NEW YORK SOCIETY EIGHT.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVI, Issue 4469, 8 September 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

NEW YORK SOCIETY EIGHT.

WARFARE OVER THE LEADERSHIP. Who shall lead America’s “ upper ten”—Mrs. Mills or Mrs, Diesel? This is the vital problem, according to despatches from the fashionable Newport, Rhode Island .that now vexes the partisans of both aspirants to the position dice held in Now York by Mrs. Astor.

Since the death of the latter, the “ upper ten ” socially has been somewhat disorganised, and in various sections, each with a different chieftain, but, all lacking the authority .enjoyed by All’s. Astor, who for years feigned in New York as society’s cjueen. Neither Airs. Mills nor Airs. Drexel seems particularly excited by the social warfare, and it is believed that they deplore that friction should exist; but their partisans arc fighting bravely and by the time the Newport season is oyer it is expected that one or other section will cry “ Hold, enough! ” Advices from Newport represent Airs. Mills and Airs. Drexel as amiably chatting together, but their partisans are just as divided ami irreconcilable. The battle-cry of the Mills party is exclusiveness, while the Drexelitcs advocate expansion on democratic lines, not_ decreasing the number of the socially elect, but infusing fresh blood into that body.