The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-24
SEND OFF, FOR
DAW E S IS
PREPARED
Delegation Coming From
Illinois for Inauguration
Ceremonies
-HE inauguration of the Vice

-HE Inauguration of the Vice
President of these Un1tei
States will be made a more
or less ceremonious and gala oc'
casion. whether the Presidents in
stallation is or not. General Dawes
friends will see to that. Two train
loads of his supporters, business
and political, with members OF his
family and group OF his spec1a,
friends. are bearing down upon the
Capital with but one thought In
their minds-to give proper SEND
off to this financier who is also q
soldier and a statesman-the firsC
American since Alexander Ham1l-
ton to achieve so much In three
such divergent directions-and VINO
is now Vice President-elect.
The vanguard of the Dawes
division" will arrive on Sunday,
the party including among others
the Vice President-elect. Mrs.
Dawes, and the two younger mem
bers of the family, Virginia ana
Dana Dawes. haven't heard
definitely whether or not General
and Mrs. Dawes daughter. Mrs.
Ericsson, is coming, but presumably
she'll be here to see her father
sworn in.
The children, I'm told, are wild
with excitement at the prospect.
Under the wing Of a governess they
accompanied General Dawes on
many of his campaign trips last
summer and they really feel that
they had a hand in the Vice Presi-
dents election. It was after the
accidental drowning OF General and
Mrs. Dawes only son, Rufus, that
these two youngsters, then mere
babies, were taken into their heart
and home And, although there has
been no effort made to keep from
them the fact that they were adopt
ed. General and Mrs. Dawes seem
to have as much affection tor the
children as though they were their
own and they are in turn adored by
them both. The name Dana, be-
slowed upon the boy. is an old
family name, and Virginia has al
ways been favorite with Mrs.
Dawes.
General Dawes and his household
are putting up at the Willard
where they lived during the period
that he was Director OF the Budget.
But reservations nave been made
for q. party of fifty at the Dawes
s'rooters'' at the fine new May
flower Hotel. which, it appears. is
likely to be the hub Of the political
universe during the inauguration
period.
Business Associates To Sec
New Vice President Sworn In.
Headed by the Generals brother,
Rufus Cutler Dawes, Of Chicago,
pretty nearly the entire directorate
of the new Vice Presidents bank,
the Central Trust Company, of ILL.,
nois, are coming on for the cere-
monies, many Of them accompanied
by their womenfolk. They are due
on March 8, coming in a special
train over the Pennsylvania, with
some of the Generals closest
friends; and, as / understand 1t, the
Baltimore and Ohio is dispatching
another train filled up with the
political supporters Of the new Vice
President
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Dawes-he
was until recently Comptroller OF
the currency-have already arrived
in town and the third brother, Be-
man Gates Dawes, Is coming from
his home in Columbus, Ohio. He,
II will be remembered, was form
erly in the House of Representa-
tives, carrying on the traditions Of
q family which has sent its sons to
Congress for five generations.
A member of the Dawes party
whose visit will be Of especial inter-
eat to Washington is young George
Bruce Cortelyon, jr.. now a resident
Of Chicago and a member Of Cen
eral Dawes business staff. Son OF
@. B. Cortelyou. who was sue
cessively secretary to President
Roosevelt, Secretary of Commerce
and Labor and Secretary of the
Treasury, Bruce Cortelyou grew up
In Washington and has many
friends here. On this occasion he
is bringing his wife with him--a
wife whom he has acquired, l be-
Heve, since he was last in Wash
ington-and some of his old friends
are hopeful that even at this
crowded season they may have OPP
portunity to meet her. Mrs. COrtel-
you was a Mobile girl and is said
to be charming.
In spite of his preoccupation with
business Bruce Cortelyou has been
described to me as a politically
minded person-he should come
honestly by a taste and an aptitude
for pOlitics-and 1t has been sug-