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A Card Party.

The Give Hundred Club was enter
tanned Friday evening by Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard S. Fisk at their home, 625 K
street northwest. Prizes were awarded at
the conclusion of the card playing as fol-
lows: First prizes, Mrs. Howard S.
Fisk and Mr.. George W. Holland; second
prizes. Mrs. George w. Holland and Mr..
W. Silas SheetZ; consolation prizes, Mrs.
George J. Jones and Mr.. Howard S. Fisk.
Following the distribution of the prizes
the guests repaired to the supper room.
The decorations were in green and white.
The club will be entertained Friday even
ing, March 10. at the residence of Mr..
and Mrs. ". Sias SheetZ, 1882 Irving
street northwest. Those present were
Mr. and Mrs. Howard ]. Gaylor, Mr.. and
Mrs George w. Holland. Mr.. and Mrs.
George j. Jones, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard S.
Fisk, Mrs S. Franklin Gardner, Mrs.
Harry B. Judson and Mr. and Mrs. w.
Silas SheetZ
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Christ Child Society Benefit.

A literary and musical entertainment,
consisting of humorous lecture by T. A
DAILY, violin recital by Joseph NJ. Gill.
a piano recital by Richard Barrett and
character songs by George H O'Connor,
will be given at the New Masonic Audi
torium tomorrow afternoon at 4 AS for
the benefit of the Christ Child Society.
This society is supported entirely by
the contributions of its members and con-
ducts two branches of work-relief and
social service. The latter is managed by
100 volunteer members. Nine. JuSSerand,
Nine. Calderon, Mrs. w. E. Montgomery,
Miss Alice Riggs, Miss Jane Riggs, Mrs.
Sheridan, Mrs. John Wilkins, Mrs. George
Andrews, Mrs. Hannis Taylor, Mrs. j.
Ryan Devereux. Mrs. Downing and Mrs
George Z. Hamilton are among those who
have taken tickets for the benefit.
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The Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
have started on their vacation, the early
part of which will be spent in Cali
fornia with the formers official attend
ance at the exposition. They left here
Friday last for their home in Indianap-
oils.
One senator from each state and three
representatives have been invited by the
territorial government of Hawaii to be
it's guests for three weeks
The party. which will include many
or the wives and daughters of the SEN
ators and representatives. will sail from
San Francisco April 81. They will be ex-
tensively entertained during their So
journ in the islands, and the return voy-
age will land them back at the same
port May 81.
Senator and Mrs. John Sharp Williams
will close their house on 18th street at
an early date and leave for their home
In Mississippi.
Representative and Mrs. Thomas G.
Patten will remain in town through
March, when they will go to their home
in New Jersey.
Senator and Mrs. Shively have no plans
FOR the present. but expect to remain
mere for several weeks
Representative and Mrs Oldfeld will
ieaVe Washington about the middle OF
the month for their home In Arkansas.
Representative ana Mrs. Hubert S.
Dent of Alabama will leave about April /
for the south.
had the Colby Dodge house on N stree,
for the winter. are now at the Shore
ham. to remain until they 20 to their
Virginia home.
Representative and Mrs. Percy Quir
expect to leave this week for their
home in Mississippi Some time in
June they are planning to make a
trip out through the west.
Senator and Mrs. Clarence y. Clark
will probably leave in about two
weeks time for Wyoming. Mrs. CLARK
is now convalescing from severe at
tack of grippe.
Senator and Mrs. Overman and Miss
Overman will leave for their home il
North Carolina this week Senator
members of the large congressional
party which will sail from San Fran.
cisco April 81 for a months stay il
Hawaii.
: Senator and Mrs. Ashurst will leave
this week for the San Francisco ex
position and do not expect to return t.
Washington until the opening OF the
next session.
Senator and Mrs. Thomas P. Cor.
will remain here until June before go.
ing to their home in Oklahoma.
Senator and Mrs. Robert l.. Owen will
remain in Washington for month OF
six weeks longer. and they will prob
ably go to Pinehurst for a stay before
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ed from hve-week visit to friends in
New York
Representative and Mrs H. c. Clay
pool left Washington yesterday for
their home in Ohio. Their daughter,
Miss Beatrice Claypoo1, will remain at
the Crevy Chase Seminary, where she
is member of this years graduating
class.
Representative and Mrs A. P. Gard
ner expect to leave this month for their
home at Boston.
Representative and Mrs. Towner of
Iowa and Representative and Mrs. Rob-
ert Lee Henry will be among the prom
inent congressional people who will re-
April
Senator and Mrs J. Hamilton Lewis
will remain here for a couple of
weeks longer.
10 Representative and Mrs. Otis Wingo
with their children, have returned to their
home in Arkansas.
Representative and Mrs. George w.
Fairchild left last Friday and are mo-
toring to their home in New York state.
Senator and Mrs Claude A Swanson
also contemplate motoring to their
beautiful summer home in Chatha m,
Va, as soon as the roads are in con-
dition.
Representative and Mrs. Sydney An
derson have gone to their home at
Lanesboro, Mimi, and are planning an
extended trip for the summer.
Senator and Mrs McCumber will re-
main here until the early summer be-
fore leaving for their home in North
Dakota.
Representative and Mrs. James r.
Mann expect to leave this week for
Chicago.
Representative and Mrs. Fred Britten
have left Washington, and will shortly
make an extended tour through the
orient They will be away several
months.
Mrs. David E. Finley has gone to her
home in South Carolina, where Repre-
sentative Finley will join her next
week.
Representative and Mrs. Dunn. who
are at the Willard since giving up the
house on 18th street which they have
occupied for two winters, intend to re-
main here several weeks longer before
going on to New York and then to
their home in Rochester.
/ Senator and Mrs. MARITIME will stay at
| fore leaving for the summer Mrs
MARITIME and Miss Woods left yester-
day for a short stay in Trenton, N. j.
and New York
| Mrs. AHee Pomerene. the new presi-
dent of the Congressional Club. has
| been busy since her Inauguration in
preparing to close the club for the sea
son. The new clubhouse was the pop
| ular rendezvous of women in the con
gressiona1 set after It's opening, and
| Mrs. Pomerene will score great sue
cess in arranging the program for next
! season. Senator and Mrs. Pomerene
will remain in Washington until the
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Farewell Party.

