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GayestWeek
i'm Bar HarbOr Society
Dinner and Luncheon Parties, Teas, Dances and Must
cals-Mrs John Jacob Astor to Appear in
Tableaux and Fancy Dress Ball.

for a party Of sixty. Mr. and Nr
Dave Hennen Morris, who have a,
house guests Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Gould
and Frank and Edwin Could, IT,, gays
a dinner party on Monday evening
Another interesting diversion will b.
the tableaux and fancy dress ball a,
the Building of Arts, next Tuesday
evening. Among those appearing in
the tableaux will be Mrs. John Jacob
Aston, Miss Bell Gurree. Miss Laura
Cass Garfield, Miss Alexandra Emery
Mrs. John T. Linzee, Albert Gsllatin'
Miss Matilda Bigelow, Herbert Peu.
jr., Ernesto Fabbri, Henry T. Legget.'
Maurice Fremont-Smith, John J. En-.
cry and Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Schellinr
Miss Jane Morgan, daughter Of J.
Pierpont Morgan, jr, arrived this week,
70 be the guest OF Miss Nargare,
Knapp. Subsequently she will visit her
grandmother, Mrs J. Pierpont Morgan.
AT jacques cottage. Miss Helen Hsmil.
ton. who is also with her grandmother,
will end her visit Wednesday. Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Lee Satterlee, who are
in San Francisco, will arrive az their
camp in September.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. DreXel Biddle. IT,,
are spending a week with Mr. and Mrs.
John Aspegren at the Dutch cottage
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernesto Fabbr are en-.
pertaining Mr.. and Mrs. Cortland,
Bishop. who arrived from Lenox By
motor. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Taft are
being congratulated on the arrival Of
a son, which has been named after his
grandfather, ex-President William
Howard Taft. II is the first grandchild
in the Taft family. Mrs Taft s
spending the summer with her mother,
Mrs. Lloyd Powers. She was loiret
thi. week BY Mr.. Taft.
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Bar Harbor, Me, Aug. l4.-This has
been the gayest week Of the season IN
Bar Harbor, with dinner and luncheon
parties. teas, dances and musicals sup
plementing the fixed programme. On
Tuesday night was the fete OF the
Swimming Club, with the dancers ar
rayed as Pierrots and Pierrettes. On
the same evening Mr.. and Mrs: Ernesto
Fabbri gave a fancy dress ball at Blu
on Riposo for their daughter, Miss IHe-
resa Fabbri, who will be a debutante
in New York next season. preceding
the dances dinner parties were gwen
BY Mr.. and Mrs Robert McCormlek'
ir., Mr.. and Mrs. R. Hall McCormic%
and Mrs. William p Draper.
Entertaining on Wednesday evening
were Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Draper;
who gave a dinner party for Mr.. and
Mrs. Preston Davie, of Tuxedo Park
their house guests. Mr.. Davie's mother,
Mrs. George VI. Davie, Of Louisville, Is
also at the Draper cottage.
The most important musical ofering
was the concert at the Building OF
Arts by Fritz Kreisler and Ernest
Schelling. who gave an entire pro-
gramme OF Beethoven numbers. Mrs.
Warner Mifflin Leeds was hostess al the
second chamber music recital OF ire
Schroeder Trio on Tuesday morning at
Greenway Court. A large audience
saw the production Of King Rene's
Daughter" at the Building of Arts on
Monday afternoon.
General Horace Porter and Mrs.
Gardiner sherman gave dinner parties
and Mrs. Henry Dortic was luncheon
hostess. A dinner dance was gwen oy
John Minturn at the Kebo Valley CLUB
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Newport, Aug. 14.-The Russian and
the French Red Gross have shared in
society's efforts to aid war sufferers
this week. There was a lecture for the
benefit of the Russian fund under the
auspices Of a big committee. headed by
Nine. Bakhmeteff, wife Of the Russian
Ambassador, and there was recital
for the benefit of wounded French SOL
diers at the home of Mrs. William K.
Vanderbilt, under the auspices Of the
committee which had a sale at the
Casino last week for the same cause.
