Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-12
THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
DINNERS, WEDDINGS, ENGAGE
MENTs AND DANCES.
Midday Marriage at st. John's-A Red
Cotillon Personal
Notes.

The President entertained at dinner last
night Attorney General Moody. Secretary
Metcan, Justices Harlan and Brewer
Speaker Cannon, Senators Allison, Spooner
and Long, Representatives Burkett and
Dixon, Commissioner Garfield, Mr.. Ronald
Munro-Ferguson and Clifford Pnchot. DIR.
Nicholas Murray Butler and Mr.. Munro
Ferguson are guests at the White House.
AT the White House reception tonight
carriages will approach from the north
pennsylvania avenue), on East Executive
avenue and enter on the east side of the
White house opposite the treasury. Pc
| destrians will follow the same route
Carriages will be afterward pared around
| the ellipse in the White Lot
The gates will not be open until S:45
| O'Clock. Two carriages will drive under
the porte-cochere at the same time. Coach
! men will be provided with numbered
| checks, which must be preserved by them
| in order to regain admittance to the
| grounds. Guests will also be provided with
| tickets of the same number as their carri-
| ages. These they should carefully preserve
! in order to call their carriages, which win
| depart from the same entrance. Carriages
will be called by electric signal.
After leaving cloaks in the cloakroom
guests are requested to fall in line and
| pass up the grand staircase.
Guests holding special carriage cards will
enter the grounds by the southwest gate,
and the house by the door under south
portico Carriages will approach this en-
| trance by 18th street
Mr.. and Mrs Whitelaw Reid were guests
yesterday at the British embassy at lunch
con, when others present were the Japa-
nese minister, Mr.. Takahira; the Portu-
guese minister, Vicomte De Alte; Mrs.
Cowles, Mr.. Hioki, first secretary of the
British embassy and Mrs. De Clair and their
house guest Lady Alexander, and members
of the embassy staff.
trywoman, Mrs. De Chair, was given tea
by the latter yesterday. Miss Durand and
Miss Oliver assisted the hostess.
Mrs Wetmore was the handsome hostess
last night at the Bachelors cotillon, when
over 400 guests were present and the sea-
son, so far the Bachelors Is concerned,
was most successfully fnaugurated. The
ball was given at the New Willard, all the
flowers used being red, the favors being tied
with red ribbons and the lights shaded in
red rose leaves. Mr.. George Howard led
the cotillon, in which a hundred couples
took part. The favors were sashes, sachets
and roses, and for the men whistles and
frames. A buffet supper was served after
midnight, and the guests accepting and gen.
orally present were Mr. and Mrs. Larz An
derson, Representative Robert Adams, the
Misses Anderson, Mr.. and Mrs. A. d. Addi-
son, Mr.. Rodrigo Azpiroz, Miss Azpiroz, the
Misses Brown, Lieut. II. V. Butler, Mr.
Jerome Bonaparte, the Misses Boardman.
Mr.. w. T. Bingham. Captain Beach. Lieut..
Mark Bristol, Miss Enrol Brown, Mrs. James
G. Blaine, jr.. Miss Belrose, the Misses
Berry, the Misses Cobb, Mr.. Murray Cobb
the Misses Cotton. Mr.. and Mrs. C. II.
Campbell, General Crozier, Dr. and Mrs.
Clayton, Miss Clagett, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Chiffon, Miss Gwendolyn Cum
mings, the Misses Crosby. Miss Shelby
and Countess de Moltke, the Misses Bell,
Col John Biddle, Mr.. Gist Blair, Mr.. and
Mrs. John s. Blair. Mr.. and Mrs. John
Bioomer. Mr.. Norman Bestor, Col and
Mrs. Bromwell, Mr.. and Mrs. Edison
Bradley, Miss Hull, Mr.. J. NJ. Carlisle,
Miss Carlisle, Miss de smirnoff, Miss
de Koven, Col. and Mrs. Denny, the
Misses Fremont, Miss Ferguson, Lieut..
Fortesque, Mr.. Arthur Goldsborough.
