The New York herald., 1921-05-01
PRINCE OF MONACO FETED BY
SCIENTISTS IN WASHINGTON
Round Of Parties Given in His Honor-Venezuelan
Mission Flies Over Mount Vernon and Drops
Wreaths-Socal Notes


sion. DIR. Manuel Segundo Sanchez. di'
rector Of the National Library OF Ven.
eZuela, entertained in honor of DR.. Este
ban Gil Borges, who is the Minister of
Foreign Relations of Venezuela ano
| heads the mission. That, too. was Q
very formal, highly official dinner, the
| guests being almost entirely connected
with Latin American diplomacy or with
| Georgetown University, which honored
| DIR. Gil-Borges with its liz d. On
| Wednesday Mrs. Stewart Johnson, whose
| husband was Charge d'Affaires of the
| United States Legation in Venezuela, en-
/ tertained at an afternoon reception for
| the mission and on Thursday Nine
| Francisco Yanes. wife of the assistant
director OF the PanAmerican Union
entertained the women of the mission
at luncheon at Rauscher's. while DR..
| Rowe, director of the union, enter
tanned the men at the Metropolitan Club
| Then last night started series of din
ners at the legations of Venezuela, CO.
lombia and Ecuador. which will wind up
with DIR. Gil-Borges giving big dinner
/ party at the Shoreham on Tuesday night
and the Peruvian Ambassador and Sc
nora de PeZet one at the Pan-Amerlcan
/ on Wednesday night.
The present plan is to let the trip TO
Mount Vernon next Thursday close the
visit. After leaving Washington the
mission will scatter. DR.. Gil-Borges Is
to go out to Kentucky to make official
/ obeisance at the grave of Henry Clay
| for it seems that it was he who first
| preached the doctrine of Pan-AmerfcN
| ism-and while his own countrymen
| have forgotten that fact their Latin
| American neighbors have not, and a
visit to the grave of Henry Clay was in
| cluded in DR.. Gil-Barges's official pro-
! gramme. After that he will remain in
this country for perhaps couple oil
months.
Dinners for Mr.. and Mrs. Hughes
Secretary and Mrs. Hughes-now that
/ the latter has come to town and her
husband is no longer living at a hotel
are in a fair way to rival the Coolidges
as storm centres of entertaining. Every
body is trying to give dinners for them
their old friends merely by way OF
welcoming them back, and people who
did not know them at that time by
way of making an immediate inn
| bression. They have dinner dates
every night in the week. Along in the
middle of the week Secretary Hughes
was for about twenty-four hours act
| ing President" and the ranking execu-
| tive official in washington, with the
|
coming and reviewing the fleet and tho
President at Pittsburgh helping
along the Carnegie Institutes celebra-
! ton of Founders Day.
Both the Presidential party on the
| Mayfower and the Vice-Presidential
party on It's private car got off Wednes-
| day evening, and as the Secretaries or
the Navy and Treasury were included
/ in one or the other, Washington seemed
rather short of high executives over
Thursday. Society was naturally rather
more interested in the Mayffower's trip
| to Norfolk than in the little official
party that went to Pittsburgh. For IL
was President Harding's first official
trip in his official yacht and as Mrs.
Harding was to go along. naturally an
official party would be entertained and
there would be great doings down at
| Norfolk, which had last welcomed the
| President on his way up from Florida
before the inauguration.
Probably every woman in Washington
| cnvied Mrs. Medill Mccormick and Mrs
James w. Wadsworth when it was
| known that they would be the only
women to accompany Mrs. Harding on
the trip. Both came out of Ohio as girls
| MRS. Mccormick was Ruth Hanna, you
know Senator Mark Hanna's daughter.
and Mrs. Wadsworth was Helen Hay,
| daughter OF John Hay, both identified
with the Mckinley regime) but whether
the fact that they are both native daugh-
| ters of the Presidents own State had
anything to do with their getting the
coveted invitation. or whether It was
purely on the basis of their husbands
| politics and committee assignments in
the Senate. deponent sayeth not, not
/ knowing. The two are close friends and
nave been from girlhood
Thursday was the first day OF this
| Administration. so far that the flag has
not foated over the White House, ind'-
eating that the President was in resi-
dence. BY the time the department
clerks were hurrying past the White
House on their way to work on Friday
morning the President was already back
at his desk. and Mrs Harding was look
ing well to her household as is her wont
After the polo game on Monday l saw
the one time President and Mrs Wilson
pass with Miss Margaret Wilson in the
| automobile with them. Mr.. Wilson
looked pretty well and responded smil-
ingly to greetings that came from all
sides.