New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-27
Thousand Islands
Guests Give Fetes
AT Homes and Clubs
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

ALEXANDRIA BAY, N. Y, Aug. &c.
The last fortnight has been one of the
busiest that has ever been seen at
the Thousand Islands. There have
been numerous parties both at the
homes and at the Thousand Islands
Yacht Club. Social interest has CEN
tered around the polo, and the greater
in compliment to the players and visit
ors in attendance upon the tourna-
ment.
Friday evening Mr.. and Mrs. John
L. Johnston entertained for fifty at
their villa at dance and buffet sup
per at their home for the polo play
ers; Saturday afternoon Mrs, George
c. Boldt gave tea for the same COM
pany and Saturday evening Mrs.
George S. Hasbrouck entertained them
at dinner at the Thousand Islands
Yacht Club; Tuesday evening Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Graham Miles gave buffet
supper and dance at their cottage for
the polo players, their house guests
and other visitors in attendance on the
tournament.
Friday the annual luncheon of the
Thousand Islands Yacht Club assem-
bled about one hundred and fifty men,
bers. Commodore Hammond was the
POSTMASTER.
Tuesday afternoon the annual tea
given by the Ladies' Welcome Club was
held at the Yacht Club, with Mrs.
James H. Hammond, wife of the COM
modore, as the hostess. She was as
sisted by Mrs. Thomas Henry Wheeler
and Mrs. William T. Dewart, at the
tea table; Mrs. GEORGE S. Hasbrouck jr.
table dispensing ices; Mrs. Thomas
Fenton Taylor and Mrs. John Butler
at the punch table; Mrs. Alvan Markle
at the coffee urn. When the dancing
contest was held Rear Commodore w
Langdon Hayden and Mrs. Frank G..
Lowden acted as judges. The win
ners were Miss Quinn jackson and Mr..
George Edward Mclean. There were
many beautiful costumes worn. Mrs.
Hammond's was a creation OF white
lace and chiffon. Mrs. Thomas Henry
Wheeler wore black silk combined with
Chantilly lace; Mrs. William 7. Dewart
was costumed in an orchid colored silk
fashioned in the one-piece mode, with
a picture hat of the same shade. Mrs.
Edward A. Pitcairn wore French lin
gerie frock of embroidery and lace
Mrs. Frank O. Lowden's costume was
of black canton crepe, fashioned with
panel draperies at the side, and her
hat was of black straw with side
trimming Of black aigrettes.
There were more persons assembled
at the dinner dance Saturday at the
Yacht Club than on any occasion this
summer. Among those entertaining
large parties at dinner we're Mr.. and
Mrs. George S. Hasbrouck, who had
forty guests; Commodore and Mrs.
James H. Hammond, who had fourteen;
Mr.. j. Norris Oliphant, party of six
teen; Mr.. E. Ogilvie, sixteen; DR.. and
Mrs. Edward Alexander Pitcairn had
twenty in their party and Mr.. and Mrs.
F. o. Lowden, ten.
Others giving smaller parties were
Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Markle, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederic Frazer, Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew McNallv, Mr.. and Mrs. An
drew Mclean, Commodore and Mrs. C..
NJ. Englis, Comm odore and Mrs. T. A.
Gillespie, Mr.. Richard H. Eggleston,
Mrs Charles f. Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederic Condo, Mr.. C. Laverett Hay
den, Rear Commodore and Mrs. w.
Langdon Hayden, Colonel K. R.
Marshall.
Mr. Herbert Rubsamen, of New York,
entertained a party there at supper, in
Guiding Mr.. James F. Cauley, his house
guest, and Miss Helen Martin, Miss
Jane Stafford, Mr.. George Stafford. Mr..
John Stafford, Mr.. Richard Stafford,
Miss Eleanor Gibbons, Mr.. Jack Hay
den and Miss Josephine Samplers.
DR.. F. H. Mosler and Miss Edith
Mosler, of New York, are the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence II. Frank, at
their villa on Cherry Island.
Mr.. Martin McVoy, of New York, is
the guest of Mr.. j. Norris 0liphant, at
his cottage at the Thousand Islands.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Bradley, who
spent the summer at their beautiful
villa at the Thousand Islands, located
in the Canadian Channel on Wellesley
Island, went by automobile Monday to
Tuxedo Park. N. Y. Their early de-
parture was caused by the fact that
their villa here was totally destroyed
by fire on Sunday morning. The Right
Rev. Herbert Shipman, d. D., suffragan
bishop of the diocese of New York City,
and Mrs. Shipman, who had been at
Arcadia" the Bradley villa, for some
time, departed by train for New York
Sunday night.
Mrs. Lawrence H. Villas, of Chicago,
formerly Miss Mary Moreland, Of
Pittsburgh, is the guest of Mrs. An
drew McNally at the latter's cottage on
Wellesley Island.
Miss Josephine Samplers, Of New
York, Is the guest Of Miss Eleanor Glib
hons far tina reuasa f1ar of tha seaann