The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-08-03
IN The SOCIAL WORLD
North Shore Resorts in Full
Blast for Summer.
ROUND OF ENTERTAINMENTS
Dinners and Dances Occupy Even
ingS, While COaching and Other
Outdoor Sports FIJI in DnyS-MiSs
jean Reid Sails from Liverpool on
Her Way Home TO America.

The North Shore resorts are now IN full
blast for the enjoyment of the summer
dwellers. and this weeks entertaining set
the pace for a round of dinners and
dances that will be maintained during the
August evenings, while the days are de-
voted to driving and other open-air sports.
All over the boulevards Of LenOx and
Stockbridge the clatter of horses hoofs
and the blasts Of trumpets announce The
cOmings and gOings OF coaching parties
and automobiles. So many tourists and
driving parties have seldom been seen in
the Berkshires.
At Narragansett the Casino and beach
present a picture of life typical of earlier
generations. The women appear in gor-
geOus array. and almost every large city
in America is represented. There are
beaux and bellies. staid dowagers, and
gleeful children in the passing OF the
merry throng, while hundreds Of fathers
dot the beach In the distance numbers
Of steam launches lie at anchor against
the azure OF the sky.
NJ. des Portes, charge d'affaires of the
French Embassy. who has been at New
port since his recent return from Europe,
entertained at dinner earlier in the week,
his guests being the attaches Of the
French Embassy, and Count Sala and
Prof. Henin Nine. des Portes and Mile.
des Portes. who are just returning from
Paris. Will be met in New York by NJ. des
POrtes, who viii escort them 10 Newport.
Miss Jean Reid. daughter of the Amer
lean Ambassador TO England. and Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid, sailed from Liverpool
Thursday for New York. whence she will
go to join her mother at the summer place
of her grandfather, Mr.. D. o. Mills, at
Wildair, the Mills mountain camp
Commander Albert Gleaves. stationed
at the Naval War College at Newport,
who has been abroad for several months,
is now on the ocean returning to America,
accompanied by Lieut. Commander Davis
He viii be met in New York by his niece,
Miss May Nicholson, daughter OF Capt.
Reginald F. Nicholson. and return with
them 10 Newport. Mrs Gleaves was
formerly Miss Evalina Heap. sister of
Paymaster Lawrence Heap, who was re-
Gently married to Mrs. Violet Beale
Boomer. Of this city.
Mrs. Leutze and Miss Marion Leutze.
wife and daughter of Rear Admiral
Leutze. Commandant Of the Washington
Navy Yard. VIII leave here Monday for
Richheld Springs. where they viii Join the
army and navy contingent. which is al
ways to be found there, but which is par
ticulariy large this summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Archibald Oracle are the
guests of Mrs. Gracie's sister, Mrs. Tenn
pie Merrett. Of Southampton, L. l.
Miss Edgarina Hastings, who is spend
ing the summer at Newport, where her
uncle. Judge Morris. has taken a cottage
has as her guest Miss Julia c. Cherbo9-
nier, of Baltimore.
Mrs. Leonora Walters has gone to As
bury Park for the summer, and is a guest
at the Westminster.
DR.. Malone OF 1910 II street, has left
Washington for Berkeley Springs, w. Va,
where he will spend the month of August.
Civil Service Commissioner McIIhenny
left Washington yesterday for Boston on
business.
Senator A o. Bacon, OF Georgia, sailed
from New York Thursday for Europe on
the steamship Princess Alice. He will
travel on the continent for some time and
though no date has been set for his re-
turn, he viii be in Washington the open
ing Of the Congressional season.
Mr.. Harlie E. Pace and Miss Alice A.
Clarke, both of Washington. visited Rock
vile Thursday. and were married by Rev
S. R White. Of the Baptist church. The
ceremony was performed at the home of
the minister and was witnessed by two
Washington friends of the young couple
Mr. and Mrs. T. w. B. Dickwan and
their daughter, Miss Catherine, have gone
to their summer home at Berkeley Springs,
w. Va, TO remain until late in the fall.
Miss Ethel Mae Giles. Of Baltimore. is
spending a few days with Miss Kiefer at
her home on South Carolina avenue
Washington Is well represented this sea
son at Atlantic City. Among the recent
arrivals there are Mr. and Mrs. c. J.
Walker and son, Mr. B. Stanley Simmons.
Mr.. A. H. Votaw, Mr. W L. Davidson
and son, Miss Leonice Keekin, Mr. WI
liam Page Carter. Mr.. and Mrs. D.
French. Mr.. and Mrs. r. Yeatman, Miss
Bessie Walton. Mrs. Lut, Messrs. L. and
I. Frey. Miss B. Bunne!l. Mr.. and Mrs.
T. S. Morgan, Mr.. ". P Carter, airs.
l. a Clarke, Mr.. and Mrs II. Backen-
heimer, Miss BaciIenheimer, Mr.. and Mrs
II. Parkinson, Miss Ryan, Mr.. P .
shannon, Mrs. Shannon, Mr.. J. c. Gil
bert, and Mr. and Mrs Madison,
The American Ambassador to France
Henry White, has just leased Ridgeway
House, a fine residence in the Rue Fran
co.'s Premier, near the Pont des Inval-
ides, in Paris, TO be used as the Amer
lean embassy. which has had no perma-
nent home there. The house Will make
one Of the most pretentious embassies,
and IS considered one of the finest places
IN Paris. Among the prominent neigh
bors of the Ambassador and Mrs. White
will be Prince and Princess de Bearn
the prince being a former attache OF the
French embassy in Washington, and the
latter formerly Miss Winans, Of Balti-
more; and number Of other members of
the nobility.
Miss Selma Wilson gave a fancy dress
dance Monday evening at her home in
Lay Hill, in honor of her guest. Miss