New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-27
Narragansett Pier
Gala Events Mark
Waning of Season
spoota. Dispatch to The Tribune

NARRAGANSETT PIER, r. l., Aug.
26.-Narragansett's season is approach
ing its end. This fact was fore
Swallowed the past week by the closing
events of the annual polo tournament
on the fields Of the Point Judith Polo
Club. The week, however, has been a
brilliant one, socially, since it staged
the annual fancy dress ball at the Hotel
de la PLACE on Friday night. The ball
was given for the benefit of the Nara
gansett Pier Fire Department. The
committee included Mr.. Henry Bree-
WORT Kane, Me- 8. Human Bird, Mr..
William G. Marrow, Mr.. Henry l.. Col
Augustus F. Goodwin, Mr. Harry Par
sons Cross, Mr.. Benjamin L. Cook and
Mr.. Rush Sturges.
Among. those giving dinners were
Mr.. and Mrs. R. Y. Shapleigh, Mr.. and
Mrs. Martin Hofer, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Breevoort Kane Mr. Augustus F. Good
win, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Dempsey,
Mr.. Louis C. Page, Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur H Tyrrell, Mr.. William c. Mar
row, Mrs. Irving H. Chase, Mr.. and Mrs.
BENJAMIN l.. Cook, DR.. and Mrs. Charles
w. higgins, Mrs. R. F. Taylor and Mrs.
and Mrs. A. J. Conroy.
J
the Point Judith Polo Club enter
tanned the Pier summer colony Tues
day afternoon. Mrs. Philip Steven
son, daughter Of P. S. P. Randolph, did
some superb riding and managed to
win all the prizes for women's events
as IN former years. The prizes for the
women were card cases and vanity
cases. Others who entered in the
events were Mrs. Pierce Butler, of
New York, fiancee of Mr. Gerald Demp-
sey, of the Dedham polo team; Miss
Ethel Dempsey, Mr.. Dempseys sister,
ana MISS Gertrude Conway, Of Phila-
delphia.
Mr. Benjamin l.. Cook, of Provi
dence and Hammond Hill, won the DO
tato race. Master Samuel N. White,
son of Mrs. Stephen E. Hopkins, was
second
1t was the animal race, however, that
brought out the largest measure of
applause from the gallery. In this a
score or more of small boys and girls
IN the summer colony entered with
their net dogs of all sizes and breeds.
The Monday Bridge Club met at the
Point judith Polo Club Monday night
WITH forty or more members present.
Mrs. Dawson Coleman, of Philadelphia,
who is at the Carlton, was the hostess
were Mrs. Frank Sanuels, the president
Of the club, and her two daughters,
Mrs. Francis Robinson and Mrs. George
M. Poulieff; also Mrs. R. Penn Smith,
OF New York, who is visiting her sister
ln-law, Mrs. Alexander Brown, at Phoe-
nix Lodge, and Miss Kitty Brinton. of
philadelphia, who is the guest of Mrs.
Caryl Roberts; Mrs. Edward L. Welsh,
Mrs. Thomas Harvey Dougherty, Mr..
and Mrs. John r. Fell, Mrs. James G.
Blaine jr., Mrs. Robert H. I. Goddard,
Rush Sturges, of Providence.
Mrs. Joseph H. Corrigan, of New
York, gave a dinner and dance at Elm
dalar, the country place of her mother,
Mrs. ]. P. Robinson, in Wakefield,
Monday evening. The affair was given
to celebrate the birthday of Mrs. Cor
rlgan's young daughter, Miss Margaret
Haggin. Among those present were
Annie Potter Watson, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Byron S. Watson, of Provi-
deIee; Mr.. Arthur Ii. w. Lewis and
John B. Lewis, of Providence and
Wakefield; Elizabeth Kilvert. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs Charles A. Kilvert, of
Providence; Elizabeth and Dorothy
Chase, daughters of Mr.. and Mrs lr4-
ing II. Chase, of Waterbury and Mira
mar; Elizabeth Altemus, daughter of
Mrs. B. Dobson Altemus. of PhiladeI-
phia, who is at the Imperial; Katherine
Stewart, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. C.
Plunkett Stewart; Cornelius Rath-
borne, son of Mrs. J. C. Rathborne
Mrs. David S. Baker, who has been
in Germany for the past year with her
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Felix Friedhera, arrived in New York
On the America. She came direct to
Wexford to her country place, Cedar
Spring Farm, where she Joined her
sons-in-law and daughters, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank l.. Hinckley, of Providence,
and Major and Mrs. Frank v. Schnei-
der, of Camp Binning, Ca, and their
children. Mrs. Baker was met on her
arrival in New York by her son and
daughter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. David S.
Baker 'jr., of Greenwich, Conn.
Mrs. Charles G. Bush. Of Camden,
s. c., and her daughter, Miss Frederika
Bush, are at the Cottage Inn for the
rest of the season.
Mrs. Pierce H. Butler, who has been
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. George C.
Dempsey, of Boston, parents of her
fiance, Mr.. Gerald H. Dempsey, at the
Pines, the past fortnight, left for
Southampton on Thursday to join her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan j.
O'Brien. ut their Mace there.