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16 THE BBOOKLYK "DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1900. TTTT evening of November 7, one of the most beautiful weddings of the year will take place. Miss Edna Letltla Dare, daughter of Mr. and INUVJbJjl'lbS UN VJAPJ2 rAFbK, WUUU AINU rJUAb BROOKLYN SOCIETY, mM 'iifl ti'AJi It Is to be a "debutante winter." The phrase sums briefly the entire social history that the coming six months will make.

It points fully to the mind's eye the old ana always new programme of society, a little dancing, a little dressing, a little season of "At Homes." As a general proposition me very young girls will be the center of at traction, almost without precedent. T. their older sisters, as it looks now, there will tall little but the crumbs. Yet until mid November, at least, the season will show slight evidence of this, its most distinctive feature, save in the flutter of the preparations and the never failing gossip of this and of that. The first of the debutantes will scarcely emerge before late November, December being in these days the true month for presentations to society.

The Immediate present, however, is by no means to lack entertainment. Before the courtesies of the debutantes under the wings of smiling mammas there come a sheaf of weddings, bridals very nearly innumerable. They are highly interesting bridals on the whole, the old families on the Heights being represented as they have not been for many a day. In debutantes the winter will be rich not alone numerically, but from the point of personal attractiveness as well. At least a score and a half of girls, of families that are well known, will make their appearance.

Many of them will present very charming and dainty figures, giving the world belle dom a fresh meaning, and it will be surprising if their presnce does not induce many young men of Brooklyn to come back actively into social life again. For and the facts ol the case might as well be set down plainly at once, now that the season Is starting there is to day (particularly on the Heights) a decided lack of young men in Brooklyn society. Very young men, those just out of co.lege or in the first days of business life, are more plentiful, but even these are too few. Of the older men the shortage is marked and brings to the front a problem. Only a handful can be in any sense depended upon.

The majority of those who keep up a liking for society have turned to the gayeties of the Borough of Manhattan. They are in the dancing classes across the river, attendants at some of the best dances of those sets. Thus the Heights finds its wings clipped, and annoyingly. It may be that this wealth of pretty debutantes will turn the scale and that the old charm of manv men may return. An inform al canvass recites who these girls of such dances the club is planning will be subscrip present importance are: tion affairs, they will be given at the Pierre Miss Grace Knowlton, Miss Mollie Maxwell, Pnt Assembly Rooms and their number is to Miss Je.sie Moore.

Miss Adele Bull. Miss three. The first of these is set for either CORNER AND GRILL OF CREPE PAPER. Cotillon, Plerrepont Though the above announcements include all the functions thus far definitely arranged for, there is much else on the social carpet for the next few months. Other weddings of moment are planned for the fall, and there are yet others exceedingly likely.

Prospective brides of the fall and early winter are Miss Florence Lee of 11S Willow street, whose engagement to Alfred L. Nor ris was announced during the summer; Miss Adele Walton of Willow street, who is to wed Frank Wadleigh Chandler; Miss Sarah Dimon Chapman of SI Remsen street. Miss Mary Gould of Columbia Heights, Miss Grace Holt, Miss Edith Campbell of 622 Madison street. Miss Marsh of 48 Macon street, and Miss Cora Baer of Park place, who will marry Georges Renault of the Borough of Manhattan. Much of Interest is to be told of the weddings already arranged and near at hand.

The details of importance, indeed, would take many columns in the telling. Only the more essential can here be mentioned. It will be a fall of very attractive brides at least, and some of the pageants will be long carried in mind. The old Unitarian Church of the Saviour at the corner of Monroe place and Plerrepont street, will see one of the prettiest of these coming ceremonies on the afternoon of Saturday, November 17. The bride of this occasion will be Miss Louise Maxwell, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. J. Rogers Maxwell of 7S Eighth and the bridegroom Howard F. Whitney, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Henry N. Whitney of the Hill. This match has been a topic of much interest in society and is certainly an ideal one. The bride is one of the borough's most charming girls and Mr. Whitney is regarded as having a decided future before him.

