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I THE WEEK IN SOCIETY. father is a clergyman, of Philadelphia, and related to the Al-sops. The ceremony was performed at half after five o'clock by the Rev. Dr. Reese F.

Alsop at his home, 96 Remsen street The bride wore a traveling gown of brown velvet, and only members of the two immediate families were present. The wedding was a complete surprise to the youthful bride's acquaintances, many of whom were not fully apprised of her engagement. THE particularly noteworthy feature of the wedding of Miss Esther Holt Henshaw and Mr. Frederic Kingsland Mid-dlebrook, at Bellport, Long Island, on Thursday of last week, was the uncommonly picturesque decoration of the little Episcopal church known as Christ Chapel, in which the ceremony took place shortly before noon. The entire body of the church the walls as well as the ends of the pews was brilliant with autumn-tinted oak leaves, while in the chancel similar autumn foliage provided a background for potted ferns, foliage plants and quantities of white dahlias and chrysanthemums from the gardens or conservatories of friends in the neighborhood, some of whom lent their assistance in decorating the church.

Otherwise the wedding was very simple. The ceremony was per-fon jed by the Rev. Irving McElroy, rector of the chapel, and witj the exception of a few relatives and intimate friends who wert down from the city, the attendance was exclusively of BellW residents. The bride, wearing a gown of white crepe de chine and lace, with the regulation bridal veil of tulle and carrying a bouquet of white cosmos, was attended by her youngest sister, Miss Cornelia Gracie Henshaw, who wore a dainty gown of white silk, a large white hat trimmed with pink roses and carried a bouquet of pale pink dahlias. The bride was given in marriage by her brother, Mr.

G. Herbert Henshaw, and Mr. Frederick Valdemar Henshaw and Mr. Walter Percival Henshaw acted as ushers. Mr.

John Duer Irving, professor of geology at Lehigh, was the groomsman. Owing to the limited accommodations of the Henshaw cottage on Bellport avenue only a very small number had been invited to the breakfast, which was quite informal. The bride is the second daughter of Mrs. Cornelia Middagh Henshaw, of 79 State street, and of the late George Holt Henshaw, of Montreal, while the bridegroom is a grandson of the late Charles Congdon, formerly of the Heights. Mr.

and Mrs. Middle-brook will occupy an apartment for the winter at 101 West Eighty-sixth street, Manhattan. CARDS announcing the marriage in Baltimore on Wednesday, the eighteenth, of Miss Louise Poole Thompson, daughter of Mrs. George W. Thompson, to the Rev.

Paul Flynn Swett were received last week. The wedding was apparently a very quiet one, but Bishop Burgess and Miss Burgess have sent out invitations for a reception to the bride and groom at the See House in Garden City from four until seven o'clock on Wednesday, November the first. The bride groom was curate of Grace Church during the incumbency as rector of the present bishop of the diocese of Long Island. Afterwards he became canon of the Cathedral at Garden City, but somewhat over a year ago was appointed by the bishop to take charge of the Church Charity Foundation on Herkimer street, in which capacity he has worked wonders, the reestab-lishment "of the institution on a sound financial basis being largely due to his effort's. Canon Swett is still occupying this office, but his residence will be in Garden City, where the bride and groom will be at home after the fifteenth of November.

TUESDAY, November twenty-first, has been set as the date of the marriage of Miss Blanche Creighton Morrison, daughter of the late Cornelius Morrison, of Flatbush, to Mr. Arthur Wellington Opp. The ceremony will be performed in St Paul's Church, Flatbush, at half after eight It was in tended that this wedding should be a very elaborate one, with a maid-of-honor, two matrons-of-honor, four bridesmaids and seven attendants for the groom, but on account of the recent death of the father of the bride-elect it will be a very quiet affair, with no reception to follow. Miss Florence Morrison will attend her sister as maid-of-honor and Mrs. Edward White, of Manhattan, will be the matron-of-honor.

The best man will be Dr. Daniel Livingston Morrison, and the ushers Mr. Charles Carlson, Mr. Charles Whitbeck and Mr. William Hillman, of Brooklyn, and Dr.

Walter McLain, of Manhattan. THE November brides will include Miss Pansy Smith, daughter of Judge and Mrs. Wilmot M. Smith, of Pat-chogue, Long Island. Miss Smith is to be married to Mr.

Herbert Garfield Williamson, son of Mrs. John Williamson, of 25 Third place, on the eighteenth, at Patchogue. Miss Smith is a Packer girl of the class of 1903. She belonged to the dramatic club and was not only extremely popular in her own class but was the special admiration of the younger, being distinguished as having the greatest number of "crushesw--to use a schoolgirl term. Her family is more or less identified with Brooklyn and spent a winter on the Heights not long ago.

IT comes about that the first big event of the gay season on the Heights will be a charity function for the management of the Little Italy Settlement perhaps the most fashionable of Brooklyn philanthropies has taken time by the forelock, secured the Heights Casino for the evening of Wednesday, November the twenty-ninth, and has already enlisted the patronage of the most influential matrons of the Heights. The committee in charge is composed of Mr. John Hill Morgan, Mr. David Stuart, Mr. H.

