The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-16
Americans Going
to Jubilee in
! Holland

SO1OIuB ally OLAAS4A1 uStcBdI0S
to the jubilee of Queen Wilhel-
nina OF Holland this summer-it
&, has been decided that foreign
governments are to be represent
ed by their accredited diplomatic
envoys-a number of Americans
are going over as emissaries of
Dutch.Americal1 patriotic organi-
cations. And I understand that
Mrs. James Carroll Frazer, Of
Washington, is to visit the Meth
erlands at jubilee time. She will
not have any official status, but
born Van Rensselaer,, she will
, undoubtedly be made much Of as
q representative of one of the
oldest Knickerbocker families in
this country.
s. J. Simmons, of New York, Is
to attend the celebration as on
behalf of the Holland Society and
the st. Nicholas Society; and the
Huguenot- Walloon New Neither
lands Commission, sub-commis-
sion OF the Federal Council OF
Churches, will have a delegation
taking part in the ceremonies as
the climax of the pilgrimage to
the old country being organized
this year. This pilgrimage, be-
lieve, is preliminary to the cele-
bration the commission Is arrang-
inr for 1924 to commemorate the
arrival of the first vessels bring
ing Dutch settlers for New Am
sterdam.
It doesn't seem possible that
wiIhelmina has been Queen or
Holland for twenty-five years.
And yet it was on August 81
1898, that she celebrated her
eighteenth birthday and became
ruler in fact as well as in name,
after having been titular ruler OF
Holland since her fathers death
In 1890 with her mother, Queen
Emma. as regent. The jubilee
viii begin on the queens birth
day and will last through Sep
TENDER s, the anniversary Of the
actual day on which Queen VII
helmina took over the reins OF
government.
Detailed plans for the celebra-
ton have not yet reached this
country, but it seems that 1t
fl to be national in scope and the
Queen will visit. a number OF
cities, notably Amsterdam and
The Hague, during festival week.
Elaborate ceremonials at Inc
Hague on September 6 will bring
the Jubilee TO close.
The people of The Netherlands
have raised a considerable sum
OF money as gift to their Queen
and have decided to expend 1t on
the restoration of the choir OF
the old church in Delft in which
William the Silent, founder or
the present dynasty, is buried.
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THERE'S a movement on foot to
L keep the Celesias - Andrea
Geisser Celesia, retiring secretary
of the Italian embassy-and his
charming wife, here dead or
alfve''-and apparently they are.
to be killed rwith kindness. There
isn't a day between now and the
time of their departure without
fits party in their honor, and some
times there are two or three. Last
evening Mr.. and Mrs. William
Stuart Reyburn entertained q
large company of guests at din
ner for M. and Nine. Celesia. On
Wednesday they are dining with
the Spanish Ambassador and Nine.
de Riano-I don't know that this
party is specifically in their
honor-and on Saturday Mr.. and
Mrs. Franklin Ellis are having a
party for them. On Sunday they
will be entertained by the Military
Attache of the Italian embassy
and the Marquise di BerneZzO, on
Monday, April %, by the counse-
Tor, Signor Rosso, and on Wednes-
day, April Is, by the Italian am
bassador, Prince Gelasio Caetani,
who is giving a supper dance at
his apartment in Massachusetts,
avenue. Senior Cardenas, Of the
Spanish embassy, will have q party
for them on April q.
Yesterday, moreover, NJ. and
Nine. Celesia had a farewell party
of their own, entertaining at
luncheon at the Montgomery
Country Club for some 100 guests.
An orchestra played and the
guests fingered to dance until
nearly s o'clock.
Among the guests were the
Spanish Ambassador and Nine.
;Riano, the Italian ambassador.
, Prince Caetani; the Minister Of
Sweden and Nine. Wallenberg; the
counsellor of the Spanish embassy,
Senior Cardenas; the charge daft
fairies of the Argentine embassy,
Felipe Espil; the Secretary Of the
Rumanian Legation and Nine.
Nano, Miss Ailsa Mellon, the Coun-
Selor of the British Embassy and
Mrs. Henry Getty Chiffon, the
Commercial Counselor and Mrs.
John Joyce Broderick, Senator and
Mrs. Peter GOelet Gerry, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Stuart Reyburn, Mr..
and Mrs. Sylvanus Stokes, jr., Mr..
and Mrs. Breckenridge Long, Mrs.