The Washington herald., 1912-09-16

lin for Paris. He has been visiting
Rosnochau Castle, the residence Of his
daughter. the Countess Seher Thoss. The
count and countess. with their two chill
dren. expect to visit America In the au
tumn. They will stop with Mr.. White
at his new home In Sixteenth Street.
/ Senator Henry Lppitt. with his son
Mr.. Henry Lippitt. and his daughter
Miss Frances Lippitt, is at his country
home at Cumberland Hill. Providence
r. l., for the autumn.
Rear Admiral Frank F. Fletcher ant
the officers of the Ohio gave q reception
and dance on board the battleship Sat.
urday afternoon at Newport. R. ].
The infant daughter Of Lord and Lady
Decies. formerly Miss vivien Gould. viii
be christened on Monday, September q
receiving the name vivien de la Poer
Beresford.
The Marchioness of Waterford. the
Hon. Mrs. Lamb, Mrs. Anthony Drexel,
jr.. Lord Greville and Mr.. Howard Gould
will be the sponsors. All the school chill
dren on the Decies estate will be enter
tained at a party on the day Of the
ceremony.
After the marriage Of Lord and Lady
Decies. which was a much-heralded event
in New York and London, the Dowager
Lady Decies. mother of the groom. WIS.,
tied Washington as the guest OF Capt.
and Mrs. John Gibbons, and was exten-
sively entertained during her stay In the
city.
DR.. Randolph Bryan Carmichael re-
turned to Washington on Wednesday
from an extensive trip to Panama
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Tuckerman, who
have been the guests Of Mrs George
+. Becker at Tyringham. Mass. are at
the Hotel Belmont. New York, for .
few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Hayward Ferry have
announced the engagement Of their
daughter, Miss Harriet Ferry. to Will
lam DeForest Manice, son of Mr.. and
Mrs William Manice. Of New York. Mr..
Manice is a cousin Of Mrs. William Lit
tauer, OF this city.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
and Mrs. Sherman Allen returned to the
city from Lake Champlain, where they
were the house guests OF Mr.. Aliens
father and mother. Mr.. and Mrs. George
Woodbury. Allen. at their summer home.
DR.. Paul Ritter. the Minister from
Switzerland. has sailed for Europe to
join Nine. Ritter at their home in Swift
zerland. The Minister will not return
to the legation here for three months.
Nine. Ritter and their two sons will ac-
company him to this country.
Representative and Mrs. Oscar W.
Underwood, after a fortnight's visit to
the Hot Springs, have left the Homestead
for Louisville, KY.
Mrs. Joseph E. Thropp and her son,
Douglas S. Thropp. who have spent the
latter part of the season at White Sui
phur Springs. w. Va, are now at their
country place at Earlston, Pa Mrs.
Thropp made the trip to and from the
return to Washington until later in the,
autumn.
Washington society was well repre-
sented at the marriage Of Miss Doro-
thy Tuckerman, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Tuckerman, of Tuxedo Park.
to DR.. George Draper, of New York,
yesterday afternoon. The wedding cere-
mony was performed by the Rev. Sher-
rard Billings, on the large piazza Of the
Tuckerman villa, at o'clock. Miss Helen
SOsIeI WAS tno DEIQt OH4y
and Charles Draper was best man for
his brother.
Immediately after the wedding cere-
mony at the house an informal recep-
ton was held at the Tuxedo Club.
Mr.. and Mrs. William f. Brown have
announced the marriage Of their daugh-
ter. Leila Jeanette. to DR.. T. Clarence
Cooke, Of the Rochambeau apartment
house, on Wednesday, September II. in
this city. DR.. and Mrs. Cooke will be at
home at $50 Eighth Street Southeast,
after November L
Capt. John II. Gibbons, superintendent
of the Naval Academy, returned TO
Annapolis yesterday, after spending the
summer touring Europe, and has re-
opened his residence in Blake row. where
Mrs. Gibbons will Join him later.
DR.. I. W. Kite, U. s. N. and Mrs. Kite
and Miss Anetta Kite, who have been
spending the summer in the mountains
of Virginia, have returned to Washing
ton, D. c., and opened their apartment
in the Cordova for the winter.
Representative Butler Ames Is the guest
of Mrs. Stanley Mccormick at Newport.
Arriving this week from Europe are
the Rt. Rev. DR.. William Boyd Carpen-
ter. for twenty years Bishop of Ripon
and now Canon OF Westminster Abbey,
and Mrs Boyd Carpenter. Also Waldorf
Astor. member of Parliament, and Mrs.
Waldorf Astor, formerly Miss Mamie
the Countess of Essex, who
was Miss Adele Beach Grant, of New
York, and is cousin Of Mrs. Joseph E. |
Thropp of this city
Sailing on the President Lincoln are
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry W. Taft, Mr.. and !
Mrs. T. T. Stotesbury. and DR.. Nicholas |
Butler, of Columbia University.
Mr.. H De Bach, Of the Russian En-
bassy. and Mr.. 4. C. Horstmann, Of the |
German Embassy. were the guests of |
Mr.. William Woodward at a picnic which |
he gave at the Hanging Rocks. Newport, |
on Saturday Mr.. Woodward took his |
guests to the picnic on his tally-ho coach.
Following the announcement in New
port and New York of the engagement
If Miss Sadie Jones. only daughter of |
Mr.. and Mrs. Pembroke Jones, to Mr. |
John Russell Pope. jr., it was made
Known that the wedding will take place
turing the coming winter or spring at /
.Arfeigh." the winter home Of the family
n South Carolina
On Monday last the entertainment at
Bar. Harbor for the benefit of the hos
pital took place at the Building of Arts.
This was under the direction of Mime. /
.oucen. wife e the Minister from the
and was financially success
u. Mrs. 8. Weir Mitchell, wife of DR..
Of Philadelphia, contributed the
)rizes.