The times., 1897-06-20
THE DOINGS OF SOCIETY
Plans of the Cabinet Ladies for
the Summer.
weddings Announced for This Week.
Secretary Gage Leases Isador
Saks' Beautiful Residence.

Society is as dead as Dickens door nall,
though number of delightful representa-
! tives OF washington's social and official
world are still here and expect to remain
! until it pleases Congress to adjourn.
There is no telling when that may come
to pass, for the national body is as err
| ratio in its movements as any jack-o-lan-
tern that ever danced across the Potomac
marshes. In the meantime the sojournsis
within the city have much to be thankful
| tor. There are wide streets, leafy with big
| breezy trees: there are picturesque drives
that end in up-to-date inns masquerading
under mediaeval names and architecture.
! and daily boats and cars that steam off
! to beaches where the waves curlIn brack-
| ish il not exactly briny water, and to
| stretches of meadows and woodlands re-
freshingly pastoral, though they do not
possess the scenic importance of those
fashion stamped fields and forests that
are pre- empted by Fortunatus and his
daughters and sons.
1t Is probable that Mrs Mckinley viii
remain until the adjournment, as she does
not careto leave without the President a nd
he, of course, is city-bound, except for brief
excursions. The Vice President and Mrs.
Hobart were enjoying their enforced deten-
tion here at the Cameron residence, ON
Lafayette Place, until the recent indisposi-
tion of their young son, w hch may neces-
state change In their summer program.
Secretary and Mrs. Sherman love Wash
ington, and ask no sympathy for being
obliged to remain In their beautiful marble
mansion, on X street, since they usually
delay their summer Jaunt until the heart
Of the season.
Secretary Long will remain at the
Capital indefinitely, although 1t Is likely
that his wife and daughters will spend u
greater part of the summer at their de-
lghtful home at .'Old Hingham,'' few
miles south Of Boston, on d lovely stretch
of land facing the ocean.
a recent guest describes 1t as charming
experience to sit upon the broad piazza
with the genial host, and TO enjoy the
brilliant panorama Of nature while breath
ing the health-giving breezes that blow in
from the water or nearby forests.
other officials of more or less magnitude
are accepting the inevitable with more or
less philosophy, and the one thing to be
sure about in the matter is that everybody
connected with the doings of Congress VIII
be glad when the time comes to go away.
Several weddings of special interest are
announced for the, coming week.
On Tuesday evening, at the residence OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel II. Bacon, the mar
rage will take place of their daughter,
Miss Annie Ian gston Bacon, and MI
Philip Henry Richardson Pearson. 1t will
be followed by a reception, from $50
to 10. On Wednesday, at the First Bap-
tist Church, Miss Adrienne Ezdorf and Mt.
Charles S. Shreeve, Jr.. will be married
at 8 p. IN. At the New York Avenue Pres
bytenan Church, Miss Florence Caroline
Gngg and Mr.. Edward Lyman Chapman
will be united at the same hour, and at
the Epiphany Church, also at O'Clock,
the marriage of Miss Anna NJ Enrite and
Mr.. E. j. Decker will take place.
Many friends from this city will attend
the nuptials OF Miss Lorena Langdon
Barber to Mr.. Samuel Todd Davis, jr,
which will take place at Ardsley Towers,
Ardsle y-on- the Hudson, n. Y, Tuesday
afternoon. On Wednesday evening, Mr..
Ezra Doty Parker, a SON of Mr.. E. Southard
Parker, president of the National Metro
politan Bank, of this city, will be married
to Miss Rebecca Jane Banks, at her
home, in Mifflintown, Pa.
One OF the last and most beautiful nuptial
events of June viii be the marriage on the
30th instant of Miss Priscilla LIE Baron
Goldsborough to Mr. William ID. Slaughter,
of Memphis, Tenn. The ceremony will be
solemnized at St. Patrick's Church at 8
O'Clock by Rev. DR.. Stafford and be fol-
lowed by a nuptial mass.
The maid Of honor viii be Miss Julia
Smoot, niece of the bride, and the ushers
Mr.. Heiskell and Mr.. Fauntleroy McGill.
The best man viii be Mr.. Xavier TaiIlard
The bride is lineal descendant of his
toric Puritan stock, being related through
her mother to Miles Standish, and on her
grandfather's side OF the house to John
Alden her name being given her in honor
of Priscilla, his wife
Mr.. and Mrs. Richold have issued cards
announcing the marriage of their daughter,
Ernestine. to Mr. Lee Baumgarten, on
Wednesday, June %.
Ex-Governor H. H Wells has issued
invitations for the marriage of his grand
daughter, Helen Milcent Wells, to Nj
Edward of this city. The wedding will
take place at the North Presbyterian
Church OF Wednesday, at O'Clock.
On Tuesday a double wedding will take
place at the residence of DR.. Appleby,
OF Georgetown, when Miss Josephine Ap-
pleby viii marry Mr.. Kendrfck HIATT and
Miss Bessie Appleby will become the wife
of MI. William Franklin Willoughby.
Secretary Gage has settled the question
of permanent city residence, by leas-
ing, furnished, the house, No. 1715 K street,
owned by Mr.. Isador Saks, and now oc-
cupied by him. The deal was made about |
two weeks ago, but the Secretary will |
not take possession until fall having ara |
ranged to spend the summer at Chevy |
Chase.
The house Is three-story and basement, |
gable front, of white stone with a hand
some flight of stone steps. 1t stands on a |
terrace, and adjoins q vacant lot on one |
side and handsome residence on the |
other The interior Is Of the most modern |
and elegant style of architecture, with a |
rotunda and two grand stairways, the |
entire house being magnificently furnished |
from basement to roof.
July /, DR.. and Mrs. Adams, of Dupont |
Circle, will go to Mountain Lake Park to |
occupy their cottage for the summer |
months. Mrs. Adams viii remain until |
about November /.