sevonth birthday last Saturday
by entertaining number of his rela-
tives and friends at dinner. Mr.. Day
ton, who is an insurance broker in
New York, is the oldest Greenwich
commuter on the New York & New
Haven Railroad having travelled over
the road for thirty-six consecutive
years.
For the benefit of Serbian Child We'll
fare Relief piano recital and lecture
was given by Miss Marion Rous at the
Greenwich Country Club Monday after
noon. large audience was present
and goodly sum was realized. The
relief committee in Greenwich is COM
posed of Mrs. Minturn Pinchot, chair
man; Mrs. John d. Barrett, Mrs. Leslie
{. Bruce, Mrs. Leonard H. Dyer, Mrs. |
John D. Chapman, Mrs. J. H. Hunt, /
Mrs. f. w. Lincoln, Mrs. Edward w. i
Packard, Mrs. 5. T. Pryor, Mrs. James
=. Guam. Mrs. William G. Rockefeller,
Mrs; |. N. Phelps Stokes and Mrs. II. II.
Mallory.
About two hundred reservations have |
been made for a dinner dance to be |