Baylies was in pale blue. Expensive gew¬ INSURED ON PAPER ONLY. gaws were distributed as cotillon favors. Some Wlio Were There. Restaurant Keeper Discovers His Policy Is PATRIARCHS III" Among the Patriarchs wlio attended-the Worthless, and Has the ball were: Agent Arrested. Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mils. Count Alexander Hadikf'Lispenard Stewart. Miss Clarlsse Living¬ An insurance lias been ston. Perry Belmont! Craig Wadsworth, Miss allowed swindler Daisy Post, Mr. find .Mrs. John 15. Drexel, C. C. landed in the toils by Restaurant Keeper Baldwin. Miss Katharine Duer, T. I'relinghuy- Foosa, of No. 505 Pearl street. Through sen, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Tiffany, Mrs. August lielmont. Mrs. Astov, Mrs. John Jamb Astor. his efforts John Harris, an agent of the Mrs, Finds and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clews. Miss Clews, the "Union American Fire Insurance Com¬ Stamper Desertion of Delmonico's for Misses Gerry. Henry K, Taylor. Worthington Whltehouse, Richard Peters, Mr. and Mrs. Henry pany," purporting to have offices at Xo. 20 Loses Her Daughter After the Waldorf Marred a Sloane, Mr. and Mrs. Mos?s Taylor. Mr. and Cedar street, was arrested yesterday and Mrs. Reginald De Koven, Mr. and Mrs. Duncan in bail Elliott; Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. William Sloane, held $500 by Magistrate Flammer. Thirteen Years. Tradition, Miss Evelyn Sloane. the Misses Clarkson. Miss Early in January last Foosa took out a Caroline I.. Goodridge. the Misses Delatield, policy for $500. Later he learned that no Iliehard S. Palmer. Fernando Yznaga. Mr. and such company existed. Last week an agent Mrs. Karrick Kiggs, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Oakley called with a policy for the new year and Jessie to Come to Her, But the Did Not Affect Khlnelander. Mr. and Mrs. John Hone. Mr. and asked for the $2 premium. Foosa put the Implored Change Mrs. T. S. Taller, Mr. and Mrs. Whitney War¬ agent off, telling him to call next day. In¬ but ren. Mr. and Mrs. Egerton L. Winthrop, Charles stead, a young man giving the name of J. Received Reproachful the Spirit of the Dancers, and A. Munn, H. I). Bobbins, Edward Crownlnshield," J. Collins presented tlie policy and was ar¬ Mr. and Mrs. ilormaim Oelriebs. Miss Virginia rested by a detective in waiting. Magis¬ Letter in Reply. All Was Fair. Mr. and Mrs. I. Townseud Burden. Miss trate Flammer discharged the prisoner, as Joyous. Evelyn' Burden. Eliot Gregory, Frederic O. he claimed to be simply an agent acting by Beach, Augustus A. Gurnee, ltobert C. and knew about the com¬ Sands, the Misses Mortoh. Miss Cush- mail, nothing Woman Is in New York and ing, Mr. and Mrs. C. Albert Stevens. pany. Unhappy Floral Decorations a Marvel, Women's James W. Gerard, Jr., Mr. and Mrs.- Richard The next day Harris, the original caller, Her in Mortimer. Mr. and Mrs. M. Orme Wilson, Rich¬ showed up. Foosa sent for the police and Unloving Child Toilettes Superb and a Dazzling ard T. Wilson. Jr.. Mr. and Mrs. Belmont Tif- had this one arrested. Harris also claimed fanq. Miss Tiffany, Miss Garrison. It. I!. Van to be an outside agent, living at Xo. 61 Topeka, Kan. Show of Diamonds. ('ortlandt Bronson Winthrop. Wiulield S. Hoyt, Bond street, Brooklyn. In default of bail Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Harriman. Creighton Webb, the prisoner was locked up in the Tombs. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Sorchon. Mr. and Mrs. ADOPTED BY WING Casimir de Itham. Miss Beatrix Jones, the Misses SHOT IRWIN.. ELISHA DYER, JR., LED COTILLON. Gurnee, Schuyler Schieffelin. Alexander M. Had- DIVORCED FROM A POET, den, Arthur Kempe. the Messrs. Pell. George A. Morrison. Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Newbold, Mr. He Was When Decree Was Granted, Sequel io the Story of a Home Broken Up Was Served in the Room, and Mrs. W. Starr Miller. Miss Euretta Kerno- Happy Supper Big Dining efiati. Miss Whitney, Louis Webh, the Misses and Said He Would Write a Poem and Children Scattered.Mother and Distinguished Foreign Diplomats in Honor of the Court. Reunited to All Now Save Were Among the Patriarchs' Her Youngest. Honored Guests. Adelbert Berger, of Newark, X. J., is a brushmaker by trade, a poet by inclina¬ Jessie Irwin does not remember her The Patriarchs danced in the gray dawn tion. He wears a string of medals fash¬ mother. She was only three years old this morning. And they danced out at ioned from brass to prove that he is a when they parted, and that was thirteen least one tradition nearly a quirter of a good brushmaker, and carries with him years ago. century o!d. Yet she has written her mother a cruel, was the Vet the fart that last night's chiding letter, in response to a well-meant first In the of the Patriarchs ball history and affectionate attempt to reunite a fa/.i- to be held from the shelter of the awsy that was sundered misfortune. An<8 did not interfere with lly by Deluionico rooftree that is the end of Mrs. Xu one se°med to de¬ Mary Stamper's! anybody's pleasure. search for her child. tect an inauspicious omen in the circum¬ Mrs. lives at No. 159 East stance, and there were no conjectures about Stamper the possibility of Ward McAllister turning Ninety-sixth street. The joy of find¬ In his grave. In fact, all- the revellers de¬ ing thf* long-lost Jessie and the pain clared that the Waldorf ballroom was nice of being repulsed by her, have come to her enoucrh for anything, and the supper a within the last two weeks. All that she thing of joy. » has now to remind her of her shattered The new environment was not the only hopes are a few pretty dresses suitable for outward and visible sign of a tendency to a girl of sixteen, which she had procured break away from McAllisterian tradition. in view of her daughter's expected arrival. There was a handwriting on the wall, legi¬ It was in Kansas City that Jessie was ble enough, even though it was outlined In separated from her mother. There were festoons of leaves and blossoms. It pro¬ five children in the family.three boys and claimed that the Patriarchs' dances as two girls. Jessie was the youngest. The originally planned are a thing of the past. father was a hard drinker, and after a bit¬ The Patriarchs, were the best thing in¬ ter struggle in the face of bad health and vented by the late Ward McAllister/ They worse luck, the woman who is now Mrs. were designed as a broad meeting ground Stamper broke up her home and allowed * for society in a general. sense. and as a lier children to be adopted into various means cf extending courtesies to strangers families. within the gates of Gotham. The latter- The older children were taken into the day Patriarchs have changed ali that. households of neighbors in Kansas City. There may have been 250" people at the Jessie was adopted by W. T. Irwin, of first ball of the 1S9G-7 season, given last Topeka, the noted wing shot. The mother night, and there may have been less. There came East soon afterward and sailed for were certainly no more. In fact, supper England, her native place. From time to wa3 ordered for a -much smaller number. time she heard word from her older chil¬ Nevertheless, the occasion smacked of all dren, but could ne'fer obtain any informa¬ its old-time brilliance and verve. tion about Jessie, whom she loved best 01* The Patriarchs are never eurly. Last all. After a while sne returned to Amer¬ and n'ght they were unnstfally late. A great ica, got a divorce from her husband, two she was married to John. many of them had shown theii* gowns at several dozen verses to substantiate, bis years ago the opera first. Oij alighting from their claim tp being poet. Stamper, a cigarmaker. a, three sons are broughams they were usheied up a short Yesterday he in Mrs. Stamper's practising appeared Chancery in and her elder daugh¬ flight of stairs to the cloak rooms, which Chambers, Jersey to answer his dentistry Chicago, City, ter has married and settled down near had been apportioned off on the balcony wife's application for divorce upon the floor. Thence, after divesting themselves ground .of desertion and with undisguised Salt Lake City. themselves pleasure heard that she had been About two months ago Mrs. Stamper de¬ of their wraps and prinking her granted her Jessie. So beats freedom. termined to find daughter discreetly for the fierce light tfiat The poet is about four feet ten inches she wrote a letter to Colonel Samviel. ti>« doncUig jlQor, they descended to tall and has long black hair which curls ltogers, the publisher of the directory ot upon his shoulders. He wore an old black Topeka, and askect