The Only 400 According to McAllister

“It is incomplete and does injustice, you understand, to many eligible millionaires. Think of leaving out such names (from the official 400 list), don’t you know, as … Mr. and Mrs. Luther Kountze… and many others! Don't you understand, it is absurd, senseless.” According to Ward McAllister. Yet he himself did, when Mr. and Mrs. Luther Kountze were left off of his own list. 
Public domain image of Gilded age banker, Luther Kountze

THE ONLY FOUR HUNDRED

Ward Mc Allister Gives Out the Official List

 Here are the Names, Don’t You Know, on the Authority of Their Great Leader, You Understand, and Therefore Genuine, You See.

“The so-called Four Hundred has not been cut down or dwindled to 150 names,” said Ward McAllister yesterday. “The nonsense, don't you know, printed to that effect in the World and some other papers, has made a very had impression that will reflect badly against them, you understand. That list of names, you understand, printed on Sunday, did not come from me, don't you see. It is unauthorized, don't you know. But it is accurate as far as it goes, you understand.

“It is incomplete and does injustice, you understand, to many eligible millionaires. Think of leaving out such names, don't you know, as Chauncey M. Depew, Gen. Alexander S. Webb, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Kountze, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goelet, Mrs. and Miss Wilson, Miss Greene, and many others! Don't you understand, it is absurd, senseless.

“Let me explain, don't you know. There are three dinner dances, don't you know, during the season, and the invitations, don't you see, are issued to different ladies and gentle men each time, do you understand? So at each dinner dance, you know, are only 150 people of the highest set, don't you know. So. during the season, you see, 400 different invitations are issued.

“Wait a moment and I will give you a correct list, don't you know, of the people who form what is known as the Four Hundred. Do you understand it will be authorized, reliable, and, don't you know, the only correct list.” The society leader then gave the following list of names, which, he declared, constitutes the beau monde of New York to-day:

1. Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Appleton
2. Fred H. Allen
3. Mr. and Mrs. Ástor
4. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Astor 
5. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Bend
6. Miss Amy Bend
7. Miss Beatrice Bend, 
8. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bryce
9. Mrs. Cavendish Bentinok 
10. Mr. and Mrs. F. Bronson
11. Heber Bishop
12. Miss Bishop
13. William Harold Brown
14. Mr. and Mrs. Edmund N. Baylies
15. Mr. Temple Bowdoin 
16. Mr. and Mrs. J. Townsend Burden
17. Miss Burden
18. Mrs. Barbey
19. Miss Barbey
20. Harold Brown
21. Edward Bulkley
22. Mr. and Mrs. James L. Barclay
23. C. C. Baldwin
24. Miss Baldwin 
25. C. C. Baldwin, Jr.
26. Gen. and Mrs. Henry L. Burnett
27. Mr. Thomas Cushing
28. Miss Edith Cashing
29. Mr. F. Bayard Cutting
30. Miss Coster
31. Mr. Harry Coster
32. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carroll
33. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cary 
34. Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Chandler
35. Mrs Brockholst Cutting. 
36. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cannon
37. Robert L. Cutting, Jr. 
38. Col. J. Schuyler Crosby
39. Miss Crosby
40. Mr. and Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting,
41. Mr. and Mrs. S. V. R. Cruger
42. Rawlings Cottenet
43. F. Brockholst Cutting
44. W. Cutting, Jr.
45. Sir Roderick Cameron
46. Duncan Cameron
47. The Misses Cameron
48. Mr. and Mrs. James Cross
49. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cooper
50. The Misses Chanler
51. William P. Coster
52. Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Dyer, II
53. Mr and Mrs. Duncan Elliott
54. Mr. and Mrs George B. De Forest
55. Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey M. Depew
56. Mr. and Mrs. Frederic de Peyster
57. Dr. and Mrs. Francis Delafield
58. Miss Delafield
59. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dana
60. H. De Courcy Forbes
61. Mr. and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish
62. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Francklyn
63. J. C. Furman, 
64. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Fish, Jr.
65. Theodore Frelinghuysen
66. Augustus C. Gurnee 
67. Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Goelet
68. Mr. Frank G. Griswold
69. Miss Greene
70. McAllister Greene
71. Miss Grant 
72. Robert F. Hawkers 
73. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Howard
74. Mr. and Mrs. Carly Havemeyer
75. Meredith Howland
76. Mr. and Mrs. Valentine
77. G. Hall
78. Miss Hall
79. Joha A. Hadden, Jr. 
80. Mr. and Mrs. Columbus Iselin
81. Isaac Iselin
82. Mrs. William Jaffray
83. Miss Jaffray
84. Mrs. F. R. Jones
85. Miss Beatrix Jones
86. Shipley Jones
87. Mr. and Mrs. De Lancey Kane
88. Nicholson Kane
89. Miss Knowlton
90. Miss Sybel Kane
91. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Kernochan
92. Col and Mrs. Kip
93. Miss Kipp
94. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Kernochan
95. Clement March
96. Mr. and Mrs. O. Mills
97. Mr. and Mrs. B. Martin
98. F. T. Martin 
99. Peter Mario
100. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. McVickar
101. Mr. and Mrs. A.N. Morris
102. Miss Morris
103. Mr. and Mrs. R. Mortimer
104. Miss Morgan
105. Mr. and Mrs. T. Newbold
106. Mrs. Frederick Nelson
107. S. H. Olin
108. Mr. and Mrs. O. Oelrichs
109. James Otis
110. Miss Otis
111. Edward Post
112. Richard Peters 
113. Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Porter
114. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pendleton
115. Julian Potter
116. L.V. Packer
117. Mr. and Mrs. H.N. Potter
118. Gen. and Mrs. Pierson
119. Miss Pierson
120. Mr. and Mrs. George B. Post
121. Mrs. William H. Perry
122. Miss Perry 
123. Gould H. Redmond
124. Mrs. Rogers
125. Miss Rogers
126. J. Ritchie
127. T. J. Oakley Rhinelander
128. Miss Cora Randolph
129. Mrs. Burke Roche
130. Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Ripley
131. D. T. L. Robinson
132. R. K. Richards
133. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Robinson 
134. Jr. Mr. and Mrs. H. Robins
135. Miss Sands
136. Mr. and Mrs. Willlam D.Sloane
137. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Schuyler
138. Mr. and Mrs. Byam K. Stevens
139. Lispenard Stewart 
140. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Sherman
141. Miss Adele Sloane
142. Mr. and Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes
143. Miss Stokes,
144. Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Suydam
145. Mr. and Mrs. F. K. Sturgis
146. Miss Elizabeth Stevens
147. G. Mead Tooker
148. Miss Tooker 
149. E. N. Tailer
150. Mr. and Mrs. H. McKay Twombly
151. Miss Taller
152. Marquise de Talleyrand
153. Miss Mable Van Rensselaer
154. Miss Alice Van Rensselaer
155. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt 
156. George W. Vanderbilt
157. Mrs. A. Van Rensselaer
158. James Varnum
159. Mr. Worthinglon Whitehouse
160. Mr. and Mrs. W. Seward Webb
161. Barton Willing 
162. Miss Willing
163. Gov. and Mrs.Wetmore
164. Miss Wetmore
165. Egerton Winthrop
166. Thomas C. Winthrop
167. F. B. Winthrop
168. Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan Winthrop.
169. Miss Winthrop
170. Mr. and Mrs. Ben. Wells
171. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Whitney
172. Miss Georgiana L. Wilinerding
173. Mrs. C. A. Whittier
174. Mr. and Mrs. Wysong
175. M.A. Wilkes
176. Mr. and Mrs. W. Storrs Wells 
177. Gen. and Mrs. Alexander S. Webb
178. Miss Carrie Webb
179. Alexander S. Webb
180. Miss Luck
181. Arthur Leary
182. Mrs. Maturin Livingston
183. Mr. and Mrs. James Lanier
184. Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Livingston
185. Edward Livingston
186. Miss Clarissa Livingston
187. Edward De Peyster Livingston
188. Mr. and Mrs. Clement C. Moore
189. Ward McAllister
190. Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Marshall

“Now,” concluded Mr. McAllister, “that is all, don’t you know. Good morning.” — The New York Times, February 16,1892

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