Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-04
THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
MOTHER GOOSE ENTERTAINS So
Getty AT NARRAGANSETT.
Movements to and From Resorts
vacationists Returning to the City
Weddings Of the Day.

Country Club last evening by Mrs. Joseph
| 8. Ulman of New York. who entertained
| seventy-five persons in q most elaborate
manner. The dining room was decorated
with Mother Goose emblems. and each
| guest appeared in costume distinctive of the
occasion. After the dinner there was given
| on the lawn a vaudeville show. in which
many Of the guests took part, and a dance
| followed with appropriate favors. The
lawn was brilliantly lighted with incandes-
| cent lamps, a feature being an electrical
| fountain.
| The largest social event last evening at
Newport was the dinner given by Mr.. and
Mrs. James Brown Potter at the Gilbert
| cottage. There were sixty guests, who
| were seated at tables on the piazza. This
was inclosed and transformed into min
| iature orange grove. orange trees only be
| was small orange tree. After the dinner
| there was music and bridge.
| Mrs. William Astor arrived at Beechwood
| today to remain during September and Oc-
| tober.
| Capt. and Mrs. Charles B. Wheeler have
arrived in the city and are occupying an
apartment at the Highlands while they
are packing and getting ready for their
departure for the Philippines. where Capt.
Wheeler has but recently been assigned.
| Capt. and Mrs. Wheeler have been living
| at 21G6 r street during the time they have
| spent in Washington.
Miss Louise McAllister daughter of the late
Ward McAllister. and Mrs. Henry Red
| mond yesterday afternoon gave at Berger's
Bellevue lodge one of the largest luncheons
of the season.
| The German ambassador. Baron Speck
Won Sternburg arrived in Washington yes
terday and will return to Beverly Farms
this morning. The ambassador is stopping
| at the embassy.
W. K Vanderbilt jr's, yacht Tarantula
steamed to New York last night, Mr.. and
| Mrs. Vanderbilt leaving earlier by train on
receipt of the news of the death of Her
| by Mrs. Oelrichs, her young son and Mr..
and Mrs. Charles M. Oelrichs
The naval attache of the Uruguay Iega-
| ton and Nine. de SaeZ have gone to New
York for short stay.
Miss Julia Meyer, daughter of Ambassador
| to Russia and Mrs. Meyer. is a guest of Mr..
| and Mrs. Samuel rockingham. at Over
leigh, their Lenox place. Miss Heloise
| Bemis at Beverly Farms.
Mr.. Justice McKenna and Mrs. McKenna,
who expect to build home in this city,
have given up their Rhode Island avenue
house and have taken an apartment at the
Connecticut. Justice and Mrs. McKenna
expect to come to Washington October 1.
Mrs. McKenna has been spending some
| time with her daughter and son-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs John Leggett Pultz. at the
cottage they have taken for the summer at
Atlantic City.
Mrs Mary Longfellow Milmore left today
for Philadelphia where she will join a
party of friends and start for Boston,
| making the entire trip from Trenton, N. j.,
by trolley. Mrs. Milmore will be absent for
some weeks, and on her return will make a
visit to Harper's Ferry before going west
for an extensive trip. She will be guest
| In October of Mr.. and Mrs. Hoyt, the lat
ter teas. sister Of the The present Mrs William
Montana. at their ranch near the Bullfrog
| mine, in Montana.
Announcement was made yesterday that,
Robert Garrett. considered one of the most
eligible bachelors of Maryland. was en-
gagged to be married to Miss Katharine
Barker Johnson, daughter of DIR. and Mrs
Robert w. johnson. Mr.. Garrett is now
the republican candidate for Congress in
the second district, and is close to Secre-
tary Bonaparte.
An interesting wedding. to take place this
afternoon which will be attended by a
number of well-known Baltimore and Wash
ington guests, will be that of Mrs. Harriette
Lyon Thomas, formerly of Elizabeth N. J.,
but now of Fauquier county. Va, to Mr..
William Gibbins Coates of Philadelphia.
| The ceremony will be performed at s
o'clock at the residence of the bride-elect,
| Evelyn Heights, near Callett, Va, and will
of-town guests went down on specai
train, leaving Washington at 1 80 pm. and
returning about pm. Carriages met them
upon their arrival at Callett
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis T. Passano 1918 st.
Paul street, Baltimore, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Miss Beulah
Seldner Passano, to Lieut.. Oscar Kemp Toll
| ley, 14th Infantry, United States army. The
! wedding will take place in December.
The governor of Maryland and Mrs. War
| field, accompanied by their youngest daugh-
ter and Gov. Warfield's sister, Mrs. Gillett
Gill Of Baltimore, have been spending the
| weeks end at the Stockton Hotel. Cape
May.
United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge
of Indianapolis arrived at Mount Washing
ton, N. H, yesterday. Senator Beveridge
was a guest at Breton Woods last Septem-
Der.
Mrs. Antonio Yznaga, mother of Consueio,
Duchess of Manchester, has arrived from
the south and is staying at Richfeld
Springs, N. Y.
Assistant Secretary of State Robert s.
Bacon, who, with Mrs. Bacon, has been
| visiting friends along the North shore, is ex-
pected to arrive in this city today.
Miss Eleanor Sears, champion society girl
swimmer, is to have a rival and perhaps
usurper Of her honors in Miss Elizabeth
Rosen daughter of the Baron Won Rosen
Russian AMBASSADOR, ana as the Baroness
| Won Rosen has put the most 'un-Boston of
young Boston bellies on her mettle, she is
not missing day at Newport in the break
ers in her effort to be in readiness for a
test match that will be arranged very short
ly between the two.
The Prince and Princess Cantacuzene and
the latter's cousin, Potter Palmer are at
Bar Harbor. stopping at the Louisburg.
Capt. and Mrs Richmond P. Hobson ar
rfved of the Connecficnt last evepinC
where they have taken apartment for
the winter. Capt. Hobson is the demo-
cratic nominee for Congress in the sew
| enth Alabama district, to succeed Repre-
sentative John H. Bankhead. Capt. and
Mrs. Hobson will be q great acquisition to
society next winter, and will add another
newly married couple to the congressional
set.
Mrs Geo. H. Pension after a months
| visit to her sister, Mrs. Sidney Appleton of
| North Andover, Mass. has returned home
Dr. and Mrs. Edw. 8. Smith have returned