The Alaska daily empire., 1912-11-26
TO UNDERGO
 SOCIAL UPHEAVAL

With the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson as President and the rein statement of the Democratic party Washington will undergo social up- heaval. Names high in political fame today will be scratched from the page of the Social Register to make room for others who have long aspired for recognition in that Book of Books to society. Crests and monographs will be painted of the panels of smart carriages and automobiles, and others drawn in their stead, As for houses they will change hands with wonder ful rapidity,
 While, of course. society in Wash ington will continue to have the charm of a cosmopolitan city owing to the presence of foreign Embassies and Legations, 1t will undergo a change such as 1t has never known. Men who have represented the coun' try at various foreign courts for years will return to Washington and others will leave to take their places.
 Members of both houses in Con- gress who have held society in their grasp and swayed it. according to their will in years of service will relin- Quish the hold and allow others the lead in the social world And so, of course, of the Cabinet and the as- slstant secretaries, not to mention the new orders and changes in the army and navy sets.
 The change will be tremendous, and Washington residents, commonly known as Cave Dweilers," whose pO- sition in society is assured and not influenced by the change in the DO. litical status of the country, are awaiting with deep interest the meta morphosis.
 The Cabinet is in most part cir. cle of much longer than four years standing in Washington. The Sec retary of Agriculture. James Wilson, has served in that capacity for fif- teen years. Secretary of State Knox came to Washington in 1901 and en- tered President McKinly's Cabinet. And Secretary of the Navy George von L. Meyer was in President ROose- velts Cabinet as Post.Master-Ge
 Three members of the present Cab. met expect to make their future home in Washington in spite of politics, They are Secretary of State Knox, whose house in K street for years has been one of the most handsome residences in Washington; Attorney General George Wickersham four years ago, and the Secretary of the Treasury Franklin Macveagh, whose million-dollar house was built for him by Mrs. MacVeagh as a birthday sur prise. Secretary and Mrs. MacVeagh have already announced their inten- ton of making Washington their home, and with this object in view they have sold their lovely Chicago residence.
 Among the Cabinet officers whose departure will be deeply regretted in Washington will be Mir. Meyer. With Mrs. Meyer and their daughters, they have been acknowledged leaders of the smart set.
 The Postmaster General, as the only bachelor of the Cabinet, will be missed, though his place, 1t Is report ed, is to be filled by Josephus Dan. iels of North Carolina, whose wife was Miss Bagley of Washington.
 Among the assistant secretaries of departments society will greatly miss Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs. Huntington Wilson, Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy and Mrs. Beekman, Winthrop, and Assistant Secretary of War and Mrs. Oliver, all of whom have held star roles in the social play of the capital,
 Not only in Cabinet circles will changes be effected, but in the Con- gressional as well. In the House, al. ready strongly Democratic, the tran. sltion will not be as great as in the Senate. Senator and Mrs. Guggen- helm, whose entertainments have been a feature of Washington society; Sen. ator and Mrs. Frank Briggs, sena- tor and Mrs. Murray Crane, the lat ter formerly Miss Josephine Board man; Senator and Mrs. George Pea, body wetmore, Senator Shelby M. Cullom, all of whom have been promi. nent leaders of the most exclusive set in society. will all leave void diff fcult to fill.
 In the House the greatest change of all will be felt in the absence of ex- Speaker Joseph Cannon. one of the most picturesque figures in Washing. ton. His daughter, Miss Helen Can