The Washington times., 1905-11-26

state, returned last evening from snort
visit to New York. Miss Root attended
the Yale-Harvard football game at
Cambridge today.
Secretary Taft will be host at a large
dinner party this evening in honor of
the consulting engineers of the Panama
canal.
Lady Howard. wife of the British am
bassador TO The Hague, arrived IN
Washington last evening, accompanied
by her daughter. Miss Howard. and was
met at the station by Mr.. and Mrs.
George Howard. her son and daughter
in-law, whose guest she win be while
in Washington.
Lady Howard was before her marriage
Miss Riggs, of Washington. a sister
of the bankers of that name. Her visit
here viii be Of some length.
Mr.. Takahira. the Japanese minister.
has concluded to leave this city Deem
Der 10. and VIII give a farewell reception
to several hundred of his men friends at
the legation Thursday evening. Deem
Der Z. He will go to Japan to join his
wife and children. and viii spend sew
eral months in rest.
Mrs. Richard Mccormick, of New
York. is the guest of Senator and Mrs.
Stephen 3. Elkins, at their X street
residence, and chaperoned Miss Elkins
and a large party of her young friends
to the Benning races yesterday.
Mrs Frederick Dent Grant is coming
to Washington as the guest of Major
and Mrs. Edward Burr at washington
Barracks. and at New Year will be
the guest Of Mrs. Elkins.
Mr.. and Mrs Perry Belmont have
arrived in Washington and taken,
temporarily, apartments at the New
/ Willard. They have under lease for the
season the residence at the ,orner of
/ Massachusetts avenue and Sixteenth
street. the residence formerl occu-
pied by Representative and the late
/ Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison. and later
/ by Mr.. and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish for
their short period of entertaining here
last spring. AS soon as the residence is
/ In readiness. they viii move into it
| from the New Willard.
Senator and Mrs. Charles w. Fulton.
of Oregon. have reached Washington,
and are at the Portland for the season.
NJ. and Mrs. Charles A spaldlng. OF
New York. arrived in Washington yes
terday. and have opened their residence
on Rhode Island avenue for the season.
I Ex-ConsuI General to London and Mrs.
Henry Clay Evans. and their daughter.
closed their residence on Massachusetts
avenue yesterday and LETT the city for
their home in Chattanooga. Tenn.
Miss Isabel Lindsay Johnson, daugh-
ter Of the late Rear Admiral Philip c.
johnson. viii be married to Alfred
Ernest Steel, British consul at Tale
ahxiano. Chile. December 6, at the home
Of her mother. f7Oe VI street. Only the
intimate friends OF the bride viii attend
the reception which follows the eere-
mony.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eldridge Jordan were
hosts at dinner party and dance az
Chevy Chase, last night. in compliment
10 the Misses Ellis. OF New Orleans.
who are the guests of the Misses Col
ton. Their other guests were the Misses
Cotton, Miss Foraker, Miss Fitch. and
Miss Wylie. of Baltimore: Lieutenant
Commander Ling. Robert Tyler, Nathan
, Wyath, Philip Hichborne. Beal Bloom
er. Ford Thompson and Addison Ford,
or Baltimore
Mrs Stephen q. Ellins has opened her
residence in X street for the season, and
has both the Senator and Miss EIkins
with her While Mrs. Elkins Will OBJ
serve Thursdays. Senatorial DAYS a,
home. during January, and will enter
tain some dinner parties. She has not
sufficiently recovered from the physical
indisposition from which she has suf-
fered for two years past to make gen.
: eral Official calls. and, in fact. will limit
her social duties.
Mr. and Mrs Butler and the Misses
Futler. of New York, arrived in the
city last evening and are at the High
lands.
Congressman and Mrs. Burke OF
Pittsburg, are at the Highlands tenn
porariIy.
Mrs. William Belden Noble and Miss
David Yulee Noble. who spend theil
winters at the Capital, have arrived II
the city and taken apartments at tho
1 Portland
Mrs. Pope, the widow Of Capt Doug
las Pope. and Miss Pope. have taker
= apartments at the Westminster Seven
= teenth and Q. Streets. for the winter.
Lieut.. James NJ. Loud, Twenty-eightl
Infantry, son OF Lieut.. Col. John s
Loud. L. S. Army, who was lately op
3 Grated upon for appendicitis at tn,
United States General Hospital, thI.
: city has been moved to the home o
\ his parents. 8n0S Thirteenth street north
west, WHO'RE he is cOnvalescing.
4 Mrs. G. J. Crofton, after two years
residence in California and Arizona. hai
returned to Washington for the white
and will reside at 1902 K street north
west.
Mrs. OReiiiy. wife OF the Surgeon
e General Of the Army. who is visiting he
daughter. Mrs. Hennessy. at Fort Riley
Kan. is being entertained n great dea
at the post by the officers and thei
] wives.
= Last week Mrs. Banlster. wife of DR.
]. n. Banister. L. s. a. gave a larg,
G reception in her honor.