Mrs. Vanderbilt, who is greatly inter
ested in the work in France, is occupy
ing the AgasSiz estate at Castle Hill,
and this recital was the first public
affair ever held at this estate SO far as
can he remembered
The week has been about the busiest
of the summer, ending to-day in the
busiest day of this or any past season
for long while. To say nothing of
various luncheon and dinner parties,
there was the wedding of Miss Mar
garet F. Andrews and Morgan Belmont,
which was naturally the attraction for
the younger set this afternoon, and the
Newport dog show was held on the
Griswold estate on upper Bellevue Ave
nue. during the day. The midsummer
flower show on the open lot opposite
Beaulieu, the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, closed this after
noon; there was golf match at the
Newport Golf Club and across the fields
a short distance. over on Bateman's
Point, at the Westchester Polo CLUB
grounds, the first match Of the New
port polo season was played.
Early IN the week the polo commit
tee. T. Sufrern Taller. Governor Beck
man, August Belmont, Eugene 5.
Reynal and Rudolph Agassiz, made the
announcement that the season would
open on Saturday, and that there would
be matches on every Wedne sday and
Saturday afternoons for several weeks.
Furthermore, il was announced that
some of the best teams that have been
playing in the Pier polo tournaments
would come here for these matches
that will be for the ThOrne, Newport,
Westchester ard other trophies, which
must be played for here If they are 10
be played az all.
The flower show this week was much
If social affair, and like ;he show Of
last summer given on Mrs. Belmont
Belcourt property. there were flower
girls and solo dancing as an added at
traction. The flower girls were the
Misses Elizabeth Sands, Muriel Win
throp, Marguerite Caperton, Alice Cor
don DreXel. Doris Fletcher. Marguerite
Shonts, Cornelia Barclay, Helen Rives,
Mildred Rlyes. Rhoda Fullam. Barbara
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Newp0rt's Busiest
Week for Seasons
Luncheon and Dinner Parties Belmont-Andrews We'd
ding, Dog and Flower Show and Polo Keep
Society on the Merry-Co-Round.

Rutherfurd, Ray Slater and Cathleen
Vanderbilt
Mrs. George d. Widener, who is Civ
ing her house warming party on next
Friday evening, has returned to Phila-
delphia for a few days, and Vincent
Aston has been in New York during the
week. The weeks guests have included
the Hon. Sylvia Moulton, Of London,
who has been the guest OF Mrs. Will
lam G. Weld, and Mr.. and Mrs. William
+. Hit, of Washington, who have ar
rived 70 spend two weeks with Mrs.
Robert r. Hit at the Moorings.
Mrs. William d. Draper mas already
made her plans for the fall. She is
giving a dinner on next Saturday even
ing at the Orchard, on Narragansett
summer, and also entertaining there
extensively. Mrs. Draper will remain
until the end of September, at which
time she and her daughter, Miss Mar
garet Preston Draper, will 20 to Hot
Springs for while, returning 10 their
Washington home in November for the
winter.
Mrs. Frederick W. Goodman, who is
still the guest of General and Mrs. j.
Fred Pierson, opened Gray Craig, her
Middletown estate this week, 70 give a
tea for her many Newport friends.
The week has been marked by one
late season rental and a newcomer TO the
Newport colony. Edward W. Rawson's
Ocean Avenue estate, Avalon, is the
place rented, 1t having been taken by
General LLOYD $. Bryce, of New York,
for the remainder of the summer. A
short distance away is the estate of
the late Mrs. c. c. Pomeroy, occupied
by Mr.. and Mrs. Philip A. Clark. to be
sold before the end OF the month
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tor of the Church of the Ascension,
West Brighton.
Miss Laura Z. Kerry, of West New
Brighton, was married to Henry r.
labelling, Of Brooklyn, last Friday
evening at the Dutch Reformed Church,
Port Richmond.
On Thursday afternoon a suffrage
school was held in the gymnasium at
the home of Mrs. william c. Wilcox,
Davis Avenue, Livingston, to instruct
women watchers at the polls. The class
was under the supervision of Mrs. Rob
ert Griffin, chairman of the political
committee of the Woman Suffrage
party. Members of the class were
Mrs. William G. Wilcox, Mrs. Frances
c. Brewer, Mrs. Arthur Holleck, Miss
Amy Blake, Mrs. Charles +. Simonson,
Miss G. Merritt, Miss Frederika Paulen,
Miss Jennie Heath, Mrs Edwin Mark
ham, Miss Claire Underhill, Mrs. Rus
sell Blocker, Miss Edith Chambers,
Mrs. F. L. Nelson, Hiss Josephine DAILY,
Mrs. Robert Butler, Miss Margaret
Peterson. Miss Pollard, Mrs Susan de
Hart, the Misses Brennan, Mrs. Otto
Kley, Miss Elizabeth Cranston. Miss
Alice Hunt, Mrs. Collier, Mrs. Donnelly,
Mrs. Heath, Miss NJ Stone, Mrs Ellis
worth, Mrs. Stafford, Miss Marian
Selby, Miss Currie, Mrs. Mercer P.
