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LIFE. 13 Squadron road coach on Monday, when the passengers included Miss Margaret Low White and her fiance, Mr. Francis Minot Weld. On Tuesday the passengers on the same coach included Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Pfizer, junior, Miss Lula Pfizer and Mr. John C. Wilmerding. CONSIDERING the positive rage for coaching and four-in-hand driving which has, I am creditably informed, gone to such an extent this spring that as much as twenty dollars a lesson is being paid by novices, among them many women, in acquiring the art of handling four horses, it is not surprising the annual parade of the Coaching Club on so ideal a day as last Saturday should have been the most brilliant on record. A full dozen perfectly appointed coaches, each carrying nearly a full quota of passengers, the smart spring gowns and hats of the women heightening immeasurably the pic-turesqueness of the spectacle, started through the west drive of Central Park for the circle at One Hundred and Fourth street, where Colonel William Jay, president of the club, who had led the way, stopped while the other coaches passed in review before him.

After this the coaches formed in line again and proceeded to Morris Park, where luncheon was served. THE whips of the respective coaches were Mr. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, whose guests included Mrs. Vanderbilt in gray white cloth and white hat trimmed with white ostrich feathers, Miss Natica Rives in mauve cloth and chiffon and Miss Evelyn Parsons; Mr.

Robert L. Gerry, in whose party were Mrs. Gerry in pale pink and black, and Miss Jean Reid in white and Irish lace Mr. James Henry Smith, with Mrs. Edmund L.

Baylies in gray voile on the box seat Mr. C. Ledyard Blair, with Mrs. Frederic Bull and Mrs. Edward Van Ingen among his guests; Mr.

E. Victor Loew, junior, whose guests included and Mrs. J. Norman de R. Whitehouse, the latter in hyacinth blue and a large white straw hat Mr.

James H. Hyde, among whose guests were Miss Natalie Schenck in pale gray crepe and Irish lace and a gray hat, and Mrs. George J. Gould in silver gray; Mr. Peter Gerry, on whose coach were Mrs.

J. Borden Harriman and Miss Angelica Gerry; Mr. Harry Payne Whitney, with Mrs. Whitney on the box seat and Mr. and Mrs.

Lawrence Waterbury behind; Mr. G. L. Boissevain, accompanied by his wife, who was entirely in white, Mr. and Mrs.

J. M. Ellsworth and Mr. and Mrs. John Magee, and Mr.

G. G. Haven, junior, whose guests consisted exclusively of men, among whom were Mr. Reginald Rives and Mr. Hamilton Cary.

On Colonel Jay's coach, which led the way, were Mrs. Jay entirely in black, Miss Eleanor Jay in red chiffon trimmed with white lace, and Miss Gladys Brooks and her fiancee, Mr. E. V. R.

Thayer, of Boston. AVERY quiet and quite unheralded wedding of this week was that of Miss Cornelia M. Russ, daughter of Mrs. John A. Russ, to Mr.

Daniel Kingsland De Beixedon, of 77 Eighth avenue. The ceremony was performed on Tuesday by the Rev. Charles W. Homer. Mr.

De Beixedon, I need not say, is a widower and was at one time prominently identified with social activities on the Hill. MR. and Mrs. Merwin Rushmore, the Misses Rushmore and Dr. Jacques Cortelyou Rushmore, of Washington avenue, expect to leave early in June for a trip to Norway and Sweden, intending to return in August to occupy Owls' Roost, their cottage in Twilight Park, in the Catskills.

Young Dr. Rushmore only received his degree of M. D. last Tuesday, when he was graduated with exceptionally high honors from the Long Island College Hospital, not only winning the much-coveted Ford prize, but obtaining the appointment of assistant to the lecturer on anatomy and the position of house surgeon in the hospital. Mr.

and Mrs. Ira Barrows, accompanied by Miss Ethel Howell, will leave town at the close of this month for their cottage at Monmouth Beach, New Jersey. LAST Wednesday afternoon Mrs. William Clifton Todd, of 275 Clinton avenue, entertained a limited number of her friends with a very delightful musical program, interpreted by Mr. Arthur Rosenstein, at the piano; Miss Phelps, violinist, and Mr.

Oliver Anderson, violoncellist. ABOUT a hundred and twenty-five of their friends attended the entertainment given by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Brewster at their home, 42 Hawthorne street, Flatbush, last Saturday evening, in celebration of the tenth anniversay of their wedding-day.

An excellent musical and literary program, consisting of instrumental and vocal selections and recitations, including original poems by Mr. Hunter MacCollough, was rendered. Mr. and Mrs. Brewster were the recipients of any quantity of remembrances in tin, a number of the gifts, notably an oil painting of Mrs.

Brewster, by Vernam, and a large pastel portrait of the same lady, by Lane, framed in silver arid tin, being uncommonly handsome. The attendance included Mr. and Mrs. Willis J. Bardwell, Mr.

and Mrs. F. Livingston Corwin, Mr. and Mrs. Albert E.

