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Society Plays Hostess To-day I
To Visiting Bankers* Wives.
35 of City's Richest and Most Widely Known Women
Entertain 3,000 in Homes at Luncheon; Eight
Secretaries Busy With Lists Drawn Impersonally
This fs Hostess Day for the womcr
visitors attending the convention of th*
American Bankers' Association, th?
day when thirty-five Fifth Avenut
hostesses will en?eilain at luncheon
and when the myth about New York's
indifference to strangers is expected to
carl up and die.
Hostess Day 3s by far the most popu?
lar of the programs planned for the
entertainment of the visitors. Thou?
sands of women have seized the oppor?
tunity to lunch In the homes of the
best known New Yorkers, and the late
arrivals at the convention have had to
be informed that Mrs. Rcckc3*c-ller was
SflSrry, but her dining room was limited
>n spare, just as the dining rooms of
Gopher Prairie are limited.
About three thousand women will be
entertained at luncheon parties vary
0'st in silt? from twenty to ono hun
?: ?d. The largest will be Mrs. Otto
y of 150, while Mrs. John
D. Rockefeller jr, will entertain ninety
1' work of extending these invitr.
1 going on since inst sum?
mer ar,<; t,?o(>, the timo of eight
expert : from the leading
"'Val! SI ris. ?n the first place
committee extended 3,000 genera!
invitations to Die women as they made
.heir reservations at the hotel;-.
?V! ptances were receiv? ??
y were checked off on the list. Then
they were parcelled off in groups of
? ;;ch hotel to eac.n hostess
order. This was in order to avoid
any possibility of injured feelings.
Listed Impersonally
There was nothing personal, for ex
?, in Mrs. Rockefeller's list of
>ts or in Mrs. Lamont's or Mr:.
n?hn's. In the lexicon of the women'
pitallty committee all wero equally
v el come, whether they came from
Go'phe Prairie or Denver, and they
?ie grouped by hotels for convenience
in bookkeeping. Mrs. Rockefeller's
?r example, are from the Com?
modore, The McAlpin, the Pennsylvania
and i':?' Gotham. Mrs. E. H. Harriman
las a3iother group from the Coimno
dore. Mrs. J. Horace Harding is en
rtai ing a croup from the Pennsyl?
vania and Mis. Kahn's 160 are from
: hotels.
A second set of acceptances then had
to be filed, and when the women ar
?ived in New York City this week. It
was up to the committee to see that
i ich guest actually received her card
? f invitation to the home to which she
had been assigned. This was the most
t part of the work, as it had to
: rr d 'ne ro quickly.
"I've had hank presidents in limou?
sines going around to the hotels de
' vering these invitations in person this
last day," laughed Miss M. Ruth Mc
r.lay, on whose elim shoulders rested
responsibility for the smooth work
? of vhe huge luncheon scheme. "In
? '..?'.ip cases when the women were not
in their hotels it was necessary to send
their cards by special delivery mail.
Our pirls worked here until midnight
Tuesday, eight of them, and I have
never seen girls so breathless. Regis?
tration for the luncheon closed finally
and definitely at ten o'clock Tuesday.
Then we hud to address the last cards
and keep our files straight and notify
tho hostesses."
No Transfers
The committee was obliged yesterday
to issue a statement, begging the visi
l ?rs not to ask to have their invitations
transferred from one house to another.
It seems that an Arkansas woman,
making the acquaintance of a fellow
bank president's wife from Montana,
would decide that it would be pleasant
to ?,o to the luncheon with her, and
would request the Hostess Day commit?
tee to lix it up so they could both go
to Mrs. Vandermillion's instead of to
Mrs. Morganbilt's. Seven telephone
operators worked all day answering re?
quests of this nature, and inquiries as
to how to reach Mrs. Vandermilli?n's,
but last night it was said that the three
thousand were all happily adjusted,
The women who will'entertain to-day
are Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, Mrs.
Robert Bacon, Mrs. George F. Baker
jr., Mrs. Waiter P. Bliss, Mrs. James
A. Burden, Mrs. Joseph II. Choate jr.,
Mrs. Joseph E. Davis, Mrs. Edward C. !
Del?fleld, Mrs. Walter Pou pin s, Mrs.
William Pierson Hamilton, Stira. .lohn
I Henry Hammond, Mrs. J. Horace Hard?
i ing, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Mrs. Walter
Ii/jnmes, Mr**. Otto 11. Kahn, M ?s. Alvin
W. Krech, Mrs. Tnom?s W. LamonW
Mrs. Gates W. McGttrrah, Mrs. WilliarW
FoHowes Morgan, Mrs. Dwighl \V. :';,>?*
row, Mrs. Grayson M. P. Murphy, Mrs.
