The Washington times., 1905-02-25
NIGHT WAS FILLED
WITH PLEASURE
Society Devotees Crowd the
Dinner Tables.
THE INDEPENDENCE OF CUBA
Home of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Spencer
0na u tie Most Hospitable
II Washington.

Secretary of the Interior and Mrs.
Hitchcock entertained a dinner party
last night composed of the French Am
bassador and Nine. Jusserand. the Ital-
ian Ambassador and Baroness Mayor
des Planches. attorney General Moody.
Senator Crane, Mr. and Mrs Wayne
MacVeagh, the Rev, and Mrs. Roland
Cotton Smith, Col, and Mrs. Henry G..
Sharpe Mrs, Nicholas Fish, Mr.. and
Mrs. Parsons and Miss Margaret Hitch
cock.
Senator and Mrs Depew were hosts at
a dinner party at Corcoran House last
night. entertaining the British Ambas-
sador and Lady Durand, Madam des
Portes, wife of the counselor of the
French embassy; Representative Nor
relI, Representative Bourke Cochran,
Mrs. Sheridan, Mr.. and Mrs. de Koven.
Mr.. and Mrs. May Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Legare, Mrs.
Herbert Wadsworth, Mrs. Slater. Miss
Sheridan Miss Helen Patten, Mr. small
ey. Mr.. Parsons, and Frederick May.
In celebration OF the tenth aaniver-
sary of the outbreak of the Cuban war
for independence the minister. Senior
Quesada, and Sonora Quesada turned
the legation home in Sixteenth street
last night into q place of entertainment.
Cuban and American flags mingled with
the floral decorations of roses and palms
and ferns. AT the dinner party, which
preceded the ball, all the members of
the legation staff and their wives were
entertained. and, il addition, Senior
Campillo, Seaor Conte, and Senorita
Cortfna. ali OF New York.
Mrs. Que5ada, mother of the minis
ter, DR.. Miranda, the father of Senior
n hn Ia FSxlf- -
Nine Leger, the Peruvia2t minister,
Representative and Mrs Cooper, of
Wisconsin. and the secretary of the
Mexican embassy and Nine. Gamboa
Ali of the younger members of the Dip
1omatic Corps, married and single and
a large contingent of fashionable so
ciety to the number of f25 danced In
receiving her guests, Sonora Quesada
wore a gown of yellow silk veiled in
flmy lace.
Spencers Are Hospitable
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Spencer are
among the newer acquisitions TO Wash
ington society, but long known as hos
pitable entertainers in New York, and
at their beautiful home in Massachu-
setts avenue have the latch string ever
out. They have been frequent dinner
hosts during the past few weeks and
last night had as their guests at dinner
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Nor
lon, Mr- and MIS- Price Collier. or
Tuxedo Park. n. Y, who are their
house guests for the inaugural exer-
cises; Senator * Kean, Miss kean. Sem
ator Eillins. SeEator Bacon, Representa-
tive and Mrs. Henry kirke Porter, Mrs.
Rockfill, Mrs. Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Pierre Lorillard, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Lo1hrop Bradley
Mrs Richard Butler had a small but
delightful dinner party at her apart
ments at the Rochambeau last evening.
when her list of guests included Justice
and Mrs. Brewer, Justice and Mrs. Nc
kenna, Sir Chentung Liang-Cheng, the
Chinese minister, and Admiral and Mrs.
Chester. Thursday evening Mrs. But
Ter chaperoned a theater party for Lin
den Bates. jr., of New York, who had
among his guests Miss Helen Chaffee,
Miss de Koven. Lieutenant Simms. and
Senator Dietrich.