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The Washington times., 1917-03-11
American Women I'm Colony
Had Really Wonderful Time.

These various excitements came as
the climax to an interesting winter
Indeed, Frances rates Santo Domingo
high as a winter resort. The Hin
camps procured quite a charming
house. overlooking the sea! with a
lovely garden filled with orange and
lime trees; and boasted that they grew
their own alligator pears and orchids.
They used to slip down to the sea
for an early morning dip, and for
recreation there was tennis, horse
back riding-and one could purchase a
really excellent mount for SEQ
dancing and all manner of pleasant
diversions.
There were forty-One officers on the
various ships. SO the twelve American
women. mostly young married women.
who were keeping house for husbands
or brothers, were at a premium and
had a really wonderful time. They
got up a polo team. these girls, and
used to have weekly matches with
the officers team. They arranged a
dance club, which met weekly at the
American legation. at the consulate or
at the Hinkamp's house, and they
stirred up no end of amusing things.
Dave Barry Hieut. David Barry. L..
s NJ. c., and his bride were among
the members of the little colony whom
you know also Col and Mrs. Jim
BOotes, who used to be stationed in
Washington, and Lieut.. John Iseman
who was on duty aboard the Hancock,
and used to put into Santo Domingo
frequently. / understand. by the way.
that Lieutenant Iseman recently has
been detached from the Hancock and
is coming back to Washington tempo
rarily.
Frances Hinkamp. who is now
staying with her parents, the Ben
deMier Millers, expects to be here only
a few days and then will be OFF for a
series of visits while her husband is
at sea. She will stay with Ann
Darsie in Pittsburgh, for a little
while. later making a visit to Cleve-
land and to Lieutenant Hinkamp's
family In Milwaukee, returning to
The Washington times., 1917-03-11
STAG FOR NEWsPAPERMEN
Parkvlew Citizens Association to
Be Host Tuesday.

The Park View Citizens Associa-
tion will be host to Washington news
paper men at a stag party" in Park
View School assembly room Tuesday
evening. District Commissioners
Oliver p. Newman and Louis Brown
low and Major Raymond w. Pullman,
superintendent of police, all one7time
toilers in the newspaper field, will be
honor guests.
The program will include addresses
by Fred A Walker. Ira E. Bennett,
G. A. Lyon, and l.. NJ. Bell, represent
ing Washington newspapers; a chalk
talk by Herbert Murray, and music
by the Park. View Orchestra and a
mais quartet.
The entertainment committee is
headed by Edward Ward. A COM
mittee from the Women's Senior
Dancing Club Of the Park View Com
munity Center will serve refresh
ments.
The annual election of officers will
precede the program.
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justices and Cabinet Members
Take JOstIInE Good NaturedIy.


The crowd, expecting the President
to return to the Capitol by the red
carpeted aisle by which he had
emerged, serged forward to get a good
look at him. Instead of which he dis
appeared apparently through a hole in
the floor (really he made his way
down a small stair at the 'front.' to his
carriage and four" in which he was
driven to the White House. And then
the guards, thinking their RESPONSE
biIities at an end, left the dignified
gentlemen of the Supreme Court and
the diplomats and Cabinet members
to get out as best they could.
The Justices took IL good naturedly,
although their robes were almost
torn from them and their caps tilted
at a rakish angle; the Cabinet is in
clined to be democratic and never re-
sents q little SHOWN, but the dtpIo-
mats looked rather like thunder
clouds. The Russian Ambassador
and Nine. Bakhmeteff-the latter
swathed in a wonderful sable coat
happened to be in the lead coming
out and got the brunt OF the jostIing,
and as a big ranchman from Nebraska
remarked-wondering why they
didn't look exactly pleased" 1t was
a funny ten minutes. The crowd was
entirely good natured. II did not in
tend any offense, nor did IL dream
any would be taken. Neither did II
dream that the occasion, once the
President had departed, still called for
ceremony.
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Mile. Cora de WiIhoEst to
Repeat Delightful Frepch Talks.