Acosta Nichols, Mr.*-. Charlea, IX Nor?
ton, Mr?- A. Ferry Oshorn, Mrs. Fred-'
eric D. Philip?, Mrs. Harold 1. Pratt,
Mrs. John T. IVitt. Mrs. White! w
Roid, Mrs. John D. RoeTtefollej jr., Mrs,:
W. Emlen Roosevelt, Mi*?;. Willard D,
?Straight, Mrs. Caril Tucker, Mrs. Felix.
Warburg, Mrs. Goorgfe Whitney and
Mrs, Payii" Whitney.
Mrs. William Woo<lu-nrd was hon?
orary eha?fnian oi Hse hostess Bay
committee and Mrs. Harold I. Pratt
chairman.
Women's Clube? Receive
Yesterday the visitors were guests at
the five largest woman's clubs. Miss
F.u'.h Morgan received at tho Colony
Club, Mrs. Edmund B. Wilson at the I
Cosmopolitan Club, Miss Mary Garrett
Hay at the Women's City C.'iub, Mrs.?
Charles H. Sab in at the Women's Na?
tional Republican Club and Mrs. W. L.
Cobb, at the Women's University Club, i
Thcfo was n bus rido to Riverside
Drive and Columbia University for the
women i:i the afternoon, and in the
evening they took possession of five j
theaters.
Every DTOeran Escort
Service is Available at
In keeping with the high
standard o{ the Hotel
Bretton-Hall, a fleet of
immaculately clean, effi?
ciently operated, low fare
taxicabs is maintained by
Y?UowTaxs for the patrons
of this hotel.
LOOK FOR OUR NAME
and pho^e mmum
On the Door of Every Taxi j
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BURLING, DOLE & CO., Auctioneers
AT 500 & 601 BROADWAY, M'.W YORK
Friday, Oct. Gth, 1922, at 11 A. M.
467 FINE ORIENTAL
BUGS mi CARPETS
By order of prominent Bankers and
Importers,
57 Fine Saronk, Rozar, Oornvan, Mahal,
Sarubend ami Ilumudan CARTKTS.
810 Extra Fine Small Rl <.S and RTJN
N'KHS, Snronks, Kaah&ns, Bokhara, and
other well known Weaves, lino designs
and colorings. Very desirable,
For account of Underwriters or Concern.
130 Fine CARMCTS, BIOS und KIN
N'KHS, Klvend, SaTouk, Mahal, Iran, Ha
ma?an and others.
<i Kino ?'liinrKe Carpets.
AU sohl l'iece by riece without allowance.
West 42nd Street and West 43rd Street.
The Latest Continental and cimcrican Ideas in
NOVELTY JEWELRY
for Women
Assembled in our versatile display is jewelry
for every purpose and occasion In such artistic designs
and brilliant settings as will please ? the most
discriminatina woman.
EARRINGS (every conceivable shape); tassels,
pendants, plaques, crystal and mareasite, jet, pearls,
hoops, Lapis fazu'i, ccrai gzivns &nd many exquisite
color combinations . . . . $1.75 to 50.00
PENDANTS of crystal, colored jade, coral,
pearls, tassels with marcasita trimming asxi many
others.$2.95 to 49.75
CIGARETTE CASES ?* Sterling silver, ex?
quisitely enameled and hand-engraved flat models.
$7*95 to 34*75
BEADED BAGS?Hand-made, of. very fine
beads?A wide variety of beautiful colorings, $ 17.5 0
NOVELTY NECKLACES of colored jade,
Lapis lazuli,, rubies, emeralds, Topaz, crystals, amber,
coral, placjues or tassels?hundreds of styles to select
from.$1.25 to 19.75
MAIN FLOOR.
Jks
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Cou?aLaay we pushed toward Park
E? jumped ihto little John Kelly's hand
some hack. . <t,.
"Where to?" says the attentive John.
"Barclay Street, Newark boat;" and we
soon stood before the CerberousTstationed
therettake toll. We presented a Rhode
Island Bill.
"Can't take it."
"Providence."
"We have nothing to do with Providence
here" said he huskily. We loqked into his
eyes and felt bound to believe him.
? 'Boston" we exclaimed, presenting a piece w
of paper purporting to be payable in the 1 A\
modernAthens.
"Boston's Bankrupt."
"Chemical Bank of New York;" presenting
a p?le faced five that smelt of sulphuric acid,
iodine of azote, phosphuretted hydrogen,
oxide of tellurium, andlaihost.ofjhydrates.
"Good as Gold"saidthmoldsurly,giving
us the change, and the pi<p of paper_ did
act like the "powder of projection for by it
opi
w!
were
on
of theboati
From the New York Herald of Sept. 21,1837
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