A very notable bridal party will mark this wedding, which is to be solemnized at 5 o'clock. Miss Mollie Maxwell will be the maid of honor and Charles W. Whitney the hptsr man Mr Whitnnv is hrntbor nt fho 1 bridegroom. The bridesmaids and ushers as chosen are Miss Natalie Coffin, Miss Ethel Pearsall, Miss Mabel Judson, Miss Zilph Hayes, Miss Florence Lowell, Miss Edith Gibb, J. Rogers Maxwell, William E.

Carhart, Arthur E. Whitney, Howard M. Cowperthwait, Joseph H. Norris and Walter B. Cowperthwait of the Borough of Manhattan: John A.

Hesse and Adams Sumner. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney to' be have taken an apartment on Montague street. On the Wednesday of the same week occurs the marriage of Miss Anna Pinkerton, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert A. Pinkerton of 71 Eighth avenue and Mr. and Mrs. John Glbb's son, Lewis M.

Gibb. The First Reformed Church at the corner of Seventh avenue and Carroll street will witness this, and it is to be an exceedingly pretty 5 o'clock wedding. The following Thursday, in Grace Church, on the Heights, Robert Low Pierrepont marries Miss Kathryn Isabel Reed, niece of Mrs. Samuel Bowne Duryea, and this, again, will be a wedding of decided fashion and moment, one of exceeding brilliancy. Another Heights bridal, whose date has just been set, will be that of Miss Nannie Mason, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. John W. Mason of 13S Hicks street, and Wendell Colton, son of Dr. Frederick H. Colton of 136 Montague street.

This is to be solemnized at Miss Mason's home and will be a very quiet wedding, though a charming one. Some wonderfully pretty features will be included in its ceremony. The Eastern District has in near prospect one of the largest bridals it has seen of recent years. This is the marriage of Miss Eliza Adelle De Long of 161 Ross street, Julius De Long's daughter, and Conrad Gerhard Moller, of 222 South Ninth street. All Souls' Church will be its scene, and its date Wednesday evening, October 24.

The arrangements are being made on an elaborate scale, and the ceremony will include a choral service. The reception will not take place in the De Long house but at the Knapp Mansion, and a thousand invitations will be issued for this. Pringle is to be master of ceremonies. A round half dozen of attractive bridals are announced for the Park Slope. One of the most notable of these occasions is the yellow and white chrysanthemum wedding of Miss Florence Newman, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Theodore Newman of Sterling place and Seventh avenue, and Henry Irwin, son of Henry Irwin, until recently of the Park Slope, but now of the Borough of Manhattan. Miss Newman will be married at 7 o'clock on the evening of Tre day, October 30, from her home, and the reception following will be at 8:30. The Rev. George F.

Breed will be the officiating clergyman. There will be four bridesmaids, a maid of honor, four ushers and a best man in the wedding train. The maid of honor will be Miss Anna M. Irwin, the bridesmaids Miss Mary B. Aiken, Miss Jessie Irwin, Miss Florence Nix and Miss Florence Shepard.

C. Howard Newman will be best man, and the ushers John Preuss, Charles C. Putnam, James Remsen and William Hillman. Another of these Park Slope weddings is scheduled for the evening of Wednesday, November 14, at the Memorial Presbyterian Church, at 4 o'clock, its bride, Miss Flora Clouser of 221 Park place, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Samuel F. Clouser. Miss Clouser will marry George Clinton Germond of Washington avenue, a sou of Mr. and Mrs. George B.

Germond. Further weddings of the Slope of especial importance are those of Miss Gertrude Ingalls of 234 St. Johns place and Howard Edwin Sumner, at Miss Ingall's home this coming Wednesday; Mrs. Clara Gurney Corwin (Mrs. Charles A.

Boody's sister) and Edward L. Collier, on the Wednesday following; Miss May Belle Mason and Dr. John Cochran of Flatbush. on the evening of November at Miss Mason's home, S60 President street, and Miss Ethel Merritt and Guion Trowbridge, on the afternoon of Wednesday, October Jtl. Miss Merritt will be married from her home, S42 President street.

