The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-10
Jean ELIOT
REPORTS ON
NEWPORT
Finds Mrs. Goetz, Former
ly Antoinette Graves,
the "Prettiest Thing
Bv JEAN ELIOT

Major GOetZ ana Hef aunt
Charles Boughton Wood, as the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Hokan
Steffanson in their cottage-or IS
1t a villa one has at newport!
Mrs. Wood has previously been at
her summer home in Connecticut.
1 also ran into Mrs. water
Bruce Howe at Hazards bedcn,
where most of the army and navy
people. including Major and Mrs.
Lewis Watkins and their guest,
Jean Eliot, go to swim. IL Is
hevond fashionable-and vastly ex-
pensiye-Bailey's Beach-but we
are allowed to use the same ocean.
Mrs. Howe says she has a bath
house at Bailey's, where she SENDS
her guests, but she prefers Haz-
ards. as there is less surf.
Every time / pass the famous
Newport Reading Club see Wood
bury Blair parked on the veranda,
with groups of other elderly gen.
tlemen,. watching the girls pass by.
So far I've caught none OF them
reading.
The fashionable thing to do is
to go to the Casino in the r-iOrning
to- watch tennis and gossip with
ones friends Then between twelve
bathes at Bailey's. Afternoons and
evenings there are parties galore
most of them apparently much Ike
the wintertime parties of Wash
ington and New York.
The life of the summer visitors,
whose magnificent homes skirt Bel
levue avenue and follow the line
of the seas encircling the picturesque
little town of Newport, seems to
be superimposed upon the very
self-contained existence OF the New
porters. Then the Navy group,
which is large and pleasant, seems
to flock pretty much to itself-ab-
sorbing the few Army officers,
who are on duty here and keeping
up quite round Of parties A few
flock with the ''swells" but not
many.
Service People In The
News of Newport
Commander and Mrs. John f.
ShafrotI1, jr.,-they call him Jack
ARE here on duty. He's a son of
former Senator Shafroth and was
recently stationed in Washington.
Colonel W. KearS!ey Sterling. u.
s. A., and Mrs. Stt.ll ling have also
come here recently from Washington
Tor station. He is at the War Col
Iege. but they have a house in
town. They have I. young daughter,
Helen. who is most attractive. and
a son. Jack. probably twenty.
Captain and Mrs Joseph K. Taus-
sig, who are at the Naval Training
Station, are also well and favor
ably known" in Washington. They
are quite prominent here.
Major and Mrs. Fhilfo 81. Worces-
ter. like Major and Mrs. Watkins.
came from the Army War College
at Washington to the Navy War
College here.
Others in the army group are
Colonel w. Lawrence Reed and Mrs.
Reed and their daughters. Daisy
and Landon Colonel Reed is the
son OF Walter Reed. Of hospital
fame.
Brigadier General and Mrs.
George H. Andrews and Miss
Katherine Andrews are here for
the summer and Mrs. Abram Claude,
The Andrews have lived IN Wash
ment-spent last winter in Califor-
mia, but will be in Washington next
year.
Mrs. Thomas Armat, who is here
for the summer, with her boys.
Tommy, jr., and Brooke, has been
Joined by Mr.. Armat to stay
through August His brother, Hun
ter Armat. has been in Newport
with him for few days.
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COCHRANS BUY HOUSE OF
FORMER SENATOR McCUMBER
Mr.. and Mrs. John Baldwin
Cochran have purchased the resi-
dence at 1850 Massachusetts avenue.
formerly owned by former Senator
and Mrs. Porter McCumber, and
will take possession early in Octo.
Der, when Mrs. Cochran returns
from Bar Harbor, Me-, where she
is passing the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. McCumber will
occupy about the same time the
house they are building on Wood
lawn Drive, near where the Drive
and Garfield street intersect. Mr..
and Mrs. McCumber are spending
the summer in town in order to
supervise the construction of their
new home.
Major and Mrs. Thomas r. Larkin
have come to Washington for duty
from Pittsburgh, where they have
recently been stationed, and have
taken a house in Chevy Chase.
Mrs. Larkin was Miss Mary Irwin,
daughter of Commander and Mrs.
Irwin. who have an apartment at
Stoneleigh Court.
GERTRVTOF IVONS RETTTRNc