Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-29
Gregorys Go to Long Island.

The former Attorney General, Mr..
Thomas Watt Gregory. Mrs. Gregory
and their daughters, Miss Jane Greg
DRY and Miss Cornelia Gregory, will
leave Washington on Tuesday for
Garden City, L. l.. and will spend the
summer at the Garden City Hotel.
In the autumn Mr.. Gregory will go
to New York, where he will establish
a permanent home for his family.
The two sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Greg
ory Mr.. Thomas Watt Gregory, jr.,
and MIR. Nalle Gregory, have gone to
Texas to spend the summer in the
oil fields.
Admiral Benson. who has just re-
turned on board the L. s. S. Arkansas,
and. with Mrs Benson, was a prom
inent figure during the visit of the
President-elect of Brazil and his
party, was decorated with the grand
President of the republic of France
while in Paris. The admiral came
to Washington from the peace con-
ference at Paris, where he has been
as naval adviser to the peace confer
ence. He first went abroad on a mis-
head in 1917. The purpose of the
mission was to coordinate the vari-
Gus efforts, military. naval, shipping
and economic of the United States
with the corresponding efforts of the
allied governments.
During this trip. while in London
in consultation with the British ad-
miralty. it was decided that the Brit
ish make a stronger effort to close
the Straits Of Dover to submarines;
that the United States and Great
Britain would lay a mine barrage
hn no "a
United States would send one of it's
! most powerful battleship divisions to
reinforce the British grand fleet, to
establish the interallied naval council,
to establish a joint aval-planning
section and to bring the United States
naval representatives in London in
closer and more intimate daily con-
tact with the British admiralty. He
visited the British grand fleet and
went over the naval situation with
Admiral Sir David Beatty. From Lon
don he went to Paris. where similar
questions were taken up with the
minister of marine and definite con-
illusions arrived at regarding the
| naval features of carrying on the
war as undertaken by the two gov
ernments. He also went abroad again
| in October, 1918, with Col. House, in
| connection with the progress of the
war. Soon after arrival the terms of
| the armistice were drawn up. in which
he represented the United States in
| drawing up the naval terms. After
| the signing he became the naval ad-
wiser of the peace conference. where
| he has been of great value to the
| members of the American peace COM
mission. AS chief Of naval opera
| lions he foresaw the coming con-
! fiict. and, under the approval of the
| Secretary Of the Navy, organized the
| fleet and directed the preparations
| which made 1t possible for the Navy
| to so successfully meet the emergency
| Of this greatest of all wars.
| Mrs John r. Williams has taken a
| cottage at Newport for the summer
months. Her daughter. Mrs. Dorothy
Williams McComb, will spend the
| summer with her.
| Mrs Frank o. Parker. wife Of Capt.
Parker. L. S. A. and son Gordon are
spending the summer months in Ber-
| ryville, Va.
The first assistant secretary of the
p, interior and Mrs. Alexander Vogel-
sang left Washington last evening for
| a short visit to the Hot Springs, Ark.
Mrs. Mann. wife of Maj Walter Ray
Mann. L. S. A.. Is visiting her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel V. Chisholm, at
the Congressional. during Maj. Mann's
| abSe nee in France.
| DIR. and Mrs. Howard Hume will
go to White Sulphur Springs in Au-
| gust to join Mrs. Hume's mother,
Mrs. w. S, Haywood. who went to
White Sulphur a few days ago to re-
| main until autumn.
Mrs. c. c. Calhoun, who has been
spending a short time in her home. in
Charleston. s. c., will return to her
| Washington home today.
Mrs. Alfred E. Bates, who closed