The Awful Seeley Dinner
"To be sure the dinner party in question
had only male guests--it would not be quite correct to call them gentlemen
in the strict sense--but they move in the 'best circles' of the metropolis."
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1-2-1897)
According to Herbert B. Seeley the
following is the list of his guests:
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Clair Hamilton, unmarried, South Orange, N.J.;
no business.
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Horatio R. Harper, of Harper Bros., married.
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Dr. John A. Irwin, No. 14 West Twenty-ninth
street, unmarried.
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Theodore D. Rich, No. 108 Fulton street, publisher,
married.
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Nathan Seeley, No. 29 East Thirty-ninth street,
married.
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Marmaduke Tilden, Larchmont, N.Y., widower.
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E. P. Delanoy, No. 431 Fifth avenue, in fire
insurance business at No. 1 and 3 Wall street, unmarried, and has bachelor
apartment at the Fifth avenue address.
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Alfred Marshall, married, No. 55 Park avenue;
no business.
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A. Gould Hamilton, South Orange, N.J.; no
business; married.
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C. Barnum Seeley (my brother), No. 25 East
Thirty-ninth street, unmarried; no business.
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Wilson Marshall, No. 839 Madison avenue; married;
no business.
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H. H. Flagler, son and secretary of H. M.
Flagler; married, No. 51 Park avenue.
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Louie Ogden, lawyer, with E. E. Anderson;
unmarried.
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H. A. Bergmann; unmarried; No. 431 Fifth avenue;
bachelor apartments there.
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Marshall Bishop, in stock broker's office;
unmarried.
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Henry W. Harris, East Orange, N.J.; unmarried;
owner of the schooner yacht Quisetta.
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Charles Tobias, bond broker on Broad street;
lives at Majestic Hotel; married.
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Conrad L. Peters, above mentioned; unmarried;
wine merchant in Beaver street.
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H. E. Smith, manufacturer of pearl buttons,
New Jersey; unmarried.
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Edward Fish, New York Stock Exchange; unmarried.
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C. A. Postley, No. 887 Fifth avenue; Commodore
Larchmont Yacht Club, and owner of the yacht Colonial; married.
(from the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch)
PLEASE SIGN OUR GUEST BOOK IF
. . .
A.
Your great-grandfather was at the Seeley Dinner
B.
You were at the Seeley Dinner--in a past life
C.
You would have been there, but . . .
D.
You would never countenance such a shameless display of depravity (nudge
+ wink)
"(Empire Theatre, Brooklyn, NY)
The Little Egypt Burlesque Co., headed by the sensational dancer of that
name, is the attraction this week . . .'The Silly Dinner' was first on
the bill . . . A dance by two girls, in indecently suggestive costumes,
was one of the 'specialties.' The olio includes several good numbers .
. . 'Silly in Court,' in which Little Egypt made her appearance in the
final scene, closed the bill . . ." --The Clipper, March 1897
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