The Washington times., 1915-07-31
HAPPENINGS Of DAY
IN CAPITAL SOCIETY
Items of Interest AID I'M
portance of Past, Present,
and Future Among Official
and Fashionable Folk.

The Secretary Of Agriculture. David
Franklin Houston. left Washington yes
terdav to Join Mrs. Houston at their |
cottage at Woods Hole. Mass. where l
he will remain about month. The
usual weekend exodus Of the few Cabi-
let folk remaining in the city Will not
take place today. The Secretary of
state and Mrs. Robert Lansing will re-
main quietly at home. as will the Secre-
tary of the Interior and Mrs. Franklin
X. Lane.
The Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
and Mrs. Carl Vrooman are at Charlie
voix. NJ ch.. where Mrs. Vrooman VIII
stay until fall Mr. N:ooman expects
to return to Washington about Au-
gust 10.
Frederick Delano. of the Federal re-
serve board. left Washington last night
for New York. where he. with mis-
daughters. hiiss Louise Delano and
Miss Laura Delano. will sail today for
talfornla via the Panama canal. After
lengthy STAYS at the two exposItions.
thev will v,sit all the national parks
in the West. Mrs. Delano mas gone ~
Maine to remain about SIX weeks.
.H. s.
James Harman left Washington to-
day to JOIN his wife at their summer
home at Lake chaplain. n. y.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Robey will en-
teri ain at reception this evening In
their apartment at the Picrpont in
celebration of the fifteenth anniversary
or their marriage. The house Will be
gay with palms, ferns. and cut flowers,
and the numerous bouquets sent the
bride and BRIDEGROOM OF fifteen years
ago will have prominent place In the
decorations There will be music dur
ing the evening.
Invitations have been issued to more
than 20O guests Mrs. Robey will be
assisted in receiving by her sister Mrs.
Robey was Miss Edna Coale before her
marriage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, jr..
were among the guests at the ball at
Southampton last night held under
large marquee on the grounds OF the
Meadow Brook Club for the benefit Of
the Southampton Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Fitch shepard
and their daughter, Miss Alice Shepard.
and Mrs, Richard Whitley. VINO arc
spending the summer at their cottage
at jamestown. r. l.. lunched yesterday
at the Massasoit a! Narrasanse't Pier
gave a luncheon at the Poplars in
Lenox yesterday for members of the
I auStTO- hungarian embassy Stal1 ana a
few Lenox friends. DIR. and Mrs.
Dumba have as house guests. Prince
Won HatZfcldt TraChenberg. counsellor
of the German embassy; Capt Franz
| Won papen. its military attache, and
the Hon. Alexander Won Nuber. Aus
| trian consul general in New York.
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! John II. Hanna. OF this city, enter
tained informally at dinner at the Man
haitian Hotel In New York last evening.
John r. Mclean, who Is at Nara
gansett Pier, presented the automobile
which rh is to be one Of the prizes at the the
Marble House at Newport
-
Russian Ambassador and Nine. kakh-
| meter. the Spanish Amba ssador and
Sonora bona de Riano: Lieut.. Col. Muir
rough O'Brien and Mrs. O'Brien. Mr..
and George PEABODY tiustis, Rev and
Mrs Herbert Shipman. Miss Marguerite
Caperton. Joseph Loris-Nelokof, Baron
/ Remand D'Ungern SternDerG and Lieu
tenant fedoton. of the Russian en-
bassy: Lieut.. Charles Belknap. lr.:
Lieut. Commander John c. Fremont
DR.. George Boiling Lee. Commander
William V. Pratt, Lieut.. Halsey Powell
and Paymas,er George w. Pigman. Jr.
L. S. N; DR.. Hamilton Rice. of BoS-
ton, and Princes Pierre and faul Trou-
| betZkoy were some OF the guests at
the housewarming which Mr.. and Mrs
Stuart Duncan gave last night at Bon
ME Crest. their new Tudor mansion
on Halidon Hill Newport. 1t was the
largest dinner followed by dancing IN
the recent records of Newport social
life. The dinner guests numbered
about two hundred. while about two
hundred more arrived at II o'clock Tor
the dancing and supper.
Mr. and Mrs. Meyer l.. Lazerow an
nounce the marriage of their daughter.
Miss Rose Lazerow, to Benjamin NJ.
more. Md. Mr.. and Mrs. Madden will
be. at home at the Seminole apart
ment. liif w street. after August 90.
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The First Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral and Mrs. Daniel c. Roper an
nounce the engagement Of their daugh-
ter. Miss May Roper to David r.
Coker, Of Hartsville. S. C.
Officers stationed in and near New
port gave farewell reception and
dance at Fort Adams last night for
Colonel and Mrs George f. Landers
who take their departure August 4 for
Washington. where Colonel Landers
goes to the Army War College, Pre-
vious to the reception, Capt and Mrs
Hugh ]. b. McElgin rendered Colone
and Mrs. Landers a supper.