The Washington herald., 1914-11-22
HOT SPRINGS.

Lively times are expected over the
coming week. for scores OF the gay So
.ciety crowd that comes down as rule in
October have made reservations for the
Thanksgiving holiday. Among these are
a lot Of young business men, on account
of whom the Homestead Hotel has order
ed a special train, that will leave Sunday
night and take them north in time for
business Monday, stopping at Washing
ton, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.
Senator-elect oscar Underwood. Of
Washington and Alabama. and Charles
F. Murphy. Of New York Tammany Hall,
have fraternized on the golf links on
several occasions this week, and the Sem
ator has also played several times with
H. A. Thompson, of Philadelphia. editor
Of The Country Gentleman. Mr.. Thomp-
son. who was a magazine man before he
undertook to be a farm expert, is so in
terested in what the harvesters are doing
adjacent to the links. he slices into a tur-
nip or cabbage patch at every opportun-
ity.
Mr. and Mrs. Hernsley Johnson. OF
Baltimore, reached Hot Springs early in
the week. and have been putting in their
time driving through the mountain coun-
try, which is now at its best. They are
also taking the "Kur" here.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. w. Purdy came up in
their automobile from Washington on
Tuesday in company with Mrs. Seward
Webb. Mrs. George Macy ID. Mrs.
George Bird. and Mrs. H. Nick. Twomb-
ley, who motored through from New
York. They lunched at the Homestead
here and continued on in the afternoon to
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va, where
they are stopping.
Mr.. and Mrs. James V. Terry, OF Balu
more, soon after their arrival early in
the week, entertained informally at an
old-fashioned Virginia luncheon at Fas-
sifern Farm, a drive of twenty miles
from the Homestead Hotel.
Miss Gladys ingalls,, of Washington.
whose engagement to Frederick Murphy.
Of New York, was announced here last
result of an automobile accident she was
in recently in New England. However,
1t is said that she is merely taking the
rest cure, and after Christmas will go
to Southern California with her mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melville E. Ingalls,, jr., of
Washington, entertained a number of
their friends the other afternoon at an
invitation golf tournament Of one-ball
tw-somes. paired by drawings. Mr.. and
Mrs. William c. Denny, of Washington,
won the silver cup, their medal score Sc
ing lowest. some OF the Other low scores
were Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Underwood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ingalls,, d. II. Holmes, and
Robert Batcheller. OF Washington. Mr..
Batcheller and his brother Alfred Batch
eller, who have been at the Homestead
all the fall, left for home this week.
A dinner party without doubt as odd an
AFFAIR as was ever given here, occurred
200 feet under ground IN the small cham
Der Of cave last Saturday night. The
host was Hayden Crosby, Of Hot Springs
and Jacksonville. He entertained a party
Of about thirty men. They were ignorant
Of what was in store for them, e3c44G
that the invitations called for cowboy
costumes. At the Homestead Hotel Mr..
Crosby piled them into carriages, drove
them two miles out In the country in a.
pouring rain. and then suddenly ordered
them out and up a steep mountainside.
Suddenly a booming like large guns,