Parfitt, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Vernam, Mr.

and Mrs. George T. Winne and Mr. and Mrs. Myles Standish.

The Chronicler. BROOKL "To My First Love" and "You Had Better Ask Me," by Lohr, in a finished style and with a depth of feeling which stamped him a thorough musician! Von Weber's "Jubilee Cantata," with incidental solos by the tenor, soprano and bass, was remarkably well done. Mr. Walter Robinson, of Manhattan, director of the society, should be congratulated on the skilful manner in which he has trained this chorus, and Richmond Hill people are justly proud of their home talent. THE announcement late last week of the engagement of Mr.

Laurens Pember Rider to Miss Minna Clausennius, of Chicago, better known by her stage name of Miss Jane Field, and who, prior to the announcement, was playing the role of Ella Seaforth in the "Earl of Pawtucket" at the Manhattan, aroused no little interest in Brooklyn society, particularly on the Hill and among Brooklyn clubmen in general. Although for several years Mr. Rider, who formerly lived at 1253 Dean street, has not been much in evidence in this borough, having occupied bachelor apartments across the river, he was formerly a very regular patron of the Crescent Athletic Club. He has been a consistent devotee of golf for a number of years and has won not a few honors over his home green, that of the Nassau Country Club at Glen Cove, Long Island, and at Lakewood. Latterly, he seems to have relinquished the sport to some extent in favor of automobiling.

He has a charming country place, Millbrook Farm, at Smithtown, Long Island. Mr. Rider is said to have become acquainted with his fiancee through Mr. Kirke La Shelle, who introduced them at a ball at the Waldorf-Astoria, which she attended last winter under the chaperonage of Mrs. La Shelle.

TUESDAY, June the second, has been announced as the date of the wedding of Miss Helen Louise Cann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Wade Cann, of 442 Grand avenue, to Dr. Albert Fay Lowell, of Gardner, Massachusetts. It will be a quiet home wedding, only the relatives and personal friends being invited to the ceremony, which will be performed by the Rev.

Dr. T. M. Cann, the bride's grandfather. Miss Cann will be attended by Miss Bertha Bucklin, of Little Falls, as maid of honor; two flower-girls, Miss Eleanor Greenwood and Miss Margaret Greenwood, and a page, Master Richard Greenwood, the three last being the bride's nieces and nephew.

The best man will be the Rev. Medville McLoughlin, of Gardner, Massachusetts. The ceremony will take place at four o'clock. WITH the above announcement comes the news of Miss Bertha Bucklin's engagement to Mr. Aurin M.

Chase, of Syracuse. Miss Bucklin, who is not less admired for her charming personality than widely known as an exceptionally accomplished violinist, is the daughter of Mrs. J. H. Bucklin.

of 52 William street, Little Falls, with whom she lives when not fulfilling professional engagements in the metropolis. This spring she has been associated with Miss Anna Otten, Miss Olive Mead and Miss Lillian Littlehales, a quartet that has made a decided musical hit. FROM Bay Shore, Long Island, where they are settled in their cottage' for the season, comes the news of the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Carrington Ward, of the Heights.

The child is to be named in honor of the late Frederic A. Ward, whose recent death was a sad blow to all who knew him and who was no less beloved than he was admired for his distinguished talents. THE wedding of Miss Ethel Parker, daughter of the Rev. Dr. and Mrs.

Lindsay Parker, and Mr. John Morris Robinson, junior, of St. Johns, New Brunswick, has been fixed to take place in St. Peter's Church, on State street, of which the Rev. Dr.

Parker is rector, on the evening of Wednesday, May the twenty-seventh. The Robinsons are summer neighbors of the Parkers, whose country place, Shoreacres, is. situated on Yondola Point, in New Brunswick. THE engagement has just been announced of Miss Edith Taft, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Theodore Taft, of this borough, to the Rev. Egisto F. Chauncey, of Manhattan. EYOND all question, coaching has been the predominating and conspicuous spring diversion of metropolitan society this year. With more public coaching lines than ever before, not one has failed of ample patronage, the most remarkable success of all having been the Lakewood public coach, which ran through the month of April, and, in spite of the long journey, never wanted bookings on the outward trip at least, and very seldom on the return.

The Pioneer, between the Holland House and the Ardsley Club, has been booked to the full clean through to the end of the season, and the same can be said of the Good Times, running from the Waldorf-Astoria to Morris Park, and the Squadron coach, from the Hotel Savoy to the polo grounds in Van Cortlandt Park. Mr. Wyllys Terry had the booking of the Pioneer last Wednesday, Mr. Alfred G. Vanderbilt driving, and the party comprising Mr.

and Mrs. L'edyard Blair, Miss Litchfield, the Misses Stockwell, Miss Ogden, Mr. J. H. Seaman, Mr.

F. J. Vernon, Miss Chittenden and Colonel Norman S. Dike. Mr.

George E. Fahys tooled the.