A farewell dance was given for Eep-
resentative and Mrs Frank p. O'Hare
of Illinois and Miss Bernice Cartlege,
house guest of Mrs. Ray Middaugh, by
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Bergling a few
evenings ago In the party We're Rep
resentative and Mrs. OHare, Judge and
Mrs Fenton Booth, Mr. and Mrs. Q. K.
Evans Prof and Mrs. j. L. Hird Mrs.
RAY Middaugh, Miss Middaugh, Mss
Cartlege and Messrs. Gard, Bone,
Brown, French and Fay.
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Dances Omitted.

On account of Lent and the prospec-
tive absence of a large part of the
garrison of Washington barracks dur
ing the spring season, is has been de-
cded to omit the remaining two dances
scheduled for March II and April at
,he engineer mess at Washington bar
racks.
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Easter Monday Tea.

One of the interesting events for tho
early part of April will be the tel
dance for the benefit of the Homeop-
athic Hospital at Rauscher's Easter
Monday, for which preparations are
progressing under happy auspices. The
dancing will be from to :. preceded
by bridge from 2:3o to 4:30 o'clock.
Mrs H. H. Hawxhurst. 1884 Connecti-
cut avenue, has charge of the bridge
tables. Mrs. Charles Sturtevant. 21lO
Leroy place, is chairman of the dance
committee and VIII have the assistance
OF committees of young girls and col
lege men who will be home for tha
Easter vacation.
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NEVER ENTIRELY DULL.

The ties that binding of the families of
what with
heads households
capital will be
lon good weather usually them here each
the the Pacific week south the
seaside helped others how
weeks should Farewe clubs neighborhood
marked whose
will be filled
the changes similar those which change always
though The
brought
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end of March, when they will go to
their home at Canton. Ohio.