Mile. Cora de Wilhorst will repeat
this Lent the very delightful series OF
French talks she gave last year at the
Washington Club. should say rather
that she will give a similar series, for
each lecture is original and different
from her talks OF last year The
Washington Club will again be the
place. the time is 4:3O o'clock, and the
dates are Mondays, March IL, 10, and
26 and April 2.
The talks, which will De profusely
illustrated, will be given in French.
bien entendu. The first one, "Tunis
and Carthage" will deal with the in
teresting French colony in Africa. and
the other subjects are Northern
France" "a corner OF Brittany,
Southern France. and "A Few Cha;
teaux."
Mile. de Wilhorst, who has a de-
hghtfully informal way OF taking her
audience into her confidence, is well
qualified TO take us a-visiting in spirit
to the France that the European war
has closed to the casual tourist. Half
French by birth and almost entirely
French by education she has lived
abroad much OF her life, and she
knows France at war as well as
France at peace. Indeed, she was IN
Arcachon when the war broke out and
spent many months nursing in the
hospitals there. These are TO he in
no sense war talks, however, but will
give us picture OF France untouched
as she was before the war, and rs we
shall see her again before long, Gcd
willing.
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Will McCandlishes Return
After Their Sons Graduationf

viii the Howard Shield McCand-
fishes return to Washington after
Howard Shield McCandlish, jr's, grad
uation from the University OF vir-
ginia in June? Well. their plans are
still uncertain, but as they moved to
Charlottesville for the especial. pur-
pose OF being near young Shield dur
ing his college course 1t is hardly
likely they will remain after he is
graduated.
Shield McCandlish, who is just
twenty7pne and stands seventh in a
large Class of young medioos, has
been appointed inferno at the General
City Hospital of Philadelphia and
will take up his duties in June. He
stands remarkably well at the Uni
versity-as he always did at Western
High School-and Is unusually popu-
lar with his college mates. He re-
Gently has been made class historian,
and consequently will take an i'm
monies at the University.
Before the McCandlishes left Wash
ington they lived for a time in the
lovely old Mackall estate, which
takes up almost the whole block be-
tween Q and r, Twenty-eighth and
Twenty-ninth streets. The property
now belongs to the Herman Holler-
iths. Dorothea McCandlish has been
a frequent visitor in town since her
family moved to Charlottesville, us
ually stopping with her cousins, the
Leonard Nicholsons.
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Diplomats Brush Elbows,
With Democracy Rampant.

For the first time since the European
war disrupted the Diplomatic Corps the
representatives OF the warning countries
were grouped together at the inaugural
ceremonies at the Capitol And II took
rarely diplomatic management, both dur
ing the ceremony surrounding the Vice
Presidents inauguration in the Senate
chamber, as well as later on the stand.
10 dispose of these gentlemen 30 that
they might breathe the same air without
being poisoned. Fortunately, with the
Germans eliminated. the Brazilian am
baSsador, Senior da Cana, came by
right Of precedence next. to the French
ambassador. N Jusserand. The new
ambassador from mAustria-Hungary, not
having as yet been officially received"
was not present His embassy was rep
resented by Baron Zwiedenek who sat
with the Minister Of the Netherlands.
The nearest rapprochement Of belliger-
ents was the seating Of the Turkish
charge d'affaires alongside Of the Japa-
nese ambassador.
One wondered how they liked IL,
these brilliant coated diplomats. with
their gorgeous uniforms, gold lace,
and decorations, and their quaint
chApeaux, and their ideas of eti-
quette-this brushing elbows with
democracy rampant. And, Of a truth,
It was rampant!
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1000 WOMEN WILL
GO INTO CAMP HERE
Forty-Day Training Course for
Prospective Nurses to- Be
Established.

