Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-16
HER GOWNS INSURED
MRS. HAMMOND'S COSTUMES
AND JEWELS.
Dress for the George V Coronation
Ceremony Is of White
Satin.

When Mrs John Hays Hammond sails
the latter part of this month for Eng
land with Mr.. Hammond. special ambas-
sador from the United States to the coro-
nation II King George V. she will car
~ the most heavily insured wardrobe
ever taken out of this country. Mrs.
Hammond last week obtained insurance
on her gowns and jewels, and. it is said,
the aggregate amount of. the. policies
will run into six figures,
The gowns have been chosen with in
finite care and in keeping with the rigid
court rules set down by Queen Mary
and with the great honor bestowed on
this American woman.
To see that no disaster occurs, small
corps Of Mrs. Hammond's personal serv-
ants, wnom she is taking with her to
London for the coronation. will zeal
ously guard the wardrobe until the very
hour when Mrs. Hammond dons the vari-
scheduled for this royal exhibition of
fashion.
Mrs. Hammond, as chairman of the
woman's welfare department of the Ma
tional Civic Federation has been actively
engaged with wives of rich employers of
the country in getting better labor con-
ditions for working women, particularly
in the government service at Washing
ton where they nave peen aDle 10 get
many reforms in the way of remodeling
the oldfashioned and insanftary office
buildings.
Handsome as are her gawns and costly as
her jewels. many of them OF great his
toric value and priceless. it may be set
down here that Mrs. Hammond and her
husband will be the two most demo-
cratic figures participating in the great
, coronation festivities.
The Hammonds Will share royal honors
wit no following from other
countries:
Duke of Aosta of Italy. Prince Henry
and the Crown Prince and Princess of
Germany. Archduke Karl Franz OF Aus
tria- Hungary. Prince Johann George Of
SaxOny. Prince Henry OF the Netherlands,
the Crown Prince of Denmark, the Crown
Prince and Princess of Sweden. the Crown
Prince and Princess of Roumania. Prince
Fushimiva of Japan, Prince Chm, son OF
the regent of China, and the Crown
Prince of Servia.
Before the coronation ceremony Mrs.
Hammond will be presented at Queen
Marys drawing room. However, Mrs.
Hammond has met the queen on sew
eral occasions when her majesty ranked
as the Duchess Of York.
The first of these meetings took place
at one of Queen Victoria's drawing
rooms, When Mrs Hammond was pre-
scented to the present queen: also the
Dowager Queen Alexander, King Ed
ward VII and George V.
For years In their early married life.
Mrs. Hammond says. an evening gown
or any entertainment which would re-
quire one was something quite foreign
to their mode of living in the great gold
and silver mines of California and
Mexico.
However. Mrs. Hammond. returned to
civilization and royal drawing rooms and
distractions of this nature. she made up
for times when her wardrobe consisted
only of a few simple house dresses and
a stout riding suit worn on the long trips
from the railroad through lonely and
dangerous mountain trails to the mining
camps with her small children.
The court gown to be worn by Mrs
Hammond at a special drawing room two
days before the coronation will be a
MAGNIFICENT affair Of robin-egg blue bro
cade The material Mrs. Hammond pur-
chased at Moscow last winter. WREN Mr..
Hammond had a successful audience with
the car.
This beautiful satin brocade was woven
on the same loom used to make the coro-
nation robes Of Catherine the Great and
the czarinas succeeding her.
For the coronation ceremony Mrs.
Hammond will wear handsome white
satin gown. magnificent in its design and
rich display Of gems. With this george