Evening star., 1915-12-31
Ambassador and Nine. Suarez
Receive at 18th Street
Home.
FUNCTION is FOLLOWED
BY ROUND OF DINNERS
Members Of Pan-American Scientific
Congress Entertained Lavishly by
Washington Society.

| One OF the largest and most brilliant
afternoon receptions given in honor of
the delegates of the Pan-American Con-
| gress was that held yesterday after
noon a the Chilean embassy, when the
| amba ssador and Nine. Suarez- -Mujica
| threw open their handsome homo on
| 18th street.
This function was followed by a round
Of dinners, most Of the dinner COM
panies going on later to the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas F. Gaff. where
they were entertained at another re-
ception, equally as brilliant as the
afternoon function at the Chilean en-
| bassy.
Today's program was not quite so
full as that of yesterdays and preced-
ing days, but was quite as interesting
and had some features which onered
variety, such, for instance, as the gala
performance at the National Theater.
where the delegates were honor guests
at the play.
Embassy Beautifully Decorated.
Sixteenth street for a block or two
was filled yesterday with carriages and
motor cars parked about the Chilean
| embassy, where the -four hundred OF
Washington assembled to meet the rep
resentatives of the Pan-American Con-
gress, and the big embassy mansion
never looked lovelier than yesterday,
when American beauty roses, k1llar.
neys and ferns and other flowers ana
plants lent a festive air to the very
handsome furnishings, which include,
besides the usual bric-a- -brac, some
| wonderfully fine oil paintings, which
were topic of admiration with many
guests.
Strains of seductive music greeted
the ear on ascending the broad stair
way. and at the entrance of the front
drawing room one was greeted by NINE
SuraezMujica, who had standing next
her Mrs Lansing, wife of the Secretary
of State, who in turn had at her left
hand the ambassador.
The hostess was handsomely gowned
in a toilet of cuire-colored silk COM
| bined with blue velvet, elaborately en-
| broidered, and about the throat and
| corsage an establishment of creamy
| lace.
Chileans Delightful Hosts.
Gentlemen of the embassy staff and
| those of the congress from Chile made
themselves responsible for the enter
| tainment of the many guests, escort
| ing them personally to the dining room
and seeing that they were served with
| refreshments and otherwise making
| themselves agreeable in a manner truly
hospitable.
| Presiding at the elaborately decorat-
| ed table were the ladies of the en-
| bassy personnel, including Sonora de
| Cuevas. Sonora de Dittborn, Sonora de
! Ewing. Sonora de Leon. while presid
! ing at a small table where coffee was
| served was Sonora Yanes. who Is the
head Of the woman's committee of en-
| tertainment
leaI viz "a
, many of the guests rushed back to
their hotels to dress for the various
dinner parties awaiting them
Among the hosts and hostesses of the
evening were the Assistant Secretary
/ of State and Mrs: Phillips. the Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
! Roosevelt, Representative and Mrs.
| Thomas Dunn, Mrs. John 3. Hender-
/ son, Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew J. Peters.
Mrs Samuel Spencer and Mr. and Mrs.
| George Peabody Eustis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Phillips Dinner.
Dining with Assistant Secretary and
Mrs. Phillips were the Chilean ambas-
sador, Senor Suarez-Mujica: the Cuban
Minister and Sonora de Cespedes, the
| Postmaster General and Mrs. Burleson,
| DR.. Eduardo Pinto. the Miles. Pinto, DIR.
Outs Baralt. Senior r. J. Duron, DR..
| Perisco Judge and Mrs. Sidney Ballou,
! Mrs. Robert Bacon, Mrs. r. c. Boiling,
| Miss Lansing, sister of the Secretary
Judge George Gray of Delaware and
Mr.. William Walker Smith of the State
Department.
! Assistant Secretary and Mrs. Roose-
welt entertained NJ. Thomas B. Varela.
| DIR. Ricardo Sarmiento Laspuir, NJ.
| lose Maria Galvez. DIR. DIEGO Martinez,
| Mile. Teresa Martinez, Mile. IIanneburg,
DR.. Juan Guiteras. Dr. Manuel Gambio.
| DR.. Justo Gonzales and Mile. Gonzales.
Dining with Representative and Mrs.
| Dunn were Dr. Noises Fietes. DIR. Con-
| stant Lurquis, NJ. Ernesto Nelson, Mr.
| Luis Landa, DR.. and Nine. Pello, NJ.
| Ricardo Goybura, Nine. Carmen Pinel-
| los. DIR. Bernardo Etchepore, DIR. Charles
a. Belliure. Mr. Charles Chandler. Miss
Agnes Bake Poor, NJ. Francisco Yanes,
Assistant Director General Of the Pan
| American Union and Nine. Yanes.
Mann. Judge and Mrs. Charles Howry,
| Miss Flora Wilson, daughter of the
| former Secretary Of Agriculture; Miss
| Frances Dunn. Miss Louise Lacey and
| Mr.. Horace Newcomb of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Henderson Entertains.
| Mrs John b. Henderson, who has a
| reputation for being one of the most
hospitable hostesses of Washin gton.
and who already had given several
dinners in compliment to the visiting
| delegates, entertained again last night,
having among her guests DR.. Babala,
| DR.. Reciles. Col. Bengorchen. DIR. Mou-
| techa, Dr. Bunges and DR.. Martin of
| Argentina, Mr.. Ayala, Dr. Biblabon and
! Mr. Angelo of Cuba, DR. Mejia and Dr.
| Cambovalo OF Colombia. Senator and
| Mrs Cummins, Senator and Mrs. George
| Sutherland. Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore
Moves. Col Charles Page Bryan, Mrs
! J. Hamilton Lewis, Gen. William e.
Gorgas. surgeon general T. S. A., and
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Atherton.
| Dining with Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
Peters were Mrs. Lansing. Mrs. Andrew
j. Peters. sr.; Mrs. Wadsworth, Miss
Sheridan, Mrs, Elsie Clews Parsons,
| Miss Tone, Gov. and Mrs. Charles S.
! Hamlin, Mrs. Charles r. Crane
Mr. Arnold Robertson of the
British embassy, Assistant Attorney
! General Wallace and Assistant Secre-
| tary of the Treasury William P NAL
burn, who were invited to meet the
visiting strangers, who included DIR.
| Constantine E. Mcclure. DR.. Gillermo
Campos of Honduras. DIR. Daniel Ar
mandt of Fresno. Chile; DIR. Francisco
Reynado of Santo Domingo. Senior To-
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