his assisulme lil Hunt¬ the ballroom. ulster that for her child. All the information she Voted dragged upon the ground, and ing Deoorailons Snpcrl). was trimmed with cat fur. Ills hat was could give him was that the name of tiro The decorations were viewed with eyes an old-fashioned. bell-crowned beaver. man who lind adopted Jessie was John made critical in such Strung across his lemon colored, double Irving, or Irwin. Colonel Iiodgers lobked by long experience breasted vest, which a of 1883. The only were voted Small had seen better days, through directory matters. They superb. were the medals. He told a crowd of Irving or Irwin he found was W. T. Irwin, had excelled himself in the effort to con¬ lawyers that lie had won them at Waverly whose wife is still living in Topeka. vert the magnificent apartment into a trop¬ fair making brushes. He recited some al- Mrs. Irwin told Colonel ltodgers that she' with the le*"-f Brna* ami StrlnR-. lvn, Ralph N. Ellis. George K. Pealing. I. this city to find out what they could about Townsend Burden. Jr.. Miss Bisbop. Mr. and met in the Coliseum Hall yesterday and a thor¬ Hidden in the bowered were two Mr. BALL AT THE WALDORF, AND ONE OF fHE FOUNDERS. Mrs. Stamper. Chief Conlin. after bclcony Mrs. A. Lanfear Xorrie. the .Misses Morgan. THE PATRIARGfIS listened to a number of red-hot speeches ough investigation, sent word to Colonel bands, which relieved each other fiud Mrs. PlKre Lorillard Ronalds, Jr., the Misses dance was test removed from Delmonico's to above- men¬ a through¬ Mr. and Mrs. I*. Caiimuiuii, The scene of this ultra-fashionable night tl?e against the members of the City Council. Hodges that Mrs. Stamper was respecta¬ 'n Barber. George hard woman. Thereupon out the night making music for the feet Mr. and Mrs. Kills Hoffman. Miss Hoffman, hotel. The attendance was limited to less than four hundred persons, but the affair was very brilliant, The were the Rev. Thomas Uz- ble, working nf the dancers. They were the Waldorf Mr. and Mrs. George W. Kidil. Miss Georgette tioned Speakers Colonel Hodges obtained proofs of Jessie Ktdd. I.eonidas Westervelt. Mrs. Edward L. women The cotillon was lead by Elisha Dyer, Jr., and zeU and the Kev. Myron W. Iteed, who Irwin's and forwarded them to orchestra and Lander's Band of twenty. the costumes of the being exceptionally magnificent. have been identity Lander's people played this programme: Keycs, Miss Keyrs, Mr. and Mrs. Jaines Clinch always considered friends of the mother ten days ago. Mrs. Stamper Smith. Mr. and Mrs. J. Lee Taller, the Misses Mrs. Ravlies. and was late in beginning. the and need}-. one of her sons In Walt* Geisha appressed then asked Chicago-to Hoppin. Mrs. W. YY. Hoppin. Livingston Beeok- The former suggested, as the quickest go to Topeka and send Jessie to her. Two Stop El Cnpitaii man, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Plnsmore, Jr., to about a for the to her brother but Will z took on way bring change bet¬ Jessie was glad see t Knntaka Mr. and Mrs. Newbold Morris. Mr. and Mrs. White satin. The waist had a deep sold place Sunday. ter. to take out half a dozen members of return to her mother. Instead, Polka Herzens Frederic Mr. and Mrs. William A. iMier. a of white chiffon. refused to Konlgin Ktfey. belt which mot bertha Sweeney, it is said, had known Mrs. the City Council and bury tlrem in the Mrs. Stamper a cutting letter, . Waltz Flowers blue she wrote Spring the Misses Wetmorc. Count Sierstorpff. Miss Cliurcli. >!rs. Benjamin S..Sapphire of bed of Creek as a W;'ltz 1'rau Schau V.'ehrn Madeline Knowlton. Mr. and Mrs. Gerfildyn velvet, triuimcd with point lace. IJoyd sincfe girlhood, and after the death Cherry warning to their blaming her for having married again t'olkn Cotton I'iekers. Redmond. the Mifses de Pcvster. Mr. and Mrs. Miis.Pink trimmed with her to his attentions successors that the chances of the work- while her first husband was living. This Cutting. satin, husband began bestow should not be in in the West, Waltz I>»s Ii'.otides Oliver Iselin. James .T. Van Alen. Miss Van pink t'llle and red roses. her. ingmen overlooked order husband is now somewhere Dp'-jc Ten'pe Virtorluse .Men. Mr. and Mrs. Butler Dunenn and Mr. and Cutting, Miss Mudelaine.Blue satin, upon that politicians could fatten their own and Mrs. Stamper believes that