Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-15
WORLD OF SOCIETY
President and Mrs. Roosevelt
Attend Knox Wedding.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
COMING EVENTS OF INTEREST TO
wAsHINGToNIANs.
Capt. Butler Of the Marine Corps to
Wed-Persona1 Notes Of Com
ings and Goings.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

President and Mrs. Roosevelt will attend
today the wedding of Miss Rebekah Page
Knox, daughter of Senator and Mrs. Phil
| ander c. Knox, who will be married to Mr.
Edward r. Tindle of Pittsburg The cere-
mony will take place at o'clock at the
country home of Senator and Mrs Knox,
| 'Lesmore," Valley Forge Farm near VAL
| ley Forge, Pa, about twenty-four miles
| from Philadelphia
| The President and Mrs Roosevelt started
! from Washington this morning at 10
o'clock in private car attached to the reg
| ular train which left over the Pennsylva-
mia railroad at that hour. They were ac-
| companied by Secretary Loeb two secret
service officers and some White House at
| tacheS.
| From Philadelphia the party proceeded
| to Devon, Pa. on a special train. At that
point. which is about four miles from VAL
| ley Forge Farm, the President and his i'm
mediate party were met by a tally-ho
coach in which they were conveyed to Sem
ator KnoX's home.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt occupied a
| box at the Columbia Theater last night.
| Accompanying them were Theodore Roose-
| welt, jr., Mr.. Hale guest at the White
| House, and Miss Hagner
| announcement WdS maze To-Day Dy MI
and Mrs. Richard Peters of Philadelphia of
the engagement of their daughter, Miss
| Ethel Conway Peters, to Capt. Smedley
| Darlington Butler of the United States ma
| rines. The announcement came as a sur
| prise to all but the most intimate friends
of the young couple. Miss Peters and her
| family are now at her grandmOther'S place,
| in FELTON,, near Chester, where they arrived
a few weeks ago after spending the sum-
mer in Bay Head, N. ]. She is a grand
daughter of the late Samuel NJ. FELTON,, for
mer president Of the Philadelphia, Will
| mngton and Baltimore railroad. Miss Pc
| tiers is one of the prettiest and most popu-
lar members Of the younger set in Phila-
delphia.
Captain Butler is son of Representative
| Thomas S. Butler of Chester county, Pa.
| When the Spanish war began he was a stu
| dent at Haverford Grammar School, and
was to have been graduated in few
| weeks with the intention to study law.
But despite his Quaker training, when the
| call for volunteers was issued he felt that
he must go to the front. He won distinc-
| ton in Cuba and later in the Philippines,
| and also during the Boxer uprising in
China.
| Musical circles in this city will be much
| intereste1 in the announcement that Miss
| Maud Powell, widely known a violin So
| loist has been bride for more than a
| month. She was married about six weeks
| ago to Godfrey Turner of London, but the
fact has not become public until now. The
| marriage was very quietly celebrated at the
| Vail Farm, near Pawling, N. Y, where Miss
Powell was passing her vacation. There
| were present at the ceremony only MEM
| BERG of the household. Mr.. Turner has been
| for many years connected with the manage
| ment of the Empire Theater in London
| Miss Powell is not only pleasantly remem-
| Lered in Washington on account of her mu-
| steal ability, but also as the daughter of
Former Superintendent of Schools w. B.
Powell
| Cards rave been issued in Washington for
| the marriage. on the evening of Wednesday,
| October 20, at st. Joseph's Church, Lynn,
| Mass, of Miss Mary Hope Cotton, daughter
| of Mrs Mary Cotton. to Mr.. Joseph James
| Murphy of Boston. Mr.. Murphy is son of
Dominic /. Murphy of this city. secretary of
| the Panama canal commission.
Miss Violet Langham, sister of the Bar
oness Won Sternburg, will spend the winter
at the German embassy here The Viscount
| ess Faranond is recovering slowly from her
| serious illness, with which she was taken on
| board ship returning to this country from
| her honeymoon trip. She will also be in
| Washington for part of the coming season.
Miss Marion Oliver, daughter of the first
| assistant secretary of war, Gen. Robert
! Shaw Oliver, has gone to Lenox Mass
| where she is the guest of Miss Josephine
| Durand, daughter of the British ambass
| Ger.
| Mrs Taft. wife of the Secretary of War.
| has returned to her new home here, 1903 K
| street, after a summer spent at Murray
| Bay, Canada.
| Mr.. Christopher Hauge, secretary of the
| legation from Norway and Sweden accom-
| panied by Mrs. Hauge, is al Hot Springs,
| Va. >
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh c. Wallace, who have
been spending the summer on the north
| shore OF Massachusetts, have arrived in
| Washington and will spend the winter with
Mrs Wallace's father. Chief Justice Fuller
| Mrs Wallace has been critically ill, but is
| much better.
Abdul Hamil Abaza Egyptian delegate to
| the worlds fair, has been spending a few
| days in Washington. He gave dinner last
| evening to DR.. Galloway and other officials
| of the Department of Agriculture who have
| shown him courteSies during his visit. Mr..
and Mrs: Rittman, the former the auditor
| for the war Department, entertained the
| distinguished Egyptian early in the week.
out of courtesy to the auditors son-in-law
and daughter, Signor and Signora Serr the
| former the Italian consul in Cleveland, who
are friends of Abaza. The latter will sail
| for his home on October 25.
NJ Yves Guyot, the distinguished French
political economist and former minister of
! public works, is now in Washington He
| lunched yesterday with Mr.. Herbert Put
| nam, the Librarian of Congress, and today
with the Secretary of State. He was pre-
| sented yesterday to the President by Sec
| rotary Metcalf and will lunch at the White
| HOUSE MOHudS. Inc fTeHCH u al
| flares, NJ. Des Portes de la Fosse, has also
i entertained M. Guyot at dinner. Last even
| ing, at the New willard, M. Guyot enter
j tanned Mr.. Loomis the assistant secretary
| of state; NJ. Des Peptes and the Viscount
De Chambrun of the French embassy, Prof.
| Simon Newcomb, MriO.iP. Austin, chief of
| the bureau of statistics; Mr. Carroll D.
| Wright, commissioner of Tabor; Mr. w. c.
Ford of the Library ofsCpngress, Mr.. Theo-
| dore Stanton of the American chamber of
| commerce. Paris; Mr. S. N. d. North. d.
rector of the census, and others. M. Guyot
! leaves for New York Tuesday. He will visit
| st. Louis toward the end Of the month and
sail for France aboh the middle OF No
vember. a
Gen. Miles. who has been spending the
| early autumn at his Home on the Hudson,
| will return to town Tiext week, accompa-
MED by his daughter Mrs. Reber, and her
| two small boys.
| Col. Charles Sumner Bromwell, United
| States army, the newly appointed superin-
| tendcnt of public buildings and grounds,
| has been Joined by Mrs. Cromwell at the
| house they have taken for the winter, ZOOS
| New Hampshire avenue.
Mrs. Davidson and the Misses Quay. who
| have been spending several weeks in Wash
| ington, left last evening for Beaver, Pa,
/ where they Will spend the early winter.