Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-14
Small Graf
Popular on
Potomac
Impetus Given to Boating
By Presidential Use of
the Mayhower.
Bureau of The Bee,
Washington, Aug. IS.

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Maynowcr, the presidential yacht.
by President and Mrs. Harding has
given an impetus to boating. The
river is full of small craft of all
kinds and not for many years have
there been so many yacht clubs on
the Potomac as there are just now.
The President and Mrs. Harding
returned on Tuesday morning from
the longest trip they have made on
the MayAower. Their party was
much smaller on the return trip than
when they went up to Plymouth and
on to Portland. Senator and Mrs.
Frelinghuysen and Senator and
Mrs. Phipps went up with them, and
Senator and Mrs. New returned
here with them, along with Sccre-
tary Christian.
The speaker of the house Of rep
resentatives, who, with Mrs. Gillett,
went up on the Mayaower and to
the Weeks lodge, returned here by
rail Monday morning, but Mrs. Gill
lett remained in the north and IS
now having visit from her son-ln-
law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Reginald Foster, who have but just
returned from their wedding trip to
Bermuda.
The past week was the dullest,
socially, which Washington has
known this summer. The dullness
will continue, too, until congress has
had its recess and gets back on the
job. Few of the congressional peo-
pie will return to their homes unless
they are in the cas-, as it is hardly
worth while for them to make long
trips for so short time.
Secretary of State and Mrs.
Hughes are thoroughly enjoying the
beautiful suburban and isolated place.
"Graystone," the home of the
Thomas Armats, which they have
leased for the summer season. They
will remain out there until we'll into
October, for the early autumn is one
of the most beautiful seasons in
Washington.
The secretary of state will be the
busiest host of all during the dis
armament conference which opens
Armistice day. 1t is estimated that
the conference wiii~bring to Wasfl--
;ngton no less than 500 brilliant men
and women of almost all nationali-
ties.
Already those responsible for
housing and entertaining them are
busy with the puzzle of proper
quarters. 1t has been decided by
some Of the embassies and legations,
those which are the most spacious,
to entertain the parties from their
countries there, the secretaries being
I the ones to be put at the inconvell-
ience of finding accommodations
J where they can for those weeks. The
eayeties attending the conference are
likely to begin the first of November
4 and to continue until the first of
January. The presence here of the
delegates will inspire an earlier
opening of "the little season" than
:, has ever been known before and the
little season. will be merged into
: the real one.
- Senator Hitchcock spent the last
weekend in Atlantic City, where he
:, went to join Mrs. Hitchcock and
Miss Ruth Hitchcock, at the Ritz
4 carlton. where they are for the sea-
i son. When congress takes its recess
he will go there for a good rest.
, Senator and Mrs. Norris are al
ready established in their summer
:. camp in Wisconsin, where their
daughters join them from time to
~ time, one or two remaining with
them all the time, assisting their
mother to nurse their father back to
health. He has been in bad health
for a year.
" Representative and Mrs. Reavis
. will not get out to their home in
n Falls City, Neb., until Christmas, as
the recess time will be so short they
l. they would not be justified in making
the long journey. They expect their
J. two sons, c. Frank jr. and Jack, who
live in Cleveland, to spend the last
t week of this month with them.
John Shanahan. secretary to Rep
;: resentative Jefferis of Omaha, is
planning to make his first visit to
5 Atlantic City when congressional
business here is suspended for a
r month. He will defer his visit home
until Christmas, like many of the
congressman and their families.
}: Representative and Mrs. Jeffcris
h and their daughter, Janet, took an
interesting motor trip to the Endless
Caverns in Virginia recently. Mr..
Jeferis' family will remain east until
Christmas.
Judge and Mrs. Robert E. Evans
find their pretty apartment SO COM
:. Portable that they are loath to leave
c it even for the seashore. They have
not decided whether they will go up
to visit in their old home in Penn
sylvania, make little visit at the
seashore, or just stay in their apart
>. ment and enjoy the quiet.
,, General Pershing is making visit
" in Columbia, S. c. He has as his
:. guest in his luxurious apartment at
= 2029 Connecticut avenue, General
Charles G. Dawes, director of the
budget, who is an old friend. The
Pershing apartment is in the very
- handsome, new building known as
= the apartment house de luxe. 1t is at
the corner of Wyoming avenue and
: Connecticut and commands q view
4 of Rock Creek, Rock Creek park,
u the Georgetown Heights and the
4 city in general if one goes to the
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