The wedding train of this occasion will number Miss Addin De Witt and Miss Constance Trowbridge as bridesmaids; Miss Francesca Ackerman as maid of honor, Clarence M. Trowbridge as best man and Horace M. Drake, Rogers H. Bacon, John M. Drake and Charles M.

De Land, ushers. The Hill wedding events include the ceremonies of Miss Annie C. Cartledge and Frederick J. Welles (this Wednesday evening) and Miss Gwendolyn Burris and George William Knowlton, on October 24. Miss Cartledge, who is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. John Cartledge, will he married from her home, 249 Clinton avenue, and will have as bridesmaids Miss Elizabeth Smith, Miss Elizabeth Williamson and her sister, Miss Jean Cartledge; as her maid of honor Miss Alice Mathers. Mr. Welles' ushers will be Benjamin Whittaker, William C. Ayres, Charles F.

Cartledge and J. Lester Parsons; his best man, Joseph Mathers. Miss Burris will be married at St. Bartholomew's, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and hers will bo a small wedding train. It is to Include Miss Olyve Burris as maid of honor, Robert T.

Knowlton, William Knowlton, John D. Chapman, Alexander H. Bullock, Andrew Peters and Henry H. Thayer as ushers, Merrick Lincoln as best man, nearly all of these men coming from out of town. At the Emmanuel Baptist Church, on the cotillon of the Junior Assembly Rooms, Mrs.

Edward Henri Dare of 888 Park place, will on that night marry Charles Edward Porter. The Austrlans will play in the church gallery and the ceremony will be distin guished by much richness. Few weddings of the season will attract in a greater degree than that to be solemnized in the First Presbyterian Church on Thursday of this week, when Miss Elizabeth Whitman of 244 Henry, will become the wife of Clarence Mann Fincke, more popularly known as "Clare" Fincke. There will be but a small reception, though the church wedding will be large. Miss Alice Ogden will be this bride's maid of honor, and Miss Julia Fincke, one of the bridesmaids, the other three coming from out of town.

The ushers as well will be chiefly out of town men, the only Brooklyn ites being Allen E. Whitman and Alden R. Whitman. Charles L. Fincke is to serve as best man.

The Volente Club, whose end and aim is the aid of the Trained Christian Helpers of the Hill, has already begun Its winter's work. It is planning a. musicale for the evening of November 20 at the Pouch Gallery, and promises an exceedingly interesting programme. Of importance among the organizations of the winter will be the In and Out Club, of which Mrs. Chester I.

Richards is the head. Not many clubs have met with the success enjoyed by this in past seasons, and its reformation is a good augury. The first meeting will take place at the home of Mrs. Richards, 28 Montgomery place, on Tuesday evening, November 27. The following meetings will comprise a card party, a guessing party, a dance and a theater party.

A club of girls for the study of the history of music Is one of the novelties of the season. The aftermath of any summer spells en gagements. Two of those most recently an nounced must be chronicled here. One Is that of Miss Florence Edith Palmer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Lowell M. Palmer of 206 Clinton avenue, and Theodore Weicker of the Borough of Manhattan and Prospect Manor, Stamford, Conn. The second engagement is of Miss Isabelle Harter of Henry street, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A.

Harter. and Thomas Bartlett Aldrich of Washington avenue. Dr. and Mrs. Victor Baillard of 458 Washington avenue announced at homes for October 31 and November 14, from 4 until 10.

Mrs. Baillard will have receiving with her Mrs. De Witt Bailey and Mrs. Arthur L. J.

Smith. At the tea tables there will be: Miss Florence Fairchild, Miss Marion Ford, Miss Florence Wilson, Miss Maud Kraft, Miss Mabel Brltton, Miss Florence Barr, Miss Marion Gibson, Miss Bessie Baldwin, Miss Florence Dunkly and Miss Kathryn Weston of Burlington, Vt. BRIDAL TOURS IN DEMAND. Eagle Information Bureaus Make a Specialty of Planning Them Autumn in tne Berksnires. The Eagle Bureau has been visited by an unusually large number of people the past week in search of fall resorts.

