The evening world. Newspaper, January 12, 1906, Page 7

> Weymer Jay Mills. auth: TO DANCE W OLD ASTOR HOUSE Many of “400” Will Be! Barred from This Historic Function. ‘Think of ft! Gome of the most prom{- |ment members of New York's ‘400 are mot to be invited to the ball which ts »{jto be held at the historic old Astor Eiouse, on lower Broadway, some time én April, thus setting a new precedent fn metropolitan social circles, This is ithe second hard blow that high sodiety hae received this season, Mrs. John Ja- ob Astor some time ego having re- uoed the social scale to 7%, This tine @ ‘mercury of social supremacy will fal even lower, for but few membera of the recognized leaders of society will bo invited to this ball—an affair that will be the greatest and most fashiona- ble of its kind in the history of New Work. Among the pames) that Pups not ap, on the list of invited guests those of the Vanderbilts, Ocirichs The reason for this deep “cut” in the! 400""—an action that will proba little less than a s e of the| "or, in other words, | yy have attained ‘social prominence) only In recent years, while those who hhave been invited to the ball are de- Sniokerbocker fam- ory dates back to the time of the Revoiuilorery War, when New York was little more than @ wilderness, and red coats roumed the streets of the city. For Colonial Descendants. “By excluding these members of s- elety from she old Astor House bali it reporter to-day. Ws ball is solely for the descendants of Chlonia! families, ) inaembch ay mona of the weil- Known soolety people of the city are not members of these families, we have not included their names in’ our list of este, That is all there js to it. There no sensation about it, and the people io are behind this affair are not arting notoriety." “Will Mra. John Jacob Astor or ather Astor family be n- nm sent it as ||) at. and for that reason I do not care to | iscuss the matter. But you can say Mra. Astor and other members of ||) the Astor family will re Aztex family will probably be on the Astore Own the Hotel, T¢ the Astors are not invited to tha ball they will be placed in rather a peculiar position, as the old Astor HH a, in which the ball is to be given, rill owned by the Astor estate. Undoubtedly the ball will be the event of the season. even though it is to be eld rather late. Prominent people from lall over the country are to attend, and the famous old Astor House, where in times past princes and aclons of notili-y of nearly all countries of Burcpe have Faancei and dined. will take on the ap- pearance of an old Colonial palac: The Idea of thin ball emanated from or of “Caroline of Courtiandt Street,” a story of the early days of New York. Mr. Mille ts of an historical turn of mind. and he thought ft would be a good idea at this time to bring together some of the de- danis of Ge Knickerbocker families. e in to preserva, as 8 ible, the atinosphere of the lod. ‘Therefore grande dames of 1 will dance on the oll oom of the Astor House in costumes of rly times. The invitations, which will he printed on old glazed paper, will be ollows: The Invitations. ASTOR BOUED BALL. To revive interest in the Gotham of yesterday, the honor of your presence is re- quested at an assembly to be held in the ballroom overlook- ing St. Paul's churchyard. Ladies must mm oug! ulgtion evening dress, w' soft whirts, black ties and noseravae of gardenias or camellias. ‘The pavmonesses of the ball will in- wives of the best known art- AO Meg position.” vn id ‘ara the. gesrendents of the leotts, Waddells, Su: ball the dance ted with old th mins with Douqueta in xtift Fein kind in. the. eaply: niotory oF th F ind in the early history of the pure, “Beveral ot the rooma, in} the ‘are to be done over in “old atyle” Mis occasion. A Ghost Dance. in _mem~ 0 danced In dwys gone by. will be supper the menu used by famous chef, who used to THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19,1906. Hackett Catiatt E@ Announce at All Three Stores A Special Sale of Men’s Standard Shirts at 85c. Not a shop in New York affords shirts of this character for so little. The concession we make is a very