The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-16
SOME WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
LIEUT.. GEN. YOUNG's TERM OF
SERVICE.

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The Summer Home of Admiral and
Mrs. Dewey-HOw They Pass the
Time at Their Country Place.
Where the Chinese Minister Is
Spending His VacatiOn-Mrs. HO-
bart an Enthusiastic AutOmO-
bilist-Thc Dinner which Ambas-
sadOr ChOate Gave in London
Last Week-Other Matters of GEN.
eral Interest.
Washington, Aug. 14.-Our new
lieutenant general will not have time
to make so many enemies, since he has
only about five months to serve-In
the congenial atmosphere of Washing
ton, which does not rub peoples tenn
pers the wrong way, like frontier serv-
ice. Gen. Chaffee is spoken of as the
coming chief of staff after January
next. Then Gen. Corbin will be next
in hne-a position which his ambitious
young wife most ardently desires for
him. Close upon his lucky heels come
| Gems. Macarthur and Wood, both of
! Spanish War fame. By the way, it is
remarkable that in the long line of men
who have been and who will be at
the head of the army, until the retire
ment of Wood in 1924, none since Scho-
! field has been or viii be West Point
men. Neither Miles, Young, Corbin,
Chaffee, Macarthur or Wood is a grad
uate of the famous military academy.
! A III Wood
Civil War. and the four years service
in that great conflict stands for as
much as four years at West Point.
Miss Elizabeth Young, daughter of
| the lieutenant general, did not come to
Washington with her father. She is
still visiting in the West. Gen. Young
has made no plans to get away from
the city again during the hot weather
The Admiral of the navy and Mrs.
| Dewey, who have fingered so long at
their country place, just outside of
| Washington, have a t last gone to Sara
toga, where they will spend several
| weeks The Admiral and his wife have
greatly enjoyed life at "Beauboir," the
weather for the most part being pleas
ant. 1t is not only an ideal country
place, but they have fine horses and
carriages galore, and the doughty Adj
mral has been frequently seen driving
his smartest pair in a trap or in Mrs.
Dewey's Victoria. He came into the
city every day, and Mrs. Dewey often
accompanied him. On their return
from Saratoga in the autumn they will
| again spend some time at Beau
boir before opening their city home.
| They are now pleasantly located in
the United States Hotel at Saratoga,
| which is Mrs. Dewey's faVorite sum-
lner place, where she has spent many
seasons. Last Saturday the Admiral
and his wife were guests of Mr.. Will
liam c. Whitney at the Saratoga races,
and, of course, attracted general at
tention Mrs. Dewey was beautifully
goWned in white-a lace trimmed mus
lin. dress, wrap of white broadeloth
and large white hat, trimmed with
| white feathers. -s
! Mr.. Douglas Robinson, brother-in-
law of President Roosevelt, has joined
| Mrs. Robinson on the other side of the
Atlantic, and the family party, which
includes Miss Robinson and younger
son, will go on an automobile tour
through Norway. Miss Robinson and
her brother will both be placed in
school over there, probably in Paris,
before their parents return to America.
Miss Helen Roosevelt and her fiance,
| Mr.. Douglas Robinson, Jr., are still
with Mrs. w. Sheffield Cowles, the
Presidents sister, in the Coates camp.
on the Upper St. Regis.
Mrs. Anna Randall Lancaster, eId-
est daughter and favorite child of the
late Hon. Samuel j. Randall of Penn
sylvania, Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives for several terms, died at
| her suburban residence near Washing
ton few days ago, after a long i'll
ness. She was a woman of unusual at
tainments and was of great service to
her distinguished father, both socially
and in a political sense. She is sur
vived by her mother, her husband and
several children.
The Chinese Minister, Sir Chentung
| LANG Cheng, is spending several
weeks with his children, two little boys
and a young daughter, at Purcellville,
| Va. A little later in the season he will
go to Henderson Harbor, N. Y, to
| make a visit to Gen. and Mrs. John w.
| Foster at their summer home, Under
| bluff. The Chinese minister will be
| joined here this fall by his sister-in-
| law, Miss Wong, who will be the hos
tess at the legation and preside over
his home.
The Korean legation is one of the
very few which is still open in Wash
| ington, although the minister is in Ko-
rea and all his secretaries are out of
| town. The only woman connected with
| the place, tiny Mrs. Kim, is there, with
her two little children, a son and a
daughter. She is the wife of one of the
attaches and has been in this country
only about eighteen. months. She has
| already learned enough English to
make herself understood and to under
stand ordinary conversation. She and
| the children enjoyed the summer here
and say that the temperature is about
that of Korea
Mrs. Carrot A. Hobart, widow of the
late Vice President, has become an au-
| tomobile enthusiast and has gained
| enough confidence to be her own chauf-
feur. She drove party of friends
over the Green Mountains to Jefferson,
| n H, one day last week, where the
party had luncheon, returning in the
afternoon to the Mount Washington,
where Mrs. Hobart is stopping, at
| Breton Woods N. H. Later in the
| week she made another trip in her
| touring car over Cherry Mountain to
! Lancaster, N. H, where luncheon was
| had in the Waumbek.
Senator Joseph w. Bailey of Texas.
! in his choice of a place to spend the
summer, went about as far from home
| as possible and yet remain within the
| United States He and his family are
located at the Thousand Island House,
| Alexandria Bay. New York
Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island is
spending most of his summer cruising
| along the Atlantic coast in the steam
yacht Chiquita.