Moseley, Mrs. Theodore Luis, Miss
Luis, Mrs. Newbury, Mrs. Couner and
Mrs. B. A. Searle.
Mrs. John Pendleton, Of Pendleton
Place, who has been with relatives in
Boston, has returned to her home.
Miss Margaret Chambers, of Stuyve-
sart Place, New Brighton, who has been
spending the last month at Cape Cod,
has returned.
Mrs. George Hodges, of Plainfeld,
y. j., was the guest of her mother,
Mrs. William R. Russell, at her home
in the Country Club colony. Dongan
Hills. for a few DAYS last week.
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New London. Conn, Aug. l4.-The
next big golf match at the Shenecosse'V
Country Club will be the amateur
championship. 1t begins to-day. "A
championship gold medal will be given
for the low qualifying score and INC
Shenecossett Cup to the winner or 'he
hrst sixteen. The Griswold Cup VIII
go to the winner Of the second sixteen
and the Eastern Point Cup 70 the WIN
ner of the third sixteen.
The woman's August tournament
opened this week with q field OF tnir-
teen PLAYERS. Mrs. c. J. Ahearn. of Chi
eago, won the low qualifying rounG'
and in close competition were Mrs. f.
dc c. Sullivan, Miss Helen Bartholo-
new. Mrs. J. A. Philbrick, Mrs. William
knight, Mrs. F. L. Smith. Mrs. h. Rob
bins. Miss Davis, Mrs. Farmer, Miss y.
Gene Terry. Mrs. Peter Boyd. Mrs.
Harold Flammer and Miss May Miller.
Members of the Chinese commission
which is investigating submarine CON
struction at the Ship and Engine Com
many have been much sought after IN
the social life of the town. On Friday
Al. Stone gave q luncheon at the Grls-
void for Admiral Wei Han and his
friends.
An afternoon tea was given by Mrs.
Julius Fleischmann on the Whlriwind'
Her guests were Mrs. James l.. Morgan
of Brooklyn; Mrs. G. f. Fountain. Mrs
F. n. Sisson. Mrs. John Terry, of New
York: Mrs. Miller Outcault, of Cincin-
natl; Mrs. Byron Nugent Of St. LOUIS;
Mrs. W. L. Coe, Mrs. s. ". Clinton and
Miss NJ. McGrath.
The week of social life at Pequot be-
gan with dinner given by Mrs. William
Schall, jr.. at Rockbourne. On the same
evening Miss Frances Ogden Jones gave
a dinner and musical at Seward.
On Tuesday night Edmund c. Johns
ton gave a dinner party for Captain
and Mrs. Francis c. Harrington. Mr.,
and Mrs. William s Reyburn, Mr.. and
Mrs. ". Kyle Sheffield. Mr.. and Mrs
w. Ellery Allyn. Mr.. and Mrs. L. Tracey
Sheffield, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth 6. Nor
gan, Miss Isabella Moore, Miss Kate
Willis, Miss Marie Pondersan, Miss
Esther Scott, Mrs. Franklin Brewster
ir., Miss Elizabeth Harrison, Messrs
Charles E. Schall, Joseph Constedt
Robert and Havemeyer Butt and Franz
H. Chappell, jr
On the same evening Mr.. and Mrs
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Saratoga Has 5000
i'm Summer Colony
Track Breakfasts and Watching Workouts of Thor
oughbreds Popular-Six Thousand Expected
to Dance at the Charity Ball.