Among them were several young men, who contemplated taking a life partner and wished to know of a honeymoon trip out of the regular beaten paths. The Eagle Bureau has made quite a study of wedding trips and has always successfully planned such. A number of the prominent hotels of the Berkshires remained open this year much later than usual. The fallowing has been received from a Brooklynite now in Pittsfteld, Mass. "'The beauties of the autumn season in the charming Berkshire Hills are now in the ascendancy.

Refreshed by the bountiful rains of the past week, the mantle of verdure is still in evidence. The present season has been one of the most successful experienced at the Maplewood Hotel, which still has a large patronage, and whose closing day is apparently not under consideration. The many picturesque and unique rides through the adjacent country renders this place the most desirable and convenient point for coaching parties. The recent extensive improvements and additions to the hotel have proved totally inadequate and the hotel will be considerably enlarged for the next season. Among recent arrivals are Mrs.

J. H. Woolley, MiSB C. A. Woolley, Daniel T.

Merritt, Mrs. Homer Lattin, D. O. Sprague, F. T.

Gibson all from Brooklyn; Austen G. Fox, Mr. and Mrs. Macy, Mr. and Mrs.

W. C. Kimball, Miss Laura Low. Austin J. Riggs, Dr.

and Mrs. W. D. McKim, Herbert L. Cowing Samuel Ward, W.

J. Henry Grant, Mr. and Mrs. William M. Barnum, A.

S. Tusseil of Manhattan." Winter tourist rates to all points in the South have already been prepared and are announced to go into effect by the Southern Railway on October 15. This is the route of the New York and Florida Limited and offers all the year round through dining car service. There has been quite a demand for the valuable Educational Directory which was published by the Eagle Bureau in September. A.

E. Mackey, a prominent educator of Geneva, N. says of the publication: "It is certainly a very creditable issue, giving as it does Interesting and valuable information regarding the scht ols and colleges of our country. We have given it a prominent place in our reading room." There was a very pleasing entertainment given at Miner's Business Academy. 607 Hal sey street, Brooklyn, Thursday evening, October 4, by the well known prestidigitateur, Emerson P.

Ramson. Mis3 Dwight and Miss Johnson will reopen their classes in dancing at the Pierre pint Assembly Rooms Friday November 2, In the afternoon. Miss Dwight will hold her classes in physical development in the ball room on Friday morning. Lovers of music will be interested in a coming concert to be given by the Italian artist and teacher of music. Signorina Gal liani, at Wfssner Hall, on the evening of October 27.

The signorina has only been In this country but a few months, and has already brought forth a number of pupils with such finish that they will now take part in a number of public concerts and operas. Miss Josephine Sr hapffer will appear at this concert and will prove a great surprise tn the Brooklyn public. She has an exceptionally strong voice. Other lea'llng musicians have been secured for this concert. THE CAHVEL DANCING CLASS.

The young women and men composing the Carvel Dancing Class of Prospect Slope, will hold their first meeting next Thursday evening at the Lincoln Art Rooms. Dances will be held every subsequent Thursday evening during the coming winter, and a most sue i Daaonn t3 nnttrinflted Ttl nntrnnnaaoa I are: Mrs. Michael B. Buckley, Mrs. Patrick A.

Mahoney, Mrs. Henry S. Clancey. Mrs. Joseph J.

Bennett, Mrs. John Trainor, Mrs. Daniel Doody. BARON AT WHITE HOUSE. Washington, October 13 Baron Fava, the Italian Ambassador, called to day by appointment, In company with Secretary Hay, upon the President to convey to him official notification of the demise of the late King Humbert and to present his letters of credentials from King Emmanuel, a necessary form in such circumstances.

THE I. AND SEND ARRIVES. The British steamship Landsend, which broke down at sea several weeks ago and was towed into Bermuda arrived in tow at the Erie Basin dry docks Friday. The tall shaft Is broken and it will be some time before the ship is ready for sea. SHIP LOCH LINNHE FLOATED.

