Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19

/ connected with the United States public
health and marine hospital service. The
wedding win take place in few days and
probably at the Kianalu.
Miss Margaret Winthrop. who IL at New
| port with the Misses Mason. is reported to
be engaged to James Grant Forbes. Miss
| winthrop Is granddaughter OF the late
| Robert c. Winthrop. former governor OF
Massachusetts,, representative from that
state for many years in Congress. and also
| descendant Of Gov. Winthrop, the first
governor of the Plymouth colony. Her
mother was q Miss Mason. Miss Win
throp's brother. Robert M. Winthrop. is an
| attache Of the United States legation at
/ Brussels.
Mr.: Forbes is the younger son Of Francis
Blackwell Forbes. a graduate OF Harvard
| University in the class OF 'O1, and men,
Der Of the Tennis and Racquet Club Of Bos-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Westinghouse are
booked to sail for New York August q
| and on their arrival will go at once to
Erskine Park, their Lenox villa.
| Acting Secretary of State Bacon and Mrs.
Bacon are cruising In their yacht in north
| ern waters. The secretary recently Joined
| Mrs Bacon at Dark f1arbor. Me.
Mrs Henry siegei opened her summer
home, Driftwood. at Orienta Point, Long
Island sound. with house party of ten
| guests last night Mrs. Siegel has been at
Driftwood only two days. having but re-
Gently returned from England She was
accompanied to her summer home by her
daughters. Dorothy and Julia.
| Mrs Clarence H. Mackay is at Roslyn
| again having changed her plans in regard
/ to staying at Lenox until September i.
Mrs. Mackay has many interests there
| that demand her personal attention. The
parish house and church she Is erecting for
| Trinity Church Is progressing rapidly. The
/ parish house will be opened about the mid
die of October. Mrs. Mackay has become
int: ested in project for public park on
| the water front and will attend a meeting
to be held Thursday evening.
1 Newport Wednesday afternoon attended
| the wedding of Miss Mary Alicia Book
| staver. daughter Of Judge and Mrs. Henry
w. Bookstaver, who were among the
| pioneer summer residents of Newport and
are well known in New York ard Charles
4 Edward Knoblauch, son Of Charles Knob
| LAUGH. The bridegroom served In the Rough
| Riders. His father is one of the noted ex-
| lies Of the Hungarian revolution. The cere-
| mony was performed at the summer home
1 Of the brides parents on Purgatory road.
Col and Mrs Robert NJ Thompson, with
| Miss Kathleen Beresford, daughter Of Ad-
| miral Lord Charles Beresford, and Miss
| Lorraine Roosevelt, daughter Of Mrs. ].
| West Roosevelt, returned Wednesday to
| Southampton, Long Island, from New Lon
| don, Westport and West Point. Miss
Gladys Roosevelt is likewise at Southamp-
ton. She is daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
| John Ellis Roosevelt, and is the guest of
| Mr.. and Mrs George De Witt.
Early in the week a large dinner party
| was given at the Marble House by Com
| modore and Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt. jr., for
about forty guests. Including Prince and
| Princess Cantacuzene of Russia, Mr.. and
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont. Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
| ward r. Thomas. Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
| Vanderbilt, Potter Palmer, jr. Mr.. and Mrs.
| William B. Leeds, Mr.. and Mrs. Stuyvesant
| Fish. Mrs. Avery, Mr.. and Mrs Pembroke
| Jones. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles P. Hillhouse
| and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles M. Oelrichs.
| Dinner was served in the red and gold
dining room: the most mar r!s room no Of
its kind in this country The 1urnlSh'nSs
alone cost not less than 100000.
The high ceiling, with Its marvellous
| chandelier of dropping crystals and gold
ornaments is but one feature of the deco
| rations.
The heavy window draperies of red velvet
plush with their solid gold tassels, blended
| beautifully with the table cloth of red with
figures of heavy gold lace
The floral decorations were American
| beauty roses in gold vases upon the table
| and Oh the magnificent onyx firepla:es and
| mantels.
The Cantacuzenes already have received
enough cards to keep them busy for the
| next two weeks.
| Mrs. Yznaga, mother Of the widowed
| Duchess Of Manchester and grandmother
| of the present duke, was in New YORK
| Wednesday on her way to Paul Smiths IN
the Adirondacks, where she will spend the
| remainder of the season.
A pretty little romance is said to be con-
| nected with the engagement Of Miss Julia
| Swindell, daughter of Mrs George E. Swim
/ dell of Baltimore, and Mr.. E. B. Reece OF
| the British civil service in West Africa.
| Miss Swindell is one of several very pretty
| sisters, and used to live at 924 North Cal
| vert street, but has been making her home
| abroad for nine months. 1t was in SwitZer-
/ land that Miss Swindell and Mr.. Reece first
| met. and it was there the friendship started
| in the propitious surroundings of Lucerne
/ which later developed into something more
| serious. The ceremony will take place
| abroad, but the date has not been set. the
prospective bride and groom will make their
| home in West Africa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Scott Burden (Miss
| Roche), who have arrived from their bridal
| tour abroad. will visit Miss Evelyn Parsons
| at the Parsons Long Island country place.
i Miss Annie Ward Kountze, whose engage
ment to Gordon Douglass was announced
| last week, has gone to Bar Harbor with
| her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Kountze
for few weeks. Mr.. Douglass mother,
Mrs. William Douglass. has cottage at
| Bar Harbor. and since her return from
| Europe she has been occupying 1t with her
daughter, Miss Sibyl Douglass.
The Newport Horticultural Society en-
gagged the attention of the social contingent
/, at that resort Monday. and while the dis
| play was not nearly as elaborate as In past
| years. it was good. The Newport conserv-
| atories belonging to the many millionaires
| settled there for the summer are the equals
| of any In the world, and the show is gen.
orally a pretentous one.
Notable victories were won by the ex-
| hibts of Mrs. William Astor, Mrs. Robert
| Goelet and Mrs. Perry Belmont Of New
| York, and Miss Fanny Foster and Mrs. T.
! O. Richardson of Boston. the honors of the
| show going to the latter with Mrs Goelet
| a very close second. To Mrs. Richardson
| were awarded nine first and eight second
| premiums, and to Mrs. Goelet ten first, two
| second and two third.
| Mrs Astor showed superb nectarines and
| peaches, and they took the first premiums
| in their classes easily. Mrs. Astors carna-
tons and dracaenas also won first pre-
| miums here. while her grapes were second
| to those of Mrs. Richardson.
Mrs. Perry Belmont's gardenias and
American Beauty roses always features OF
| the Newport show. seemed never before so
nearly perfect Everybody selected them
| for first award long before the judges had
i got around to them. Mrs Belmont also
| showed the best pandanus and the best dec
| orative foliage plants.
| A magnificent conservatory Is one Of the