Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-30
KEEP OPEN HOUSE
Those Who Viii Follow the Time
Honored Custom
OFFICIAL And OTHER RECEPTIONS
The Exchange of Happy Greetings
for 1900.
SOME WILL NOT RECEIV Z

The following il the program for the New
Year reception at the White House:
The President will receive at:
II a.n.-The members of the cabinet the
diplomatic corps.
11:11 m.-The chief justice and associat,
justices Of the supreme Court of the United
States. the judges of the United States
Court of Claims. the Judges of the Court Of
Appeals. the judges of the Supreme Court
of the District Of Columbia. ex-ca0inet
members and ex-uintstcrs of the United
States.
11:21 Ambassadors. representatives anG
delegates in Congress; the Commissioners
and judicial officers of the District of Co
lunbia.
114o a.m.-Offcers Of the army officers
Of the navy, officers Of the marine corps
commanding general and general staff OF
the militia of the District of Columbia
II m The regents and secretary of the
Smithsonian institution. the commissioner
of fisheries, the civil service commission,
the interstate commerce commission, the
commissioner of labor. assistant secretaries
of departments, assistant postmasters gen
eral the solicitor general, assistant attor-
neys. general, the treasurer of the United
States, commissioner of pensions, commits
sioner of patents. controller of the cur
renCy, the heads of bureaus in the several
departments, the president Of the Column
bIa Institute Tor the Deaf and Dumb.
12:1J p.m.-The Associated Veterans of
the War 1851, the Grand Army of the
Republic, the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States. the tmOn
Veteran Legion, Spanish War Veterans,
the members of the oldest Inhabitants As
sOciation of the District Of Columbia.
12::}5 p.m.-ReCeption of citizens, which
will terminate at 30 pm.
Carriages viii approach the Executive
Mansion by the western gate and leave by
the eastern.
Pedestrians will approach by the western
gate and leave by the eastern.
In accordance with custom. the grounds
south of the manson and the southern en-
trance will be closed New Year day.
All the cabinet homes will be open to
callers New Year, except that of the At
torney General, Mrs. Grlggs being detained
AT her home in Paterson. n j., by the
serious illness of her mother.
The cabinet receptions Will commence at
80 O'Clock. ana viii continue during I'll.
afternoon.
The Secretary OF State and Mrs. Hay viii
entertain the diplomatic corps at breakfast
at noon, at their home. S''o 18th street. Mrs
Hay. assisted by her daughters and others.
will receive during the afternoon
Mrs. Gage, wife OF ,he Secretary of the
Treasury, Will receive at her residence, i'd
Massachusetts avenue. She will he assist
ed by Miss CaSsini, the Misses GriggS. Miss
Lucy Page. Mrs. Charles A. Spauidmg. Mrs.
J. Stanley Brown, the Misses Gary of Bal
tin"re, Mrs. Z. F. Pierce of Chicago, Miss
Ruth Crandon, Miss Cox and Miss Sway,
all of Chicago
Mrs. Root, wife of the Secretary of War.
will hold her first New Year reception at
1926 Rhode Island avenue. She VIII be as
sisted by Mrs. Bates, Mrs. Sheridan. Mrs.
CowleS, Mrs. Postlewaite, Mrs. Mcclellan,
Mrs. Parsons, the Misses Bates. Miss Sher-
idan, Miss Sanger, Miss Hawley. Miss ADO
ID, Greedy. Miss Edith Patten, Miss Davis,
Miss NcKenna, Miss Hagner and Miss Glo-
yer.
Mrs Smith. wife of the Postmaster Cen
eral, viii receive at 17I4 Massachusetts
avenue. Receiving with her Will be Mrs
Theodore Bingham, Mrs. John W. Foster,
Mrs. Olnstead. Mrs. Perry S. Heath, Mrs.
William E. Curtis, Miss Marie McKenna.
Miss MacVeagh, Miss Evans, Miss Hem
mick and the Misses Maury.
Miss Long, daughter of the Secretary OF
the Navy, will receive at the Portland.
Miss Long will be assisted by her grand
mother, Mrs. CT S. Glover, Mrs Allen, Miss
Allen, Mrs. Frederick Rodgers, Mrs. Sar-
gent, Mrs, Richard Mulligan, Mrs, W, S,
Hunt, Mrs. Eugene 2. Stone, Mrs. w. W,
Phelps, Miss Bradford Miss Hichborn, Miss
Wallace, Miss Beuham, Miss Virginia
Evans, Miss Gallaudet, Miss Satterlee and
Miss Painter.
Mrs. Hitchcock, Wife of the Secretary OF
the Interior, will receive at 1901 X street
She Will be assisted by MesGames Henry G.
Sharpe, George C Fraser, Fairfax Harri-
sen, Misses Fay, Ernst, Mott, Cassels, Ethel
Wallace and the Misses Hitchcock.
Miss Wilson, daughter of the Secretary OF
Agriculture, will receive for the first time
at their new residence, 1922 Vermont ave-
nue. She will be assisted by Mesdamas
Dalzell Perry Allen, Willis Moore. GaliaI-
Diet, Dawes, Clarerice Clark, Thos. Walsh
Raymond Patterson and Misses Cotton.
Florence Foraker, Elsie Bell and Miriam
Bell.
The admiral of the navy and Mrs Dewey
will receive from 1890 to $50, at 1903 *
street, with Mrs. Washington Mclean
They will be assisted by thirty matrons and
| ruaids.
Mrs. Miles will receive at her residence
1886 n street, after the reception at the
White House. She will be assisted. among
others, by Mrs. Stanley Matthews. Mrs
Whitney, Mrs. Gilmore the Misses Horst.
man, Miss RGgges. Miss Sawtelle, Miss
Cotton and Miss Webb.
The chief justice and Mrs. Fuller will re-
ceive at 1900 F street from l to l.
Mrs. Henderson, wife Of the Speaker, viii
not receive.
Mrs. Frye will not receive.