The Washington herald., 1917-10-30
Veus OF Interest to the Women Readers of The Herald
Executive Box at the New National
Occupied By White House Party

nLLe house FQTLy
Cross Hospital at Neuilly as nurses;
Mr.. Gustave Vanderpol and Mr..
George Sharp. son OF the Ambassa-
dor. Mr.. Sharp acted as best man.
The bridegroom could not leave his
duties at the embassy to come home
to be married, and the ceremony was
arranged suddenly, while the bride
was still abroad. Miss Upton sailed
few days after the wedding for
home.
Rear Admiral ond Mrs. Edward II.
Gheen and their daughter, Miss Flor
ence Gheen, have returned to Wash
| ington from Chelsea. N. j., where
they spent the summer, and have
opened their house, 1919 New Hamp-
Mary Monfort Gheen, their younger
daughter. will join them shortly.
Admiral and Mrs. Gheen have re-
Gently had as their guest the formers
nephew and niece, Lieut. Phillip
Brooks Robinson. U. 8. NJ c., and
Mrs. Robinson. Lieut.. Robinson 4,
stationed at Quantico.
1 Odpl- Dcuy I1dll. NOdSL
U. s. A, and Mrs. Hall are receiving
congratulations at their home in the
Panama Canal Zone on the birth of
a daughter, Marjorie Dean, on October
i Il, at the Ancon Hospital. The baby
is the granddaughter OF Col. John
Dean Hall, Medical Corps. u. S. A,
and Mrs. Hall. of Washington. and OF
Maj. Vance Lauderdale. Medical
| Farms II a PrnnkINyr, N
Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton Boykin Can
| tey, OF Jamaica, Long Island. an
nounce the engagement OF their daugh-
ter. Miss Rose MCGOWAN Cantey. to
Lieut.. Millard G. Gamble. jr., u. S,
N. Miss Cantey Is a granddaughter
of the late Maj. E. B. Cantey. of Cam
| den, S. c., and the late Capt. Homer
L MCGOWAN, of Lsprens, S. c., and
! is niece of Paymaster Gen. Samuel
MCGOWAN, U. s. N, of Washington,
\ Lieut. Gamble Is a son of Mr.. and Mrs
NJ. G. Gamble, Of Louisville, Ga. and
is a graduate Of Annapolis, class OF
1915.
Mrs. Henry F. Dimock's ball room
last evening was the meeting place
III q AoA DC VI AlCil
/ and women, called there to hear the
lecture, America in Arms" deliv-
cred by Mr.. S. Richard Fuller for
the benefit of worsted fund OF the
Women's Committee, who are knit.
ting for the soldiers and others OF
| the engineers. Notable in the large
! audience were Judge and Mrs. Charles
B. Howry. DR.. and Mrs. Jenkins
Mrs Z ~rh Me-
F. Dennis, Miss Sheriff. and Mrs
Fenton
Mrs. William NJ Black, Mrs. w
| w. Harts, Mrs. Charles Keller and
Mrs W. D. Conner. officers of the
committee, assisted by Mrs. Dimock
| were hostesses for the event.
The object OF the committee Is to
see that no engineer soldier leaves
/ this country without proper knitted
\ garments and to send garments tc
those already over. There are more
than 10000 engineer soldiers in this
amy. and the Washington committee
! forms the headquarters for units to
be formed all over the country for
yarn fund and knitted articles. The
membership Is 81 year and the
work already done by this-almost
i
is wonderful.
Mr.. George ". Norris. farm loan
! commissioner. and Mrs. Norris, have
| leased the residence of Col and Mrs
John r. Williams, 1872 r street rol
4 the season and will take possession
about November Is. Col. and Mrs
! Williams have taken an apartment
| at the corner OF Sixteenth and P
street. pending the completion Of their
| new home on Massachusetts, avenue
extended.
Mrs. John Ballentine Pitney, whU
with her infant son, has been the
guests Of her parents. Col and Mrs
Williams at their r street house, will
this week, join Lieut.. Pitney at their
| quarters at Fort Myer. The baby
will be christened John, for his father
and his two grandfathers.
Mrs. Lansing has contributed $50
( to the Washington ward of the Amer
ican Hospital at Neuilly. France, for
the State Department workers. The
| work being carried on in Bancroft
house by Mrs. Lansing and the
women of the State Department is
vitality interesting. and the interests
OF their work rooms are secondary to
| no other interests OF their existence
/ just now. As soon as the clerks leave
the State Department there Is great
scurrying for Bancroft house to either
! deliver the work they have finished
or take on new pieces to make.
Mrs. James H. Watmough will leave
Washington today to be the guest for
! few days of her cousin, Mrs. Arthur
| Hepburn, at her summer home neal
Cumberland, Md. Upon her return
I she will take possession Of the apart.
( ment at 2400 Sixteenth street she ha.
taken for the winter. Mrs. Wat.
mough's residence. PA Wyoming