The Washington times., 1926-08-18
OLD MANSION
SCENE OF
WEDDING
Marriage of Frances De
Wolf Hopkins Takes
Place on Pacific Coast

CROM the Pacific Coast comes
the news of the marriage on
Monday of Miss Frances De Won
Hopkins, daughter of DR.. Alfred r.
HOPKINS. Of Washington. and Pnllip
G. Cabin. native son" OF the
Golden State.
Miss Hopkins was married very
nuietlv at Ell Cerrito Rancho, IN
Contra Costa county, the PIC
fnresoue adobe mansion built ny
fl,e great-great-g grandfather or the
hrideeroon1. Don Victor Castro, IN
The early days of California.
Center of Gayety-
pon Castro came to the Pacific
eoast from Madrid to be master
Of certain large grants OF laIu
hastoyed upon him by the Spanish
eovernment. He built FL Cerrlto
Sancbo shortly after his arrival
end the place became the center
~ the social life of the Spanish
r-af,fornians of the time. His vast
estates included the present site
~ oakland sand Berkeley. MIR.
.CSa1nin has, in fact, still In ms
nossession some of the Berkeley
lands, originally owned by ms
family. and it is at Berkeley that
he win make his home with his
bride.
Plans Are Changed
The wedding was to nave taken
aiace in Washington but as Mr..
Cabin was detained on the coast
nv business the plans were changed.
Miss Hopkins has for the past two
wears made her home in San
Francisco with her mother, Mrs.
: c. B. Lewis.
Her sister, Miss Nancy Hopkins.
went on from Washington to at
tend the wedding. She plans to
return early In the fall to re-
enter school here.
The bride and her sister are
nfeces of Charles Dana Gibson.
Their mother was before her mar
rage Miss Anne De Wolf Gibson.
Mr., W. Irving Glover, assistant
postmaster general, will return to
his apartment at Wardman Park
Hotel on Monday after spending the
week with Mrs. Glover and their
children at Eaglesmere; Pennsyl-
vania.
PITTSBURGH BELLE
PLANS DANCE
Miss Sarah Mellon, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Richard 8. Mellon, OF
Pittsburgh, who are spending the
summer at Southampton, L. l., will
give a dance next Friday evening
at the Orchard. the James Lawrence
Breeze villa in Hill Street, for her
house guests and members OF the
younger set.
Miss Mellon, who was presented
at court in Great Britain in the.
summer OF 1924, has been identified
with activities of the younger set
in Pittsburgh, New York and Wash
ington. Last May she was a brides
maid for Miss Alice Mellon, daugh-
ter OF the Secretary of the Treas
ury, at her marriage to David K.
-. Bruce. SON Of the Senator from
Maryland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett II
are in New York from their sum-
.mer hcEFe. Hill Garth, at White
fsxe. N. Y. They will sail today
on the Mauritania.
Representative Richard s. Aid.
Mrs. Aldrich in New York. Mrs.
AIdrich arrived on the George
Washington yesterday from abroad.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Cattle, Of
Lond0n, England. who have been
the guests of the latter's sister.
Mrs. Robert n. Stanfield, wife Of
Senator Stanfield. at their home in
Portland, Greg, passed through
Washington yesterday.
They were on their way to New
York whence they will sail in the
CORONA for their home. They have
been in America on an extensive
visit.
Senator Mcclellan who lives at
the Willard while in Washington,
has returned to his home in Ten
nessee for a short visit. He plans
70 return here early in the fall.
y
Walter S. Penfield entertained in
formally at luncheon yesterday on
the Willard roof.