Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-17
PERSONAL MENTION.


Miss Laura V. Cronise of G street has re.
turned 70 the city after three weeks visit to
South mountain and Frederick.
DR.. Pomeroy of o street has returned to the
city.
Mr. and Mrs. All. Evans have returned from
their sojourn in the mountains of Virginia.
DIR. W. Warrington Evans of Washington,
one of the jurors to the Paris exposition lef,
Paris for London on the LIST instant and will sail
with his son and Prof. Riley of the Agricultural
department on the 18th for home.
The new Chinese minister, Mr.. Tsui Kwo
Yam, and suite are expected to arrive in San
Francisco. en- route for this city on Thursday
of this week. The minister's suite consists of
his wife and children, sixteen attaches Of lega-
ton and personal attendants to the number of
thirty persons. The attaches accompanying
the minister will be distributed among the
different posts-Spain, Peru, San Francisco and
Cuba-to which the new minister comes accred-
ited-as consuls, secretaries and attaches OF
the legation in this city. After remaining in
San Francisco for few days rest the minis
terial party will start eastward by special car
and are expected here in the course of the
next fortnight. Immediately on their arrival
Mr.. Tsuis party will drive to a hotel,
where they will remain until the present
occupants Of the legation vacate Stewart castle.
Not until Mr.. Chang leaves the city will the
new officers take possession OF the legation.
Mr.. Tsui received his appointment to this post
five months ago He is a man of about forty
five years of age and stands prominently among
the trusted counselors of the emperor. The
wife of the minister WILL in all possibility, OBJ
serve for the first year spent in this country
the customs of womens seclusion from the pub
lie that obtain in the oriental countries in
which she has been educated.
Mr. Chang Yen Hoon, the outgoing minister,
arrived in the city yesterday from his summer
ing in the Catskills. He left the mountains last
week and started from New York on Saturday &C
companied by number Of the secretaries of the
legation. On the way over Mr.. Chang with Mr.
Liang left the train at Wilmington, where he
spent the Sunday with ex-Secretary Bayard
and his family. The minister made his formal
farewells In a series of official dinners given at
at the legation in the early spring. Mr. Chang
will leave the city few days after Minister
Tsui's arrival and will take with him his
brother, who has been consul in Cuba, Mr.
LANG. his secretary, and Mr.. Shu Cheon
Pom, first secretary of legation. The retiring
minister carries with him the best wishes of
large circle of friends in this city into the for
eign Office at Pekin, into which he will retire.
Judge and Mrs. Shellabarger and the Misses
Anna and Mary Shellabarger have returned
from Minnewaska Lake, in Ulster county, New
York, where they spent quiet summer. The
hotel at Minnewaska is under the same Quaker
management as that at Lake Mohonk, some 80
miles distant, and no dancing, wine drinking
nor card playing is permitted at either place.
In consequence these resorts attract only those
who desire uninterrupted.rest and quiet.
Mrs. Spinola, wife of Gen. Francis b. Spinola,
member for the eleventh district of New York
city. has gone with her niece, Miss Whitford,
to Europe for the autumn. Mrs. Spinola spent
the summer at her home. Cranes Neck on
Long Island. She expects to return and to
come back with Gen. Spinols to the capital in
November.
Mrs. Matteson and the Misses Matteson and
Mr.. Fred Matteson. who have been spending
the summer at Rockville, have returned to
their house on 18th street.
Miss Maggie Burgess is lying dangerously i'll
at her residence, No. Sl8 Connecticut avenue.