The Washington times., 1916-09-28
SOCIETY RETURNING
l0IHE.C CAPITAL FOR
GAYWlNTER SEASON
Ranks Of Resident and Diplo-
matte Sets Are Being Rap
Idly Filled. +.
AUTUMN WEDDINGS PLANNED
Army Activity. Responsible for
Changes. IN Military Set.
Many Officials Away.

A dispatch from Ecuador announces
that Or. Rafael H. Biizaide. secretary
of,foreign Affairs In the recent cabinet,
has been appointed minister OF Ecuador
I'M the United States to succeed DR..
Don Gonzaio 8. !Cardoya. The legation
has Been establshed for some time at
CO.. Riverside drive. New York.
The marriage Of Miss Virginia Lyle
Gardner. daughter OF Louis Fillmore
Gardner, OF the Ethelhurst. to Winte-
mute William Sloan will be solemnized
this evening at o'clock at the Rocham-
beau.f where The brides aunt, Mrs.
Frank Duehay. makes her home. Mr.
Sloan q formerly from Buffalo, but
nsT s sss ns h0 % :. by
the Rev. Dr., w. r. wedderspoon, pas
tor OF, Foundry M. E. Church. Miss
Beth Waterman, Of New York. and
viii be bridesmaids; the best man will
be DR. Everett M. Ellison, and Robert
Emerson Greer will serve as master of
ceremonies.
Reception to Follow.
A reception will follow the ceremony.
at which the bridal party will be as
sisted In receiving by the brides faith
or, william J. Sloan, Of Buffalo, parent
Of the bridegroom; Mrs: Duehay. Mrs.
Thomas Gardner, and Mrs. Abner A.
Upon their return from their wedding
trip, Mr., and Mrs. Sloan will make their
homo at the Cecil. Among the out-of-
town gusts at the wedding will be Mrs
Reed, OF Philadelphia: Mr.. and Mrs
ooshorn and their family. also of Phila-
delphia; Mr.. and Mrs. William Davis, of
Bethayres. Pa. and Mrs. Lester Stevens,
of Baltimore.
Franklin d. Roosevelt. Assistant Sec
rotary of the Navy, left Washington
last night to Join Mrs. Roosevelt and
their children In Eastport. Me-, where
mer.. He will return to WASHINGTON on
October L. Mrs. Roosevelt will remain
In anime until about November l. :,
Secretary of Commerce Redfield en-
tsrtained four guests at luncheon yes
terday In the rose room Of the Shore
Several members of washington's dip
lomatic colony lunched at the Shore
ham yesterday. among them Count J. A. a;
tho Netherlands legation; DR.. George
N! Poulieff. first secretary Of the Bull
garfan legation. and Hfrosh Saito. third
secretary of the Japanese embassy.
. Back From Connecticut. ,}
Mrs. Frederic r. Harris has returned
to washington from Fairfield. Conn.,.
where she had bungalow for the sum-
mer months, and has Joined Rear Ad-
miral Harris at their residence 234O
Massachusetts, avenue. Mrs. Harris ex-
poets to go to New York about october
b on a shopping expedition.
Mrs. James f. Mitchell will reach
washington about October 16 from Bar
Harbor, where she and DR.. Mitchell and
their children have had a cottage IoI
the summer. DR.. Mitcheh ID que NOME
next week.
Major Edgar r. Schriener, who hai
been In Washington on a month
ment, the Fifth Cavalry. In Mexico.
Mrs. Rober. U. patterson. wife o.
MsD5 m .sSnto c EsS an sPe P1ros I'll
Vile, Va, returned to Washington
on September /. She is now at tn,
Walter Reed Hospital, where she hal
been for a fortnight. She is improg'
Mrs. Menoher's Guests Depart.
Mrs. Charles T. Menoher. wife o.
Colonel Menoher. U. s. A.. had al
her guests early In the week mel
parents, Chaplain and Mrs. w. H
Pearson. of Asheville, N. c., who ART
now visiting another daughter. Mrs
A. G. Norton, of 95 Rockland avenue
Yonkers, N. Y. From Yonkers the!
will go to Canton, Ohio. to stay will
their daughter. Mrs. George w
Mrs. Menoher's youngest sister
Miss Esther Pearson, who was ais,
her guest this week, left Washing
ton for Syracuse, N. Y, where sh,
will complete a course this year a
the Syracuse University.
Mrs. Menoher will leave Fort Mye
at the end Of October to join Colone
Menoher in Ell Paso.
Mr.. and Mrs, Raymond Hardy, VIII
were at the willard for several days
have taken an apartment at the Earring
ton. Mrs. Hardy was formerly Mis-
Anne T. Taggart. Her marriage to Nj
Hardy took place on September q
Col. snd Mrs BENJAMIN Reeves Fus
sell returned to Washington yesterda
from Sea Girt, where they occupied thei
cottage all summer.
Major George C. Thorpe, U. g. hM. G
and Mrs. Thorpe closed their house 1
Newport yesterday. and started for thei
home In this city.