generous one. The shirts are in all styles and sizes— coat models, open front and back, etc. In advance Spring designs. Fine Scarfs Reduced to 25¢. The collection involves Ascots, 3-inch Wide Four-in- Hands and Squares, in rich silks and satins, plain black and a diversity of high.grade designs. Values 50c. to $1. Three Broadway Stores; At 13th St,, at Canal St., nr. Chambers St. Hackett Carhart E@ | Piano, Ohe Beautiful Caldwell HE artist{e quality of the! Caldwell is unexcelled by many pianos that are sold for $300.00 or more. The materials that enter into the construction of the Caldwell are! of highest quality, and it is man- ufactured in probably the best appointed factory in the country. Cxceptional Sanuary Cerms S785 eh-overed hall- | W'at yo' gwine t’ do when yo’ salary stops? Remarkable selling followed our offer last week to deliver a) beautiful Caldwell plano upon Guch extraordinary, easy terms. You receive the plano! immediately, delivered free in your home—enjoy and benefit! by the use of the plang while you are paying for it, Free ‘We also furnish, without charge, a handsome revolving stool, a, protecting cover and a year's) tuning attention, Yo Moncey Down and $5 Nonthly G he Simplex “Tt makes musicians of us all,” Simplex Piano, com- plete, $550 Simplex players, $225, $250 Repatring We employ only expert work- men, prepared to give absolute! satisfaction in repairing, tun- ing and polishing. Write for ‘NE! ‘ es A CITY IN ITSELF OPER 18” & 19" STS. e of Wen 4g: Sucis and Overcoats Saturday at $/0.00 About 2,000 Sarmenis Grouped for Special Selling. For to-morrow we have grouped about 1,000 Winter Suits and 1,000 Winter Overcoats—the very choicest $15.00 garments that it is possible to produce—and have priced them all uniformly at $10.00. These are not ordinary $15.00 Suits and Overcoats, either, but the best the most skilled tailors can turn out. Every detail—even ta the very minutest—bespeaks first qual- ity. The real attraction of this offering is in the qual- (Siegel Cooper Store, One Ghousand Sutts at $10.00 Single and Double Breasted, tn Choices? Yew Patterns. Garments from the best clothing makers in Amer ica, in the newest and smartest brown and slate ef- , fects; also many “Scotchy” colorings; fashioned with splendid skill. Nota Sutt made to sell for less than $15.00. Sizes to fit every build of man. Prioe 10.00 ity. Materials, Style, Trimmings and general finish are such as you will find only in the higher-priced garments. Overcoats in the correct lengths demanded by critical dreesers. For instance: Conservative Overvonts, 46 inches. The extra long Overcoats, 52 Inches. These Overcoats are made of Oxford mixed, black and novelty fabrics of good quality. This is an amaz- $ 1 0 Popular Tourist Belt Coats are also included, irrespective of former selling prices, fain Flor, 5) rr Black Clothes for Ald Oceastons. Coats; smooth finish Thibets, Clays, Worsteds and Cheviots... . 10,00 Prince Albert and Tuxedo Coats and Vests; fine One Ghousand Overcoats at $/0 ingly good opportunity for the man who wants to buy an Overcoat at a very low price. Black Suits, both single and double breasted lapels; perfect Biting.---r...------- 1.00 © THE-GREAT- TROUSERS \ 4 EVENT 0 ; Many fascinating, elegant styles of finest all-wool Kerat all the hew shades of red, green, brown and blue, The .rich Hning, artistic tailoring {Take your chotoe of either Kersey and finish of these Coats tell} or Cheviot, in either 48 or 60 inch their superior value at a glance. | length, and in Box Coat, Bmpire style, with half-fitted or fitted They are identically of the same Handsome backs. inlaid velvet quality eold a month ago as| collara with pretty trimming high as $18.00 to $22.00. All sizes, at.....