London, October 13 The Russian ship Loch Llnnhe, Captain Pihlmann, from Pensacola for Kiel, before reported stranded on Feh mern Island, in the Baltic, has been towed off. a Bachelors' Ball and a public ball room. The latter is the more interesting, since Brooklyn needs such an institution badly and for the want of it Is at times handi caped in her entertaining. There have been efforts to get a really adequate dancing place of a semi private order for many years, but the more recent attempts seem rather more likely of fulfillment than their predecessors. Several of the leading women of the Heights have made it known to the projectors of the newest apartment hotel planned for this section of the borough that a ballroom would be very pleasing to the neighborhood.

The suggestion is being considered most carefully. This would mean a ballroom worthy of the name in the Heights' very heart. Another plan that may quite possibly be carried out is to give Brooklyn a building that is in one a Carnegie Hall and a Sherry's. In a general way the site for this has been selected. It is midway up Fulton street.

A leading piano concern promises to finance the enterprise, and a well known musician of the borough has been asked to lend his influence. a The Bachelors' Ball spoken of is in the air as yet. but the project was seriously taiKea over this summer. Those especially credited to it deny that such a plan is in consideration, yet a ball of this sort, a single fine social event, is by no means out of the question this year. If the undertaking is carried through, it is more than likely it will be headed by Arthur Corlies, who, in the Cin derellas.

proved himself a good society execu tive. Mr. Corlies had such a ball in mind for last winter, but he never formally started it. The view of the older women of social importance on the Heights is distinctly favorable to it, and. looking at all sides, the season will doubtless be graced by it.

Elsewhere than on the Heights the programme of dancing is thus far uncertain. The news to be retailed at the moment is meager. It may be said, however, that the very successful Amphictyonic will be continued. No date for the dancing of this has been set, but it is probable that it will take place somewhat earlier in the season than did the Amphictyonic of last winter. In addition to this, it said that the Packer class of 1900 will give three dances during the year.

A new set of dances that promises a very great deal will be the concert dances of the Baillard Glee Club. This musical organization that has won such signal harmonic triumphs within the past year or so is now to make a new step forward. The concert December 6 or December 13. Among the patronesses will be Mrs. William Chandler Smith.

Mrs. Leonard Moody, Mrs. John H. Burtis, Mrs. Calvin Edwards Hall, Mrs.

Victor Baillard and Mrs. Francis H. Wilson. At the first concert dance the club will sing Ger sheim's Cantata, "Salamls." Howard C. Pyle is the president of the Baillard Glee Club, and Dr.

Victor Baillard its director. The other members are: William Hewlett, Warren Roberts, Lea S. Herrick, J. R. McLaren.

R. P. Fisher, Cecil Lyon, B. Woodward, William Wallace Paige, John Talcott, Charles H. Middendorf, J.

w. McCarroll, H. L. Taylor, M. W.

Buchanan S. Marsh. Made up hastily from the small proportion of events announced to last night (the dates of very many more fixtures are yet to be announced), society's card for the early winter is as follows: Wednesday, October 17 Evening, wedding of Miss Annie C. Cartledge and Frederick Jewett Welles, 249 Clinton avenue, at 7 o'clock; wedding of Miss Gertrude ArnoM galls and Howard Edwin Sumner, 234 St. Johns place, o'clock.

Thursday, October 18 Afternoon, wedding of Miss Elizabeth Whitman and Clarence Mann Fincke, First Presbyterian Church, 5 o'clock. Evening, wedding of Miss May E. Bennett and Frederick C. Van Keuren, All Saints' Church, 8 o'clock. Wednesday, October 24 Wedding of Mrs.

Clara Gusney Corwin and Edward L. Collier 212 Berkeley place. Afternoon wedding of Miss Gwendolyn Buires and George William Knowlton. St. Bartholomew's Church, 4 o'clock.

Evening, wedding of Miss Eliza Adelle De Long and Conrad Gerhard Moller, All Saints' Church (Eastern District), reception at Knapp Mansion. Thursday, October 25 Afternoon, wedding of Miss Isabella Goold Herries and William Crandall Clark at the Lewis Avenue Congregational Church, at 5:30. Tuesday, October 30 Evening, wedding of Miss Florence Newman and Henry Irwin, 21 Seventh avenue, 7 o'clock. Wednesday, October 31 Afternoon, wedding of Miss Nannie Mason and Wendell Col ton, 13S Hicks street, 5 o'clock; wedding of Miss Ethel Merritt and Guion Trowbridge. St.

