The Portland daily press., 1895-08-29
CUMBERLAND CLUB.

CUMBERLAND CLUB.
Dedicate til New House With Reception
to the Fleet.
The Cumberland club dedicated their
new club house. into which they have
SO recently removed, by brilliant re-
ception to the officers of the North Az
lantic squadron, yesterday from TO p
M The great capabilities of their ele-
CANT home will never be displayed un Sl
more favorable auspices. The turf hiiu
been recently rolled in the great garu Ha1
in the rear, and was as yelvety ana solu
as could possibly be desired. The mower
beds were brilliant with late summer
flowers Here and there about the lawn
great tropical plants shed their shadows,
and hundreds of comfortable chairs were
scattered about for the convenience anu
comfort Of the guests
Inside there was fine display OIL ol
chids, palms and rare plants with nalieo
familiar only to the florist. In the rear
small parlor on the left, just on OF Ine
main dining the Togus band dls,
coursed its sweetest strains, that IIoaleu
out over the spacious grounds. In bne
drawing room on the right of the main
entrance the guests were received by me
executive committee, President w. I'll.
Anderson, Messrs. Horace Anderson,
George o. K. Cram, Winthrop Jordan
and W. M. Bradley, assisted BY hon .;
Thomas B. Reed, Gen. John MarshaL
Brown, Dr. Seth G. Gordon, Messrs.
Henry ST. John Smith and Theodore
G. Woodbury.. About twenty mem pers
of the club officiated as ushers to intro
duce the officers to the ladyiguests.
Shortly after three O'Clock. Admiral
Bunce, attended by very large delega-
tion, the officers arrived and was re-
ceived by the committee. The car
cession, bringing the invited guests.
No Portland gentlemen outside the
club members were honored. but their
wives, sisters and cousins to the number
of about seven hundred, were. After in
Productions had been made the guests
enjoyed themselves as they pleased. They
visited tho garden, chatted and danced,
in the half dozen large parlors, and
danced in the great billiard hall up
stairs. Robinson catered, and the
tables in both the main and ladies' din
ing rooms, were very handsomely decorat-
ed. The entire suite in the second story
on the right of the house was devoted to
the dressing rooms of the ladies and those
on the left to the gentlemen. Two OIL.
GERS of the police force in full dress uni
| form were stationed at the main en-
trance to the house, over which the ma
tional flag f1oated.
These were among the guests present:
Mrs. W. Fl. Anderson, Miss Mary An
derson, Miss Edith Anderson, Miss Dayeis
| Gov. Cleaves, Miss Marjorie Allen, Miss
Annie Miller, Mr.. Zogbaum. the artist,
the Misses Cate, the Misses Huxley,
Mr.. Delaney of Halifax, Mrs. and Miss
Lloyd, Miss Bingham, Mrs. General
Connor and the Misses Conner, Miss
Goodwin, Miss Patience Waterhouse, the
Misses Knight, Miss Mollie Brown, Miss
Richmond, Vice Consul general Springer
of Havana, and the Misses Springer,
Consul General 1ngraham of Halifax,
Miss Charlotte Thomas Miss e. Varnum,
Mrs. and the Misses Collins Miss Char
lotte Emery, Mrs. Throop. and Miss
Throop, Miss Helen Nichlos of Cambridge
Mass Miss Margaret and Miss. Mollie Mat
| tooks, Miss Dinghy, Mrs. W. S. Jordan,
Milliken, Miss Beth Milliken, Hon.
w. f. Milliken, and Mrs. Milliken, Mrs.
| Webster, and Miss Webster. Miss Hobbs,
Mrs. D. P. Bosworth, Miss Shaw, Mrs.
| Kimball of Statewide, Mrs. Eames Of
| Bath, Mrs. Gen. Hyde and Miss Ethel
Hyde of Bath, Miss Perkins, Miss Mar
garet Boyd, Miss Boyd, Mrs. Chapman,
the Misses Chapman, Mrs. Hoyt of
Rochester, Mrs. E. M. Rand, Miss Kel-
| ley, Mrs. Capchard, Miss Clifford, Mrs.
and the Misses Fassett, Miss Nellie Lit
tie, Mrs. Perez Burnham and Miss Burn
ham, Mrs. Fred Talbot, Miss Cornelia
Hunt, Mrs George O. Z. Cram and the
and Miss Brewer of New Haven, Mrs.
Schouler, Mrs. John G. Small Mrs.
Robinson Williams, Miss Chenery, Mrs.
Seth Larrabee, Miss Marion Deering,
Mrs Rogers Mrs. James McKeen Of
Jewell's island, Mrs. Edward Woodman,
Miss Mary Longfellow, Miss Field OF
Lenox, Miss Alice Smith of Cambridge,
Miss Trull of Cambridge, Miss Julia
Noyes, Miss Mary Fletcher and Miss
Nichols, Mayor Baxter, Mrs. Baxter and
the Misses Baxter, Mrs. Stanley T. Pull
len, Mrs. j. Carroll Perkins. Miss Irene
Noyes, Miss Helen Lewis Mrs. George
S. Hunt, Mrs A. K. Hunt, Mrs. Sid.
ney Thaxter, Lieut.. and Mrs. Thomas
Wood, Mrs. Elias and Miss Helen Thorn
of Charlestown, Misses Alice and Anna
Weston. Miss Lawrence, Miss Fannie
Chadwick, Miss Day of Barnstable, Mrs.
Charles ID. Merrill, Miss Agnes Thrasher,
the Misses Mcdowell, Mrs JIG. Jordan
and the Misses Jordan, Mrs. Herman
Kotzschmar and Miss Dorotha Kotzsch-
mar ex-Consul General Sewell of Samoa
and Mrs Sewell, Miss Mckinney, Miss
Mitohaelis of Augusta, Miss Westbrook,
Miss Daisy Colby, Miss Hattie Staples,
Mrs George Duncan, Miss Mollie Smith
of Deering and Miss Lizzie Smith, Miss
Alden OF Waterville, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Converse of Boston, Miss Robert and
Mrs and Miss Wilder, Mrs. Dr. Spauld-
ing, Mrs. G. S. Morrill, Miss Norton,
Mrs Robinson, the Misses Libby, Mrs.
Winthrop Jordan, Miss Alice Libby, Mrs
George e. Bird, Miss Tate of Baltimore,
the Misses Hands of the Ottawa house.
Mrs. E. Il. York, Mrs Ed. Lunt. Miss
Green Of Hayerhill, Mass, Miss Mildred
Evans, Mrs. Fox, Miss Bolles, Mrs. e.
L. Stanwood, Mrs. &. G. Mitchell, Mrs.
Moses McDoudd, Miss Mary Mcdonald,
Mrs. Fred Jones, Mrs. p. ]. Jones, Miss
Emma Jones' Mrs. M. P. Frank, Judge
and Mrs. Nathan Webb and the Misses
Webb, Mrs. J. O. Twitchell and the
Misses Twitchell, Mrs. S. G. Strout and
the Misses Strout, Captain Picking, q.
S N, Lieut.. Gale and Mrs Gale, and
Lieut. Clifford and Mrs. Clifford from
Fort Preble, Gen. Varney Of Bangor,
President Appleton of the New England
Fair