Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-14

world over. and whose wealth outside of
the great Krupp gun works, is in mines,
fleets of ships, stone quarrieS, ShipyardS,
etc. A conservative estimate OF her fortune
Is sos, 0O0, 600, with annual income OF
a million and a quarter. Her palace took
500 men four years to to-, construct cons .h aeTr
ated properties should be converted into
| joint stock company, the shares, except
enough to legally qualify the directors
-four shares of 1000 marks each), standing
| in the name of Miss Krupp. This relieves
the twenty-year-old heiress from taking
any active part In the management of the
works Bertha and her eighteen-year-old
sister, Barbara, have scarcely seen the
| inside of the works. They have been edu-
Gated in the seclusion of the vast country
place by private tutors and governesses,
special care being given the natural SCI
ences, languages music and painting.
1t is said that on a visit last year to Rome
with their mother Miss Krupp first met
| her future husband.
Dr. Won Bohlen who is thirty-six years
| old, born at The Hague, where his
| father, DR.. Gustav Won Bohlen and Hal
| bachs incumbency, was minister from the
| Grand Duchy of Baden. His mother s
name, Bohlen, was Incorporated in that of
her husband at marriage.
| Both families owed something to America
| Young Won Bohlen's grandfather was an
officer on the northern side during the civil
war Some of his descendants now live in
| Philadelphia The Halbach grandfather
| made fortune in the United States and
| took it back to Baden.
| DR.. Won Bohlen. after his student life at
| the university of Lausanne, Strassburg and
| Heidelberg, where he passed in law, served
| in the army, and now holds the title Of
| first lieutenant of the reserve in a Baden
| dragon regiment. He took his place in
| the Baden foreign office and accompanied
| the foreign secretary, Won Braued, to Queen
| Victoria's jubilee. He was third secretary
| of the imperial German embassy at Wash
| ington in 1899, second secretary at Picking
| In 1901 and in 1903 was appointed first
| secretary of the Prussian legation at the
| Vatican.
| The Westinghouse held their regular
| weekly meeting at the home of Miss Apple
| by, 023 sth street northwest, last Monday
| evening. The clubs opening ball will be
| held in National Rifles Armory, Thursday
| evening, October IS. Instrumental music and
I games were INDUCED in during the evening
Among those present were Misses Edith APP
pleby, Sadie Breslin, Anna Harmon, Marion
| Gddings and Katie Slater; Messrs. C. N.
F. F. Chase. Leroy Willett and r. T. Brick
| er. The club will meet next Monday night
| at Miss Harmon's, lilo 9th street.
| Mrs. Richard Hatton will spend the COM
| ing winter in Baltimore with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Hough Cottman, at their
residence on Cathedral street, Payma ster
Hatton Will shortly enter upon the three
years of active sea duty to which he has
been assigned.
| cottage at Coddington Point and gone t.
| Boston for visit before coming here for
| the winter. Mr.. and Mrs. Walter 5. An
| drews, who have been her guests during
the summer, have returned here.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Beatrice Ashmead, daughter of Mr. Will
! liam H. Ashmead of this city, to Lieut.
| William L. Littlefield, u. S. N. The we'd
| ding is to take place during the coming
| winter.
| The Austrian amba ssador and Nine Hen
gelmuller, and the British ambassador and
| Lady Durand. Miss Josephine Durand and
| Mrs Westinghouse We're among the guests
| at Mr.. and Mrs. Robert w. Patterson's ball
| In honor of the Berkshire hunt last night At
''Blantlyre' near Lenox.
The marriage of Miss Mary Katherine
| Evans, daughter of Mr.. George w. Evans.
| to Mr. Richard James Watkins will take
| place Wednesday; November IA. at the
! home of the brides father. Miss Evans will
| be attended by her sisters, Mrs. William O.
| Baldwin and Miss Marion Evans. Mr..
| Charles Roach will be best man. The invi-
| tat!ons to the marriage will be limited TO
| the immediate relatives of tho two young
| people.
| Mrs William H. Daw, 2301 H street
| northwest, gave beautifully appointed
luncheon of twenty-six covers Thursday in
| honor OF Mrs. Henry Stebbins Lathrop who
| has been visiting her for the past three
weeks. A string orchestra played during
| the afternoon. Luncheon was followed by a
| euchre party. The first prize was won by
| Miss Florence King; second by Mrs. f.
| Brice; third by Mrs. Jules Demonet; fourth
! by Mrs. Redwood Vandergrift. Mrs. Daw
| will give a tea and evening reception also
| series of card parties during the winter.
Miss Bertha NJ Schaeffer has returned to
| New York after visit to Orange county,
| N. Y. where she devoted her time to
! sketchng In that beautiful mountainous
| district
Mr. and Mrs. George A. King have re-
turned from trip abroad of three months
| with three of their children. They visited
| England and many of the countries Of the
continent.
| Mrs. Carlotta Ma Greal of 1912 10th
| street is at Governors Island, n. Y, the
| guest Of her niece, Mrs Glasgow, wife of
| Capt. w. J. Glasgow, who has lately re-
turned from the Philippines.