John's Church, 4:30. Afternoon and evening. Dr. and Mrs Victor Baillard, first of two At Homes, 458 Washington avenue, 4 to 10. Thursday, November 1 Afternoon, Miss Edith Whitney and Harry L.

Batterman, Church of the Transfiguration, Borough of Manhattan, 4 o'clock. Wednesday, November 7 Wedding of Miss Edna Letltla Dare and Charles Edward Porter, Emanuel Baptist Church. Evening, wed ing of Miss Eleanor Treadwell and Louis Edgar Blackwell, First Reformed Church, Seventh avenue. Thursday, November 8 Afternoon wedding of Miss Elizabeth W. Barnes and William Brevoort Potts, 11 West Forty ninth Btreet, Borough of Manhattan.

Evening, wedding of Miss May Belle Mason and Dr. John Cochran 860 President street, 8 o'clock. Wednesday, November 14 Afternoon wedding of Miss Anna Pinkerton and Lewis Mills Gibb, First Reformed Church, 5 o'clock; wedding of Miss Flora Clauser and George Clinton Germond, Memorial Presbyterian Church, 4 o'clock. Afternoon and evening: Dr. and Mrs.

Victor Baillard. second of two At Homes, 45S Washington avenue, 4 to 10. Saturday, November 17 Afternoon: Wedding of Miss Louise Maxwell and Howard F. Whitney, Church of the Saviour. 5 o'clock.

Tuesday, Novemher 20 Evening: Musicale of the Volentp Club, Pouch Gallery. Wednesday, November 21 Afternoon: Wedding of Miss Olga Waite and Robert Hazel tine, College Chapel, Ithaca, N. 5 o'clock. Thursday, November 22 Evening: Wedding of Miss Kathryn Isabel Reed and Robert Low Plerrepont. Grace Church, 8 o'clock.

Tuesday, November 27 Evening: First meeting Tuesday In and Out Club, residence of Mrs. Chester I. Richards, 28 Montgomery place. Wednesday, November 2S Afternoon: Debut of Miss Louise Lee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Donald S. L. Lee, 118 Willow street. Saturday, December 1 Debut of Miss Millicent Turle. daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert H. Turle, 34 Monroe place; wedding of Miss Elizabeth C. Gilkinson, M. and G.

Coleabury Purnes. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. Thursday, December 6 (probably) Evening: First subscription concert and dance of the Baillard Glee Club, Plerrepont Assembly rooms. Saturday, December 8 Afternoon: Second At Home, Mrs.

Robert H. Turle, Miss Turle, 34 Monroe place. Saturday, December 22 Evening: Holiday i wrought Iron, lor the pattern is an exact imitation of an ironwork design. But a slender frame of laths, a little wire and crape paper are the materials that have been employed. Within the cozy corner the sides are decorated with fantastic and novel designs in black crape paper, which will be found suggestive for the visitor on the lookout for something new.

The dragon's head, over the top of the grill, is made of plaster and tinted black, and the old sun dial which swings at the side of the alcove is an exact reproduction in antique wood effect of one that was found in an old fashioned garden some years ago. In the cozy corner already referred to, and the others, in which the screen and fireplace appear the frieze, the cranes and chains are all made of black crape paper. The hood over the chimney shelf is covered with black paper, and the front and sides of the chimney place in scarlet, with applied decoration in black. The effect is excellent. The fire screen is ornamented top and bottom with a grill as jSarefully executed as that over the doorway of the entrance to the cozy corner, and while the complete design of this paper corner in red and black may not be adaptable for the modern conservative Brooklyn home, the decorative scheme suggests ways and means of decorating an apartment in an inexpensive way, and is particularly adaptable for a smoking room, bachelor girl's den, or even the general sitting room.

