Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-05

personal friends of Ambassador Cambon.
The same evening the French ambassador
will give a dinner of forty covers at the
embassy.
The deed of sale transferring the Hearst
residence on New Hampshire avenue to the
Italian government was signed at noon to-
day, and at o'clock Mrs. Hearst took the
train for California, intending to stop in
chicago on the way west. 1t is a matter
OF very general regret that so delightful
woman as Mrs. Hearst should give up
residence in this city even, as IL is hoped,
only for short interval Her untiring de-
Votlon to her aged mother necesSitated her
spending more time in California where the
latter resides, and, therefore, made her
more willing to relinqUish at this time the
cares of a home in this city. Mrs Hearst
mas long been among the most conspicuous
hostesses at the national capital, notably so
while her late husband was in the Senate
ana when their residence on Massa chu-
sets avenue was the scene of many of the
most sumptuous entertainments of that
period. Again, after her return here her
artistic taste and originality evolved the
most beautiful forms that hospitality could
take, and were the wonders of the season
IN ADDITION to doing So much socially her
practlcal encouragement and substantial
aid to schools, kinderSartens, etc. in this
city showed the other side of her splendid
character and has given her the first place
among the city's best friends. Her private
iloTt llldn kept pace with all the
rest that she did to make those about her
happier and better. That she NAV realize
an often expressed wish to have a home on
he1ght overlooking but near this city was
one of the comforting thoughts in the fare
wells of her friends today
Senator and Mrs. Depew gave a dinner
saturday night. when the guests included
Inc ltahan ambassador and Nine. Mayor
deS PlancheS, the first secretary of the
french embassy and Nine. de Margerie,
one assistant secretary of war and Mrs
sanger, Mr. and Mrs. George Lathrop
bradley, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas f. Walsh
Mr. and Mrs. A. c. Barney, Mrs. Wallach
MRS. Perrin, Miss Gwynne, Miss Hagner.
Miss Paulding, Mr.. Smaley. Mr. Norman
OF the British embassy, Representative
ROBERT Adams, Senator and Mrs. Hans
brough, Mr.. Frederick May and Mr.. Gill
lett
A reception followed, when there were
present: Secretary and Mrs. Shaw, the
Secretary of War Mrs. Root and Miss
Root. the Attorney General, Mrs. Knox
and Miss Knox, the Postmaster General
and Mrs. Payne, the Secretary of Agricul-
ture and Miss Wilson, the German am
bassador the French ambassador and
Nine. Cambon, the Russian ambassador
and Countess Marguerite Cassini, Mr.. Ri
ano, the Austrian minister, and Baroness
Hengelmuller, the Belgian minister and
Maroness Moncheur, the Swiss minister,
the Misses Pauncefote. the Danish minis
ter, the Speaker and Mrs. Henderson, Rep
resentative and Mrs. Newlands and the
Misses Newlands, Representative and Mrs
Wadsworth, Representative and Mrs. Ohm
sted. Representative and Mrs Mcclellan,
Gen. and Mrs. Corbin, Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ard Townsend, the Misses Patten, Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth, Miss Sheriff.
Mr.. and Mrs Boardman, Miss Boardman,
Mr.. and Mrs. Letter, Mr.. and Mrs Hugh
Legare, Mr.. and Mrs. Simpkins. Mrs. Hob
son. Commander and Mrs. Cowles, first as
sistant postmaster general and Mrs.
Wynne. Senator Frye, Senator and Mrs.
Hale. Senator and Mrs. Hanna, Miss Ruth
Hanna. Senator and Mrs. Lodge. Senator
and Mrs. Spooner, Senator and Mrs. For
aker, Senator and Mrs. Wetmore, the
Misses Wetmore, Senator Cockrell and
Miss Cockrell, Senator and Mrs. Cullom,
Senator Bacon, the counsellor of the
French embassy and Nine. de Margerie.