The Washington times., 1919-09-02
HAPPENINGS I'M SOCIETY,"
News of Official Society and of the Diplomats We'd
dings and Engagements WashingtOnians at Resorts

lTHE President and Mrs. Wilson
who celebrated Labor Day by at
tending the baseball game be-
1 tween the District OF Columbia police
force and the Home Defense League
were accompanied by John Randolph
| Boiling and Rear Admiral Cary T
Grayson. AfterWard they went for 8
long automobile ride into the country
Mrs. Wilson looked particularly well
wearing q. becoming gray voile gown
with hat, shoes, and hose to match
The game, which was for the bene'
fIt or the widows and orphAsn' fund
OF the police department was won by
the Home Defense League. The Sec
retary Of war and Mrs. Baker were
also present; Gen. Poyton c. March
occupied the box adjoining the Pres
tdential party and other notables in
the boxes were Admiral william s
Benson, and Rear Admiral Long.
Nine. Jusserand will accompany the
French ambassador TO New 70 X
when he goes to attend the joirt eele.
bration Of LafAyetts'g IB2d birthday
and the battle &C the Marne on sat
urday. and a'terward they win go to
New England for q brief holiday.
They will be Rw.ty three or four
days. Capt. is .-aint Same, naval
attache Of the embassy, will also &C
company the Ambassador.
MAI Gen. Bethel, military attache
OF the British embassy, will be a
member OF the British delegation
which will take part Ia the eeremon-
les and which will be headed BY Baron
Finley Lord Chancellor Of Great
Britain.
The Italian Ambassador, Count
Macchi al ceIlere. who Is with Count
ess di Cellere at Hilltop Inn, New
port, for q few days. Is expected back
ct the eEbassay tomorrow or Thurs
Mr. and Mrs. william Howard Taft
viii close their summer home at
Murray Bay, Quebec. Canada, within
the next week or two and will re-
turn to Washington before going to
New Haven, Conn, for the winter
Mr.. Taft will resume the chair Of
constitutional law at Yale Univer-
sity.
A. Mitchell Palmer. the Attorney
General, will leave for Boston tomor-
row 70 address the American Bar As
ISOLATION.
The Postmaster General and Mrs.
Barleson. who have been in Canada
for the last week or ten days, are ex-
pected back in washington within q
day or two. Their daughter. Miss
Sidney Burleson, will go TO New York
to join Miss Elizabeth Beach and
Miss Grace Beach. daughters Of Mr..
and Mrs. Morgan Beach. They start
ed today for New York to visit Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Patchin.
The Minister Of Bolivia and Sonora
dc Calderon, who. with Senorita Cal
deron, spent last week motoring
through the Blue Ridge mountains,
have returned to the legation on Six
teenth street.
Prince AIliata villa Franco, the new
counselor Of the Italian embassy, has
gone to Newport, r. l., for & short
visit.
Countess sseehenyi RetuFnInE.
Countess Laczo Ssechenyi, formerly
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, has sailed for
New York on her way to Newport to
visit her mother. For several months
she has been living in Switzerland.
Lord and Lady swaythIing. who
sail from England on September 8
for the United States, will 50 to New
port to visit Admiral and Mrs. Will
liam S. Sims and later will come to
Washington to be the guests of the
minister Of the Serbs. Croats, and
Slovenes and Nine. Grouitch.
DR.. and Nine. Grouitch are again
at the legation, after making a series
of visits in New England. The min
lister returned q week or more ago
and Nine. Grouitch has now Joined
him
Two christenIngs OF more than
passing interest TO washington so
cIety took place at Earragansett
Pier on Sunday. The infant daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Huger
McAdoo was named Sarah Fleming
McAdoo after Mr.. McAdoo's mother.
the ceremony taking place at the
villa Of Capt and Mrs. Isaac Emer-
son. Mrs. McAdoo Is Mrs. Bmerson's
daughter. The baby Is a grand
daughter Of william Gibbs McAdoo,
sometime Secretary Of the Treasury.
The other christening was that Of
the baby daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Harran at Sunny Mead, the
home OF Mrs. Harran's parents, Col.
and Mrs. William z. Shepherd, of
New York. The child. who was named
is a grandniece OF Mrs. Van
derbilt. Miss Margaret Prescott, OF
was one Of the god
mothers and the other was Miss LII
liam Endicott, OF New York. A lunch
con followed the service, with more
than sixty guests present.
The Rev. Philip Prescott, Of Wash
ington, officiated at both ceremonies.
Vice Admiral Albert GIeaves yes
terday assumed command Of the |
Asiatic fleet. with the rank Of full ad- |
miral awarded him recently by Con- |
gress at President Wilson's request. |
AS he boarded his flagship, the U. S. S. |
South Dakota, he was greeted By the |
admiraPs salute Of nineteen guns and |
the admiraI's nag was broken from |