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Show I NO "400" IN NEW YORK CITY I The question whether the visit of :he duke and duchess of Connaugi't and their daughter, the Princess Patricia, Pa-tricia, will give social leaders a long-sought long-sought opportunity to decide who's who was put to Frederick Townsend Martin. He shook his head so decidedly de-cidedly that his mustache-ends vibrated. vi-brated. "Not at all," he said, "the day of that necessity is long past. If it ever existed, it died with Ward McAllister. New York is too enormous for its society to be anything more than a network of cliques. The time was, years ago, when there were not more than a few hundred families of great wealth and cultivation here, that they all tried to stay together to aiake a social unit. Now it is different. There is no '400' in New York today, it is a collection of one-hundreds or less, usually less. "Neither Mrs. Mills nor Mrs. Reid, ir, for that matter, any social leader. j could entertain hundreds of persons at one time in the spac9 at. her die- I posal. New York houses are not big enough, and 'crushes' nre no longer ! fashionable. . j "Society today is on a friendship basis. It has passed the struggling stat'e. it can afford to indulge In the comfort of friendship gatherings." |