Monday, April 18, 2022

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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