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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1908
Page
5
Three Broadway stores listed with locations on Warren Street and streets 43rd and 32nd. The note references multiple storefronts across midtown Manhattan.
Special to The New York Times. Col R Birnie Major J E Hoffer and Major Williams attend a Joint Army and Navy Board meeting on Gun Forgings at Watertown Arsenal. Major Sickel of the 12th Cavalry heads to Fort Oglethorpe to join his regiment. Capt Bricker visits Pittsburg Cleveland and Erie to inspect ordnance material. Sea Capt Schull to Richmond to inspect material. Col Koehler of the 4th Cavalry to Hot Springs Arkansas for treatment.
Arrived vessels Arrived-Abarenda and Brutus reach Rio Janeiro Abraska lands in San Diego Five sails depart including Preble from San Francisco to San jego Arethusa sails from Para to Pernambuco Terling leaves Para for Rio Janeiro Saturn from San Francisco bound for Magdalena Bay.
A dinner dance and cotillion at Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt’s town house 677 Fifth Avenue marked a grand winter entertainment and housewarming. Debutantes and several newly married couples attended as guests moved through pale gray and gold rooms with air roses and American Beauty roses, ending with a 1 am cotillion led by Craig Wadsworth and a post dinner reception.
Miss Gladys Van derbilt to wed Count Széchényi at Mrs. Vanderbilt’s Fifth Avenue home on January 27. The ceremony will be small with likely no attendants. the Count’s brother may serve as best man if plans proceed.
Mrs. H. Fairfield Osborn hosts Mondays at 800 Madison. Guests include Mr. and Mrs. Strawbridge and Miss Gillesme of Philadelphia at the St. Regis. The second Junior Cotillion starts tonight at Sherry’s with Stove Phelps and Miss Eleonora Alexandre. The Ciller? wedding of Eleanore Peltier and Gustave Brandt at Holland House today at noon. Sonata Club engages Plaza state apartments for Sunday music. first event Jan 17. Sloane couple in Washington for the weekend. Baron and Baroness von Hengelmuller invitees for dinner Sunday. Piet Gould and Charles Ingram wed today at St Bartholomew’s. reception at 57 West Lilly-second Street.
Yesterday afternoon at Fifth Avenue social event Miss Mar guerite E Walker introduced by her grandmother Mrs Joseph Walker Jr The gown featured white embroidered net over satin and she carried roses The Misses Margaret and Mrs Joseph Walker hosted the afternoon gathering.
A list names Rosalind Fish Elizabeth Bert ron Rosamond Burr Beatrice Benjamin Helen Morgan Dorothy Tuckerman Helen Coster Eleanor Greene Ellen Rogers Madeline Borland Frances Dickey and their roles in supporting Roosevelt era work.
The engagement is announced of Miss Elizabeth Coolidge of Boston daughter of Mrs Albert Leighton Coolidge to Mr Maunsell Schieffelin Crosby son of the late Ernest Howard Crosby of New York and Rhinebeck and grandson of Henry Maunsell Schieffelin.
Miss Jessie Saxe of Flushing Long Island, granddaughter of poet John G. Saxe, is announced to Clement of Mount Clement and New York in a forthcoming marriage.
The opening senior cotillion of the season occurred last night in Delmonico's ballroom with Stove Phelps and Griswold Thompson leading. Notables and patronesses attended, including Mrs. Grenville Kane and Mrs. Lorillard Spencer Jr. The event featured a snow battle finale in a gold star arbor and a full reception, with the next dance scheduled for January 30.
The January first Bagby Morning concert at the Waldorf Astoria featured Mme Sembrich singing selections from Semiramis and Le leverin Somei de la Vierge plus Grieg. Victor Herbert and his orchestra opened with Bach and closed with La Marcia. Next Monday Mme Samaroff will play and Signor Caruso will sing with Herbert and his orchestra again.
Mrs. Curry hosts a Twelfth Night cotillion at the St. Regis Hotel. Guests in period dress dance a minuet and a Elizabethan gavotte after supper led by Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan and Miss Kirby. Attire mirrors Louis XIV court with brocade gowns and powdered hair.
Attendees wore Italian velvets and pearl headdress while Misses Roche and Rosetta Reilly displayed colonial and eighteenth century gowns. Miss Connick showed an Oriental gown with veil, Mrs Hickman played Folly in pink bells, and a guest in a Teddy bear costume distributed teddy bears to finish the cotillon.
A crowd blocked traffic before the Second District Municipal Court on Madison Street near Clinton as Justice Leon Saunders and associates reviewed more than 200 dispossess cases against east side rent payers. Saunders warned of postponements if defenses are valid and vowed action against perjury if delays stem from false claims.
Two newly elected General Sessions judges began their terms yesterday with Judge Mulqueen and Judge Malone taking seats in Part III. Assistant District Attorney Nott offered congratulations to Judge Mulqueen while Assistant District Attorney O Conn praised Judge Malone.
Large embroidery sale offers thousands of yards of fabric in numerous designs from 10c to 50c per yard. Features include Allovers, edgings, corset covers in nainsook and Swiss, with prices from 3c to 75c and 89c to 2.50 for assorted pieces. Extra staff and space emphasize urgency for early shoppers.
The piece touts a famous Greater New York silk sale offered below mill prices drawing unusually large crowds. Harlem Jersey City Manhattan addresses highlight delivery reach while a wide range of silks and prices are listed, main floor West Building.
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