Because the Owera, their rewly
bought yacht, could not be put in shape
in time. and for other reasons, Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry will not leave
the capital for their long cruise until
the end of this week. The Owera is
still at New York undergoing neces-
sary changes and being made ready
for the journey, but will be brought to
Washington early this week. Though
Mr.. Gerry will not return to Washing
ton as member of Congress next win
ter. they Will keep a house here and
will make this their midwinter home.
Senator Reed will leave in a short
time for his home at Kansas City, hut
Mrs. Reed will remain here until the
middle of April before going home.
Senator and Mrs. IIoke smith will
leave for Atlanta in day or two. but
Miss Callie Hoke Smith will stay here
with Ensign and Mrs Simpson until they
start for California next month.
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+ 01s ana % 50 many other notable homes at the capital is
sh" an usual condition here socially that those whose
oahy will be able
@ te oa rolling IN spite OF the absenees Times really to
pc described entirely
events gong all the time when the surface
would There
break IA the ranks be and there will be others but the
still till
better for goinp
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and the hgfprced leading the
FATALITIES the and promised the
Ienten splendid luxurious
and elegant OF all outside OF dinners and their undubted charms both
the
evenings homes that really delightful while the ubscrp
travel talks and kindred local other
afford
Yesterday the second OF the first
the Wilson celebrated
the cabinet as hosts March OF last the Willard The Pss
than will this spring but until April the social
weeks 1914 The had much with
sociabitles Mrs Marshall
followed each other day BY day and for the that unless
named
hed last spring also and have been frequent lately For the immediate
indicate
these days anything
boil big md
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in
of
laborious1y built around them
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Newsy Notes.

Mrs. Harry Reade entertained at
luncheon last Sunday at her home,
2010 street. in honor of Miss Marie
Caffrey of New Orleans, who Is visit
ing Mrs. Classic at Chevy Chase.
Miss Leila Peachey has returned after
a six-month visit to her brother, Mr..
William Peachey, and his wife at their
home in Seattle.
DR.. and Mrs. John Kerfoot HAYWOOD
are in their new home, 1929 Lanier
place. where they will be pleased to
see their friends.
Mrs. Henry f. Dimock, who came to
Washington for short visit and eN-
pected to spend the greater part of
her time in attending to business, has
been besieged by her friends and is
constantly in demand as guest. Mrs.
Dimock's daughter, who is expected to
be guest of the spring time in
Washington, has not yet been able to
set sail from Italy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor will
have as their guest for some days DR.
Edwin Grosvenor of Amherst College,
the father of the former.
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returning to their home in oklahoma
Miss Dorothea Owen has just return
ed from a fve-week visit to friends in
New York.
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Representative and Mrs. A. P. Gard
ner expect to leave this month for their
home at Boston.
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Vacation Plans.

The Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
have started on their vacation, the early
part of which will be spent In Cali
fornia with the formers official attend
ance at the exposition. They left here
Friday last for their home in Indianap-
oils
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Representative and Mrs H. c. Clay
pool left Washington yesterday for
their home in Ohio. Their daughter,
the Crevy Chase Seminary. where she
is member of this years graduating
class.
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Representative and Mrs. Towner of
Iowa and Representative and Mrs Rob-
ert Lee Henry will be among the prom
inent congressional people who will re-
main in town until the first part of
April
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Representative and Mrs. Flood, who
had the Colby Dodge house on N street
FOR the winter. are now at the Shore
Virginia home.
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Representative and Mrs Percy Quin
expect to leave this week for their
home in Mississippi. Some time in
June they are planning to make a
trip out through the west
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Senator and Mrs. j. Hamilton Lewis
will remain here for a couple of
weeks longer.
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Senator and Mrs. Thomas P. Gore
will remain here until June before 60
ing to their home in Oklahoma.
Senator and Mrs. Robert L. Owen will
remain in Washington for a month or
six weeks longer, and they will prob
ably go to Pinehurst for stay before
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Senator and Mrs. Clarence y. Clark
will probably leave in about two
weeks time for Wyoming. Mrs Clark
is now convalescing from severe at
tack of grippe
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Senator and Mrs. Ashurst will leave
this week for the San Francisco ex-
position and do not expect to return to
Washington until the opening OF the
next session.
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Senator and Mrs. Overman and Miss
Overman will leave for their home in
North Carolina this week Senator
Overman and his daughters will be
members of the large congressional
party which will sail from San Fran
cisco April 81 for months stay in
Hawaii.
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Representative ana Mrs. Hubert S.
Dent OF Alabama will leave about April 1
for the south.
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D Representative and Mrs. Otis Wingo,
with their children, have returned to their
home in Arkansas
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Senator and Mrs. MARITIME will stay at
the Burlington until after Easter be-
fore leaving for the summer. Mrs.
MARITIME and Miss Woods left yester-
day for short stay in Trenton, N. j.,
and New York.
The Sentinel=record., 1915-05-27
Torpedoed By Submarine and Sunk in Short Time--Majority of Officers
 and Men Reported Saved.
Vessel Was Engaged in Assisting the Australian and New Zealand Forces to Make Landing The Triumph Was Originally Built for
 the Chilean Government.

