The Washington herald., 1915-07-09

The Secretary of State and Mrs.
Lansing were the guests OF honor
last evening at a dinner given by
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Letter at the
the Palisades, their country place on
the Potomac.
DR.. Charles D. walcott, secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution; Mrs.
walcott and Miss Helen Walcott. are
now in camp near Fort Yellowstone.
Wyo. Later they will visit the Pa
ci1c coast, attending the expositfons
and returning East via the Grand
Canyon. Mrs. Walcott has been es-
pecially successful as a scenic pho
tographer. and hopes to secure many
interesting views while in the West.
Mrs Ashton G. Clapham will leave
Washington today or tomorrow for
Monterey, Pa. where she will re-
main for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Drexel BiddIe.
Sulphur Springs, w. Va, to the home
of Mrs. Biddle's parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Benjamin N. Duke. at Great
Neck. L. I. Later they will go to
Ventnor. n. j.. to spend part of the
summer with Mr.. Biddle's parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony ]. Drexel-Bid-
die.
DR.. Carlos A. Meza. secretary of
the legation of Salvador, has gone
to San Francisco for the summer.
Miss Helen McCumber is at Cape
May. N. j., where she is the guest
of friends.
DR.. DeCamp Stanley and Mr.. Wal
ter w. Boyd. of this city. are at the
wolcott Hotel in New York. where
they will be Joined in a few days
then go to Mt. Kineo, Me-. where
they will spend the summer.
Mr.. Charles s. Hamlin. chairman
of the Federal Reserve Board. en-
tertained at luncheon at the Willard
yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Albert Pate have
issued invitations for the marriage of
their daughter. Miss Ethel May Pate.
and Mr.. James Hampton Jones. at 2:s0
O'Clock on July "a at 1.-The Forest" their
summer home. near Bethesda.
An interesting wedding will take place
in Reading. Mass. tomorrow. when Miss
Etnel Augusta LOOK, Odushter VI WI.
and Mrs. Cornelius c. Cook. of Pittsfeld.
Mass, will be married to Mr.. Samuel
Atkins Eliot, grandson of DR.. Charles
w. Eliot, president emeritus Of Harvard
University.
Miss Cook Is editor Of the Story Teller
Magazine and has been associated with
the Ladies' World Magazine. Mr.. Eliot
is a Harvard graduate. studied art and
the drama in Germany. and at present
is associated with Winthrop Ames. Of
New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodbury. Blair will go
to Newport shortly to spend the summer.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. F. F. Fletcher
will be the guests of honor at lawn
reception which Rear Admiral and Mrs.
French E. Chadwick will give on the
afternoon of July IS at their summer
home. Oakwood Terrace. Newport. Mrs.
Montgomery NJ. Macomb. Mrs. Roger
Wells, Mrs. William Grosvenor and Mrs.
F. S. Grand d'Hauteville will assist in
receiving the guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Whiteford will
leave Washington today by automobile
for whiteford. Nd, where they will be
the guests Of Mr.. whiteford's father.
Mr. Joseph s. Whiteford.
Mrs. NJ. l. Weller. of 4os Seward square.
Capitol Hill. accompanied by her grand
daughter. Miss Mary Weller Mccarthy.
left Monday evening for Oakland, Cal.
for a few months visit.
Nine. Dumba. wife Of the Austrian Am
bassador, will entertain at luncheon this
afternoon at the Poplars, in Lenox. Mass
Mrs. Charles B. Young has opened her
cottage at White Sulphur Springs for the
season.
Mr.. and Mrs George Wilson Silsby have
the engagement Of their
daughter. Florence Larrabee. to Lieut.
George Lamberton Smith, U. s. A., son