$8.90 Women’s Cattor (24 Floor, Front, 19th St.) Made Sutts $6.95 - “An honest tale speeds best when plainly told.” We have just fifty-six Tatlor-Mate Suits in the stylish 26-inch Jacket Model, exactly like the pieture, [sf which we are going to dispose of ih in a hurry at $6.95. The Suits are of excellent quality Cheviot, splendidly tailored; the Jacket is satin lined and right in Ine with coming fashions. Their only fault is that there are eo few of them: Twenty black, twenty- two brown and fourteen blue—fifty- six in all. Too few to put into our regular stock at full prices. The skirts alone are worth more than to-morrow’s price for the suit. Fifty-six lucky women will surely get a bargain spelled with a great big “B." Don’t wait too long if you want to be one of the lucky fifty-six. You couldn't buy the goods alone for SSS EST January Cigar Sale. Wore than 200,000 High Srade Cigars Undor-Prioe, ‘This annual event which starts to-morrow will be hailed by many smokers, ice brands is varied enough to please the tastes Quantities are larger and prices lower than ever before. January, usually a quiet month in the cigar line elsewhere, is made one of our busiest on account of the exceptional values offered in this saie, Prices a Quarter to @ Ghird Less Chan Regularly, Wen’s $3 to $4.50 Grousers at $2, Semi-Annual Sate Gakes a Yew Start Saturday Morning If you ‘have not shared in the good values yet, come to-morrow, every build can easily be fitted. Fine Striped Worsteds, Including slate, gray, navy and black color- ings, with neat stripe effects. oe bility. Corduroy Cessimeres and Gweeds, [x27 96 Fine mixtures, stripes, herringbones and checks; all colorings; splendid textures.. Ohe Galt and Stout Wan Who pays extra at the tallor’s will find a regular bonan: seam to 35.... With Hn Addition of 2,500 Pairs Sust Recotved Assortments are complete and men of Black Cheviors and Corduroys Fabrics tested as to das ala dura- finish $2 $2 $2 Wovelty and Fancy Cheviots, Bright effects in medium and light grounds. Very. stylish and exclusive trousers...... Ghe Little Stout Wan. Who always has to have his trousers cut down. He will find 28, 29 and 30 inseam Key West Clear Havana Panetelas, 100 boxes strictly finest quality Cuban hand-made goods; finest selection of Havana tobacco; regular $9.00 value; box of 100, 6.) La Evidencia, high grad Tampa- made clear Havana cigar; equal Qrone in peaisd Ub otaane co size; regularly 100; box of 50.. 5 400 200 boxes Key West Havana Cigars; sizes such as Rothschiiis, Sublimes, Manhattans, &0,; stribcly high grade goods; regu- larly up to $5.00; box of 50..3,50 20,000 Key West Clear Havana Cigars, all Havana hand-made goods; they equal-10c, grades in aaalys regularly $4.50; box of Great Metropolis Invincibles, Su- matra 3 best value ever offered at the price; box of 25, 1.25 Cremo Cigar, new Victoria alze, of Steel ate Cigar, Cabinet aize, elther box of 50...1,50 20,000 Sumatra Wrapper Perfectos, \New York make, long-filler gooda; good Go. grade; box of 50... 1,18 50,000 6c. Porto Rican less than factory price; long. filler, hand made and equal to anything offered elsewhere at double our price; mild and aro. matic amoke; box of 50.... 1,00 Happy Thought Perfectos, Wusic Boxes On Ghe Yo Money Down Plan Here’s the best opportunity to own a Regina Music Box ever pre- sented by any store. Come here and select the box you prefer and ‘we'll send it to your home. After you have enjoyed At for 30 days, you begin to make small monthly payments until you {have paid for the usic Box. a Don’t misjudge the liberality. of this offering. Every Music Box is up to date, perfect and guaranteed by us. Regina Music Boxes Are Always Ready to Play. Thoy are tireless entertainers and will add much pleasure to your home life—the very thing when Win-! ter evenings linger so, It takes the place of a Piano ® where there is none, or no one to play it, and it is a de- lightful musical companton, always in the mood to play when you are in the mood to listen. Sacred or classical music, catehy marches, and rollicking songs are played SN with oqual facility! and rare expression, Profit by this . Ghe Very Galt Yan ‘Who never finds ready-made trousers. They 2 are here from 35 to 87 inseam. (Siegel Cooper Store, Main Floor, Kast.) Boys’ Sutts& Overcoatsat $2, 50 Sex Sections Devoted to Ohis Great Sate. ‘We inaugurate the important January Reduction Event with a series of bargains that are sure to interest a big percentage of our innumerable patrons. } No matter how much over 200 pounds he weighs, he will find 44 to 52 walsta, Choice cuts of fancy native Rib $ , Roast, per Ib...... seeebeeees 10c Choice cunts of native Sirloin | regs of fancy Canada Mutton, per Fancy fresh killed, ary-pieked! o)” 26 Chickens; s Choice fresh made Country ae b. Legs of fancy Canada 7 eRRe, Lid Miah bene ee ROC. Fapeya pasion. Very choice small fresh California} 4», Hams, per Ib.,......