five allied battleships have bean ac counted for in the Dagdanelles ly Turkish gunfire, mines or torpedOes Of these losses the British have sus tained four-the Triumph, ocean Irresistible and Goliath. One French ship has been sunk-the Bouyet q addition several other battlesnips have at various times been struck ly Turkish shells and forced to retire.
 The battleship was built at Barrow in 1902 for the Chilean government hut was purchased by Great Britain in 1903
 Since the present war broke out the Triumph has been in operation in both Far Eastern and European waters A flagship of the British Asiatic squad ron she participated in the lombard ment of the German base of Tsing Tau. China last October, and was re ported damaged by the shell fire of the German forts.
 After the fall of Tsiug Tau Che Trium h returned to dEuropean wa ters and began operations with the al-
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on board the rescued passengers.
 The Ryndam left here for Rotter- dam yesterday with 54 cabin and 23 third class passengers. The crew numbered about l5o The Cuneo left Boston last night for Baracoa, Cuba, shortly before 4 o'clockthis morn ing in heavy fog the steamers ram. med each other. The wireless opera. tor of the Cuneo sent out help signal. which was picked up ny sev eral Atlantic fleet battleships.
 The Louisiana, SoWth Carolina and TeXas rushed to the scene. fore their arrival the messengers and nart of the Ryndhams crew had been transferred to the Cuneo. The fig cleared about ' o'clock and the sail o9s assisted in retransferring the pas sengers to the South Carolina
 Most of the passengers of the Ryn dam were foreigners returning home Some were Americans.
 The Ryndam will await high water tomorrow before proceeding to hel IIoboken docks.
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Steamers Collide
 During HeaOy Fog
Passengers Are Taken Off By Bat-
 tleship Which Answered Call

New York, May 2G.-Seyenty-seven passengers, saved from possible death when the IIolland-American liner Ryndam cohliled early today with the tramp steamer Joseph J. Cuneo off Nantuckett Shoals lightshil, were brought safely 10 port tonight by the battleship South Carolina which par ticipated in the rescue.
 The Ryndam. conveyed to Ambroz lghtship by the hattleship Texas, reached the harbor before her pas8en- gers arrived, and anchored down the way. She was drawing 36 feet of water and much of her cargo. contain ing foodstuffs for Holland. valued at a million dollars, was destroyed A hole in her side below the water line was stoTTed with canvas. The Cuneo damaged, was proceeding un- ger her own steam to this port
 The steamer Thomas l. Willard, carrying friends and relatives of pas sengers and officers of the Holland. American liner, went down the bay to meet the South Carolina to take
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lied fleet against the Dardanelles. In the latter part of April the Triumph bOmbarded the Turkish trenches on the western end of the GalHpoli pen nsula and afterward went into the Dardanelles to search the trench from a different angle. Here she came under the fire of a Turkish howitzer battery on the Asiat c shore. which dropped 16-inch shells around her and threw three missiles on board Little damage was done by the shells, however, and only two men, a stoker and bluejacket, were wounded The battleship silenced the Turkish battery before retiring.
 A few days latetr, while landing operations were proceeding, the Tri- umph with other warships in addi- tion to covering the landing lombard ed the forts in the Dardaneues to prevent endorsements reaching the Turks from the sea of MaimOra. The Triumph was credited in the official reports with having set fire to the town Of Maidoyiur during this bonn bardment
 The Triumph, which was command ed by CaPtain Maurice E. Fitzmaurice was a vessel of 11,9S5 tons and of 12,500 horsepower Her crew of off cers and men in times of peace num- bered atout 700. The vessel carried four 10-inch, fourteen 75-inch guns and fourteen 14-pounders and four G. pounders In addition she carried two 1S-incn torpedo tubes
 The Triumph was 436 feet long and had a speed of about 20 knots.
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London, May 2G-The British bat tleship Triumph has been sunk in the Dardanelles This official annohnce- ment was made tonight
 Tae disaster to the Triumph is de scrrbed in a brief statement by the h.Inira.ty, which says that while o9-
 mug support of the Australian 3n7 New Zealand forces on the shore of the Gallipoli peninsula yesterday the Triumph was torpedoed by q sub marine and sank shortly afterward.
 The majority of the officers and men. including the captain and com mander are reported saved. The sub- marine was chased by destroyt.J and patrollng small craft until dark.
 The official announcement does not cay whether the submarine Vas Turk ish or German, but it probably was of the latter nationality. as the Brit ish legation at Athens recently of fered a reward for the sinking of German submarines. supposed to be in the Mediterranean.
 With the sinking of the Triumph
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Blockade Proc1an1at1
 Is Issued By