Edward Dreier, Mr. Ellis Lord, president of the Little Italy Association; Mr. Eugene Boucher and Mr. Claude Liebman. Only the last three are members of the Little Italy Association and the directors of the association will only participate as guests in the affair, which will be the first large dancing function to be held in the Casino building.

The list of patronesses has not yet been completed. THE dancing calendar begins to indicate the approach of the gay season. "The Junior Cotillon" was first in the field for the new Heights Casino, and now the Fortnightlies, who have quite graduated from the social kindergarten but still continue under their old name, have secured the same attractive accommodations. The Fortnightlies, in spite of their name, will no longer be held fortnightly, but on Saturday evenings, December the twenty-third, January the thirtieth, February seventeenth, March seventeenth and Tuesday evening, April seventeenth, under the patronage of Mrs. Franklin W.

Hopkins, Mrs. Edward Marshall Grout, Mrs. James Guthrie Shaw, Mrs. S. Edwin Buchanan, Mrs.

William Murray, Mrs. Charles Frederick Neergaard, Mrs. Edwin L. Snedecker, Mrs. Charles William Frazier, Mrs.

Glentworth Reeve Butler, Mrs. Francis Sumner Ford, Mrs. William Pitman Earle, Mrs. F. A.

M. Burrell, Mrs. Horatio M. Adams and Mrs. William B.

Dudley. DATES for the holiday assemblies to be held at the Pouch Gallery have just been announced. They are November the twenty-eighth, January the second and April the eighteenth. The patronesses will be Mrs. Frank R.

Baker, Mrs. Laurens R. Bowden, Mrs. Charles M. Bull, Mrs.

John Francis, Mrs. William A. Hunter, Mrs. Frank S. Jones, Mrs.

Herbert T. Ketcham, Mrs. Alex. S. Kirkman, Mrs.

Edgar F. Luckenbach, Mrs. Harry S. Moul, Mrs. Frank B.

Ogilvie, Mrs. Charles W. Preston, Mrs. Edward S. Pilcher, Mrs.

E. Lowndes Rhett, Mrs. James Watt, Mrs. Henry Hayes Wood and Mrs. Frederick W.

Wurster. The committee in charge consists of Mrs. Roland W. Betts, Miss Adele H. Bull, Mrs.

Joseph T. D. Corn-well, Miss Anna Francis, Miss Helen F. Hunter, Miss Kate D. Ketcham, Miss Ethel Kirkman, Miss Mary Preston, Mrs.

William R. Simons and Miss Louise C. Wurster. THE wedding of Miss Rose Louise Hoppenstedt to Mr. Fritz Wilhelm Dauelsberg, junior, of Bremen, Germany, in the German Evangelical Church, on Schermerhorn street, last Saturday evening, was the occasion of the first considerable rally this autumn of society on the Heights, and incidentally of the less clearly defined German contingent of fashionable note.

It was the first really brilliant evening wedding of the season, the church being filled with a representative congregation, the ladies wearing the gayest of evening clothes and such jewels as are only considered appropriate at an evening function. A charming color combination of yellow and white was expressed in abundant floral decorations and in the costumes of the bride's attendants the maid of honor, Miss Anita Hoppenstedt, wearing a dainty frock of white Bruges net over white satin trimmed with a deep shade of yellow, while the six bridesmaids' gowns were of white net over yellow satin, embroidered in roses and trimmed with white lace. The bride's gown was of white satin and lace, with court train, and she wore the usual long veil of tulle and carried lilies of the valley. Her attendants, aside from her sister, were Miss Mary Dreier, Miss Katharine Dreier and Miss Hattie Dougherty, of Brooklyn, and Miss Elsie Hagedorn, Miss Irma Hagedorn and Mrs. George L.

Degener, of Manhattan. A departure from the color scheme was the pink roses, tied with pink satin ribbons, carried by all the attendants. The Rev. Dr. J.

W. Lach, pastor of the church, performed the ceremony. Mr. Ernest Biine-mann, who came over with the bridegroom from Germany, was the groomsman, while Mr. Edward Meyer, also from Bremen; Mr.

Alfred D. Byrne, of the Heights; Mr. Alfred W. Hoppenstedt and Mr. Edward H.

Hoppenstedt, the bride's two brothers Mr. George L. Degener, and Mr. William T. Rasmus were the ushers.

A handsome reception followed the ceremony at 138 Joralemon street, the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Gustav Ludwig Hoppenstedt, the bride's parents. Mr. and Mrs.

Dauelsberg, junior, sail on the seventh of next month for Bremen, which, much to the regret of the bride's many friends and contemporaries, is to be their home for the future. AN interesting but extremely quiet marriage of Saturday afternoon was that of Miss Mary Alsop, one of last season's debutantes and daughter of the rector of St Ann's Church-on-the-Heights, to Mr. Kent Kane Parrot, whose.