The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-19
Makers of History
Present in Spirit
at Breakfast.
By JEAN ELIOT.


at RauScher's today, at which
their descendants to the third
and fourth generation and beyond
were guests:
The breakfast was arranged by
the Washington Committee Of the
jefferson Memorial Foundation
to help raise Washington's quota
toward the purchase of Monticello
and its conversion into a ma
tional shrine.
Several hundred guests as
sembled, official, diplomatic and
resident society being present in
happy proportion and there were
many visitors from other cities.
The Navy Band played a medley
of patriotic airs as the company
came together in the small ball
room, which was charmingly
decorated. with feathery greens;
and they were welcomed by Mrs.
Minnigerodev Andrews, chairman
of the Washington branch Of the
Memorial Foundation, with the
three members of the breakfast
committee, Mrs. Walter Tucker
man, Mrs. Richard Crenshaw and
Mrs. Wilkins Benoist Shields.
Each Of these ladies was hos.
tess at table dedicated to the
memory of a distinguished ances-
tor. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was
a guest at one of the. two tables
over which Mrs. Andrews and
her daughter-in.law, Mrs. Elipha-
let Frazer Andrews, presided,
many Of her Virginia cousins, the
Randolphs. the Bollings, the Bev
erleys. the Lees and the Carriers
being also guests. One table was
named for Robert Boiling of Dol
lingbroke" and the. other for Valen-
tine Peyton, to whom was as.
signed the original grant Of land
on which Mrs. Andrews modern
home, Vancluse, now stands.
Flowers from Vaucluse and old
Randolph silver were used by
way of decorations.
Mrs. Tuckerman was assisted
by her cousin, Nine. Ekengren,
and they were hoStesses to a dis
tinguished group of guests at a
table named for Oliver ~Wolcott,
early governor of Connecticut.
Mrs. Shields was identified with
her cousin, Miss Cooke, at the
Gen. John Hartwell Cooke table.
Mrs. Crenshaw presided at the
Princeton table in the name of her
ancestor, Jonathan Dickinson, first
president of Princeton; and the
centerpiece of the table was a
splendid silver loving cup loaned
by Princeton's most distinguished
ex-president, Woodrow Wilson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Winthrop M.
Daniels-the former once profes-
sor at Princeton-were guests at
his tables as were Henry E. Davis,
Mrs. McEwen Johnson, Mrs. Sid
ney Andrews, Mrs. c. G. Marbury,
Mrs. James Turner and Mrs.
Hitchcock.
IN the center of the great mirror.
lined ballroom, where luncheon
was served, stood the six Presi-
Dental tables, dedicated to Wash
ington, Adams. jefferson, Madi-
son, Monroe and John Quincy
Adams. Over these presided rep
resentatives Of these distinguished
names and each table was deco
interest. At the Washington ia
BILE, the centerpiece of which was
formed by a bit of brocade from
one of Lady Washington's gowns,
the shostesses were Miss Withers,
pretty Miss Patty Washington
and Mrs. Montgomery Macomb.
who bears a striking resemblance
to. her g-eat-great-aunt, Martha
Washington.
Among the guests here were:
Miss Agnes Peter, OF Tudor Place,
direct descendant Of Martha
Washington and heir to some OF
the rare Washington relics which
decorated the table; Miss Frances
Washington Weeks, Mrs. Leland
Stanford Conness and her cousin,
Miss Lucy Austin Thornton. Mrs.
CONFESS, whose father was the
late 'Ch a m pc Brockenbrough
Thornton and whose mother was
Miss Laura Stettinius, and Miss
Thornton are descendants of Bot
ty Washington and Col. Fielding
Lewis.
Mrs. Wood was hostess at the
Adams table, Miss Burke at the
jefferson table, with Mrs. Nit
chell Carroll representing the
Madisons and Mrs. Harry Free
man Clark the Monroe table.
THE John Quincy Adams table
was under the auspices Of
George Washington University,
he having shown considerable in
terest in the institution in its
infancy. Mrs. Howard Hodgkins
was hostess here and also at the
Lafayette table, at which the
French Ambassador and Nine.
Jusserand were honor guests.
With his usual graciousness, the
ambassador responded to g. toast.
Jefferson in France" proposed
by the POSTMASTER, Judge Milton
Elliott. ---.,,
Many Of the signers Of the
Declaration of independence were
represented by their own de-
scendants-the Masons and the
Marshalls, Josiah Bartlett, Thomas
Mann Randolph, Governor Brad
ford, John Taliaferro, Richard
Henry Lee, William Randolph,
Robert Randolph, the ancient
Scottish houses of Bruce and
Frazer, the Benjamin Franklins.
the Schuylers, the LiVingstons,
the GouVeneurs and a grist of
others.
The patriotic societies were
nobly represented, the Colonial
Danes in both societies assembling
distin gIIiHhed rrOIlna. tha Do,,.wIs