The Washington herald., 1911-03-14

Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs
MacVeagh are spending a week in Bos'
ton and New York. Mrs. MacVeagh will
not be at home on Wednesday.
The Secretary of Commerce and Labor
and Mrs. Nagel were dinner hosts
last evening. Their guests included the
new Secretary of the Interior, Mr.. Wal
ter Fisher; the Swiss Minister and Nine
4 Ritter; the Swedish Minister, Count En-
rCrsvard; the charge daffaires of Rus
sia, Prince Koudacheff; the Military At
| tache of the French Embassy and
| Countess de Chambrun; the military at
tache of the British Embassy, Lieut.. Col.
McLachlan: Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin X.
Lane, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Noyes, Miss
! Maud Wetmore, Maj. Williams, and Miss
! Isabel Hagner.
! A double birthday party was celebrated
! last evening for Mr.. and Mrs. Preston
| Gibson. Yesterday was Mr.. Gibson S
birthday, and to-day is Mrs. GibSon's s
birthday. so the entertainment began be-
fore midnight with a theater party, fol-
lowed by a programme of songs and
dances at the Playhouse, in street. a
! midnight supper, and dance afterward,
| to which many of the guests at other
/ theater parties and dinners were asked.
| The programme at the Playhouse which
was given by Corinne Parker, the we'll
known professional, and the festivities
following were a surprise party to Mrs.
! Gibson, given by Mr.. Gibson. Among
! the guests were Postmaster General
| Hitchcock, Lieut.. and Mrs. L s. Grant,
| third; Countess Luise-AleXandra Won
Eernstorf, Count Pourtales. of the Ger
man Embassy staff; Mr.. and Mrs. de
| Struve. of the Russian Embassy staff;
Mr.. and Mrs. Murray Cobb, Mr.. and
Mrs. Horace Westcott, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Mclean, Miss Isobel May, Miss
Cecilia May, Miss Switzerland. Miss
| Aldrich, Miss Gladys Mcmillan, cousin
! Cf Mrs Gibson; Mr.. van Weede, of the
Netherlands Legation staff: MIR Robert
| Bacon, Mr. Gist Blair. Mr.. Bonaparte,
| Mr.. Fortesque, Mr.. HUFF. Mr.. Merriam,
Mr.. Ellis, and Mr. Miles.
The naval attache OF the Austro- Hun
garian Embassy, Baron Preuschen. will
+, leave Washington to-day for New York,
where he will remain until Friday. when
he will go to Baltimore TO be the guest
at dinner of Mr.. Theodore Marburg.
Mrs. George Won L. Meyer. wife of the
Secretary of the Navy, is spending a few
days in Boston.
Alfred Mitchell Innes. counselor Of the
British Embassy. entertained at de-
lightful tea and musicale yesterday after
noon. at Rauscher's, from TO $50
o'clock, when Mrs Bryce, wife OF the
Ambassador. assisted by Countess Luise-
Alexandra Won BernstCrf. Mrs. George
Wit, nf no n
the British Enbass!, and Miss Ashton
received the guests for Mr.. InneS The
Mountain Ash G1Se Club. a quartet OF
Welsh singers, who are touring the
United States were the artists for the
occasion. They presented a programme
of Welsh Fad old English folk songs.
Among those in the large and brilliant
audience at the Belasco Theater last
evening were the Austrian Ambassador
and Baroness Hengelmuller. the British
Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce. the Charge
d'Afaires of the Brazilian Embassy and
Nine de Lima, the Turkish Ambassador
his son and daughter, Ibrahim Zia Bey and
Nine. Zia: Senator and Mrs Lodge, Mr..
Justice and Mrs. Lurton. Mr.. Justice and
Mrs Mckenna, the Spanish Minister and
Nine. Riano. the Peruvian Minister and
Longworth. the Grecian charge d'affaires,
Gen. Wood, Assistant Secretary of the
Navy and Mrs Beekman Winthrop Mr..
and Mrs. John Z. Wilkie, Commissioner
and Mrs. Rudolph, Assistant Secretary
of the Interior and Mrs. Frank Pierce,
Judge and Mrs. De Lacy, Mr.. Lawrence
o. Murray, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred bennett,
Mr. and MIS-. H. Conquest Clarke. Mr..
Theodore Weed. and Mr.. Joseph E. Ralph.
The Counselor of the Austro- Hungarian
Embassy and Nine. Won Loewenthal-Li-
nau entertained a company at dinner
last evening.
The First Secretary Of the French En-
bassy and Nine Peretti de la Rocca en-
tertained a small dinner party last even
ing. The company included Commander
and Nine. Vassilieff, Mrs. Robert Hinck-
ley, Miss Hinckley. Mr.. L. Aubert, of
the Norwegian Legation, and Mile. de la
Rocca.
The Secretary Of State and Mrs Philan- |
der c. Knox entertained at a moonlight |
sailing party and an old Virginia supper |
last night at Palm Beach. Mr.. and Mrs. |
Reed Knox are spending some time in
Atlantic City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Bradley are guests |
of Mrs. Bradley's mother, Mrs. Marshall |
Allen, at the St Regis Hotel, New York |
City.
Mrs. Matthew T Scott. president gen.
eral of the Daughters of the American |
will share with the charter
members of Chicago Chapter the honor
OF being the special guest at the recep-
ton and luncheon to be given by the
chapter Thursday at Congress Hotel, Chi
cago, to celebrate the twentieth anniver-
sary of the founding of the Chicago
Chapter.
Mrs. Crosby, widow of Admiral Pefrce
Crosby, u. S. N, and Miss Jean Crosby
will sail Saturday next to pass the spring
on the Riviera, and go to Switzerland
for the summer.
Mrs. Huntington Wilson has gone to
Aiken, S. c., for visit of a fortnight
Mr. Wilson went South with his wife,
but will return to-day.
Mrs. Clarence B. Rheem, who spent the
weekend at the Chalfonte, Atlantic City,
returned to her home in this city last
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. H. Tittmann are sailing
Today for a visit to the Isthmus of
Panama.
Representative E. r. Taylor, of Col
,rado, has gone to Panama for several