Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-07
IN THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
MISS TAFT WILL RETURN TO-
DAY FROM RIDING TRIP.
Hospitalities Are on for Red Cross
Delegates-0ther Events.
Notes.

peaSt week WITH MRS. HerpeTt w aus
worth's riding party. is expected back at
the White House today
The party arrived at the Virginia Hot
Springs yesterday and with the addition
OF Miss Jeanette Mathers of Philadel-
phia started again today to resume its
ride through West Virginia
MIS- Wadsworth has chosen a circuitous
route Tor her home-going trip to Gen.
eseo valley, N. Y, and will be on the
road for several weeks more
A reception in honor of the delegates
to the Red Cross conference will he held
tonlgnt at the Pan American building at
whlch about 1.5OO guests are expected
Tomorrow night at ST. Thomas parish
nan number of young people will pre-
sent snort play, the parts in the cast to
be taken by Miss Elizabeth Moves. Miss
FRANCES Brooks Miss Estelle Crane. Mr.
Jonn thompson and Mr.. Ralph Waldo
Hill. Miss Ruth Hitchcock and Miss
Gertrude Gordon will be in charge of an
Ice cream booth, etc, and will be assisted
IN the sale by other of the debutantes of
| last winter. whose duties will also be to
usher guests to their seats before the
performance starts The Sunday school ap-
pOrt1onment of the church debt OF ST.
Thomas will benefit by the proceeds, and
the project of the young people has
| aroused great interest among the friends
generally as well as the parishioners of
st. Thomas.
Mrs. F. E. Chadwick has arrived from
Newport to attend the Red Cross con-
ferences and is with Miss Wilkes at S14
Connecticut avenue.
The Tennessee Society will hold it's
regular monthly meeting tonight in the
parlorS Of the w. C. 7. U. building, so
9Th street northwest. when the annual
| election of officers will take place.
Col and Mrs. Robert M. Thompson had
several hundred guests at a musical last
night, following a dinner in compliment
to Baron Ozawa, senior member Of the
Red Cross delegation from Japan. The
other dinner guests were Mr.. Akiama and
Count Cgasawara, delegates from the
and DR.. Inouye and Mr.. Togo, from the
Japanese Red Cross Association; Mr.. JUS
tice Lurton, the Swedish minister. Rep
resentafive Cannon, Rear Admiral
Schroeder, Mr.. Henry White, Mr..
Boardman, Gen. Robert Shaw Oliver,
Maj. Gen. Carter, Gen. Mills, Rear Ad-
miral O'Neill Rear Admiral Hemphill,
Rear Admiral Clover, Mr.. w. R. Mer-
Ram, Mr.. Joseph Parrish and Mr.. H H.
Ward.
The musical numbers We're given by the
Misses Fuller and Mr.. Myron Whitney,
| with Mr.. Charles Wask as pianist.
Miss Helen worren Moore, youngest
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert NJ.
Moore of Washington, was quietly mar
ried in Baltimore by the Rev. Philip Spal-
ding at the Chapel of the Advent yes
Coast Artillery, a graduate of Annapolis
Of the class of 1909. and now stationed
at Fort McHenry. Lieut.. and Mrs. Sloan
will be at home after June 1 at their
quarters at Fort McHenry.
Mrs. Copley of Illinois, wife of Repre-
sentative Copley, gave a luncheon yester-
day lin honor of Mrs. Cooper, wife Of
| Representative Cooper of Wisconsin, who
will go to her western home tomorrow.
| Rev. and Mrs. Paul Sterry are here on
| a two-week visit to Mrs Hannah Perry.
Mrs Neill s. Brown will give recep-
| ton tonight in compliment to Senator
and Mrs. Stone of Missouri, the date be-
ing the formers birthday.
Miss Marie McMillin Brown, who has
been at Fort Hamilton, N: Y. on visit
to Lieut. and Mrs. ]. w Mckee, re-
turned home this morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R. Henry of
Brookland announce the engagement of
their daughter. Mary Grace. to Mr.. David
White Of Medina, N. Y. Mr.. White is
the son of Mrs Helen Pendergast White
and was graduated from Cornell in 1908.
The date Of the wedding has not been de-
termined. but will probably occur in the
late autumn.
The marriage of Miss Lucille NJ.
Stevens, daughter of Mrs. John Rhine
Lander Stevens, and Lieut.. Edward E.
spafford. U. s. ~. will take place at the
New York city. at pm. Wednesday.
May %. The ceremony will be perform
ed by the Rev DR.. Leighton Parks Of
st. Bartholomew Church. Owing to a
recent death in Lieut.. Spafford's family
only relatives and few intimate friends
will be present.
Miss Stevens only attendant will be
Mrs. William S. Groesbeck Fowler. Lieut.
Benyard B. Wygant will be Lieut.. Spaf-
ford's best man.
Capt. Albert, Gleaves, commandant Of
| the Narragansett Bay Naval Station, will
be relieved by Capt. William B. Caper-
ton, recently of this city, tomorrow Capt.
Nashville. Tenn, relieving Rear Admiral
e. C. Leutze as commandant of the New
York Navy Yard, between May Is and
90 Mrs. Gleaves, who is recovering from
a recent operation, will go to jamestown
for the summer, where Capt. Gleaves
has rented a cottage. Miss Geaves is
coming to Washington in a few days.
Invitations nave been sent out by MP.
and Mrs. S. F. w. Sylvis of Howe street
Pittsburgh, for the marriage of their
daughter, Katherine Virginia Sylvis, and
Ross Bassett Hammond, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Franklin Hammond of Los
Angeles, Cal, formerly of Pittsburgh,
which will take place the evening of
Wednesday, May Is, at the Sylvis resi-
dence. The ceremony will be performed
at 7:3O o'clock by Rev. Riley NJ Little of
the Bellevue Presbyterian Church. Miss
Gxylxy mil hn OF dnl INV
Henry Thompson of Beaver Falls, Pa,
as matron Of honor; Miss Sarah Eliza
beth Kuhn and Miss Marie Hohe, brides
maids, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank s. Ken