Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-03
TO TOWN.
Summer Pleasure Seekers Turn Their
Faces Homeward.
PLANS FOR THE AUTUMN
The Presidents Flying visit-Sociai Festivi-
ties Connected with the @. A. r.. Epcamp-
Embellishments of weu-known People
Personal Notes Of Interest.
The Presidents shor. stay a. the White House

The Presidents short STAY at the White House
gave good many Of his callers an opportunity
| to make inquiries for Mrs. Harrison. He spoke
encouragingiy Of her condition. but in a
hurry to leave town again, so as 20 spend Sun
day At Loon Lake. Ii is getting cool mp in the
mountains and IL would not be surprising IL the
Presidents family made a change Of headquar-
tiers within q week or SO. Az il is pretty well
decided that Mrs. Harrison will not be able 90
return TO this city for some time vet. the de-
sitAbility OF her STAYING at Lakewood or some
other resort nearer home during the entire fall
has been talked Of lately.
The White House corridor is full Of scaffold-
ing and the workmen's psraphernalia and the
President had TO step around very carefully
when he Was there. II will be finished in time
for the Presidents reception 20 the q. A. r.
After the encampment there will be something
OF calm in official circles until October, when
| the President and cabinet and the ladies OF
their families will go out 10 Chicago for the
worlds fair ceremonies. This trip is looked
forward to with considerable pleasure all around.
The Secretary of State and Mrs. Foster are
with their daughters in Watertown and will
spend part Of their vacation at the Thousand
Isles. II practicable they will remain away
until the middle Of September.
Attorney General and Mrs. Miller have re-
! turned to town after their vacation. Their son
and his bride are also back from their wedding
/ trip and are stopping with them Miss Jessie
Miller will return shortly from visit with
friends at Watkins Glen. Miss Miller has been
having most enjoyable visit in Newport with
/ DR.. and Mrs. Roosa.
Nine. Covarrubias was in town a day last
week. being much improved in health.
Mrs. and Miss Foster and Miss Rusk are ex-
pected home from Europe next "Wednesday.
and Secretary Foster will go 10 New York TO
meet them. The chances are that their ship
will be quarantined and the Secretary will have
! to wait for a while before he can welcome them
home. 1t is not likely that they viii do more
| than make a short stay. il any here. as they eX-
pect to spend the coming two months at their
home in Fostoria, returning here early in No.
vember.
| The choice of the French minister. Mr..
Patenotre. for permanent Legation here is said
| to have about narrowed down TO two houses.
that of the Vice President or Mr.. Pollok, both
| of which are available. and with the chances
largely in favor Of the former.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jules Guthridge have returned
from fortnight's outing in the Berkshire hills.
Mr.. and Mrs. Parker Mann will return 10
! Tanglewood the last OF September and expect
TO sail for Spain the latter week in October, TO
be absent a year or so.
| Mr. and Mrs. Robert wynne are going to
Halifax next week. having decided TO postpone
their trip to Europe for the present.
Mrs. Ross Thompson will return from Deer
Park next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. De Castro sailed last Wednesday
for Europe and will be absent three or four
months.
Mrs. Cullom has spent the entire summer in
this city.
One meets few more familiar faces every
day now and the towering wagon loa Is of trunks
on the streets this morning seem to indicate
| that many of the householders arc turning their
faces homeward. From the northern resorts
there has already commenced migration which
| in a few days more will leave them TO their ac-
customed winter quiet. At Newport the gave
ties are keeping up with unusual spirit among
the cottagers, who will scarcely desert their ee-
| CANT habitations for q fortnight yet. All fash
! ionable ewes, however. are turned toward the
| Berkshires and there seems no danger but that
the turning of the leaf will be watched there by
| as distinguished a social audience as ever be-
fore. The desire among our leisure classes to
each autumn prolong their outings is an en-
| couraging sign amid the feverish excitement
in which they usually live. For Washington We
have not enought OF these favored souls who are
| now held down by business demands. TO make am
| appreciable difference in their comings and
4 goings. Our winter population is never quite
| complete until December, and the chances are
this fall will see them as laggard as usual. But
| for the great majority OF our townsmen and
townswomen the family fires will be lighted
I
many inside of two weeks. Just at present
| there il a small army of eXcursionists in town
| who are immensely interested in the work of
preparation for the encampment. and whose
| footballs are heard in the White House vestibule
every hour Of the day. When these little
groups give way TO the coming masses Wash
/ ingtonians will be treated to as much excite
ment as they could possibly derive from elbow
1 ing the crowd ON the board walk at Atlantic
City.
| In a social wav nothing is expected Of start
\ ling nature until very late in the fall. There
!, will be few weddings and some pretty ones,
| and these events will start tue ball going. Then
| some of the fine houses will have new occupants
and that is going to send little new lie along
the stream. Mr.. and Mrs. John Ingalls, Of Gin
cinnati will move into the Anderson house on
! X street and from their large acquaintance il
is not likely it will be very lonesome corner
| thereafter. Many persons in admiring this
house have commented on the unobstructivc-
| ness Of the front door and what a very small
section Of the front is taken up with it. while
the arrangements for carriage visitors through
the porte cochere are SO ample. A bright young
! woman. who owns herself q palatial brown front
| with the generous porch our ancestors liked.
| saws that evidently in these kind Of houses only
carriage visitors are expected.
just to point this idea, people who have
| nothing else to talk about-and il is surprising
how many there are in summer-are wondering
| il Senator Brice is going TO make any other pro-
| vision for walkers than TO the carriage en-
| trance at the Corco-an house.
| 1t is worth while to come home and 60 house,
| keeping in such mansions as Lieut.. and Mrs.
| Clover and Mr.. and Mrs. Frazer have provided
| for themselves. Mrs. Clover's house il q gem
within and without and Mrs. Frazers the en-
| bodiment of substantial ease and luxury.
| There are probably no two houses which will
| come in for more comment this fall than the
Letter and the Nhittemore houses. II is real
| Chicago block. 1t is said Of Mr.. Letters house
| that it fairly embodics all his own ideas both
/ in materials well methods Of constr uction.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Whittemore were able to give
themselves 1ust as much ground form as they
needed, and their house appeals to the large
class of people who are sick and tired Of climb
/ ing stairs. Their house is virtually only two
stories. but is as big as two ordinary houses.
Miss Lillian, daughter of Col. A. T. N. Filler,
has returned to her home in Loudoun county.
Va. from protracted visit to Saratoga Springs.
Mr. Denis NJ. Mccormick is expected home
this week from a very pleasant visit aaRg
friends in Lynn.
Miss Annie E. Vance is rapidly regaining her
health at Asheville, n. c. where she will remain
a month longer.
Mrs. Van Buren, Hillyard and children have
returned after a seven weeks sojourn in the
country at Boyd's, Nd, greatly improved in
health.
Rev. VIM. Nee. White and Mrs. White leave
this afternoon for Hampden-Sidncy, Va. where
Mr.. White goes to complete his course in the
Union Theological Seminary.