hP has The dresses are described in another Mrs. E. Clarkson Potter. combined with embroidered blue chjiTon. The bridegroom to be died' at the home nurses at the expense of the many. Reso¬ their daughter Jessie against B..White satin, were for con- prejudiced . place. It remains to be told here that the The present list of Patriarchs comprises De Forest, Mm. George of liis prospective bride, Xo. 141 South lutions passed calling the her mother. . embroidered with silver Mowers. The cor¬ struction of city water works, street paving now at the home of her married display of diamonds was remarkable, and the Messrs. John Jacob Astor, Ed illiind L. soft puffs Fourth street. He was stricken while visit¬ Jessie is that an Belmont, Heber H. sage showed little trimming. Just and viaducts in order to keep the unem¬ sister near Salt Lake City, but Mrs. extraordinary amount of white Baylies, August Bishop. of lace here and there. ing her, and death was due to typhoid of seeing satin was worn. Indeed, there were ac¬ (leorge S. Bowdoiu, .Tames Abercrombie satin, ployed busy. Stamper has given up all hope De Koven. Mrs. Reginald.White pneumonia. A was called, and The Rev. Mr. Reed reminded his hearers from whom she so many cidental groups and clusters formed now Burden, William A. Duer. Sir Roderick trimmed with jet and red roses. Were to Have Been Married physician the child parted and than which wefre to create Cameron. W. Bayard Cutting, S. Van Elisha.Silver gray satin. It he said that it would be dangerous to re¬ that under the Constitution they have yet years ago. enough the Dyer, Mrs. left to them the of carrying arms, _____ illusion that a galaxy of buiiies had gathered Rensselaer Cruger. diaries D. Dickey. was fussed up a bit with some exquisite move him to his own home. Mrs. Boyd privilege Hamilton. Fish, Frederic Gallatin. John to relieve its otherwise Died stating that "we may yet lie called upon together, Sometimes, as in the ease of lace, just enough Soon, but Both nursed death and a to that V. BELL JOINS TALCOTT. Gardiner. Elbridge T. (Jerry. William severe the man,until came, Exercise prerogative." L. Miss Bertha Monde, the prevailing style Lyon simplicity. Bent-Pale pins satin. was varied by the of white Gibson, Robert Goelet. Ogden Goelet, J. Grant. Miss Julia few days after his funeral she, too. was wearing moire. Ha¬ The 1 Malice was trimmed with clouds of pink Within Two Weeks. MORGAN'S GUARANTEE. Wall Street Operator Will Be¬ Nor need it be said that no two of these Hooker Haniersley, George Griswoid full bertha, and taken ill, due to exhaustion. On Friday OVER Spectacular white ven. Adrian Iselin, Columbus (VI). Iselin. chiffon, which made a deep, o.f the Former gowns were alike, even in the small¬ Bradish Johnson. .Tames I\ Kernoelian. frills over her shoulders, in lieu of sleeves. night she died. Before the end came Mrs. come a Partner est details. Some of them were enveloped Grant. Mrs. Frederick: Dent.Yellow New York Banker Will Not Get These Charles Lanier, Woodbury G. Langdon, with Boyd exclaimed to those about her bedside: Baseball Magnate. in priceless lace, others in tinsel ami oth¬ Johnston Edward brocade, effectively trimmed golden Mr. Was Taken III "I been married Bonds, ers with flowers. the cos¬ Livingston. Livingston. brown velvet, which was draped on the Sweeney was to have in a week Mortgage Among black .1. Will¬ of were tumes none was so as that of Bradley Martin. I'ierpont Morgan, waist, forming a corselet. Loops it to Mr. Sweeney, but he lias preceded me Washington, Dec. 21..Bids for .$2,780,000 Louis V. Bell, the daring Wall Street striking iam Ootliout, William Cruger Pell. White- mixed with others of laee around the shoul¬ While at His Sweet¬ Mrs. John C. Westervelt. It was of tulle law Reid. William Rhinelander. J. Hamp¬ Calling in death, and we will meet in heaven." first mortgage'bonds, now held in the sink- who has been during the past over satin, and it fairly glittered with ders and neck. operator side of jet. den Robb, Jaines H. Roosevelt, Eugene hcjes, Miss.White satin with quantities of heart's Home. At the home of the deceased, the daughr ing fund of the Central Pacific Railroad year so many times on the right It still "lacked a few minutes of 1 a. m. on the bodice. Schieffelin. John Steward. Jr.. Anson wh'te chiffon ter. Mrs. Williams, said