Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-31

| third assistant secretary OF state, sue
ceeding Mr.. William Philips, who has
been promoted to the first assistant
| secretaryship of the department. ar
| rived at Washington Sunday. and is
stopping at the Willard. Mrs. Long. who
is at Miami, Fla, will join him in about
six or seven weeks.
| The first formal dance of the winter
K, at Fort Myer, preceded by number OF
dinner parties there, attracted many
guests to the post across the river last
| night. There were more than 300 guests
at the dance, which was given in the adj
ministration building.
Mrs. Charles W. Fenton, Mrs. Archie
Miller and Mrs. William F. p. French
received the guests, and at midnight
supper was served at small tables. The
| secretary Of War and Mrs. Baker, who
were among the guests, dined previously
with the commandant of the fort and
MIS- Fenton. Others entertaining dim
ner parties included Capt. and Mrs.
Charles III. Haight, Capt. and Mrs. David
/ Hunter Scott. Mrs William J. Glasgow
and Mrs. Lewis Forester.
Capt. and Mrs. David Hunter Scott
had as their guests Miss Marion Lit
tebrant and Miss Laura Littebrant,
daughters of Col. William T. Lite
brant, who are visiting them: Miss Mar
garet King, who is also their house
guest: Mr.. Cuadra. charge d'affaires of
Nicaragua; Mr. Costigan. Mr.. Joseph
T. Amin, Lieut.. Goodwin and Lieut..
King.
Capt. and Mrs. Haight entertained
, Miss Eloise Meyer, Maj. and Mrs. Fox
Common. Mr. George Oakley Totten and
Lieut.. Palmer.
Mrs William ]. Glasgow had in her
; dinner party Col. and Mrs. Louis
Scherer, Maj. and Mrs. Kinssman, Miss
Genevieve Johnson. Miss Allen, Miss
Comiskey, Capt. Cook, Maj. Paxton and
Mr.. Polhemus.
Mrs. Forester. wife of Capt. Lewis
Forester, who is on the border had
dining with her Representative and
and Mrs. Wallace S. Dempsey, Repre-
sentative Bascom C. Slemp. Representa-
tive Sydney e Mudd, Commissioner
and Mrs. Oliver =. Newman. Mr.. and
Mrs Ralph Smith. Mrs. Dan Murphy,
Mrs. Selma Tauscher, Mr.. John Murphy
and Mr.. Howard Robnett.
The Congressional Club has sent out
cards for Saturday. February 10. from
to II o'clock. with dancing after 10
o'clock. Mrs. Dupont Joyce will give
reading from Tagore.
Representative Thomas B. Dunn of
New York had a small company at din
ner with him last night a t the Willard.
Mrs. Dunn will arrive -this week from
Rochester and will join Representative
Dunn at their home in K street.
Senator and Mrs. Gilbert NJ. Hitch
cock had a small company dining with
them last night. their guests including
the president of the National Chamber
of Commerce and Mrs. Rhett of Charles
ton, S. G.
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Brandin are leav-
ing today for Augusta, Ga, to spend
four or five weeks.
Mrs. Charles NJ Ffoulke will be at
home tomorrow afternoon and will have
will T,
Severn will give a talk at o'clock on
psycho-therapy.
An interesting dinner party was given
last evening at the Willard by about
twenty members of the class of 1905 OF
the Naval Academy in celebration OF
the twelfth anniversary of their grad
uation. Arrangements for the dinner
were made by Lieut.. Andrew f. Carter.
U. S. n. aid to the chief of naval oper-
ations, Rear Admiral William S. Benson.
The others in the party We're Lieut..
f. f. Ingersoll. Lieut.. Byron McCand-
less. Lieut.. r. NJ Fawell. Lieut.. G. V.
Stewart. Lieut.. F. C. Blasdell, Lieut..
Vance Ogan, Lieut.. W. r. Lightle, Lieut..
A. T. Church, Lieut.. Hugo Franken-
berger, Lieut.. W. 0. Spears. Lieut.. Y. h.
Conan, Lieut.. H. f. Shoemaker, all sta
toned in Washington: Lieut.. Z. r.
Ship. Lieut.. W. L. Culbertson. Lieut..
Ben jamin Dutton, all stationed in An
napolis; Lieut.. J. n. Ferguson, Lieut..
Albert Norris, Lieut.. V. ii. Green. Lieut.
1. +. Dortch, all duty in New York,
and Mr.. u. 0. Carter, who resigned
from the navy in 1911.
Gen. and Mrs. McCIernand We're hosts
at dinner last night at the Grafton.
Their guests included Maj. and Mrs.
West. Maj. and Mrs. Mcdonald. Mrs.
MiXsen, Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Dette, Miss
Hunt and Mr. Greer.
The board of trustees of tile Corcoran
Gallery Of Art has issued cards for the
opening view of the twenty first an
nual exhibition of the Washington
Water Color Club on Friday, from ! 0
in the morning to in the afternoon, i
and from S to IT in the evening.
Mrs. Chaffee. widow of Lieut.. Gen. \.
D. Chaffee, is at the Shoreham for u !
very short stay en- route to the south |
west.
Commander and Mrs. William W. /
Galbraith entertained at dinner last /
evening at their home in r street in !
compliment to their house guests. Col. |
and Mrs Harry Taylor The other |
guests were Judge and Mrs. Sidney |
BalIou. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles l.. Mar |
latt, Mrs. George Barnett and Paymas- !
ter General MCGOWAN.
Today Mrs. Galbraith is giving an in !