Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Livingston Beechman.
Mrs Fox was wearing a natty coat suit
of white broadcloth, with a white chip
hat raised on the left with white lace
bow. Mrs. Beechman was in pale blue
null embroidered in white, with a dark
blue hat with roses.
Miss Helen M. Parker is visiting Miss
Annie Powell at Newport. r. l.
Mrs. James Barbour and Miss Barbour
have arrived at Narragansett Pier.
Miss Maud Dunlop attended. the horse
show ball at Berryville. Va. last evening.
Miss Eleanor Steele, whose engagement
TO the Comte Jean de Bascle de LagreZe
was announced yesterday by cable from
Paris, is the eldest daughter of Charles
Steele; a partner in the firm Of J. Pier
pont Morgan & Co. of New York, who
moved to the metropolis from his native
city of Baltimore when he joined the firm
of j. Pierpont Morgan & Co. He has a
town house en- West 10th street and a
country place in Westbury. l.. /. Miss
Steele made her debut last winter and is
now I'm France with her mother, who
was Miss Mamie French, a daughter of
Seth Barton French of New York. The
Comte de Lagreze is connected with the
department of foreign affairs in Paris.
The Bascles de Lagreze are a very old
family of the Gascon nobility. whose
name figures in the medieval history Of
France. and who were connected by ties
Of marriage with the now extinct royal
Swedish dynasty of Vasa.
Gen. Robert Shaw Oliver. assistant
secretary of war. who, with Miss Oliver.
is making a horseback ride through the
west. Will return to Washington Septem-
Der 8. Mrs. Oliver, who is taking q cure
In Austria, will return q week later.
Cards have been received i'm Washing
ton making the following announcement:
Married, on August 4, 1910, at Sum-
bridge Parish Church. Kent England
Mrs. Edyth Johns Tyson OF Cylburn and
Bruce Cotton. first lieutenant, Coast Ar
tfllery Corps. L. s. A.
Mrs. Cotton was the widow of Mr..
Jesse Tyson of Baltimore.
The assistant secretary of state and
Mrs. Huntington Wilson have as their
guest Mrs. Wilson's father, Mr.. Thomas
James of Baltimore.
The acting Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr.. A. Piatt Andrew. who returned this
week from his summer home at Eastern
Point. Gloucester. was host at an inter-
esting luncheon last week at his place.
when his guests included Senator and
Mrs. Aldrich and two daughters. and
Mr. and Mrs. John d. Rockefeller, jr.,
who came ashore from Senator Aldrich's
yacht, which had been in Marblehead
harbor.
Col. Francis Cotton and his daughter,
Miss Marjorie Cotton, who are now at
Magnolia, Mass. will spend the autumn
at Brownland cottage, at Manchester,
Mass.
Mrs. Lawrence Townsend is the guest
OF Mrs. Edwin r. Thomas. jr., at Paul
Smiths, n. Y.
Mrs. J. Elmore Shelton and her sister,
in-law, Mrs. Arthur Raum, are spending
the month of August in the mountai
where they have been Joined for the
week-ends by their husbands. They will
geturn about the first of next month.
The new minister from the United
States to the Dominican Republic and
Mrs. William Worthington Russell and
their two children have left Washington
for New York, from where they will sail
today for Santo Domingo. which will be
their home for some time.
Mrs. Russell and her children spent the
spring and summer in Washington and
Chevy Chase. She was formerly Miss
Grace Lidstone. an English girl, born in
London and reared in Colombia, where
her fathers business interests were To-
Gated. She met Mr.. Russell in that coun-
try. where he was serving as United
states minister.
Gen. d. s. Gordon. Mrs. Gordon and
their daughters. who are known here TO a
large circle of friends. have removed from
Piedmont. Cal. to San Francisco.
Mrs. Samuel Hill has arrived at Stock
bridge. Lenox. Mass. for the rest of the
season.
Miss Mary Switzerland. daughter OF Ad-
Nrc ybo
staying with Miss Elsie Aldrich at the
Aldrich summer home. Warwick, r. L.,
will. upon the completion Of her visit
there accompany the Misses Meyer,
and Mrs Meyer. to the Adirondack camp
of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt, at
Upper st. Regis lake. for weeks visit.
Mr.. Charles NageL will return to town the
second week in September.
Miss Maude Converse. daughter of Mrs.
Converse and the late Rear Admiral Con-
verse IT, s. N. sailed from Europe for
New York yesterday
Mr.. and Mrs. william ]. Boardman have
visiting them at their cottage at Manches-
ter Mrs Zena Marshall Crane mother of
Senator Murray Crane, and Miss Clara L.
Crane of Dalton. Mass. Mrs. Crane is the
mother-in- law of Mrs. Boardman's young
est daughter.
Mrs John A johnson. widow Of the
former Governor of Minnesota, who has
been the guest of Mrs. A. ]. Smith at her
home in Lamont street, has gone to Chi
cago. where she will spend a few days en-
route to her home. Mrs. johnson recently
returned from Europe. where she accom-
panied Nine. Fremstad. the prima donna
and former school friend, on a tour.
S.,-n.f,r o,,apipo u;yap ,ho
guests at Jordan Sulphur Springs Tues
day evening nv Miss Marie Barker Sew