that, while she were at the as to have "cleaned up" several when the inaitre d'hote] announced supper. Phelps Stokes. Edward N. Tailer, Cornelius Marshall. Mrs. Charles H, Satin Company, opened Treasury De¬ the market The 11 Committee, consisting of James P. VaK'lerbilt, James M. Waterbnry. Engene trimmed with point lace, which was draped had understood that her mother was to partment to-day, and this afternoon awards good sized fortunes, will become a partner W . Kvrnochan, \Vatts Sherman and Will¬ L. Wintlirop, William C. Whitney, M. on the waist and held there by Jewel orna- Nursed H6r Lover marry Mr. Sweeney some day, she had of Edward B. Talcott, the former baseball iam C. Whitney, led the way to the ments. Mrs. Boyd Tenderly, were made, as follows: dining Orme Wilson. Buchanan AVinilirop and heard of no date being set for the wedding. after January 1. room, on the Fifth avenue side of the hotel, Rhinelander Stewart. There were Moore. Mrs. Clement C..Rose pink satin, but He in a Speyer & Co., New York, Central Pacific magnate through the Oriental and tiie Louis Quluze William set off with witching little frills of white Expired Whatever her mother had said on the sub¬ The firm of Amory, Worden & * of several absentees in this list last night, lace, on in the airiest sort of way, giv¬ 1897. .$218,000 at -100 and accrued interest; drawing rooms. Supper was served fit little Martin. Whltelaw Iieid. put Few ject was said, she believed, while she was No. 80 Broadway, of which Louis Boll is at tallies of four, six and eight covers. including Bradley ing the idea that they had just fluttered Days. Central Pacific, 1898, Sl.3^0,000 at lOOVi will dissolve by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Ogden Goelet and there and might fly away at the least provo- ill, and she did not think that she knew ex¬ interest. present a special partner, This arrangement threw the distinguished catiou. and accrued mutual consent on the first of the year. guests of the Patriarchs into Immediate Robert Goelet. actly what she was saying, as she was suf¬ Kuhn, Loeb & Co., New York, Union Pa¬ will retire, and the. \eilson, Miss Belle.White satin trimmed h«M5 Daniel T. Worden contact with their hosts. Instead of being with black velvet. TEN DAYS AFTERWARD SHE DIED. from fever and was Irrational. cific, 1 and 1897, $338,000 at 103.05; name of the new firm will be J>eli & Co-, at what was known as THE GOWNS. fering Union 1898 and at at present. The segregated derisively SOME OF IVeilson. Mrs. Frederic.White, satin, set The of Mrs. occurred on Pacific, 1899, $001,000 with the same offices used the "royal table" under the McAllister off with laee and dinmorids. funeral Boyd 103.30; Kansas Pacific. 1890, .$142,000 at 109. members of the new iii'rn will !>(» Kdward regime. Last night's distinguished guests, White Satin Predominated and There Were Thompson, Mrs. R. M..White satin with Spoke of Meeting Mr. Sweeney in Heaven Sunday, from the Trinity Methodist Prot¬ Asiel & Co., New York, Kansas Pacific, Hell E B Talc«tt and Charles Edson, included Mnstapha Bey, Baron le Ghait, black velvet and old English point lace. She estant Church, South Fourth and' Boeb'ling 1895, ,$l.-)8.000 at 105.51. with Louis V. Bell as a special partner. the Belgian Minister: Baron Fava, of Italy, Striking Effects in Embroideries wore a beautiful amethyst necklace and a on the Last Day of Her Illness. streets, and the services were largely at¬ The Govern men t had been gua ranteed a Talcott will be the active board room and other note. diamond star in her hnir. tended. Mr. dlnlomats of Had Known Each Other price for these bonds, and prospective bid¬ member of the firm. . This was the menu: and Flowers Thompson, Miss Sarah Gihhs Worth They were that bids below this been made for creation of white de made abso¬ ders notified Arrangements have already The Patriarchs' Ball. Dec. 21, 1896. peau sole, Since Childhood. Miittin Hoys to Honor Mckinley, wonld be rejected. The guarantors were tlie out of town connection of the new Menn. The gowns at the ball last night were lutely plain. The :ual«rinl was draped and The committee appointed in the Twenty-second J. 1'. Morgan, of New York. They offered Baldwin, Farnum
PATRIARCHS III" Among the Patriarchs Wlio Attended-The Worthless, and Has the Ball Were: Agent Arrested
