The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-20

BY Leased Wire TO The Tribune.
| WASHINGTON, March 1o.-Thanks
to the hearings of the congressional
committee investigating the Ballinger.
Pipchot controversy, society has had the
| opportunity for new diversion. In
! decd, on some afternoons when the com.
mittee was in session the roller skating
armory and the parks were deserted,
whilst the committee room was gay with
he color of a fashionably dressed ar
ray. The great number of society
women who ihronged the committee
room must have mystihed some of the
solemn members who looked YEARLY
over the assemblage as the testimony
dragged along. ! surely found nothing
interesting in any of il. but ] noted
that many of the leaders were on hand
many, many times. For instance, Miss
Kcan, the sister Of the bachelor senator
from New Jersey, attended several
times, attircd in an Ottoman moiTe coat
of mauve Mrs. James r. Garfield,
wife of the former secretary of the in
terror. Respondent i'm blue tailored
suit was IN interested spectator, Mrs.
PinChot. mother of the forester wearing
IA dull black gown and coat, both
strapped i'm dull black tafTeta, also at.
tended several sessions Others whom |
noticed were Mrs. Longworth. in n
fanciful walking garb: the Misses Wet
more, in old rose and gray tailored suits,
Miss Cameron, Miss Fish, Mrs. James
w Wadsworth. Mrs, Hobson and Miss
Harlan, daughter of the chief Justice,
allinger-Pinchot parties were quite the
rage for time
Fashionable Charity Affairs.
The evening of Monday, April !,
viii be busy one for society. and two
Of the most Fashionable charity affairs
Of the season Will both take place
simultaneously. a benefit for the
children s hospital, under the auspices
Of St Mary s guild, viii be given in
the National theater, while at the
Belasco = benefit VIII be given under
the auspices of the Sisters of Mercy for
the ST. Catherine 5 home for self.sup-
porting women. President and Mrs
boxes at the BelaSco thcater. Senator
and Mrs. Carter are also box holders. 4
long list of patroncsscs for the hospital
benefit have been announced. Among
them arc Mrs, stephen Il, ElkIns. Mrs.
James Mcmillan. Countess Won Bern
storlf, Miss Mabel Boardman. Mrs
Edison Bradley, Mrs. Richardson Glover.
Mrs. Crowinshlcld. Mrs Jacob Dickin
son. Mrs W. f. Dennis, Mrs. George
T. Dunlop, AIRS. Gibson Eahnestock, !
Mrs. IUrton. Mrs. Huntington Wilson,
Mrs. Ncwberry. Mrs. Letter, Mrs Me. |
Lem, Madame de Mussincr and Mrs. |
Wickersham.
Prominent Southerners to Wed.
An engagement which has been an
noUncCd iu Baltimore created a great |
deal Of interest i'm Washington. 1t is !
that of Miss Ellen Carroll Boone |
descendant of Daniel Boone. the Ken !
lucky pioneer, TO Alfred Fisher Miss |
Boone Is a daughter Of the late Daniel |
a. Boone, and Mr.. Fisher is Il son of the
lare Frank Fisher. Through her father
Miss Boone is member of the cole.
hrated Boone family of Virginia and
Kentucky, while on the maternal side
she is lincal descendant of the dis
tiuguishcd Charles Carroll Of Carrollton.
Mr.. Fisher is nephew Of Judge vii.
liam Fisher and the late Charles Fisher,
lie is member of the Bachelors Cotil.
lion and other leading clubs, and is one