Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-02
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Brilliant Reception at the
White House.
L q 0 q s A M DIS. CALL
DIPLOMATS AND STATESMEN
GIVE GREETING.
Hearty Wishes From Officials and
Private Citizens to the President
and Mrs. Roosevelt.
7 d 0 q s A N DS' CALL


its lot Dame nature kindly supplied a lit
tie of each up 10 10 o'clock BY that time
everybodys plans were no longer tentative
but settled and with the fine disregard that
officialdom has of the weather nobody
cared anything more about it. The White
House was an interesting spot for an hour
or two previous to the beginning of It's
most important function of the year, when
the President of all the American people,
as the recent almost unanimous expression
of opinion at the polls would indicate. was
about to exchange greetings with the rep
resentatives of the great and lesser pow
ers of the-world and with his own country
men and country women, through their
leaders. The occasion, most gratifying
one ordinarily, was enhanced by recent
events and the very walls of the Executive
Mansion seemed to smile welcome
Fashions change at the White House, like
they do everywhere else, but whether tho
guests enter by one door or another or stay
in one place Or-another, while looking on
or participating are small details with
which the general comfort is assured and
with which the individual ought to he
happy. All the arrangements moved on
like clock work and reflected credit on each
hand that laid the wires.
The Decorations.
The floral decorations were sparse. ac-
ccrGing to the last century ideas. but in
dainty harmony with the permanent or
namentation of each room. Along the
main corridor the inches were filled with
palms and foliage plants. and poinsctta
blooms. mingled with the ferns in the big
vases.
Daylight iIumined the parors but the
electric bouquets made a soft and a neces-
sary light for the corridor.
The diplomats upon arriving -ssem-
bled in the state dig room, where the
New Year greetings We're heard. every
European language. as we'll the diplo-
matte French. The corps has in numbers
long since outgrown the red parlor, but
was comfortably provided for in the state
dining room. where standing in couples, the
procession formed a hollow square-until
the moment arrived to cross the red TO the
blue parlor. The Russian ambassador was
among the last of the diplomats to arrive.
He received an unusually cordial greeting
from a group of his colleagues and of army
officers who happened to be near the state
Ching room entrance. The japanese min
lister, by the events of the day, an
other diplomat on whom public attention
was more than usually centered.
The Reception Begins.
The President was in his office until ten
minutes of II, but was upstairs greeting his
cabinet in time for the grand march down
the east staircase as the big hall clock
pointed to II. There were fewer persons
progress of the President. his wife and the
cabinet and ladies was a most imposing
spectacle. Crossing 10 the blue room door,
the President escorted Mrs Roosevelt to
her post near the west door. The cabinet
women took their places at her right and
in a second or two. the reception Of 1905
was in progress. The Secretary Of State,
according to time-hOnored precedent. made
the presentations of the diplomatic corps,
the first body to enter Col. Charles S.
Bromweil, superintendent of public build
ings and grounds. taking the same post at
the Presidents left when the Supreme
Court entered Major Charles McCawley
faced the receiving party and repeated the
names of each person. that Mrs Roosevelt
and the cabinet women might hear 1t.
The President was never in happier mood,
and supplemented the usual expressions Of
good feeling by many pleasant remarks
Neither Mrs. Roosevelt nor her assistants
shook hands. each of them carrying bou-
quet presented by the wife of the Presi-
dent Mrs Wynne, Mrs Taft, Mrs. Morton
and Mrs. Metcalf had their positions as
aids TO the national hospitality for the hrst
time today The occasion had all the in
terest attached to Il new experience, and on
every side were heard congratUlatory and
complimentary remarks of their smiling
faces and beautiful gowns. The reception
of the diplomatic corps took only fifteen
minutes Before the last of the foreigners
had crossed the state dining room the JUS
tees of the Supreme Court, the associate
justices and the ladies accompanying them
entrance to the blue parlor. Associate JUS
tice Harlan headed his colleagues.
In the Blue Parlor.
The diplomats spent the interval after
the reception in the blue parlor. where
merry congestion ensued that no one would
miss their days pleasure without spoil
ing The group invited to assist by
remaining in the blue room, was a large
one and included not only well-known
Washington matrons and maids, but many
out -of town friends of the President and
his family. With a hundred and more OF
the foreigners within the round walls the
room was crowded and no mistake, but
everybody was happy over it. Secretary
and Mrs. Hay We're the first TO leave the
reception for their own home.
The ladies invited to the blue room were
Miss Shaw Mrs Henry w. Taft, Miss Nor
ton. Mrs. Chalmers the Misses Hitchcock,
Miss Cumegys. Mrs. Arthur SewaH Mrs.
George Fabyan, Mrs Loeb, Mrs c, S.
Bromwell. Mrs. Cameron MGR. Winslow.
Miss Isabella l.. 1agner. Mrs. Il. +. Barnes,
Mrs F. B. Loomis, Miss McCurdy, Mrs.
ID. G. Adee Miss Adee, Mrs. II. III. ID.
Peirce Miss Gwendolyn Cummings, Mrs.
Robert Shaw Oliver. the Misses Oliver,
Miss Julia Higginson, Mrs. Harlan. the
Misses Harlan, Miss Edith Harlan Child.
Mrs Brewer Mrs. Brown, Mrs White, Mrs.
McKenna, the Misses McKenna, Mrs.
Holmes, MISS DOfoluy ". y MIS-
Day, Mrs Luther Day. Mrs. Shiras Miss
Emme Frye White Miss Caroline Frye
Briggs Mrs. William Frye White Mrs.
Russell A. Alger Mrs. w. e. Bailey. Mrs
J. C. Burrows, Mrs Jennie p Andrews,
Mrs. A. s. Clay, Mrs. Shelby NJ. Cullom,
Miss Victoria Fisher, Mrs Chauncey NJ.
Depew. Miss A. ID. Paulding. Mrs. Stephen
B. EIkins, Miss Katherine Elkins, Miss
Emily Bird, Mrs. George Law. Mrs. Chas.
w. Fairbanks, Mrs. John w. Timmons,
Mrs. Joseph b. Foraker. Miss Louise For-
aker, Mrs. kean. the Misses kean. Mrs. p
c. Knox, Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge. Miss
Pansy G. Perkins. Miss NJ. Louise Snow,
Mrs. Geo p Wetmore, the Misses Wetmore
Miss Helen A. Cannon, Mrs. E. X. I.esuere,
Mrs. Loose, Mrs. John Dalzell. Mrs. Charles
III. Grosvenor, Mrs. s. E. Payne. Mrs. j. c..
Slbley. Mrs William McCalmont Wilson,
Mrs. A r. Chaffee Mrs George Dewey.
Mrs. p. NJ. Rixey. Miss Earlina Taunf. Mrs.
George +. Elliott. Miss Elliott. Mrs II. b.
F. Macfarland. Mrs. William n. Strong,
Mrs. II. L. West, Miss West. Miss s. D.
Ri1GIa Mrs foo Mrs