The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-11


those present were Mrs FHerscheIl Main,
Mr.. and Mrs. Gresham. Mr.. and Mrs. de
Yanes, Mrs Perez. S}natar Bacon, Mr. W
| c. Fox Miss Fox Mr.. Ion. Mrs and Miss
| Fontaine Dr. and Mrs. Baker. Miss Wilkie.
Mrs. Cole. Miss Lawton. Mr. Pendleton
King. Mrs. Josefs ? MIR 4 Seymour. Miss
Tedorowtch, Mr.. Costa, Ifuarte. Mr.. Fung
and Mr. Chwang. of the Chinese Legation;
Mr. Thomas Mrs Lamon. Miss Mangeot.
Miss De Pennevent. Mr1 Buynitski, Mrs.
Hill Hi Miss Hill. Mr. aeefMss PARIS. and
Mrs Joy. wife of Representative Joy.
who has fully recossred her health. and
Mrs John A Logan sailed from New York
| for Naples yesterday. They expect to be
| gone about four months. visiting Italy.
| Germany. Russia, England. and France.
The Vermont Avenue "Y' held its regu-
| lar monthly meeting at the residence OF
| Mr. and Mrs c. W. Shelton. 1915 Street.
| last Wednesday evening. with the Presi-
dent, Miss Lillian A. Ritter in the chair.
After a short business session a musical
! and literary programme was rendered in
which Misses Elizabeth Whaling B. o.
! Sweet. Grace L Ross. Mrs. Carolyn B. Rit-
ter and VI ,ssrs F. NJ. Bradley, A. B. Shell
| ton, Will and Odell Whipple took part.
| Among those resent were Mrs. Clinton
| Smith, Mrs Ritter Misses Weightman.
Bridge, Hazard. Saunders. Robey Chap
man. Godfrey. and Messrs. Wilson. Dins-
| dale. Bon Durani and others.
The Capito! Hill History Club held re-
| ception Thursday evening at the HON. of
| Mrs. CASTOR, 154 a Street northeast. Those
| contributing to the programme were Miss
| Clifford Holmes, piano solo: Miss Ali g
! Irwin. vocal solos: Miss Minnie Jones' THE
/ Marble Dream" with statue poses. and
| Miss Will Allen Dromgoole, readings Re-
freshments were served. The entertain
ment committee consisted OF Mesdames
! Fletcher. Frank, jenkins, CASTOR. Hall,
| Hunt, HORNE, and Cushman. Those pre-
ent were Mrs. Briggs. Mr.. James Briggs,
| Mr.. and Mrs Condra, Mr.. and Mrs. Cush-
| man, Mr.. and Mrs. Demaray and son. Mr..
and Mrs. Fletcher, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Mr.. and Mrs. Castor, Mr.. and Mrs. Dague,
Mr. and Mrs. Hildreth, Mr.. and Mrs. Hunt,
Mr. and Mrs. Metcaif, Mr. and Mrs. Webb
Mrs. Hail. Mr.. Emmett Hall, Mrs. Roberts
and son. Mrs. Patten. Mrs Clum. Mrs.
HORNE, Mrs. Jenkins, Mrs. Mclaughlin.
Misses Case Emerson. Mary Bennett, Gas
ton, Holmes. Clum, Irwin, Mcconnell, Ho-
rine, Jones. VIII Allen DromgoOle, and
Messrs. Bennett, Williams, Hicks, and Gas
ton.
The Admiral of the Navy and Mrs. Dewey
were right royalty Welcomed at Lakewood
n. j., according to a chronicler from that
resort. who writes
Almost without exception everybody in
Lakewood this week mas shown a particu-
| lar interest in TIE pastimes of Admiral
! Dewey, who, with Mrs. Dewey and their
servant has been chartered at the Lake
wood Hotel There was very large crowd
to meet them at the station. and altho .gh
the time spent here has been quietly
passed by the Admiral and his wife. who
have seemed to find their chief pleasure in
long walks through the woods, a few spe-
cial events have been arranged in their
honor. The Admiral has visited George J.
Gould's place, accepting the courtesies ten
dered. and on Wednesday the Lakewood
Hotels fourin- hand tally-ho. decorated
with the national colDrs took the Admiral
and Mrs. Dewey, together with Mr.. and
Mrs. Nathln Straus. james y. Berry. Miss
Cissy Straus, Mrs. Kingdom. and Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Marion Pollock, sto The Hall at
| Allaire. Luncheon was served at that
place, and the party returned late in the
afternoon from hlost enjoyable days out
ing. On Thursday evening the hotel gave a
reception to the public in honor of Admiral
Dewey, who receivef- With a handshake
hundreds of his admirers, standing with
Mrs. Dewey in the blue parlor where an
III composer VI ana an
arrangement of forals, had been arranged
for the occasion. Following the supper
the music room was opened for a grand
ball, which was thoroughly enjoyed by a
very large attendance"
Mr.. W. H. Glascott. of the United States
Treasurer's Office, has been i'll for several
weeks from an attack of the grip, but his
friends will be pleased to learn that he
is now convalescing.
Matthew Arnold was the subject of an
interesting talk given by Miss Carolyn
Porte Thursday morning at the residence
of Mrs. John W. Foster before a notable
gathering of men and women Of diplo-
matte and official prominence.
Over hundred guests were present at
the lecture given by Mrs. Walworth Fri
day morning at the reside ace OF Mr.. and
Mrs. John B. Henderson, on the heights of
Sixteenth Street. The subject, American
Art and American Artists" was made ad-
ditionaily attractive by the surroundings
OF the speaker and her audience. as the
talk was given in the splendid gallery of
Boundary Castle, whose walls are hung
with the worlds most famous masters.
1t was the second lecture in the course
and those who listened to it were the
wives anu daughters OF the senatorial and
Congressional circle together with
number of artists and art-loying friends
The Short Story Club met Tuesday even
ing last Contributions to the evenings
programme. by the m moers were as fol-
lows: Miss NJ. f. Ringgold read an orig
inal acrostic on the Short Story Club by
Mrs Francis R. Burt; Mr.. W. W Case
recited The Conversations - by Eugene
Field: Miss Gertrude Warrington read
an original essay on Jean Francois Mil
lais; Miss VI. f. 6.rggold reviewed and
gave selections from The Valley Path"
by VIII Allen DromgoOle; Mr. Clifford
Howard contributed an unusually mag
NATIVE and clever original short story.
The deviation of Jacob" Mrs. NJ S
Beall reviewed Janice Meredith" by
Paul l.. Ford; DR.. Anton Coe recited an
original poem appropriate to the Lenten
season, The Great Sacrifice" Mrs Cliff |
ford Howard and Mrs A Hersey gave a |
piano duet, Chase Inferno" a vocal |
duet Crimson Glow" Mrs A Jersey. a |
vocal solo. Down on the Sands" and
Mrs. Howard The Bug-a- boo"
from the old plantation days was given |
Wednesday afternoon at the Columbia |
Theatre at sc o'clock by Mrs Henry J. |
Gielow, of Alabama and New York The |
dialect 7tOries were brimful OF the humor
and pathCS that made the slave one OF the
most picturesque features of Southern life
before the war, and her realistic impersona-
lions of the various types given won for