Evening star., 1912-09-04
IN THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
A WHITE HOUSE RECEPTION
FOR NOTABLES TODAY.
Summer Pleasures With Other Well
Known Persons.
Notes.

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at widely separated points today. The
White House party for the visiting chem
lists will monopolize the capitals social
attention this afternoon. Mrs. Taft is
aboard the Mayfiower en- route to New
York for little shopping trip. and Miss
Helen Taft and Mr.. Robert Taft are ex-
pected at Beverly today from a three
week riding and camping trip to the
Glacier National Park Montana. Charlie
Taft was the only member of the Presi-
dents household at Parametta. his sum
mer home. last night. Mrs. Taft expects
to meet the President in New York to-
morrow and they will go to New London
Conn. returning Saturday. to Beverl.
again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward B. Mclean will
be honor guests at large reception
which the Russian ambassad and Nine
Bakhmeteff will give tomorrow at their
Newport villa. If the weather permits
there will be dancing on the lawn in a
pavilion erected for that purpose, but
otherwise the party will be held at an
establishment where there will be ample
room for the large company expected
The ambassador and Mime. Bakhmeteff
gave luncheon for Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Lean Yesterday. the guests including Mr.
anu PRESCOTT Lawrence, anu
Mrs. Robert Goelet. Mr. and Mrs. Craig
Biddle Miss Janet Fish. Mr. Herbert G.
Pell. ir, and Mr. Ealpaschnikof of the
embassy staff. and dinner last night.
Mrs. Mclean will remain with Nine.
Bakhmeteff for two weeks. while Mr.
Mclean will take his horses entered i'm
the present show on the Casino grounds
to Syracuse Saturday for the show there.
Mr.. McLean's horses took all the prizes
save one In the harness classes at the
Newport horse show yesterday.
DIR. and Mrs. William f. Dieffenderfer
have returned from Atlantic City.
land have concluded their stay in this
country and sailed today for home They
spent the late summer with the parents
of the latter, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Mel
son Page.
Miss Elizabeth Lansing Alvord. daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gold Alvord
of No. 126 Riverside drive, New York. was
married August % by the Rev Raymond
Lee Wolven to Mr.. James Morgan Sheen
of Atlantic City. Miss Alvord is the
granddaughter of the late Thomas G. AL
word of Syracuse, n. Y, one time feuten-
ant governor of New York. familiarly
known as '.Old Salt during the years in
which he Was prominent in affairs of the
state. of which he served fifteen terms in
the legislature. five of which he was
speaker of the assembly Miss Alvord
made her debut in Havana. Cuba. Much
Of her girlhood was spent i'm this city.
while her father was in charge of the
New York Herald bureau.
The bridegroom is one OF the rising
young lawyers of New Jersey. He is a
member Of several clubs, and is connected
with several business enterprises in At
lantic City. Mr.. and Mrs. Sheen will live
in Atlantic City after October 1.
Mrs Lawrence Townsend and Miss
Yvonne Townsend. who have spent the
the latter part of the month. Mr. Town
send is now at Bar Harbor.
Senor Cayetona Romero. who was con-
sui general of Mexico in New York sail
ed on the Campania, having been pro-
NOTED to the Mexican legation at London.
Sonora Romero and her children are al
ready in England
Mrs George F. McInturf and Mrs. VIII
liam r. Terry left last week for Asheville
\. c., for an indefinite time.
DR.. and Mrs. J. Ernest Smith have re-
turned to the city after a months vaca.
ton in the mountains.
bia road is at the Harbor View. East
Gloucester. Mass. after weeks visi,
with friends in New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick W. Pratt and
Mrs. F. w. Dickens of Washington, who
have been visiting friends in Vermont for
the past few weeks, are now at the Hotel
Wolcott, New York. where they will re-
main for a few days.
Mrs. E. K. Webster and Miss Frances
NJ. Webster of Washington arrived from
Europe and will stay in New York for q
few days before leaving for their home.
DR.. and Mrs. Wilfred NJ Barton have
avenue after having spent several weeks
in the north.
Miss Matte Oettinger and Miss Lille
Oettinger are registered al the Hotel VOL
colt, New York city.
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey has returned
after a pleasant visit at Atlantic City
and in the mountains of western Penn
sylvania and New Jersey.
Mrs. Mussey's daughter. Miss Della
Mussey, sailed from Havre last Saturday,
and is due to arrive in New York next
Monday. Miss Mussey has been spending
the summer abroad. and attended the
Art Congress in Dresden in August.
Mr.. Russell P. Goodwin, assistant attor-
ney general. and Mrs. Goodwin have been
staying at Lake George, n. Y. and will
90 later to Lake Champlain and Lake
Placid before returning to this city.
DR.. Ira w. Dennison has returned after
a delightful trip through Canada and the
lakes and visit to his old home in Mys-
tic, Conn.
Mrs. George c. Martin has returned to
her apartment in the Wyoming after a
months visit in New London Conn.
Mr. and Mrs. William j. Eynon left the
city Monday for trip through the west
They expect to visit points in Michigan.
Illinois and Wisconsin. making a tour Of
the great lakes. returning to Washington
the latter part of September.
Miss Margaret +. Andrews, a debu-
tante of the season at Newport and
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Paul Andrews.
former Washington residents, wore a
smart illustration of the modish blending
of black and white in the new fashions