Evening star., 1908-01-10

fOHoWlnS q dinner tDy tne Tfesioehe
and Mrs. Roosevelt tonight, there will be
| a musicale in the east room, to which
| large company has been asked.
| Mrs. Vanderbilt sent invitations yester-
day to relatives and intimate friends for
| the marriage of her daughter, Miss
| Gladys Moore Vanderbilt. to Count Iaszlo
| Szechenyi. at noon Monday, January q,
| at the Vanderbilt home, No. West 5Sth
| street. New York city. The hour set is II
o'clock. 1t will not be large wedding.
| as Mrs. Vanderbilt has been obliged to
| limit her guests. owing to the marriage
taking place in her house.
| Until the arrival of relatives of the
! bridegroom, who a-e now on the way
| from Europe. all details cannot be set
| tied. Miss Vanderbilt will have no at
tendants, and the best man will be Count
Anton Sigray. who is a passenger on the
kronprinzessin Cecilie. due here next
week. 1t is expected that Mgr. Lavile
of st. Patrick's Cathedral will officiate.
Vi the details the New York Herald says
today:
The ceremony will take place in the
ballroom. 1t will be followed by seated
breakfast, which will be served in the din
ing room. the foyer hall and in the break
fast room. During the ceremony and
breakfast an orchestra will play. and
the program will include many Hungarian
| and American airs in compliment to both
the bride and the bridegroom.
The entire staff of the AuStro-Hun-
garian embassy from Washington will be
In attendance, in addition to the foreign
ers who are coming from Europe.
Already many handsome gifts have been
received by Miss Vanderbilt, many. hav
ing been sent long before the date of
the wedding was known. There are yet
to come some superb jewels from menu
bers of the Vanderbilt family as well as
quantities of beautiful silver. 1t is also
said that from the relatives of the
bridegroom there will be some Jewels be-
longing for generations to his family
Count Szechenyi and his bride will leave
for his estates in Hungary soon after the
wedding.
Ambassador and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid.
accompanied by Mr. D. %. Mills, left
New York yesterday for California. They
are travelling across the continent in the
private car Commonwealth.
Mrs. J. Eakin Gadsby has returned from
visit of several days to New York,
where she was greatly feted by her
friends Among the other entertainments
was theater and dinner party given in
her honor by Mrs. William c. Potter.
Mr.. and Mrs Francois Berger Moran
entertained at dinner last evening in
honor of Senator and Mrs. Isidor Ray
| ner of Maryland. The other guests were
Commander J. ]. Knapp, Representative
and Mrs. Van Vechten olcott, Mrs.
Churchill Candee. Mr.. Gerald Barry. Mr.
and Mrs John Jay White jr., of New
York. Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Musgrave of
Boston. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Thropp and
Mr.. William Hayes Ackland.
Mrs. Ross Thompson gave a beautiful
luncheon today in honor of Mrs. Mckee
Mr.. and Mrs. George Vanderbilt have
No II a tfv~o
| residence for the season.
Mrs. Mortimer H. Acheson will be at
home Thursday February 20 and Febru-
ary q, at the Cumberland.
Mrs. and Miss Granger, Connecticut
avenue. will be at home Saturday, jan
uary IL. also the succeeding Saturdays of
January.
Mrs. G. w. Atkinson will not be at home
Mondays, the 18th and 10th.
Mr.. and Mrs A l. Stein, 1924 7th street
northwest, will hold reception Sunday.
January II. from to . pm, in honor of
| their son. George Stein, whose engagement,
was announced last Saturday to Miss Min
ME Brez.
Mrs. Earl Cranston will be at home Sat-
urday at the Ontario.
Mrs. Charles E. Munroe and Miss Nun
roe will be at home, 2516 Cliffbourne place
Saturdays in January.
Representative and Mrs. Henry T.
Rainey have as their guests for the sea-
son Miss Ada Eldred and Miss Jennie
Eldred of Carrollton, Ill. Mrs Rainey will
receive on Mondays throughout the sea-
son at the Hotel Driscoll.
Capt William H.-Mathews has visiting
him his sister. Mrs. E. F. Colby. widow
of Col. E. T. Colby of Boston
The friends of Miss Caro- Kingsland
Clum, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John p.
Clum of Fairbanks. Alaska, will be deep
ly interested in the announcement of her
engagement to Mr.. Peter Alexander Va
chon. Miss Clum was born in Washing
ton, where her parents resided for sew
eral years and were prominent in Capitol
Hill society. Mr. Vachon. who is of French
descent. was among the earliest of Klon-
dixie pioneers and has by remarkable sa-
gacity and enterprise established himself
as one of the best known young business
men of the northwest The date of the
wedding has not yet been settled. but it i.
understood that the ceremony will occur
about June l. in connection with which
honeymoon trip around the world is con-
templated before returning to Fairbanks
for permanent residence
MRS. Samuel Gompers, wife Of the presi-