The Washington herald., 1917-12-10
HOClefY
1 ~ WASHINGTON
lN MASAINCTON

President and Mrs. Wilson enjoyed
q long automobile ride together yes
terday afternoon. They did not at
tend church in the morning.
The japanese Ambassador Aimaro
sato will go to New York today and
will attend in that city tomorrow
evening the banquet to be given by
the Japanese society. The Ambassa-
dor and Baron Megata, head of the
japanese Financial Commission, will
be the honor guests.
The Cuban Minister. Carlos Manuel
de Cespedes, who is making an ex-
tended stay with Nine. de Cespedes in
New York. came to Washington for
the weekend and to attend the grid
iron dinner Saturday evening.
Mrs. Norman Williams has as her
guest. Lady Aberdeen who is in
Washington for the meeting of the
American Council Of Women whose
session began last Saturday and will
continue until December II Lady
Aberdeen is president OF the Interna-
tional Council OF Women
Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, who
Is visiting Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture and Mrs Carl Vrooman,
will be the guest in whose honor Mrs.
Samuel Jordan Graham, wife of the
Assistant Attorney General, will re-
ceive this afternoon from to
O'Clock.
Mrs. Percy V. Pennypacker, of Aus
in Ch N-a tn
in Washington Saturday to visit Maj.
Cen and Mrs. George Barnett, has
not reached Washington yet but will
probably come sometime today. Mrs.
Pennypacker will also be a guest of
Postmaster General and Mrs. Burle-
son while in Washington. Miss Penny
packer, who spent the Thanksgiving
holidays with General and Mrs. Bar
nett, has returned home.
Mrs. W. L. Nicholson, wife of Brig
Gen. Nicholson, U. S. A. has taken an
apartment in the Westmoreland for
the winter. Cen Nicholson is in tenn
porary command at Camp Meade, Nd
Mrs. Hiram johnson reached Wash
ington the end of the week and joined
Senator johnson at the Shoreham.
Mrs. Robert Jefferds. Of Charleston,
W. Va, will come to wasl1ingtonJDe-
cember II to spend the Christmas holi-
days with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs
George Cooper.
E. W. SCripps, of California, who
had planned to spend the winter in
Washington, has gone South for an
indefinite stay. Mrs. Scripps, who is
visiting her son and daughter-in-law.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert D. Scripps, at
their residence, 2l31 Massachusetts
avenue. will join Mr.. Scripps shortly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Scripps occupied dur
ing the summer the suburban residence
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph Kaufman.
"Airlee," in Rock Creek Park, and had
planned to stay there for several
months longer. but were forced to go
South because OF the cold weather
Mr.. and Mrs. Kaufman have leased
"Airlee'' to Francis Peabody. OF Chi
cago. Mr.. and Mrs. Peabody occupied
during the summer the home Of Mr.
and Mrs c. Carroll Glover, in Massa-
chusetts avenue extended. .
Of great interest to Washington is
the announcement that Miss Angela T
I.
Bassett Moore. will be one of the sea-
sons debutantes in New York Miss
More lived in Washington for a num-
Der OF years while her father held sew
eTal positions in the State Department,
and served as Assistant Secretary OF
State Mrs. Moore, who was a Wash
ington woman, was formerly Miss
Helen Frances Toland.
Mrs William Gibbs McA6oo, Mrs.
Newton D. Baker, Mrs. Thomas w.
Gregory. Mrs. Albert Sidney BurIeson,
Mrs. Josephus Daniels, Mrs. Franklin
p X. Lane. Mrs. David F. Houston, Miss
Agnes Hart Wilson. Mrs. James r.
Mann and Mrs. Philip Pitt Campbell
will be the hostesses for the recep-
ton to be held tomorrow evening at
the New Willard from $50 to II O'Clock
in honor Of DR.. Anna Howard Shaw,
honorary president; Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait, president, and other officers
and delegates of the National Ameri-
can Woman Suffrage Association,
which will hold its forty-ninth an
nual convention in Washington, De-
-cember 12-15.
The invitation list. which Is very
large, includes members Of the diplo-
matte, judiciary and legislative cir
cles. and many other distinguished
residents Of Washington. Aside from
its interest as a woman suffrage event,
this reception promises to be one of
the most brilliant social affairs Of the
seas on.
The news will be pleasantly received
in Washington that Maj. Colby NJ
Chester, Infantry. officers Reserve
Corps, will be assigned to duty at
Camp Meade, Nd, after December Is.
Maj. Chester has been living in Green
wich, Conn, and is the first man
from that place to obtain a commits
sion Of the rank Of major at PIatts-
burg.
He is arranging his affairs as a
member of the New York law firm
at Dawes. Abbott C Chester in order
that he may be away during the du-
ration of the war.
Maj. Chester, who Is prominently
identified with club and society activi-
ties, Is a son of Rear Admiral Colby
n. Chester, U. s. N. retired, and Mrs
Chester, Of this city. He is a direc-
tor Of the Putnam Trust Company and
other business Organizations. After
being graduated from st. Johns Col
lege, Annapolis, he matriculated at
Yale, where he was graduated with
honors. At the beginning of the war
the Greenwich Special Police Corps,
q body Of ninety residents, was form
ed, and Maj Chester was Sc
lected as first lieutenant.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Chester have