++05+ ae OC Choice native rumps of Corned Boys’ Russian Overcoats, 9% to 8 years; blue Oxford and fancy Double-Breasted Suits, 7 to 14 years; fancy mixtures and checks, and Ddlack friezes. 2 ey Choi e ‘Wool Toque, Double Band Golf, Double Band Tam (Glexel Cooper Store, 24 Floor, Fast.) are offering, Have you been in? It’s a treat well worth your while. Wight R Fancy, cuts of native Prime Rib ight obes. Roast; fleeced Domet Flannel. Cut shivering between cold sheets sliced to. ord Hl | Weibad Beet, per Wiseosessereecess+ed0c Sante) Sider Wane i J Ie. has ocreate$ such a furor, will be continued w-morrow. Boys’ Long Overcoats, 7 to 15 years; Oxford, olive and fancy mixtures, mixtures. Boys’ Norfolk Suits, 7 to 14 years; neat mixtures and overplaids. Russian Blouse Suite, 24 to 7 years; mixtures of brown and gray. Storm Collar Reefers, in sizes 7, 8, 9, 10, 14 and 16 only; Oxford Your \ Chotce Chotce " r * Boys’ Winter Headwear at @ Remarkably Reduced Price. o'Shanter, Plush Polo, Camel’s-Hair Tam o’Shan- 39c ter; all sizes; your choloe At..........ceseeseeeneeees —EEE———EESESSESSS=—_ SS ’ Ghe Model Market, Wen’s Domer It would do your heart good to see the appetining array of fine foods we lanned - Everything is strictly right here and the prices are less than you pay anywhere else. ‘ Two hundred dozen Men's Night Robes of excellent quality, generously full and wide, Just the thing to keep a man from these frosty nights. A fine se- cured eaten Balled lection of patterns in alksizes, per Ib. Ohe Canned Soods. Sate, Which ’ Bvery || $1.00 quality at 65c, brand is the best and prices 34 to } fess than usual. (Main Floor, East of Contre, 18th Bt.) (4th Floor.) New York make; good quality ¢omes- the tobacco; exceptional value; box of 50... te tereneeoees Floradora Cigar (8 for 10, kind), box of 100 +++ $1.48 Gavana Brand Stogies; long filler; hand made goods, packed in wooden boxes; box of 100. $1.25 Mail Orders Solicited. ————————————— ion! Sommer Store, Main Moor, Bast, 18% 6) | ° tol inter Sootwear Fer Mon, Women and Chtidren at Gempting Prives. ‘At the beginning of real winter we out our aes cold-weather Shoes, Rubbers and Arc- tics to the lowest possible prices—OUR footwear, not stock bought to reduce, but our own tried, tested and found fault- less footwear. When Shoes are offered to us at any price they must stand the most rigii inspection. We must know the pedigree of every pair; must be convinced of the quality of the materials entering into them; of the fit; of the fixtish. With Rubber Goods we must know when they were made and be satisfied that the gum is pure, of high quality and free from old - ground rubber and adulterat- ing filler, i Quality is the first consideration at the Big Store, price an after- Se thought — but compare our prices with any others. We'll not suffer by the comparison. Women's $3.50 Shoes at 51,95. Samples as well as regular lines of up-to-date stylish Shoes, in kid, calf and patent leathers, in button, lace and bdlucher styles; all sizes and widths, Panetela ~ shape; strictly high grade; box of 50, 2.15 Tnvincibles, Sumatra long mixet Havana Invincible siz box of Marconi wrapper, filler; 50. Women’s $2.50 Shoes at $7.45. Gocd quality vicl kid button and lace Shoes, with kid tops; in all sizes; regular $2.50 Shoes of the well-known Perfection brand. Wen’s Shoes at $1.95. Box calf; double welied coles; made on modern style lasts; all sizes. Some patent leather Shoes.are included at tho same low price. Won's Rubbers, Ie, Women’s 650. Rubbers First quality Rubber Overshoes in ‘at 252, the self-acting style; all sizes. Firet quality Rubber Overshoes, in Wen’s Aretios, 98a. Best quality Rubber Arctics; sizes 2%, 8 and 8% only. Larger i sizes dbo. moulded soles and heels; all