New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-15
Society Folk to
Open Homes to
1000 Strangers
Welcome Planned i'm Finest
Dwellings ON Avenue 10
Wives of Nations Bankers
Coming for Convention
Ends Cold-Shoulder Myth
Women Join in Campaign to
Show Country New York
Is Hospitable Town

Is New York inhospitable! Is It so
busy and SO engrossed in it's own af-
fairs that it has no time to welcome
the stranger within its gates7
Two Thousand strangers who are ar
irving on October to attend the con-
vontion Of the American Bankers Asso-
citation are to be given a demonstra-
tion Of wholesale hospitality which
ought to go far toward counteracting
the myth of New York's cold shoulder.
These are the wives and daughters of
the banker delegates, who are not this
year to be left to their own devices
while friend husband sits in conven-
tion all day, but are to be taken in
hand by committee of which Mrs.
Dwight w. Morrow is chairman and
given good time which will make
their husbands green with envy.
To Confound "Wet Blankets"
Mrs. Morrow declared yesterday that
her committee of $50 women had en-
deavored to find out the thing that
every visitor wanted most TO see and
do in New York, and had planned 80
that no woman would feel left out In
the cold nor obliged to fall back or
shopping to kill time.
I'VE have done everything that the
wet blankets prophesied we 4couidn',
do" she said. "First, they told us tha,
New York, as city, could not be hos.
pitable. Visitors could find amusement
In theaters and stores, they said, but
they would never find New York homes
opened to them. BY way of answer ia
this we showed them a list of hostesses
who had promised to give luncheons
for the visitors, not in hotels, but In
their own homes; Then they said il
might be possible to do this for &
select few, but we could never do i,
for any large number. We showed
that invitations had already been pre-.
pared for 2,000 Then the wet blankets
croaked that New York might open its
drawing rooms in the winter, bat no,
the first week in October, because
everybody was still in the country
then. To this we replied that the hos.
pitable-souled New York women hac
promised TO open their houses especi
ally for the occasion. Holland covers
are to be taken off chairs, maids ant
housekeepers sent in from the country
and madame will receive the company
in a perfectly appointed house, even il
she is going back to the country the
| next day"
To Dine on the Avenue
! In addition to the luncheons ane
dinners in Fifth Avenue homes famou.
| the country over, there will be recep
| tions in five women's clubs, two theatel
parties, ball, a fashion show. visits
| to the museums and an excursion tt
| West Point.
One hundred and fifty young womer
| from banks and investment houses will
serve as information clerks in tn,
various hotels, young women who kav,
| been intensively educated in tht
science of telling strangers how to ge
| about town, where to buy silk blouse,
| and what is the truth about Brooklyn
Bridge falling down Shopping guides
| will conduct the visitors to their IA
vorite stores.
| Mrs. William Woodward is honorar,
chairman Of the hostess day committe,
and Mrs. Harold I. Pratt Chairman, as
sisted by Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss jr.
Mrs. Joseph r. Swan, Mrs. Arthur Os
good Choate, Miss Ruth Twombly ans
Mrs. George Whitney.
Among the women who will enter
tain at the luncheons on October 5 ars
Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, Mrs
Robert Bacon, Mrs. George F. Bake,
| jr., Mrs. Walter p. Bliss, Mrs. James A
Burden, Mrs. Joseph H. Choete jr.
| Mrs Joseph E. Davis, Mrs. Edward C
Delafeld, Mrs. Walter Douglas, Mrs
| William Pierson Hamilton, Mrs. Johr
Henry Hammond, Mrs. j. Horace Hard
] ing, Mrs. E. Fl. Hartman, Mrs. Walter
b. James, Mrs. Otto II. Kahn, Mrs
Alvin w. Krech, Mrs. Thomas william
Lamont, Mrs. Gates w. McGarrah, Mrs
| William F'ellowes Morgan. Mrs. Dwigh'
/ w. Morrow, Mrs, Grayson NJ. r. Muir
ply, Mrs. Acosta Nichols, Mrs. A. Perry
Osborn, Mrs. Frederic d. Philips, MRS
| Harold r.. Pratt, Mrs. Whitslaw Reid
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller jr., Mrs. w
Emlen Roosevelt, Mrs. Willard D
/ Straight, Mrs. CARL Tucker, Mrs. Fell,
M. Warburg, Mrs George Whitney ant
Mrs. Payne Whitney.
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