More than 1000 women, represent
ing every State In the Union, will be
in training for military Red Cross
nurses in Washington from April 10
to May 26, according to plans of the
woman's section OF the Navy League.
As a recognition OF the value to
the ofganized defenses OF the nation,
the Government has allowed the COM
mittee in charge the use of a Gov
ernment reservation Of twenty-seyen
acres on the Conduit road. Upon this
ground the women will camp In mill
tary tents under military discipline.
The site OF the camp n on an elec-
tric car line, and is easily accessible
from the city by motor. The land
has been improved with light, water
and sewerage facilities.
Health Certiaeate Necessary.
The entire period OF forty days will
be split into two courses of twenty
days each. Any woman more than
eighteen years of age. whether .
member OF the organization or not,
will be admitted to the camp. Strin-
gent health regulations-iwiIl be OBJ
served, and no student will be per-
mitted to live at the camp who can
not present a health certificate from
her physician.
Khaki Uniforms.
The total fees for the course Of
twenty days are only $50. The pre-
scribed uniform Tor the encampment
consists 9f khaki coat. a khaki
skirt, one army flannel blouse, a field
campaign hat, blue necktie. one blue
hat cord and high laced tan boots.
Personal baggage Is limited to a suit
case and handbag.
: 1t Is expected that President Wilson.
members Of. the Cabinet, and high
army and navy officials will attend
the opening of the encampment-
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ter gave up trying to connect with
the Postmaster General l saw Mrs.
Champ Clark searching the horizon
anXiously for the Speaker, and Sena-
tor Harding trying to locate his
wife. And Secretary and Mrs. Nc.
Adoo, the latter swathed in the most
voluminous and luxurious fur coat l
have seen this season, realizing that
the aisle was hopelessly obstructed,
mounted the deserted inaugural plat
form and. waving a hand to a few
friends in the crowd, disappeared
through the hole in the floor which
already had swallowed the President
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Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Marshall
Made History by Presence.
For the rest the Inauguration was
very much like other inaugurstions,
except that Mrs. Wilson and Mrs.
Marshall made history by being pres
ent In the little inclosure hitherto
sacred to the men, and there was a
sort of feeling that in such troublous
times the whole thing mattered more
than in happier days.
OF all the festivities during inaugu-
ration week the Vice President and
AIS- NidISudlIs : party lot the CulNeT
boys was just about the pleasantest
and certainly IL was the prettiest. So
many lovely young girls 1 have rarely
seen. many of them ''sub-debs," and
the older girls from the large finish
ing schools. A New York woman WHO
WAS with me exclaimed. as the scoreA
Of bewitching little beauties trailed
by that New York could produce no
such bevy of buds
They don't come that young at
home" she said. "and ! haven't sen
such freshness in years.
+ The girls who are established bellies
in the Capital-those Of them who
were there-found themselves COM
pletely cut out by the juniors. One
of them admitted that she wasn't
quite sure she liked that sort of a
party.
TT actually made me feel like an
old maid" she remarked, rather rue
fully.
But the youngsters had a perfectly
heavenly time, and the flintiest heart
ed chaperone could not find courage
to insist on Atheir going home until
well into the wee sma' hours.
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Colin, Clarke white Receives
signed Photos of Great singer.


Colin Clarke White. who in the
year or so he has been in Washing
ton has made q place for himself
among music lovers as singer and
teacher. recently has received a most
interesting collection OF signed pho
tographs from Scotti, Caruso. Amato,
Didur, and ever so many Of the other
great singers of the world, with
whom he was associated while con-
nected with the Metropolitan Opera
Company. Many of the photographs
bear personal messages of friendship
to Mr.. White from the originals, and
the collection adds no little to the in
terest and effectiveness of his at
tractive studio in Connecticut ave-
nue.. In addition to those already
mentioned, the collection includes
pictures of Freda Hempel,, De Segu-
rola, Setti. Polacco, Cordova, Mar
tinelli, Meliane Kurt, Ruth st. Denis,
Frances Aida, DeLuca and others.
Mr.. White has had wide experience
in opera and concert work, has studied
with such men as Lankow, Mehan and
Paul Savage (pupil OF Jean de Reske)
in New York, with Lamperti, also
with Vogel, OF the Royal Opera in
Berlin, and with Arrigie, of the Ital-
ian school, and he Is a worthwhile
addition to Washington's musical
colony.
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Tor rOun0 OF entertaining SuCn as
Washington has not known in many
moons.
John Barrett Tells Story
Showing Mems Faith In Dewey.
John Barrett in the role of author
isn't that something new under the
sun? Perhaps not, for his admiral
George Dewey" Is written In a style
which bespeaks a practiced pen. Mr..
Barrett, who was in the East and In
close contact with the hero of the
battle of Manila, tells a story to
illustrate the faith the officers and
men of the feet had in Dewey.
where did you think you were
going and what did you expect to do
when you set sail that day In May?'
He asked this question Of the gunner
who had charge Of the big eight-inch
rifles of the forward turret of the
Olympia one day.
Go and do?" was the scornful reply.
Little did l or any one else on this
ship care, SO long as the old man was
ordering IL. We knew we were going
to a hot place. and meant to make IL
hotter still for the Spaniards but. man.
we would have sailed straight into
h after him."
The Washington times., 1917-03-11
JEAN ELOTcT
LETTER.

