The morning call., 1890-04-15
AT THE CAPITAL.
Official Receptions and Dinners
of Note.
Will Minister Reid Be Transferred to Lon
don 7-The Blaine-Damrcseh Nuptials.
Pau-American Entertainments.


WASHINGTON, March 30.-The rush of
Lenten gayety continues without respite,
and the last week has been crowded with
engagements for every one. Besides in
formal evenings the dinners of note have
been beyond counting. Mr.. Charles Emory
Smith, the newly appointed Minister to
| Russia, has been one lion Of the dinner
| table and Minister Whitelaw Reid an
| other. EX-Minister John W. Foster, who
has served at st. Petersburg, gave one
large dinner to Mr.. Smith. and, as the
usual informal Endorsement of his Gre
dentals, Mr.. Smith dined with the Presi-
dent. Colonel and Mrs John Hay have
given a dinner to Minister and Mrs. Reid.
The Vice-P President and Mrs. Morton have
given an official reception, and the Presi-
dent has asked a small company to dine
with Minister and Mrs. Reid at the White
House on Wednesday next. Mrs. Reid
came home some weeks ago. with her
| children, but the Minister has, after many
| delays, only now followed her to take her
! back to Paris. OF course there are many
rumorS flying about that Minister Reid will
| resign, or be transferred to London as soon
| as Minister Lincoln can resign. Rumors
! concerning State nt-app0lntments
! are proverblally uncertain and full of sur
| prlses, and wise people wait. The rumor
| that General Malone was to succeed Major
! kathbone at Paris ended in nothing,
| although every one knew that a Partisan
residence would be most acceptable to Gen
eral Mahone's wife and daughter, who have
spent the last four years abroad.
Mrs. Jeanette Thurber, whose devotion
| to the cause of music and her backing of
the famous American Opera Company have
| cost her many thousands of dollars, success
| fully presented her concert of American
| composers works this week. Music
HILL was filed with a select aud
inn af
afterward going to Mrs. Thurber's
reception at the Shoreham, the greater part
! OF those in the lower part of the house were
! in evening dress. Professor J. X. Paine
LED the orchestra in his own prelude TO
" OedipuS URANUS" and Mr.. Arthur
! Weld led IN selections from his own
Italia" Dudley Buck was to have made
! the quartet Of American composers pres
| ent, but was detained in Boston. Mr. Ar
thur Whiting. the pianist, rendered three
of his own compositions, and Miss Karyn
Of ST. Louis and Miss Everest of Philadel-
! phia were the vocalists. 1t was notable
concert, and succeeding it there was
MRS. THURBER's RECEPTION
For the composers and artists of the even
| ing, that was brilliant social affair Mrs.
! Mckee, with Colonel Halford, represented
| the White House family at the concert, and
were fist to congratulate Mrs Thurber.
| After them came all the celebrities of
! official and social life. Senator and
Mrs. Stewart, Miss Aldrich, State Sena-
| tor Dargie OF California, Senator and Mrs.
| Squire, Senator. and Mrs. Dolph, Senator
! and Mrs. Henderson. General and Mrs,
| Greedy, Mr.. John q. NicOlay, Colonel and
| Mrs. John Hay, Miss Kate Field, DIR. Ruth,
| Senator and Mrs. Farwell Mrs. j. h.
Koren. Senator and Mrs. Mcpherson were
| among the crowds present, and not begin
| ming until II o'clock it was late and merry
| party, Mrs. Thurber is TO continue the con-
certs of American composers, and Western
| cities as lar as Omaha have set their dates,
| the latter city making three days festival
| for American genius.
