The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-11
SOCIETY. NOTES OF PEOPLE
 HERE AND ELSEWHERE
Young People Still the Chief Entertainers Dongs Mrs J. w Jones' Tea At the Gold Lion--Holmead Chi chester Host In the Evening-Mss Geneveve
 Burt's Tea-Other Topics of Social Import
Fly MYRTLE MILES

| The Baltimore convention is a thing of | the past but it did serve to get together
 notable people from all parts of the coun4 | try. Town and Country, the smart east
 ern magazine, which chronicles princi- | paily society's doings, comments this week upon some of those who entertained: | MT. and Mrs. Edwin J. Farber, Mr and | Mrs. Harry Preston, Mrs. Andrew Reid | and MT. and Mrs. Frank Martin were among those who have been entertain ing. On Sunday the Country club and | the Kennels were open for out of town guests and the lawns were gay with
 beautifully gowned women. Dr. and Mrs.
 Frank Martin of Cathedral street had as
 their guests MT. and Mrs. Edward ". | Barrett of Birmingham. Mr. and Mrs.
 ClarenceWayland Watson were with MT.
 and Mrs. Jere H. Wheelwright at their country home; MT. and Mrs. Edwin J. 1 Barber had a large house party at their residence on Charles street and among
 their guests were the Hon. William J. | Sulzer, former Gov. David R. Francis of Missouri, former Secretary of War J. 1 M. Dickinson, Mayor and Mrs Carter l Harrison of Chicago and Mrs. Roland Morris of Philadelphia. MT. Farber also gave a dinner on Monday evening at the Maryland club in honor of Judge James
 w. Gerald of New York. MT. and Mrs.
 Farber gave large dinners on Tuesday
 and Thursday evenings of this week.
 Many parties have been made up for the battleships stationed here this week. The Prestons (Mayor Preston and his wife) gave a reception for 2000 at their home on Charles street on Tuesday evening. Mrs. Mack. Mrs. Bryan. Mrs. Hearst, Mrs. Taggart and other important women received with Mrs. Preston The garden was illuminated and the little tables were arranged amidst the flowers and shrub bery. Never before In the annals of Balti- more society has there been such gay | amusing ending of the first summer month, and people looking forward to the convention have not hurried away. as they usually do in the early summer. MT. Charles B. Alexander. accompanied by his daughters, the Misses Harriet, Janetta and Mary Crocker Alexander. also att tended the democratic convention at Bal
 timore. MT. Alexander, who is a dele
 gate from this state, left with n party of
 friends on Mir E. R. Bacons private car
 on Sunday. His daughters followed on
 Monday MT. Alexander took apartments
 in the Severn with the servants and kept
 house and entertained exclusively.
 In the party of Mrs. Norman E. Mack. wlfe of the chairman of the national democratic committee, on the first day
 of the convention were the German am
 bassador, Count von Bernstorff, Mrs.
 Richard Townsend, Mrs. Perry Belmont, Miss Dorothy Williams, Mrs. John R.
 Williams, Mrs. Robert Grain Mrs Lau-
 renee Townsend and the Misses Mack,
 Mrs John R. Mclean of Washington
 sent her guests to the convention.
 Among these were Miss Lota Robinson,
 formerly of Baltimore, now of New
 York; Mrs r. c. Newlands, wife of the
 senator from Nevada the Belgian min
 ister, MT. Havenith; Representative and
 Mrs Nicholas Longworth. In the gal
 lery were Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry Of
 New York. Mrs Henry c. Corbin, widow of Maj. Gen. Henry c. Corbin, wife Of the Assistant Secretary of State; Mrs Nathaniel Francis and Mrs. Hugh Wal lace. daughters of the late Chief Jus tce Fuller; MT. and Mrs Montgomery Hare MT Phillip Lydig and Mir Clar- ence Mackay. MT. and Mrs. John +. Mclean had the Williams residence at St. Paul and Monument streets and their guests were MT. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth Maj Creighton Webb and
 Mrs. Richard Townsend of Washington.
 Mrs Oscar Underwood was the guest
 of Mir. and Mrs. John Moseley Walker
 at the Meadows, owing Mills, and MT. Clarence Mackay was at the home Of
 Mir and Mrs. Edward F. Burke In the
 Green Spring Valley. Mrs. William H.
 Taft was an interested spectator at
 the convention on Thursday. She came
 on from Washington and attended the
 afternoon session with Mrs. Wallace of
 Indiana and Mrs. Norman 10. Mack. At
 the dinner given Thursday evening by
 Mir and Mrs. John R. Mclean, there
 were present Miss Janet Fish, daugh-
 ter of Mir Hamilton Fish; MT. and Mrs.
 Newberry Blair Mrs. Nicholas Long
 worth and Mrs Francis Griffith New
 lands.