The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-10-31
SPOOKS IN A HOTEL
Society and Diplomats OBJ
serve Halloween.
PUMPKINS AND GHOSTS THERE
Ministers of Foreign Nations Par
ticIpate I'm Weird Event at wash
ingtOn's Elaborate HOsteIry-Occa-
sion Halloween supper, the First
of Its Kind to Be Held in Capital.


Conservative fashion and staid Gus
tom melted away together before the
Halloween sprites that infested the Will
ard Hotel last night.
Five different nations were brought on
cially together. and perhaps half a dozen
more were laid beneath their wands IN an
unofficial manner.
. The occasion was the Halloween supper.
the first Of its kind ever held in Wash
ingtou IN cOmmemorauon Of the Night
o. spooks."
The supper room was decorated with
autumn leaves, struggling branches OF
green. suggestive OF the last dying gasp
Of summer, and dozen or more huge
pumpkins. lighted from the inside by red
electric lights. which threw out a wild
and weird glow Believers in ghosts
alone were eligible 20 admission.
Minister from Venezuela.
The festivities began at about II O'Clock.
when Senor P. Ezequiel Rojas. Venezuelan
Minister, appeared at his table. accom-
panied by party Of friends. With him
was Augusta F. Pulido. first secretary to
the legation.
Close behind them followed the Mar
quis Monaghan and Roberto Centaro.
Of the Italian Embassy, with a party of
friends
BY y o'clock the halls were flied.
Business men, professional men. social
leaders, and foreign attaches from Ital-
ian, French. English, Venezuelan. and
rrrr IA.
different tables joining I'm the chorus
and testing the different potent charms
that work so effectively on All Halloween.
When a certain young woman led the
chorus of "A Big Time Tonight" NJ de
SalignaC FelenOn, OF the French En-
bassy, applauded as loudly as did Mitchell
Innes. of the British Embassy, before
each beheld the other and shook hands
Roe Fulkerson. past grand master in
Masonic circles. was given a cup of
coffee. He drank It then with a thought
full eye rolled the grounds around in the
bottom-and there were not any too many
grounds. by the Way-untIi they assumed
a given form. He asked what II meant.
What the spirits failed 20 do in the way
of definite prediction, they made up
by the variety of prognosticatlons offered
by various amateur mediums Mr.. Ful-
kerson was assured OF a future ranging
anywhere from the inheritance Of money
to sudden death by violence.
Among the Guests.
Those present were:
George and Harrington Mills, Col
PembertOn. W Edgar. 2. Ezequiel Rojas
Agusto f. Pulido. Mai and Nine. Won
Livonius, Messrs. Won Prittvoik and CAT
from, and DR.. Horstman. German EN-
! bassy; Marquis and Marquise Montag-
lari, italian embassy: Clarence Moore
and daughter, William Hibbs. Milton
Hoflenmeyer. Roe Fulkerson, Z. Rapley.
Gordon Donaldson, NJ. de Salignac Feue:
lon, Of the French Embassy; Miss Craw-
ford. Mitchell Innes. Of the British EN-
bassy; Count Won Wedel, German EN-
bassy, and others.
Three opera singers from New York.
and an English comic singer. with an
eighteen piece orchestra were engaged
IN stirring things up.
When the hour OF y o'clock came
Senior Rojas drank a toast to the night
when witches ride abroad. The party
broke up at o'clock this morning.