Richard T. Wilson, president Of the
Saratoga Racing Association; W. X
Vanderbilt, c. X. G. Billings, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Evans Roberts, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hartley J. Evans. Mrs. c. Gray Dins-
more, of New York; Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Disston, Philadelphia; Cnauncey
Olcott. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Colt, John
B. Kitchen, of Chicago; Howard P. Rem
shaw, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Lewlsohn,
+. Clarence Jones, Algernon Danger
field. Emil Winter, Pittsburgh, and Mr..
and Mrs. f JuGson Smyth, Of New
York.
Aside from the races the topic which
is absorbing the interest OF society
here is the charity ball 10 be given at
the Grand Union August Il. 1t is ex-
pected that fully 600 persons will dance.
The colony Of New Workers at the
Union has been increased by Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Graves, Mr.. and Mrs. r. II.
MAYNARD, Mrs Roland Redmond, Robert
Maxwell, II. Stuyvesant Dudley, Will
lam Maxwell, Mrs. B. ". Carstairs,
Samuel c. Van Dusen and Or. Richard
rockingham and Miss Gwendolyn
rockingham.
Conspicuous among the many box
parties at the track during the week
and those entertaining at the club
house were W. X. Vanderbilt, Harry
Payne Whitney, Mrs. c. Gray Dlns-
more, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard 7. Wilson,
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Belmont, Mr.. and
Mrs. Cornelius X. G. Billings, Mr.. and
Mrs. Chauncey Olcott, Mr.. and Mrs.
Clifford A. Cochran, Frederick II. Won
Stade, Roland w. Smith Mrs. Algernon
Daingerfeld. Mrs. Edward Hamilton
Hough. +. Clarence Jones, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Mckee, John G.. Page Mr.. and
Mrs. August Belmont, Mr.. and Mrs.
Russell Colt. Foxhall Keene, Roland w.
Smith and Schuyler /. Parsons, il.
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Weeks Social DOings
ON Staten Island

Mr.. and Mrs. John F. Smith, of Carey
Avenue, West New Brighton, took place
last Saturday evening at the Church Of
the Sacred Heart, in the presence of
the families and few friends. The
ceremony WAS performed by the Rev.
j. +. O'Neil, assistant pastor Of the
church The brides only attendant
was her sister. Miss Mary MacDougall,
and T. Franklin Hogan was the best
man.
The wedding Of Miss Mabel J. NJ
Grove, daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Thomas Grove, OF Taylor Street. West
Brighton, and John A. Hale, of Man
haitian, took place last Wednesday
evening at the home of the brides par
ents. The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. Canon Pascal Narrower, rec
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Mrs. Kinsley Twining, Of Dongan
Hills. gave a luncheon at her home last
Thursday in honor of Mrs. John !. Blair
Lsrned, of Globe, Ariz., who is spend
ing the summer with her parents, DR.:
and Mrs. William jenkins, Of Central
Avenue. Tompkinsville.
Mrs. James Guyon Clarke, I'd, gave a
luncheon last Wednesday at her home
in the Country Club colony Dongan
Hills. Some of those present were Mrs.
Kinsley Twning Mrs. Norman II. Dom
aid. Mrs. Charles J. Fay, Mrs. Alfred
Cove. Mrs. w. w. Peake. Mrs. Charles
King, jr., and Mrs Savage Frieze.
The marriage of Miss Helen Marie
MacDougall. daughter OF Mr.; ana Mrs
Richard MacDougall. OF Greenvlle.
n. ]. .ad Eugene Francis Smith. son Of
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Brooklyn Society

Miss Marie Ditmas Lott, daughter of
Mrs. jeremiah Lott, and Donald Nc
Cullough Hills are to De married Sep
TENDER IS, in the Old Dutch Church,
Flatbush. The Rev. DR.. John Elwy
Lloyd will perform the ceremony at
o'clock. As the bride is in mourning
for her father, invitations will be lin
tied TO relatives and the closest friends.
A small reception will be held at the
old Lott homestead, 900 Flatbush Ave
nue..
Miss Lott is graduate OF Berkeley
and "A member OF one of the oldest
Flatbush families. the first Jeremiah
Lott being one OF the earliest settlers
on Long Island. Her mother was Caro-
line Virginia Cortelyou.
Mr.. Hills is the son Of Mrs. Harry
Neville Hills, of Gambler, Ohio. His
engagement to Miss Lott was an
nounced two years ago.