Miss Gilmore, Miss Calf, Mr.. Goutowsky,
Miss Gilmore, Mr.. and Mrs Randall Hag-
ner, Miss Isabella Hagner, Mr.. Howe, Mr..
Frederick Huidekoper Mr.: and Mrs IS
Elkins, jr.; Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ellis, the
Misses Emory, Miss Foraker, Miss HUFF,
Miss Hunt, the Misses Humphreys, Mr..
and Mrs. F. B: Harrison. Miss Elinor
Hoyt, Mr.. Matthew Hale, Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Hooker, DR.. and Mrs. Ralph Jen-
kins, Miss Johnson, the Misses kean, Mr..
Arthur Keith, Mrs. H. G. Kemp. Lieut.:
Mrs George c. Lodge, Miss Lev ring,. the
Misses Loring. Mr.. .Longworth, the Misses
Lobel, Mr. and Mrs Arthur Lee, Mr.. and
Mrs Piquette Mitchell. Miss Merriam, Mr.:
Mrs. Montgomery Mr.. Frederick May Miss
May, Miss Magruder, Miss Mitchell. M.
Montagna, Col. Morrell, the Misses Miller,
Miss Mattingly, Lieut.; Martin, Miss NC
Miss McCammon, Miss MCGOWAN, Mr. and
Mrs James McCallum, Miss MacVeagh,
Miss Norris, Mr.. and Mrs. Olmsted, the
Misses Oliver, Mr.. and Mrs. O'Donnell Miss
Alice Gordon Parker, Mr.. w. s. Peaehy,
Mr.. Pulido, Miss Patterson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lee Phillips, Miss Palmer, Mr.. and Mrs
John Poor. Miss Roosevelt, the Misses Ran-
dolph, Miss Poor, Col. and Mrs. Russell,
Capt. and Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Rtdgely,
Miss Sargent. Miss Sheridan, Lieut. Philip
Sheridan, Miss Seibert, Miss Mary Souther-
Squire, Col. and Mrs. Sharp. Mr.. Walter
Tuckerman Miss Townsend, the Misses
Wetmore Mr.. and Mrs. John F. Wilkins.
Mr. and Mrs Horace Westcott. Mr.. Nathan
Wyth Miss Jean Walsh and Miss Daisy
Wilson.
Among the out-of-town guests were Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Bohlen. Mr.: Richard Will
Ing, Mrs Murray Bohlen, Mr.. Andrew c.
Gray all of Philadelphia; Mr.. and Mrs.
Preston Gibson of Chicago. Mr.. John Drew,
Mr.. Bickford Kibby, Mr.. e. R. Crownin-
Shield ana MI. MARSHALL bdluWlu, dA VI
New York; Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Marshall OF
Newport Pa, and Mr.. Richard Vaux
Buckley of Philadelphia.
The committee for the Bachelors this year
consists of Maj. Charles McCawley, Mr..
George Howard, Mr.. P. Lee Phillips, Mr..
John Van Ness Philip, Mr.. Reginald Hutde-
koper and Capt. ]. c. Gilmore, jr.
Senator and Mrs. Elkins gave a dinner
last night to Miss Katherine Thomas Wood
and Captain Robert Henry Dunlap, whose
marriage took place today. The other
guests were Mrs. Wood. Miss Morton, Mr..
James Lownsberry, Miss Elizabeth Davis
of New York; Mrs Elkins, Lieutenant
Harry Lay, Miss Florence Field, Miss Bird,
Miss Stevens, Lieutenant U. S. Grant, Sd,
Captain Zealand, Miss Elkins, Miss Mar
jory Cotton, Captain Leonard, Miss Elsie
Seymour, Lieutenant Butler, Captain
Wynne, Mr.. Roger Wetmore, Miss Cum
mings, Mr.. Murray Cobb and Lieutenant
Evans.
Lieutenant General and Mrs. Chaffee gave
a dinner last night, when the guests were
the British ambassador and Lady Durand,
the Secretary Of War and Mrs Taft, Sen
ator and Mrs. AIger Senator and Mrs. Dry
den Senator and Mrs. Foraker, General
and Mrs. Story and Mr.. and Mrs. Mac
Veagh.