| Miss Kate Field, whose energy and enthu-
| siasm exceed that OF any three average per-
! sons, has double crusade aud suffering
! cause In hand. The Yosemite has most
! eloquent friend in her, and men, women
| and legislators listen and have to agree
with her on that subject. If the valley is
| to be rescued from the devastating hand of
| man and feet Of sheep, Miss Field is the one
| to DO it. When she begins on subject she
| never lets up on it, and her social position
| gives her opportunities for argumen. and
creates Il following that ordinary eXpound-
| ers OF cause cannot command; while in
! her own paper she can pour the hot shot of
! her wit and logic to the thou
| sands whom she cannot personally con-
! verse with. Besides the YOsemte's welfare,
| Miss Field is concerned for the cause of
| art in this country and the advantages that
! American art students abroad are being
| denied because of America 5 tariff on works
of art. On Thursday morning Miss Field
| appeared before the House Committee of
| Ways and Means and had a long hearing
| from au attentive set OF members. Her
! arguments for dropping or reducing the
! tax ON works of art were unanswerable
a majority of the committee are pledged to
| her views and the measure soon goes to
| Congress in the finished bill In addition
| Miss Field argues for an international copy
! right, for more education for Alaska and
for an honest enforcement of the Alaska
| liquor laws, or else their abolition. The
laws governing Alaska absolutely forbid
the importation, manufacture or sale of in
toXica'ing liquors, but there are twenty
seven saloons in Juneau, every one knows 1t,
the authorities here are fully informed, yet
| nothing is done.
MRS. HARRIsoN's RETURN.
Mrs Harrison and her party returned from
| their Southern journey on Thursday even
ing well fatigued with their enjoyable trip,
but enthusiastic over every part of it. In
addition to Charleston and the Florida re-
sorts they visited Eastern Tennessee and
| Western North Carolina, and the region
| of Asheville and the French Broad. Mrs
Harrison promises to take the President
the first chance he gets for a vacation.
Great interest was felt in the return of Mrs.
| Wanamaker and her daughter on account
Of the rumors of Miss Wanamaker's en-
gagement to DR.. Ruth Of the navy. When
the rumors of it went about town fort
! night since few believed while all
repeated it, DR.. Ruth has been
a standing target for buds, expert
| enced girls and widows for uncounted
seasons, and now that this male beauty has
passed forty-fye, is growing a tTihe gray
and heavy, it was not believed that he had
| succumbed to bud without even a full
seasons experience. No explicit denials
| have come from him, however, and despite
the many, many cries of wolf, society finds
| that IL is really so this time. Miss Wanna
| makers absence has smOOthed the way for
the startlinguess of the announcement
and the large breakfast party to young peo-
| pie which she gives on Easter Monday Is
| believed to be for the purpose of making
the announcement. By one account Miss
| Wanamaker has asked sixty guests to this
breakfast and by another 109. Young So
eiety is quite agog over the affair and new
| gowns and hats are the momentous ques-
tlons with the expectant guests.
THE BLAINE-DAAIRosCH NUPTIALs.
The wedding Of Miss Margaret Blaine
| and Mr.. Damrosch is now announced for
the 17tR Of April. But for the affliction in
the family, this wedding would have been
| the brilliant event of Shrove Tuesday and
the finish of a gay season for the Blame
| household. 1t Will now be celebrated
quietly in the presence of the President and
| the Cabinet families and few personal
friends, and there will be no after-festlyi-
rest of the family, regularly attends the
| Presbyterian Church of the Covenant on
Conn ecticut avenue, where the President is
also a pew-holder, and that pastor will
probably perform the home ceremony.
Bishop and Mrs. John C. Newman, whose
home is now Omaha, have been the gu ests
Of Senator and Mrs. Stanford during the
past week. Their hostess gave several
dinner companies for them, and on one
afternoon threw open her house, by gen.
eral invitation, to all of the Bishops and
Mrs. Newman'S friends. Mrs. Logan gave
a handsome dinner to them, and this week
they go TO New York to visit Mrs. Grant
and other of their old parishioners.
| PAN-AMERICANS,
The Pan-American Congress, as it nears
the end Of its work, is giving numberess
entertainments. The delegates have all
! din ed nach thor time and q nain in ~, in