Crape paper is to be had In every conceivable color and in a multiplicity of artistic floral designs, as well as plain tones; so that any variation in the color scheme that is desired may be carried out. Crape paper novelities are not, however.the COZY THE possibilities in the way of artistic effect that may be achieved with crape paper have, within the past few years, practically opened up a new field of usefulness for women of artistic ability and enterprise, and from the common candle and lamp shade, which was about the first step in the general use of crape paper for decorative purposes, the list has grown until now this pliable material is fashioned by deft fingered young women into all sorts of draperies and utilized for wall covering, screens, grills and a dozen and one forms of effective decoration. Some idea of the extent to which this inexpensive material is manipulated by skillful fingers may be gathered from the accompanying illustrations, which represent a section in one of the large Brooklyn department stores which has for some years made a specialty of crape paper goods. At present they are here' showing some novel arrangements which, with a hint or two from the department attendants, the average feminine visitor will be able to reproduce in her own home if she so chooses. The color tones are scarlet and black and attention must first be called to the cozy corner, which is an exceedingly artistic bit of work.

The framework is of slender laths and cardboard, over which is pasted scarlet crape paper, the crinkled surface doing' away with the severely plain effect that might be expected. The festooning over the top, and the long drapery at the sides, is made entirely from crape paper, and it Is surprising into what graceful folds this material will fall when rightly adjusted. The grill over the top is also fashioned from crape 'paper, although at first glance it would be difficult to distinguish it from Ji 9fem3 A 1 miiiiiiiM Louise Triusey, Miss Frances Williams, Miss Alice Birdsall, Miss Louise Lee, Miss Julia Barr, Miss Ruth Howard, Miss Millicent Turle, Miss Jessie Neergaard. OI these Miss Louise Lee, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Donald S. L. Lee of 11S Willow street, has had the day her presentation named, Wednesday, November 23. Should the early days of the season offer nothing else than the debuts of these girls, these would be a sufficiently attractive programme. But these receptions will be but the starting point.

A great many private dances are to be given in honor of these young women, some of them really balls of magnitude. Luncheons will probably also be a feature oE these weeks. The prospect, all in all, is exceptionally brilliant and striking. TKeMJtanie'balls will 'make it a decided dancing year. This is a feature of an emphatic saving quality, for the outlook for subscription dances is decidedly meager.

The reference for the moment is to the Heights set. As regards the other sections of the city, there will be, it is likely, quite as much subscription dancing gayety as ever. But the Heights in this respect has been swept very nearly bare. The position with its attendant circumstances is decidedly a curious one. First of all.

the Ihpetonga no longer exists as a foundation. Neither the Cinderellas ncr the Friday Evening Dances are to be continued this year. The Assemblies died a twelvemonth ago, resisting at that time all well meant attempts at revival. Thus, in the Heights, but one organization or class remains the Junior Cotillon, now at the beginning of its fourth season, including in Us membership only the very youngest element of society the girls who will be this year's debutantes and the men of corresponding ages. For those older merely a single organization appears, a substantially new order of cotillons which will have three meetings.

It was told in this column last spring the Sunday after the Post Lenten Subscription Cotillon had been given of how its undoubted success on the very night of its dancing led many to pray its managers to evolve it into a series in the fall. This project was thought well of and the dances are to be given. The debutantes as well aB the older girls of society will be asked to participate. Precisely the same young women of the Heights as ran the dance of last spring are to manage these. They are Miss Florence Lee, Miss Mary Earle, Miss Clara Ogden, Miss Grace Chauncey and Miss Marian Ward Low.

A social lesson of much significance lies behind the Junior Cotillon, now heir and master of the situation, and it is that the Borough of Manhattan principle is right, that true society management in America must be vested in the older married women. Dances and classes led by the younger element, married or unmarried, men or girls, seldom succeed in thoroughly establishing themselves. The Junior Cotillon owes its strength to this logic. Four women have ruled its destinies and are its patronesses as well as its sponsors. In consequence, at the beginning of its fourth year, it is quite impossible to admit all the management would actually like included.

1900 1901's plans are fairly well shaped for these cotillons. The patronesses will be as beforeMrs. J. Augustus Hewlett. Mrs Horace C.

