The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-12
MOVING DAY In
OFFING FOR
SOCIETY
Sale of Houses to Be Fol-
lowed by General
Shift
RH JEAN ELIOT.

house. 1905 New Hampshire ave-
nue.. to Mr.. and Mrs. r. S. Ray
nolds Hit and when the Hits
take possession, presumably in the
autumn, there will be one of those
merry little games of pussy-wants-
a-corner, so popular in Washing
ton, with Dwight Davis, Assistant
Secretary of War, in the role of
Puss. For the house at 1920
Eighteenth street, which Mr.. and
Mrs. Reynolds Hit built, in which
they lived for several years and
which has been leased to Mr.. and
Mrs. Davis for the last two or
three years, has been Sold to Sen
they will probably want to take
possession when moving day
October trolls round.
Senator and Mrs. Edge have
been making their Washington
home in the big. rather old-fash-
toned house at 1926 Rhode Island
avenue, which he occupied before
his marriage to pretty Camilla
Sewall and which before that was
long the headquarters of the Ma
tional Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton. So far as I know, this house,
which belongs to Mrs. Alice Bar
ney, hasn't been rented vet, al
though Studio House, in Sheridan
circle, Mrs. Barney's most pictur-
esque bit of Washington real es-
tate is let, and she sold the fine
big house which Colonel and Mrs.
William Eric Fowler are occupying
to them a year or so ago.
The Kendalls are now moving their
Sares and Penates from the New
nd
sumafly will store them while they
are abroad this summer. They want
to build or buy a country home
near Washington, and have been
looking the ground over for some
time. But so far they haven't found
anything to suit them. If they
build, of course, their new home
will not be ready for them by next
autumn. and in that case I suppose
they'll take another town house for
next winter.
Kauffmanns May Build Near
Sons Home in Tracy Place.
Mr.. and Mrs Victor Kaufman.
who are next door neighbors of the
Kenda1ls on New Hampshire ave-
nue.. have also been threatening to
move for some time. The house is
moreover. Mrs Kaufman would
like to build near the home of her
son and daughter n-law. Mr.. and
Mrs Samuel II. Kaufman, in
Tracy place. As l understand it,
they have the land, but have PIT
off starting work so far because
building costs are at present so
scandalously high.
After. renting their Eighteenth
street house to Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight
Davis. the Reynolds Hits had an
apartment in Sixteenth street for
year or two, and were living there
when their pretty daughter, Miss
Edith Hit. made her debut last
winter. They have, however, been
away for most of the winter just
past. and when they have been in
town have been staying. if I re-
member correctly, with Mr.. Hits
mother. Mrs. Robert r. Hit. at her
house Just oft Dupont Circle.
When Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Par
sons Erwin take possession of
their new home, now a building on
the edge Of Rock Creek Park,
which will probably be on their re-
turn from Europe in the early fall,
there will doubtless be another
ehake-up. For since their mar
rage, they have been occupying
Graystone. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Armat's residence just over the hill
from their new home 1t may be
that the Armats. who are now
living in an apartment, may decide
10 go back into Graystone when it
is vacated, but if they don't they
wont have the slightest difficulty
in renting it. The house is
charming and most picturesquely
situated, with Rock Creek at it's
feet and the park stretching away
rs a playground. Former Secre-
tary and Mrs. Hughes had Gray
stone one summer and Mrs. Anne
ArchSold occupied it when she first
came to Washington and before
she built her Italian villa on in the
hills back of Western High School.