Special to The New York Times. TimesMachine is an exclusive ... 28 -- Beechwood, the villa of Mrs. William Astor, at Bellevue Avenue and the Cliffs, was the scene tonight of a ball, the first ...

Captain Rostron received the gift at Mrs Astor's lavish home on New York's Fifth Avenue. The case was engraved with the words ...

In the New York of the 1880s and 1890s ... The family was torn apart by a feud about who would be called Mrs Astor. John ...