The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-07-22
PLAN COSTUME BALL
TO Aid RED CROSS
Asbury Park Fhrong viii Contrib
ute More to Fund.

Asbury Park, N. is July H.-oun-
mer .Vacationlsts in Asbury Park
have permanently laid. by the buga-
boo Of old st. Swithin, for the
showers Of the week have been at
night and only sufficiently violent TO
nicely wet down war gardens and
cleanse the boardwalk. Throughout
the day Old Sol has smiled warmly,
on an average an so-odd degree smile,
and arms and legs, and this applies
generally since young women have
taken to bathing without stockings,
have turned from a blush pink to
the sepIa. tints so much coveted.
Tonight formal dances in the hotels
were gay as never before in the his
tory of the resort. In the Monterey
dancers, between fox trots and one
steps, discussed arrangements for the
Red Cross costume ball which will
be given in the house a week from
tonight. Among the visitors there
this week was Mrs August Belmont
and party, including Mrs. NJ. c. Cook,
Mrs. McCaHry. Miss Hirst and Miss
Ford. who came TO see the premier
Of The Land. Of The Free" a new
Brady production, with Miss Florence
Nash in the title role. Miss Nash
and her mother and sister were quar-
tered at the Monterey during the
three-day stop here.
Asbury Park will give its military
unit rousing sender next Tuesday
and Wednesday. Tuesday night the
boys Of Company H, Third Infantry,
N. g. N. J., for two years winners
Of the regimental medal. will be ten
dered a reception in the Boardwalk
Arcade. Bandmaster Arthur Pryor has
arranged a special program for the
event and the entire proceeds will
70 to the company mess fund.
On Wednesday, when the Guards
men entrain for Sea Girt, there to
be modified with the State brigade
and sent to a Southern training camp,
the town will turn out en- masse to
bid the soldiers Godspeed. Bands and
marching organizations, home guards,
children. summer girls and women OF
the Red Cross will march with BAN
ners flying to the railroad station.
Company H will go out with full
war complement recruited In the city
and under command of Capt. Walter
L. Auten. last year ranking oficer
in the State, in the State officers
school; veteran Of the Spanish-Amer-
lean war
Tuesday also will be an important
day for the women Of the resort.
Workers from the woman's auxiliary
Of the Home Defense League will take
charge of the polling precincts that
day and register every woman in the
resort, over the age Of Is, in prepara-
ton for a campaign for food con-
servation. Because Of the press at
Red Cross headquarters, a branch es-
pecially designed for women Of the
hotel colony has been opened in the
Beach Auditorium with Mrs. William
A Atchley in charge.
A benefit for the Red Cross will be
held in the Metropolitan Hotel July
81, in the form Of a card tournament.
Mrs Saunders Wertheim Is chairman
Of the arrangements committee.
Announcement was made today
that IN her role as ruler Of the carni-
val, Miss Cruzilla Taylor will be
known as Miss Liberty, instead Of
Miss Columbia, and that the abdica-
ton ceremony would be held on
August p. To stimulate interest in
the baby parade the Carnival Associa-
ton announces a prize competition
for patriotic floats
At the Brunswick hotel prepara-
tons are being made to entertain the
New Jersey Association Of Master
Painters and Decorators beginning
next Wednesday. The social program
includes a dance and a clam bake.
A delegation Of members Of New
York Lodge of Elks will be the guests
Of the local Elks next Friday and
Saturday. There will be a dance at
the Monmouth hotel and the men in
the party will be introduced to Gov.
Edge, at Sea Girt.
At the Lafayette hotel preparations
are being made for the annual chill
dren's party. For the Sunday night
concerts special soloists are secured.
Raymond Lee, the social director, is
arranging a novelty program for the
informal dancing next week.
Lucky number contests have been
revived in the Bristol hotel where a
merry throng Of young folk is domi-
cfled for the season. The formal ball
tonight attracted scores of dancers.
Columbia Hotel sojourners are now
in the midst of an elaborate entertain
ment program arranged by Charles ].
Bruneel, the social director.
Coleman House patrons danced to-
night in the house Casino under the
direction Of Prof. Beruman.
Washington patrons Of the Lafayette
include Miss A. French, Mrs. c. T.
Warner and Hampton H. Carter.
The Colonnade Is entertaining Mrs.
A r. Mullony and Miss Kathryn Null
lony, of Washington.
Mrs. s. Shubart, Mrs. F. P. Hill and
=. A Williams are among the late
Washington arrivals at the New Saint