Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-20
IN THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
MRS. TAFT'S GARDEN PARTY A
SCENE OF GREAT BEAUTY.
Cards Are Out for the Gerry-Town-
send Wedding-0ther Events.
Personals.


a charming event, participated in by
large and Fashionable gathering. who saw
the White House grounds under an almost
c,oudless sky and the temperature Of the
most comfy description.
The President received with his wife,
who was dressed in blue and wore q flow
er-trimmed hat. They stood at the right
of the garden and Capt. Butt made the in
PRODUCTIONS The Marine Band played on
a stretch Of green near the house and the
refreshment table had its place under the
trees.
TO add pleasing feature it had been in
timated to several guests that if they
cared to use the lawn tennis court during
the party it was at their disposal. There
was therefore an active game in progress.
Some of the guests Were Secretary and
Mrs. MacVeagh, Attorney General and
Mrs. Wickersham, Postmaster General
Hitchcock, the German ambassador, the
Chilean minister and Nine. Cruz, Justice
and Mrs White, Justice and Mrs Lur-
and Mrs Brown, Senator and Mrs. De-
pew, Senator Kean and Miss Lucy kean,
Senator and Mrs. Guggenheim. Senator
and Mrs. Nelson. Senator and Mrs.
Owen. Mai and Mrs. c. McCaWieS'
resentative and Mrs. Richard w. Parker,
Miss Elizabeth Parker, Representative
and Mrs. Olcott, Representative JULIUS
Kahn. Mr.. and Mrs; Ten Eyel l.o Wen en-
and Mrs. f. A. Mitchell, DIR. and Mrs.
James A. Mitchell, Gen. Robert Shaw
Oliver. Miss Oliver, Rear Admiral ONeal,
the Misses Patten. Miss Morgan, MISS
Palmer, Mrs. William b. Rldgeiy, MT:
Mrs Remey, the Misses Lee, Mr.. and
Mrs. Horace Westcott, Miss Maury, Mr..
and Mrs Elmer Murphy. MIR. and Mrs.
5. c. Neale. Miss Loring, the Misses sass
Wesley Merritt, Mr.. and Mrs. w. J.
Bcardman, Mr.. and Mrs. Corcoran Thorn,
Mrs. Frank Moss, Miss May Williams,
Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Kaufman. Miss
Barbara Kaufman. Mr.. Max r.. kauH-
mann. Miss Boardman. Rev. DR.. and
Mrs. Radcliffe, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph r.
Edison, Mr.. and Mrs. Beekman Winthrop,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry K. Porter. Miss
Eegeman, Mr.. and Mrs. Larz Anderson,
Commander and Mrs. William Manning
Mrs. A. Garrison McClintock, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Parsons, Senator and Mrs.
Hale, Commander and Mrs. Reamey, the
Misses Sedgeley, Gen. and Mrs. r. L.
Russell and Mrs. William X. Postle-
thwaite.
Mrs. Townsend has issued invitations
for the marriage of her daughter Ma
thilde T., to Mr.. Peter Goelet Gerry OF
New York. The ceremony, which will
be a home one. will take place Thursday,
May IS, at noon. Less than hundred
guests have been asked.
Mr.. and Mrs. A Robert Elmore, after
a short stay with 1.-The latter's parents,
Senator and Mrs. Sutherland, at the
Highlands. left yesterday for their home.
in Los Angeles.
and Nine Villegas will give tea May
% to celebrate the anniversary of the
independence of the republic of Argen-
tina.
Mrs. Talbot and Miss Amylita Talbot
have gone to Yonkers. n. Y, where they
are the guests of Mrs. Talbott's son and
daushter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Tat
bolt, for a few days before sailing on
Saturday for Europe.
Judge C. s. Howry Of Washington
has taken the Cottrell cottage at James
town, r. l., for the summer.
At the wedding next Thursday of Miss
Mary Hartman and Mr.. Charles Carry
Rumsey, as the brides family are still in
deep mourning for the late Z. HI. Harri-
man, the event will be very quiet.
Miss Carol Hartman will be her sis
ter's maid of honor. Mr.. Rumsey's
brother, Lawrence D. Rumsey. will be
best man.
The ceremony will take pace in st.
Johns Episcopal Church at Arden, n. Y.
and the Rev. DR.. j. H. McGuinness of
that church will oficiate.
The nearest relatives only have been
asked to the ceremony and to the break
fast at Arden House.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rumsey will spend most
of the summer at Arden, while Mrs
Hartman and her daughter. Miss Carol
Hartman, and her sons will go to the
far west and the Hawaiian Islands.
Mrs. Louis E:seman of Florence Court
has as her guests for the summer Mrs.
Sol Rice and daughter, Miss Jennie Rice.
of Chicago. They will be at home in
formally tomorrow afternoon.
Cards OF invitation have been received
here for the marriage of Anna Ashim
Fairchild and Mr.. Conrad L. Charlebois
Monday, June g. at 5 o'clock, at 254O 4th
avenue. North Seattle, Wash.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert E. Lewis of New
York city are here for visit with Miss
Craigen, sister of the latter, at 1IoS s.
street.
Mr.. William S. Buchly and Mr.. Will
liam D. Reynolds, who have been the
guests for two weeks of Mr.. Buchly's
mother, Mrs. George Dennis of Congress
Heights, left for Norfolk Tuesday even
IUS, WHERE tHcy Will lcluIu " SilciI SilIp,
the L. S. S. Minnesota.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Kirke Porter and
Miss Hegeman left today for Oak Manor.
their Pittsburg place, and will go later
to Southampton, L. l., where they have a
summer home.
Miss Katherine o. Leech has gone to
Fort Hancock, n. j., where she will be
the guest for a week of Lieut.. Frederick
Harrison Smith, U. S. A. and Mrs. Smith.
The Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs
MacVeagh entertained at dinner last
night, having in the party the minister
from Sweden, the Italian charge daft
flares and Marchesa di Montagliari. Mr..
and Mrs. John w. Garrett, Miss Came
ron, Miss Catherine Cameron, Miss Oil
yer, Miss Wetmore, Miss Aldrich. Miss
Williams, Senator Beveridge, Representa-
tive Butler Ames. Capt. Archibald Butt,
Mr.. Samuel Weldon and MT. Williams.
Mrs. Herbert Shipman is the guest of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edison Bradley.
at their place at Tuxedo Mr.. and Mrs.
Bradley will go abroad next month.
Miss Margaret knight has returned
from visit CT several months in Pana
ma, where she was the guest of Miss
Aileen Gorgas, daughter of Col. William
c. Gorgas. She was accompanied to
Washington by Miss Ethel MacMurray,
who was also the guest of Miss Gorgas