The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-01-24

The Vice President and Mrs. Sherman
returned to Washington yesterday
morning FROM Utica, where they spent
the past week Miss Mary Baker and
Miss Gertrude Baker. of Utica, arrived
last evening to spend two weeks with
| Mrs. Sherman.
The Assistant Secretary of the Navy
and Mrs. Beekman Winthrop enter
tanned at dinner last evening in honor
of the Vice President and Mrs. Sher-
man and the Secretary of the Navy land
Mrs. Meyer. The other guests were
the Secretary of the Interior and Mrs.
/ Eallinger. Senator and Mrs. Depew.
Senator Du Point. Representative and
Mrs. Longworth Secretary to the Pres
ident and Mrs. Norton, Col. Robert N.
Thompson. Mrs. Gleaves. wife of Capt.
Albert Gleaves, and Mr.. Guy Norman.
The British Ambassador and Mrs.
Bryce entertained at dinner last night
when their guests were the French Am
bassadcr and Nine. JuSserand. the
Turkish Ambassador Youssouf Zia
Pacha: Senator and Mrs. Crane. Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Herbert Parsons,
Representative and Mrs. Andrew Peters.
Representative Hamilton Fish and Miss
Fish, the Swiss Minister and Nine. Rit-
ter. Mrs. John Hay. Mr.. and MRS.
Chandler Anderson. Mr.. and Mrs.
| Thomas Nelson Page. Miss Louise For
akcr, Miss Katherine Jennings. Miss
Ashton. niece of Mrs. Bryce; Secretary
of the Embassy and Mrs. George
Young. Lieut.. Col McLachlan. the new
military attache of the embassy; Lieut..
Col Bernard James. retiring military
attache of the embassy. and Mr.. Glad
stone. attache of the embassy.
| The Assistant Secretary of State and
Mrs Huntington Wilson were hosts at
dinner party for young people last
evening in honor of Miss Taft. later
! taking their guests to a double poA
party at the New National Theater.
| Mr. and Mrs. Perry Belmont enter
tanned last evening at the first large
! function in their recently completed man
sion, which occupies the triangle bound
! ed by New Hampshire avenue. Eigh-
teenth street, and r street a dinner
party for which 200 covers were laid. pre-
coded beautiful cotillion. fifty addi-
| tional guests from other dinners coming
| in for the dancing. The dinner guests
were seated at small tables in the beau
| tiful oval dinns-room. with its rich walls
! of red brocaded satin, and in the ball
room. which is also an art gallery. and
from which the dining-room opens. Roses
and orchids decorated the tables. After
dinner the tables were whisked away
almost in the twinkling of an eye. and
the scene was changed to ballroom
with the daintiest and most exquisite
Partisan favors arranged on tables at
either end. They were all brought over
recently by Mrs. Belmont from Paris.
Among the guests at the dinner were
the Austro- Hungarian Ambassador, Baron
Hecgelmuller: the German Ambassador
and Countess Won Bernstorn and
Countess Luise-AleXandra Won Bernstorn:
Count Pourtales, of the German En-
bassy; the Italian Ambassador and Mar
chesa Cusani 'Confalonieri and Donna
Beatrice Cusani Confalonieri, the Belgian
Minister and Countess de Buisseret, the
Portuguese Minister, Niscount d'Alte: the
Norwegian Minister and Nine. Bryn,
Chevalier and Nine. Loewenthal.
Baron and Baroness Preuschen, Count
and Countess de Chambrun, the Spanish
Minister and Nine. Riano. Viscount
ard Viscountess de Sibour. Capt Sow
erby. Of the British Embassy: Count
Pejaesveich, of the Austrian Embassy;
Baron Hardenbroek, of the German En-
bassy: Prince koudacheff and NJ. Nabo-
koff. of the Russian Embassy; the Ameri-
can Minister to Norway and Mrs. PIERCE,
Postmaster General Hitchcock, Senator
Warren, Col and Mrs. Henry May, Mrs.
Richard Townsend, Mr.. Lawrence Town.
send, Miss Yvonne Townsend, Mr.. and
Mrs Warren Delano Robbins. Rear Ad-
rniral and Mrs. Raymond Rodgers. Miss
Julia Rodgers, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Moore, Mr. and Mrs. John Story, Mr..
and Mrs. Preston Gibson. Mr.. and Mrs.
j. Low Hartman. Col. and Mrs. Dunn.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Eustis. Mrs. Bel
mont Tiffany, Miss Margaret Cameron.
Representative and Mrs. John w.
Dwight, Mr.. and Mrs. George Howard.
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Merriam, Mr..
and Mrs Phelps Emo, Mr.. and Mrs. Hor-
ace Westcott. Mr.. and Mrs. Granville r.
Fortescue. Maj. and Mrs. David Porter.
Mrs Frederic Benedict, Miss Slater, the
Misses Switzerland, Miss Louise Crom-
well. Mrs. Arthur Weeks, the Misses
May, Miss Dorothy Williams, Miss Hicks,
Miss Hinckley, Miss Merriam, Miss Hell
len, Mrs. Summerlin. Miss Vandergrift.
Miss Britton, Miss Frances Noyes. Miss
McCauley. Miss Hartman. the Misses
Mitchell, Miss Ja~cs, Mr.. NJ. A. Horst
mann, Mr.. Samuel Weldon, Mr.. Robert
Bacon, jr, Mr.. William Hit, Mr.. Basil
Miles, Mr. Oden Horstman. Brig. Cen
Edwards. and Mr.. Gist Blair. The Ma
rine Band played throughout the evening.
The cotillion which followed the din
ner was led by Mr.. George Howard and
Mr. Craig Wadsworth, Of New York.
house guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Belmont.
A late supper was served, which closed
one of the handsomest and smartest
cotillions of this notable dancing season.
Miss Dorothy Baldwin. Of Savannah,
Ca. who is a guest of Miss Helen Taft,
at the White House. was the guest in
whose honor Miss Elizabeth Parker,
daughter Of Representative and Mrs.
Richard Wayne Parker. entertained a
theater party at the New National last
evening. Lieut.. and Mrs. Grant chap
eroned the party at the theater.
Mrs. Aleshire, wife Of Brig. Gen. ]. B.
Aleshire, U. s. A., entertained at lunch |
con yesterday in honor Of Mrs Sydney A. |
Cloman. wife of Capt Cloman, U. s. A.,
until recently military attache Of the
American Embassy at London. Those
asked to meet Mrs. Cloman were Mrs.
Oliver, wife Of the Assistant Secretary
Of War; Mrs. Weeks, wife OF Represent |
alive Weeks, of Massachusetts,; Mrs. |
Leonard Wood. wife Of the Chief Of STAFF |
Of the army: Mrs. r. c. Ainsworth, wife |
of Maj. Gen. Ainsworth, u. 8. A.: Mrs. |
Benham, Mrs. william Barrel Ridgely, |
Mrs. Chatham, wife OF Maj, B. r. |
Chatham, u. 8. A.: Mrs. Bailey. Mrs. |
Tracy. and Miss Hammond.
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