DEAR SUSAN:
Now that the inaugural ceremonies
and all the attendant festivities are
safely over, Washington society folk
are beginning to realize that there il
such a season as Lent. To be sure,
entertaining in the penitential sea
son is no longer considered a crime,
and party giving, dinner giving in
particular, goes merriE on; but one
finds time for such purely Lenten di.
versions as lectures and all the sun
dry varieties of talks" as well as
the ever increasing crop of benefits.
Moreover, the attendance at the daily
afternoon service held at many
churches proves that worldiness has
not entirely supplanted otherworldli-
ness.
Everybody is talking Inauguration,
of course-and inaugural weather
discussing the one and cussing the
others as a clever friend of mine
aptly phrased II. The utmost one can
say for the weather is ''it might have
been worse" and no one would say
that who had not had previous ex-
perience with inaugural weather.
Visions of What Might he
On n BaImy April Day.
Think how pleasant 1t would be to
sit out on an open stand to watch the
parade go by on a balmy day late in
April, and think of the real delight OF
an excursion to view the fireworks
on a warm and starlit April night
Instead, few inaugural visitors will
forget the raging, nipping wind which
chilled them to the marrow, the storm
of dust from sanded Pennsylvania
avenue which bit into eyes and
throats, the quantity of millinery, pre-
sumably fairly presentable at the be-
ginning Of the day, which was q to
tai loss to its owners at the end
thereof. And few Washingtonians
will forget the eight days of steady
downpour which preceded March 5.
including March 4. which would have
been Inauguration day had It not
fallen on Sunday. One thanked
whatever gods there be" for the or
der forbidding the use of anything
but fast colors in the bunting swath-
ing the city, else shudder to think
what a CORY mess the town might
have presented.
The President caught cold and has
been confined to his room ever since in
auguration day; at least one general
IS in similar case. and nobody dares
hazard a guess how many soldier boys
and Boy Scouts are threatened with
pneumonia as a result Of exposure dur
ing the parade. So, Of course, there Is
revival of talk on the subject OF chang
ing the day. However, l suppose well
have to sacrifice a President, or at least
a Vice President. to pneumonia before
the change is finally made
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PLANS NEW WEATHER STATION

A new United States Weather
Bureau station is to be established
at st. Thomas, one of the new Ameri-
can possessions in the West Indies
Major Henry B. Hersey. meteorolo-
gist, will organize the station, and
tour the West Indies to reorganize the
stations and service there.
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Order to Bring Girls Along
Was Literally Interpreted.

Mrs Marshall came in for a bit OF good
natured "guying" from her intimates for
rashly telling everybody to bring along
all the nice girls who were staying with
them and to leave all the beaux behind.
as she was providing beaux for this oc-
casion- The order was literally-and 50
liberaIly-interpreted that quite early in
the evening II was evident that a draft
would be necessary. and all available
boys. even some who had been regarded
as bit too young for a formal party.
were rounded up and brought in to bal
ance the flood Of girls,
II was Mrs. Gignilliat, the charming
wife Of the. superintendent of Culver
Academy, who sent out the call to her
cohorts. remarking that in the nineteen
years her husband had been in COM
mand at Culver she had never seen a
girl sit out a dance, and din't mean that
It should happen at a party given for
her boys
Mrs. Marshall looked really lovely in
her fluffy gold-colored gown-a gown
most becoming and no end chic-and
she and the Vice President seemed as
pleased as their guests at the prospect
of their being four more years in WASH
ington-and can put 1t no stronger than
that
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quarters at Santo Domingo, was or.
dered of on a cruise which may last
several months.
1t was all very sudden, Frances
says. She and Heinie-everybody
calls Lieutenant Hinkamp Heinie-
were at a tea dance when an orderly
appeared on the scene and announced
that the ship was to sail at once The
officers had not even time to get their
belongings together. and Frances even
found herself without sufficient funds
until her husband could telegraph tn
the powers that be to advance her
what she needed. At the same time
he wired her to take the next steamer
for home, as the Olympia, from pres
ent Indications, would not put into
Santo DoIiingo again.
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Deciding that they might as well
see a little something of the world en-
route. Frances, Mrs. Shepard. whose
husband, Lieut.. Ralph Shepard, OF the
marines, is also attached to the Olym-
pia. and the Shepard baby set out
together to make their way home via
Porto Rico. 1t IL normally but a
twenty four-hour trip from Santo Do
mingo to San Juan, but a little way
out the ship-it's really little more
than a yacht-which makes the run
ran into a typhoon. and there was
great excitement aboard. The cap
tain decided then that it wasn't safe
to go on, so he put in at MayagreZ.
and the passengers had to motor to
San Juan. a distance OF 116 miles,
through the storm.
The Washington times., 1917-03-11