Rome, May 26, via Paris, 7;i5 pm. The Italian government, believing Austria-IIungary is utilizing several ports on the Albanian coast for se- cret cOmmissatia departments, de- claring a blockade today against that portion of the AustTo-Hungarian coast comprised between the Italian from tier on the north to the Montenegrin
 boundary on the south, including all island ports. anc1orages and bays and also the Albanian coast from the Mon tenegrin limits on toe north to and
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cussion of this subject that so far as the United States is concerned its official representatives have no au- thority to enter into any negltia- tions along this line and that private capital in the United States is re- luctant to go into shipping enter prises without assurances of modifi- cation of the navigation laws and amendments to the seamen's act
 Another suggestion contemplated the establishment of steamship lines between the respective governments. interested. the bonds of which should he guaranteed Bonds of this char acteT. it was urged, would prove at tractive investments in the United States.
 Talk was revived among govern ment officials of a change in the fed eral reserve law which would hermit a combination of banks to establish a large bank in South or Central Amer lea which in turn could find many branches.
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WAR SUMMARY

The king of Italy has taken surreme command of the army and navy and now is with his troops at the front On the Austro-ltalian frontier and for a few miles in Austrian territory the Italian lines stretch for a distance of fifty miles or more. In their forward movement the Italians have occupied several towns and are striking east ward towards Trieste
 The Austrian war office admits that Italian troops have entered Cond no, wneTe prior to the declaration of war an Austrian barracks was blown up and many Italians were arrested. At the same time Vienna claims that Italian attacks on the Carinthian frontier were repulsed with consid- erable losses tC the invaders and that in an engagement across the border north of Udine the Italians fled, leay- ing their arms.
 Successful progress continues in the Galician districts near Przemysl, ac- cordng to Vienna. with the capture of additional men, guns and war ma terial In Russian Poland and south of the Dneister the situation gener- ally remains unchanged.
 On the west an engagement of eX- treme violence is in progress north of Arras, where the Germans are trying to retake captured positions and a similar condition prevails at the al. !. of the road from Aix-Noulette, 10 SoucheZ, where the French report 6 slight advance
 The British are reported by Paris to have mxfe fresh advance near n4ahasses>Ar The British war office says that 10 this region since May I the British have pierced the German line line. for a total front of over three
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Big Steamship
 Company Planned
The Pan-American Delegates Are
 Greatly Interested in Project.

Washington, May 26-Conferences between representatives of the finan- cial and business interests of the United States and delegates from South and Central America attend ing the Pan-American financial con ference were continued today in an effort to bring about clear unier- standing of the desires and needs of the southern republics.
 The committee on transportat on, which has under consideration wbat man yof the delegates regarded as the most important question which the conference has faced entrusted its work to a subcommittee whica is not expected to report until Friday There were rumors that there might result from the conference a gigantic steamship corporation backed by all the interested countries to insure raj e. regular and safe transHorta- tlou Between North and South Amer A was pointed out iwing the dis