Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-11
BALL PLANNED
FOR INAUGURAL
BENEFIT EVENT
Strangers Visiting National
Capital Not to Be Dis
appointed.
MRS. MARSHALL ACTIVE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-Washington
win have an inaugural ball after all. The
society women Of the Capital have de-
cided that the thousands of strangers
within it's gates shall not be disappoint-
ed and they have arranged for brilliant
charity ball to take the place Of the
purely formal function which once ended
Inauguration day, sometimes rather dis
mally.
Instead Of the old Pension Office, with
its draughts and discomforts, the com
mittee has taken the entire top floor Of
the Hotel New Willard, and its two great
bathrooms. There the visitors to Wash
ington for Mr. Harding's inaugural may
dance the night away to the music OF
the famous Marine Band and in gala
company with Washington's smartest so
ciety-diplomats, Cabinet members, Su-
preme Court justices, Senators. generals
and sdmirals, and social leaders.
PROCEEDS TO GO TO
CHILD WELFARE SOCIETY.
The entire proceeds will go to the Child
Welfare Society, one of Washin gton's
most deserving charities. All the ex-
penses of the ball have been underwrit-
ten by some Of the wealthy residents Of
Washington who are interested in this
Washington institution, now known ma
tionaly as a model plant for the better
ment Of child life among the city poor.
One Of the happy features Of the af-
fair is that outgoing oficialdom will en-
terrain the newcomers, something wholly
new In Washington. Instead of making
a Decline for the railway station, many
of the departing Administration are to be
hosts and hOstesses for the Republican
officials and their wives. For example,
Vice President and Mrs. Marshall have
invited Vice President-elect and Mrs.
Coolidge to their box. Several of the
Cabinet ladies viii entertain coming
Cabinet families, and the committee has
sent invitations to the Governors Of the
States and their wives. Justice Mercy
holds Of the Supreme Court will have the
visiting jurists in his box All in diplo-
matte circles have been invited, also, as
guests of the smart set.
MRS. MARSHALL
CHAIRMAN.
Mrs. Marshall, wife of the retiring
Vice President, vice president Of the
Child Welfare Society, is chairman of
the committee on boxes. In spite Of the
almost continuous round of festivities in
her honor these last few weeks of the
present Administration, she has devoted
her time to the ball with such success
that the sale of the boxes has been IN
extra ones to the regular number.
This demand has come from all over
the United States. Among others who
will be box-holders are:
Henry Oxnard. Mrs. Hope Slater, Mrs.
William L. mcfarland. Col. Robert NJ.
Thompson. and Representative and Mrs.
Thomas B. Dunn Of New York; Mrs.
George Mesta. Mrs. Wilfrid Dupuy, and
Mrs. Henry Rea Of Pittsburgh; Mrs.
Thomas F. Logan, Representative and
Mrs. Ira Copley. and Col. Francis T A.
Junkin Of Chicago; Senator Phelan, San
Francisco; Mrs. Delos s. Blod gett, Grand
Rapids, Mich; John Batcheldor, Paris,
France; Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood.
Connecticut; Mrs. George D. Hope, Kan
sas City. No; Nine. Rafael Gown, Ha
vana, Cuba; Mrs. John HAYS Hammond,
Magnolia, Mass; Justice McReynOlds Of
= the Supreme Court; Mrs. Thomas F.
Walsh, Colorado and Washington Sen
ator James ". Wadsworth Jr.. Geneseo
N 7; Mrs. Stephen Y. Elkins. West Yir-
ginia; Vice President and Mrs. Thomas
p. Marshall; Mrs. Charles T. Warren,
Santa Barbara, Cal; Mrs. Joseph
Hampson, New Mexico; Senator Walsh,
Montana; Senator and Mrs. Owen, Ok
lahoma; Senator and Mrs. Phipps, Colo
RADIO; Senator and Mrs Keyes, New