The Wedding Of Miss Anita Living
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ston Lott and Russell V. Cruikshank,
whose engagement was announced last
| spring, is also expected TO take place
this fall
Wednesday will bring the wedding Of
Miss Elizabeth Patty Austin, daughter
of Mrs. Peter T. Austin and the late
! DR.. Austin, of S82 Union Street, and
Walter Miller. Grace Church, Manhat-
tan, will be the scene of the ceremony.
David Austin, one of the founders Of
the church, is a great-grandfather OF
the bride.
Miss Austin will have as her only
attendant Miss Mathilde Boos, who will
sing before the ceremony. DR.. Frank
Miller is to be the best man, and John
Ockerhausen and George +. Miller are
to be present as ushers. Andrew Miller,
another brother of the bridegroom, Will
play the wedding march.
OF interest to society in this bor-
ough will be the weddings of Mr. and
Mrs. William j. Battey's two sons, W.
Earle Battey and Donald +. Battey, in
early autumn. The Batteys lived for
many years at 500 St. Marks Avenue,
but recently removed TO New Rochelle.
, They are now at their summer home
at Watch Hill, r. |.
Miss Evelyn Macilister, of Engle-
wood, \. j., is Earle Battey's fancee,
and they are TO be married on Satur-
day, October 9. Wednesday, Septem-
Der 49, is the date set for the wedding
of Miss Muriel Crawford, of New Ro-
chele, and Donald Battey.
Announcement is made of the en-
gagement of Miss Margaret Grace
Mclaughlin and Clifford W Blackwell.
/ Miss Mclaughlin lives with her grand
mother, Mrs. Pauline Mclaughlin, at
j0i Fourth Street. She is a grandniece
Ct the late Mrs. Hugh Mclaughlin,
widow of the Brooklyn Democratic
leader
Mr.. Blackwell is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis E. Blackwell, of 1873 Ber-
kelley Place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel E. Hunter, Of
sos Second Street, announce the en-
gagement OF their daughter, Miss Mil
dred Bell Hunter, to Richard Steele
Southgate, of Chicago, son of Judge F.
/ c. Southgate of Woodstock, VT
/ DR.. and Mrs. Frederick 3. Keppy, of
| 90 Hancock Street, and Bayport, Long
/ Island, announce the engagement Of
( their daughter. Miss Alice Keppy, TO
/ Harry Tompkins, son of Mrs. A. r.
Tompkins, OF % Willow Street.
DR.. and Mrs. Marshall Lord Warrin,
of Flushing and Amsgansett, Long
Island, announce the engagement Of
their daughter, Miss Dorothy Holt
Warrin, 70 Leonard Hatch, OF Boston.
Incidental TO the wedding Of Miss
Clara Whittlesley and Welles Eddy, At
Sea Gate last Thursday, there was a
great deal of entertaining. Mrs. How
ard Sidney Downs. mother Of the bride,
gave large dinner dance at the Al.
lantic Yacht Club on Wednesday even
ing for the bridal party, who were also
house guests for the three DAYS pre-
ceding the wedding. Mrs. Edward
Irving Graf also entertained for Miss
Whittlesley.
Mrs. John E. Tdusey will spend the
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Agnes Mueller, registered during the
week for a fortnight's stay, and will be
Joined by Mr.. Mueller. Miss Nae Kin
der and Miss Madelaine Miller are
among the Washington visitors az the
Shelburne. Mrs. G. J. Mcklndry and
Mrs. James Conklin are Boston So
journers, and Los Angeles IS repre-
Sented by Mr. and Mrs. II. 5. Levine
and their baby daughter. Mrs. Edward
H. Eplee, Miss VI. Z. Young and Mrs.
Dora Hunter were among the weeks
arrivals from the Quaker City. A. F..
Games and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Tuttls
Joined the Chicago colony az the Shell
burne, and Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Caspar
are among the Pittsburgh visitors.
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BRIGHTON Beach

Mr.. and Mrs. W. II. Blackburn, Of
Brooklyn. have taken apartments at the
Sheburne. Mrs. Frank Mueller, Of
Newark. \. j., with her daughter. Miss
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Miss Cornelius Cousins has left
Westhampton Beach for short visit
at New London, Conn.
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Mrs. Susan H. Crane and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Owen Neil Brown, will be at
the Red Lion Inn, Warwick, \. Y, until
the middle of September.
