The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-16
SOME WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
FEATURES OF THE RENOVATED
WHITE HOUSE.

WHITE HOUSE.
Some Facts About the Social sched-
uIe mt the National Capitol for the
Senson-MIss Roosevelt to Be Alb
sent the Greater Part of the Win
fer-The Date of the First Formal
Dinner Party at the white House.
The Diplomats Have Returned
From Their Summer Outings-The
Plans of the British Ambassador.
Remarks About the DOings of
WeII-Known PeOpIe-Others Mat
tiers of SpeciaI Interest.
Washington, D. c., Nov. 15.-With
the President and Mrs. Roosevelt
again beneath the White House roof,
and the return of all the cabinet off,
GERS and their families, society be-
gins to feel itself pretty well estab-
lished for the winter. 1t cannot be
said that the President and his wife
are enjoying the comforts of a home
in the partially renovated executive
mansion. The bedrooms. upper corridor
and family dining room are the only
apartments now finished, and visitors
to the Presidents family, as we'll as
the members thereof, must carefully
pick their devious way to an impro-
vised reception room on the second
floor, via a small spiral stairway in
the rear of the buffers pantry. The
present reception parlor is the future
cabinet room, adjoining the oval Ii
L
as the Presidents study. Here, by the
way, is where the cabinet ladies met
Thursday to discuss with the lady of
the White House the social schedule
of the winter-not, however, as regards
state functions, which in the future
as in the past, will be treated officially
by Col Bingham and the Presidents
secretary. The province of the ladies
is confined to teas, formal receptions
and informal 'at homes" which have
become so largely part of Mrs. Roose-
velt's regime.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, who is now
making a series of visits near Boston,
will be absent a great part of the win
ter, but will be the center of some
brilliant entertainments here early in
the New Year. Miss Carow, Mrs.
winter in Washington. appears to have
had quite enough of US. She is now at
Nice, staying at the Hotel de France.
Miss Carow is especially fond of Italy
and will spend the opening winter in
that sunny country.
Mrs. Shaw, wife of the Secretary of
the Treasury, has returned from her
recent trip to Seattle. The return of
Mrs. Root, wife of the Secretary of
War, having been again deferred, the
list of cabinet hostesses will not be
completed before Christmas. AS Mrs.
Roosevelt has decided upon Dec Is as
the date of her first formal dinner
party the cabinet hostesses will be
compelled by official etiquette to quick
ly follow suit, which will make it pos
sible to have three of the usual eight
dinners in honor of the President and
his wife before Jan. 1. The first of
these dinners will be given by the
Secretary of State and Mrs. Hay.
Secretary of the Interior and Mrs
Hitchcock, being still in deep mourn
ing for the secretary's brother, will
take no part in society this winted.
This is greatly to be regretted, as
Secretary and Mrs. Hitchcock have
maintained one of the most hospitable
and attractive homes at the national
capital
The Secretary of the Navy, Mr..
Moody, has taken for the season a
handsome residence on X street Mr..
Moody, who is the only bachelor in
the cabinet, may be joined for part
of the season by his sister, Miss
Moody, although the latter is now
abroad and had originally planned to
spend the winter in England.
Mrs. Hill, wife of the Assistant Sec
rotary of State, has sailed for Europe,
accompanied by her children, whom
she expects TO place in school in
Switzerland, where special advantages
in acquiring the continental languages
may be secured. She will remain
abroad several months at least, and
probably for the entire winter. The
beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Hill
will be greatly missed in the social
rounds, and especially in the diplo-
matte circle, for whose entertainment
both host and hostess were so we'll
adapted by reason of their knowledge
of foreign tongues and ways.
The Third Assistant Secretary of
State and Mrs. Pierce have taken the
large house at the corner of Nineteenth
and f streets which used to be the
home of Mr.. Hilary Herbert during
his term as Secretary of the Navy. 1t
is, therefore, well associated in the
public mind with the days when the
cabinet Wednesday afternoons were
occasions OF special importance IN the
Writers programme. Mr.. and Mrs
Pierce will probably have the full bur-
den, which is a pleasant one to them,
of the State Department entertaining
this winter, inasmuch as the home of
Secretary Hay is still closed because
of the deep mourning of the family,
and the temporary loss of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hills home, where most of the
gaiety conferred last winter.
The past week has brought back most
of the diplomatic contingent and shown
greater social activity than at any
time during the past seven months
The presence of M. Cambon, the retir-
ing ambassador from France, is being
made the occasion of a succession of
splendid dinner parties by his many
friends from New York to Chicago.
Every day-indeed, nearly every hour
of his stay in this country is engaged
by farewell hospitality from his adj
mirers in both public and private life
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas f. Walsh will
give a notable dinner in his honor on
Nov. II, and the following day Senator
Depew and Mr.. James II. Hyde will
give a banquet for the retiring am
bassador in New York city Mr.. Cam
bon returns to France the last OF this
month, and several weeks may elapse
before the arrival of his successor.
The handsome young mistress of the