washington Tor the month OF May.
1t is probable that Miss Darsie will
return with her.
DIR. James Duncan Gatcwood
Now Has Three .Grandgirls."
There's a new grandchild in the
Gatewood family. the little daughter
born February 20 to Mr.. and Mrs. Toy
Dixon Savage, of Norfolk; and now
DR.. James DuHcan Gatewood is an
nouncing that he has three girls and
three "grandgirls." You see, Halle
Gatewood Jenkins has a daughter, a
bewitching little miss who will be
two years old this coming summer,
and Dorothy Gatewood North's baby.
born last summer, also is a girl. Mrs.
Savage was formerly HildTeth Gate
wood.
Mrs. GatewoOd. who is in Norfolk
with Hildreth, Toy and the baby.
writes that they are still uncertain
what the little lady Is to be called.
At present choice SEEMS to lie be-
tween Hildreth Gatewood Savage and
Dorothy Gatewood Savage-both ap-
pealing names, don't you think? Lit
tie Miss Savage has dark hair and
eyes like her mother. whereas both
Wythe Jenkins and little Betty North
are blue-eyed youngsters: and Mrs.
Gatewood claims that her newest
grandchild is very much like her sis
ter, Catherine Criticized.
The Washington times., 1917-03-11
Boris Gordon, Artist, Was
An interesting Inaugural Visitor. y


Among the interesting visitors in
town for the Inauguration was Boris
Gordon, artist They do say he was
here principally to arrange for a sit
ting for a portrait of uncle joe
Cannon, which he is doing or Is to
do, but he managed to find time 10
be pretty persistently entertained
Me-. Gordon is part Scotch and part
Russian, as his name Indicates, but
through long residence in Russia the
Russ predominates. He has been in
this country for several years, has a
studio at the Waldorf in New York,
and has done notable portraits OF
notable people in various parts OF
the country, among them an excel
lent one of former Senator Bailey.
understand the Maryes were among
those who entertained for Mr.. Cor
don during his visit here.
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Edmund c. TarbeIl, OF Boston, a
painter of portraits, who needs no
introduction even to the Philistines;
Mrs. Tarbell and their charming fam
lily are at the Dresden for several
months, and are slipping easily into
life in Washington. There are two
girls In the ramlly-Josepnlne, VINO
has been out for a year or two, and
Mary, who Is on the verge Of coming
out-as well as a son-Edmund G.
Tarbell. jr. Mr.. Tarbell has been sew
eral times back and forth to Boston,
where he has a number Of portraits
on hand, but the rest of the family
has been here continuously.
Dorothy Dent Showing Some
OF Her Work at the Arts Club.
The Tarbells have a country place
at Newcastle. n. H, and IL was there
that Mr.. Tarbell did the lovely por-
trait OF Mrs. Charles Wheeler aid
her daughter, which was on exhibit
tion at the Corcoran Gallery here and
has been going the rounds of a num-
Der OF exhibitions. At present II is
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Mrs. Hlnkamp L. Back
With q Fine Tale Of Adyerfure

"hAn Ft"e hhie OF Adventure.
Mrs. Clarence Hinkamp Is back in
town with a fine tale OF adventure to
tell. You know. she has been in San
to Domingo for the past several
months, and only came home when
Lieutenant Hinkamp's ship, the OIym
pia, which had been making its head
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Ship Runs on BarneEat ShoaI
And Then the Lights Go Out.

After a bit of a rest there, they
set sail again and this time things
went better. Indeed they went
swimmingly until the last night out
when, IL you please, the ship ran on
Barnegat shoal. Frances says she
was suddenly awakened out of a
sound sleep to the conviction that
they had struck a mine. The electric
lights were out Of commission and
while she and Mrs. Shepard were
stumbling round in the dark a knock
came at the door and they were told
to put on warm clothing and come
on deck at once. 1t seems the seas
were running high and there was
more than a little danger of the
ships being pounded to pieces.
After an all night vigil, during
which the waves kept up their inces-
SAINT battering and the ship grOaned
and creaked as though she were going
momentarily to pieces, somehow she
pushed of. But she arrived at New
York with ten feet of water in the
hold and a seam in her bottom which
was widening by the minute.
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Quite a thrilling experience, wasn't
II? Frances says she thought at the
time she was keeping her head Won
derfully, and she lectured Mrs. Shep-
ard well for lingering in her state
room to lace up her high brown boots:
but later she insisted on going back
to hunt about in the dark for her
trunk checks. She was willing to
sacrifice her engagement ring and
money, but those checks-for trunks
slowed away in the hold of the very
boat she was on-she must have. In
cidentally she got the trunks all
right. but found that ten feet of sea
water had shown scant respect for
their Aontenfs
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A Chronicle %J ]
cCocietr e

Washington for the month of May.
1t is probable that Miss Darsie will
return with her.