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Judge and Mrs. Albert F. jerks and
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas o. Calendar and
Miss Ruth Calendar are at White Sui
phur Springs, W. Va.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred T. White arc at
the Fort William Henry Hotel at Lake
George.
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remainder of the summer at the Lake
Nohonk Mountain House.
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Mrs. John E. Tdusey will spend tn,
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Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel E. Hunter, OF
sos Second Street, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter. Miss Mil
bred Bell Hunter, to Richard Steele
Southgate, of Chicago, son OF Judge F.
Z. Southgate. Of Woodstock, VI.
The Washington times., 1915-03-20
Washington Included
In Tennis Proposal

NEW YORK, March 20.-A meeting of
the executive committee of the United
States Lawn Tennis Association was
held yesterday at the Waldorf-Astoria.
and although no official announcement
of the business transacted will be made
until later 1t was learned that
chief among the matters decided was
the question of the restriction OF the
entries for the national championship.
1t was proposed to make some sort OF
restriction in order to keep out of the
national championship at the West Side
courts many players of known inferi-
ority who would be likely to enter. but
this proposal was voted down and the
tourney will be open to all corners as
In the past thus continuing to live up
literally to its time honored name
Another proposal that met with de-
feat was the plan to create a Middle
States section for doubles players. The
new section was to consist OF New
York, NewS Jersey. PENNSYLVANIA. Della
ware, Maryland and the District of Co
lumbia and IL the plan had gone through
the East would have been represented
by two teams in the later rounds for
the doubles title. AS the scheme was
disapproved by the committee there will
be only one Eastern team this year.
1t was decided. however, to try out a
new Western section.
The Washington times., 1915-03-20
BETHLEHEM STEEL
, CONTINUES TO SOAR
Gains a 3-8 Points, Dut to Re.
ports OF 81 Per Cent Earning
on Common Stock.

NEW YORK, March 2O.-rhe stock
market today enjoyed the best Saturday y
trading for months.
While, as on yesterday the greatest
activity centered I'm Bethlehem Steel
and the copper group, the strength OF
standard issues gave the market good
breadth, and increased the volume ma
terially.
Bethlehem Steel. which advanced S
full points yesterday. continued its sem
satlonal upward trend by selling at 67Js
6oR. Ihere were reports that the COM
pany would show 81 per cent earned on
the common stock, which is now a non-
dividend paying issue.
The bulk of the trading was in the
industrials and specialties Goodrich
Company's stock sold up 2h points to
81. and u. s. Rubber registered a gain
Of ~ points at SO.
General Motors was again quite active
and advanced 2 points to 104, but closed
fractionally below the high.
The Bank of the Americas, with capi-
tai of $5,00O,O0O, is being formed in
this city for the sole purpose OF fi-
nancing commercial operations between
south and Central American countries
and the United States a substantial
part OF the funds necessary for starting
business has been subscribed by private
bankers and exporters Interested in
.ooutn american tr20e, ana English cap
ital Is understood to be ready for call
when needed
The sponsors for the new bank are
headed by o. n. Fuerth, chairman Of
the Ethelburga Syndicate. Limited, who
placed S1O.0O0.0O0 loan for Uruguay
in London just before the war began,
and who has been instrumental in rails
Ing funds for other South American
countries. Mr.. Fuerth Is a s,ockholder
OF the Commercial Bank of Spanish
America, and through his suggestion
holders Of a majority of the CONNER
cial Banks shares have voted to sell
their business TO the Bank of the Amer
iCas.
The Commercial Banks headquarters
are in London, with branches at Guaya-
gull. Caracas, Managua and Iquitos and
agencies in Guatemala City and In
Costa Rica. 1t has an office in Paris
and one i'm this city at 20 Broad street
Two plans are under consideration, il
is learned, for the transfer OF the bust
ness and branch office of the CONNER
cial Bank to the new institution. Stock
holders OF the former have agreed to
accept payment for their stock in the
shape of shares of the Bank of the
Americas up to so per cent of the par
value of their holdings and the balance
in cash. Mr. Fuerth and his associates
are debating whether to conclude this
or to form a holding COM
pany to be known as the Corporation of
the Americas which will buy the shares
of the Bank Of the Americas and
interest in the Commercial
Bank.