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Show IRISH FAIR COMING. Countess of Aberdeen Now Here to Make Arrangements. The Countess of Aberdeen arrived in New York last week. She was met at the Grand Central depot by Mr. T. St. John Gaffney, and was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Gaffney at their residence, resi-dence, 41 Riverside Drive. The countess of Aberdeen came to New York especially to make arrangements arrange-ments for the holding of a fair at the I Hotel Waldorf-Astoria next spring of , purely xnsu pruuucia a.jiu manufactures. manu-factures. She was the organizer and the first president of the Irish Industries In-dustries association, and was succeeded in her office a3 president by the Countess Coun-tess of Cadogan, the wife of the present pres-ent viceroy of Ireland. The association numbers among its members the leading lead-ing women of the Irish, Scotch and , English nobility and aristocracy. The countess' visit to America has been for the sole object of extending Irish industry, in which she has taken a deep interest. The different departments at the fair will be presided over by ladies belonging belong-ing to the Irish and English peerage, whose fame is international. Prominent Promi-nent among them are: The Countess Cadogan, who is the president of the association; Lady Audrey Duller, the wife of General Sir Redvers Duller, the commander-in-chief of the British forces in South Africa; Lady Betty and Miss Balfour, relatives of Arthur James Balfour, the leader of the gov- ' ernment in the house of commons, and of the Marqui3 of Salisbury, the prime minister of England; the Countess of Carnarvon; the Countess of Fingall; Lady Iveagh, who is sister-in-law to the Marquisi of Ardilaun; the Dowager Dow-ager Duchess of Marlborough, who was Mrs. Lily Ilammersley, of New York, and is now Lady William Beresford and sister-in-law to Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, who so lately returned to Ireland of Ar'ran, the Countess of Mayo, the Marchioness of Londonderry, wife of a former Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; the Viscountess de Vesci, Lady In-chiquin, In-chiquin, the Lady Mayoress of Dublin, the Duchess of Abercorn, whose husband hus-band was Viceroy of Ireland; Lady I Wolseley and many others. The Peeress' committee will be aided in its work by a committee of New York's "400," and the securing of this American committee is one of Lady Aberdeen's chief objects in coming here at this time.' During the visit of the promoters of the fair they will be entertained enter-tained by the leaders of American society, and a repetition of the reception recep-tion given to the women who visited England and Scotland last summer as delegates from the American congress of Women may be expected. The Irish Industries' association was formed In 1886, and was the outcome of the work of the ladies' committee which organized the exhibit of Irish industries in-dustries at the Women's Section of the Edinburgh exhibition that year. |
