The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-01

- Mrs. Roosevelt opened the weeks
o.+ortsinment with dinner party at
tno white House on Monday evening;
ad On Wednesday evening gave a
heautiful reception in honor Of the Wis
'.,Dc bishops of the Protestant Epis-
aonol Church, who have been attend
irg the All-American Congress. The
FASHIONS. by the way, magnificent
lacking body of men, none under mid
so oqe-have been the recipients of a
Loot deal of social attention at the
national Capital On Sunday afternoon
tho fifth anniversary of the Peace
cross at St. Adams, three or four miles
ero,o town. upwards or $4,000 persons
attended the exercises. The cross
was dedicated by President Mckinley
q, its erection five years ago. and his
successor. President Roosevelt, deliv-
orad the anniversary address last Sun
day. Mrs. Roosevelt and many other
rrominent ladies were in attendance,
Going out in their carriages, or in the
Tennellytown street cars. 1t was a
nerfect autumn day, and a scene long
N he remembered. The full congress
Of Bishops. in all their glory of can
onical trappins, marched in solemn pro-
oassion around the cross. headed by 300
vested choir boys and acyoliteS; and
even the secular Marine Band was
Tohed for the occasion in sacred vest
ments.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, who has been
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Cowles, at
Pennington, Conn.,, went last week
70 New York for brief visit, and
thence to Chicago, where she Will re-
main with friends for some time. She
u,ir return to Washington late in
November, in time for the McCauley-
Tuckerman wedding, at which she is
TO serve as a bridesmaid.
All the cabinet ladies are again in
Washington, excepting Mrs. Hay and
Ms Knox. The wife of the Secretary
of state is making her annual autumn
visit to her old home in Cleveland.
Before coming. to the Capital for the
winter, she will spend some time in
New York city with her eldest daugh-
ter Mrs Payne Whitney, and the
beloved first grandchild. Mrs. Knox
will probably return to Washington
during the present week, the Attorney
General being already domiciled in the
K street home, which was opened for
him by the servants a fortnight ago.
Mrs Hitchcock returned on Saturday
from New York, where she and her
attrictive daughters have been for
some time engaged in the delights Of
shopping. She came alone, however.
the young ladies having gone to TuXe-
do Park for a few weeks stay with
friends. Mrs. and Miss Shaw, wife
and daughter of the Secretary of the
Treasury, are settled for the winter
will be presented to society early in
December. Her debut will not take
the form of a tea, as used to be the
fashion for budlets, but will be the
more brilliant function of an evening
reception. Miss Wilson, the charming
daughter of the Secretary of Agri-
culture, who divided her summer be-
tween the Maine coast and Nova SEQ
tia, with a few weeks at the last in
New York, is again at home with her
father and looking extremely we'll after
the long outing. The Secretary of
Commerce and Mrs. Cortelyou have
also returned from their much needed
vacation, taken at the very end of
the season because the busy Secretary
could not get away sooner; and last
week they moved from the old home
on Capitol Hill, to a handsomer house
in the more fashionable West End,
as BELTS their new position. The new
White House, and half that distance
from any of their associates in the
Cabinet circle. But it is a CommodiouS
and handsome home, affording ample
space for the larger entertaining that
will now of necessity devolve upon
them. 1t has also garden enough at
tached to satisfy the healthful out
door inclinations for the four small
COrtelyous, whose interests were the
chief consideration of their devoted
parents in the selection of new home.
There will be a decided increase in
entertaining among the cabinet fami-
lies this winter, all the women of this
leading circle being in society for the
hrst time in several years. Mrs. Hay,
Mrs. Root and Mrs. Hitchcock, having
peen in mourning for some time, re-
duced the. ranks to four cabinet hos
tesses, the least number known in sew
eral administrations. Mrs. Hay and
Mrs. Hitchcock will resume their so
cial duties the coming season, and
there will also be three new faces in
the line-Mrs. Taft, Mrs. Cortelyou,
and Mrs. Oliver, making the full num-
per as complete as possible with q
bachelor Secretary of the Navy. Mrs.
Taft, who will take the place of Mrs.
Root on Jan. 1, has a large circle of
Washington acquaintance, made dur
her husband served as solicitor gen.
eral. AS the wife of the Governor of
Manila, Mrs. Taft has had experience
IN military life and custom, which will
place her in sympathy with the large
ana popular army contingent at the
National Capital. The family of the
future secretary consists of three chill
dren, the eldest boy not quite 10. The
only girl, Helen Taft, is about the age
OF Ethel Roosevelt, and the youngest
BOY is in his fifth year. Gov. and Mrs.
tdit nave engaged apartments at the
arlington, where they will spend the
winter. The present Secretary of War
ana Mrs. Root, and their daughter,
VINO have been some time in London.
are now on the Atlantic en- route to
New York and will probably spend the
next TWO months in Washington.
With the coming of Sir Henry Morti-
Ler Durand as British ambassador to
Ihe united States, successor of the
late lamented Sir Michael Herbert, So
clal interest in the British embassy is
revived, despite the regret felt for the
Ipss or Sir MichaePs American wife,
1auy DuTand, unlike her predecessor,
Is an English woman by birth and has
never visited America or been in any
way Identified with American society
IN London. Her daughter, who is said
" De very charming young woman,
leue her debut several years ago in
London, and has been extremely pop
cIor IN Madrid, where the Durands
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