Du Val, Mrs. Sturges Coffin and Mrs. George Notman. Two dances will be given a holiday cotillon on the evening of December 22, and an Easter cotillon (it Is very likely to be a cotillon and not a plain dance), on April 13. The Pierrepont Assembly Rooms are to witness both these dances, and they will be exceedingly pretty and well devised.

Since the membership already numbers 120 and the theoretical limit is 100, no new invitations will be sent out at first, though a few may be issued later. When this class was started four years ago its membership comprised the Juvenile element of the Heights alone, 13 to 15 being the average of ages. The years have graduated this set properly into society. A new younger element is naturally awaiting to succeed, and a new juvenile cotillon is asked. It Is very probable that this may be set under way.

A very prominent Heights woman has been requested to get it up, and she may decide to do so. There are two possibilities of the hour, which, if they grow Into social actualities! will have much bearing upon the season i only attractions of this particular section. In reality this brilliant background serves to set in excellent relief the more lasting novi elties in wood and plaster, which represent, many of them, the original ideas of a clever young w'oman. Candlesticks are the most prominent articles In the wood collection and naturally because they range in size from a height of six feet to that of a few inches. They are considerable of a departure from the more ornate designs to which we havo become accustomed In these days, and are exact reproductions of old English patterns.

Their look of solidity and lack of ornamentation proclaim them relics of a day when usefulness and beauty were not so frequently the characteristics of articles for household service as nowadays. Although some of these candle holders may appear to ejea lu ub sumewuat cruue, their simplicity of form makes them an attractive bit of decoration as well as undeniably useful articles and the generality of visitors to this department admire them very much. A couple of sticks in the group referred to are of porcelain in an effective greenish shade, one representing a frog with a candle in his mouth and the other in the design familiar in loving cups. The remainder are of wood in dark, rich tones, resembling highly polished walnut. It is a fact that the average man who smokes a pipe has no special liking for a pipe rack.

It is much more to his taste to lay his pipe on a table, mantel or other convenient place, when he is not using it, but aa bits, of artistic decoration for a smoking room or bachelor's den, these racks are admirable. As will be noticed, some of them may be utilized as stein holders or racks for the display of odd bits of pottery, such an men occasionally collect for their special apartments, and there is a decided appropriateness about these ornamental devices that is likely to appeal to masculine taste. The dagger in the foreground is claimed to be an exact reproduction of the dagger of Brutus and the other designs require no special explanation. In contrast to the usual style of decoration and ornamentation Is a queer oblong rack, with a feminine figure at either end, one with a pipe in Its mouth. Under one are the words, "I smoke and under the other, "I don't." Completing the attractions in this artiBtio little nook is a group of plaster casts and figures tinted and molded in exact imitation of antique wood.

It is for their nrHn a sign rather than any special claim to novelty that these figures attract the attention they do because in old ivory coloring something of the same kind has been shown here before But this later collection excels its irMJ sore in many ways and the rich dark color ing ahd the genera effect nf designs commend them to the notice of thon seeking for artistic decorative articles that are not costly. The book lover will doubtless bo interested in the book racks, modeled in the design of the German renaissance. They come in various sizes and the hinged sides are simply and elaborately ornamented with brass which contrasts excellently with the dark wood They are inexpensive and are very desirable for the student or reader who likes to have favorite books in a convenient place close to desk or reading chair. Then they are ornamental as well as useful. Taken altogether this brilliant little corner of a big depart store Is a very attractive placo to visit.

NEW MANILA POST OFFICE. Washington, October 13 A recent issue ot a Manila paper received at the War Department contains the information that a new modern post office buildiug for the Philippines is to bo built in Manila at an early date. The site of the building has not yet been determined upon, but a spot on the Paslg River near the Bridge of Spain is Baido possess special advantages. The building will bo mado sufficiently largo to accommodate all the federal departments. CLAIM AGAINST THE STATE.

Albany, N. October 13 Elizabeth Hon derson, a dining room attendant employed at tho State Hospital, Buffalo, has filed a claim against, inu state lor damages for personal injuries sustained by slipping and falling on the polish floors. Miss Henderson alleges that her right arm wds brfikinn and Unit ANTIQUE WOOD EFFECTS IN PLASTER. aer injuries are nermaaeufa.