The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14

Niscount Grey, the new British Am-
bassador, will have arrived; also For
tuna Xavier, the new Brazilian Am
bassador. Perhaps even, though 1t
seems scarcely probable, the post of
Japanese Ambassador will have been
filled.
Awaiting Braxilians' Arrival.
In anticipation Of the arrival after
many months of Brazilian Ambas-
sador, the Brazilian charge has Sc
lected n suitable Washington home
for the embassy, which has been in
eclipse since the departure of the
Da Gamas last fall. 1t Is established
In the former home of the late Henry
Adams, the brilliant embittered and
during his latter years hermit son of
Charles Francis Adams. He 1t was
who erected in Rock Creek Cemetery
to the memory of his wife the appeal
ing monument designed by the late
Augustus St.-Gaudens and known to
art lovers the world over as Grief"
1t seems probable that the new Bra
lillian Ambassador may revive the
brilliant social traditions of the en-
bassy during the Da Cana regime.
Thomas a. lie Breton took short
cut to the acquaintance of the diplo-
matte circle here when he invited all
the Ambassadors. Ministers and
Charges to meet him at the Argentine
Embassy on Thursday and Friday of
last week. 1t was an eminently sensi-
BILE way of cutting the Gordian knot,
but it had not been done in just that
way before, and aroused some amused
comment. However it achieved it's pur-
)ose, as all who were in town called
on his invitation, and those who were
| absent made a point of sending greet
ings and good wishes.
One of the smaller newer legations
that is making itself felt and proving
the value of the personal equation is
the Serbian, which, largely because of
the charm and personality of the Min
lister and his attractive American wife,
has arrived in fine style and in short
order. The Grouitches are an active
| minded, Senergetic pair who are in
great demand and have been con-
stantly on the go ever since they
| came, SO that in six or eight months
they have become thoroughly estab-
| lished.
They are always doing things, fire.
quently different" things, as for in
stance their dinner at the Lock Tavern
Club last Tuesday evening. 1t was an
al Jfresco affair to which the guests
were conveyed in canoes and from
which they were returned in the same
way to Georgetown after the dance
which wound up the evening. They
| followed that with a second dance
Thursday evening.
Portuguese to Branch Out.
Another of the smaller, but by no
means newer. legations, the Portu-
guese, seems to be about to branch
out and add unto itself military and
naval attaches. While no word has
been received officially it is under
stood from unofficial sources that Col.
FREDERICK Simas. formerly military at
tache of the Portuguese Legation at
London. was to be sent here in the
same capacity. 1t will be rather an
innovation, If 1t comes to pass, for 10,
these many years Viscount d'Alte has
been the whole Portuguese Legation
here. He is really the dean of the
diplomatic corps, having been here
longer even than Ambassador Jusse-
rand, except that the position of dean
goes to the senior Ambassador not
to a Minister.
For the moment the big thing for
which everybody is preparing is the
| welcoming of Pershing and his men
though a good many are asking them
selves What's the use, when New
York has taken the edge off any well
come that Washington can possibly
| give?"
| The members Of the Cabinet who
went up to New York to greet the re-
turn of the First Division have re-
turned to Washington. In fact the
| Vice-President and Mrs. Marshall are
off again. They are due in Philadel-
phia to-day for Masonic meeting, the
! Vice-President being a thirty-third de-
gree Mason. They are TO go on for a
day or two to Atlantic City before re-
turning to Washington.
| The Bakers have returned. Miss
Betty Baker, who went to Cleveland
when the rest of the family came