Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-01
PRINCES ANDPOOR
ALIKE SHARE GLAD
COOLIDGE GREETING
Happy New Year" Is Given
All at White House Portal
in CoIorfuI Affair.
PRESIDENTS RECEPTION
MARKED BY SPLENDOR
Vivid Uniforms Lend Color to
Scene to Newly Decorated
Main Foyer.

In a. setting distinctly reminiscent
OF the colonial days when the Gus
tom was first founded. the President
and Mrs. Coolidge received and ex-
changed the salutations of the world
today when an all but endless chain
Of men and women from both the
high and the low places of life moved
through the welcoming portals of the
White House for the traditional New
Year reception.
All of the spontaneous sincerity and
colorful splendor that has made the
Presidents New Year reception ma
tional heirloom. handed down from
the first administration of George
Washington was preserved today and
the newly decorated main foyer,
where the former French decorative
scheme has given way To the buff
and white of early America. lent
charming atmosphere to the gay
scene.
Princes and PauperS.
Princes and potentates of the Old
World, their more modest counter
parts in the New, members of patri-
otic orga anizations that came into
being as American history wrote its
story in the halls of the immortals,
officers OF the Army. Navy and Ma
rine Corps, still wearing the honor
rhevrons OF their Nations last great
war. and then the eager, palpitatin-
public, overjoyed yet timid at the
prospect of wishing the President and
MS charming first lady
Happy New Year
Nothing but the usual holiday dec
orations festooned the big, dignitied
columns and walls of the great foyer
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arrive. None was needed. On either
side of the main entrance sat the
orchestra of the United States Ma
rine Band, almost regal in their bril-
liant uniforms of scarlet and blue.
Each section of the orchestra played
alternately while awaiting the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Coolidge.
Flashing Uniforms
Within the Executive Mansion gath
cred in the spacious -tSast rooEa-and
FOYER, both known and enheared to
every tourist that has passed through
Washington, were assembled the mem
bers of the diplomatic corps, Ambas-
sadors and Ministers wearing the
flashing uniforms Of their Office, with
sterling silver, gold and jewelstud-
ded swords clinking musically at their
sides and medals of bravery and merit
shining from goId-braided breasts.
Outside denied immediate entrance
because there no longer remained suf-
hcient room even in the wide halls OF
the White House. waited officers OF
the armed services. members of pa
:. rriotic societies, the Association Of
Oldest habitants, and then the cltl-
Zens of America A benevolent. sun
drove cold winds away and made of
this New Year day one OF the hnest
IN years.
Although it was previously an
nounced that the President and Mrs.
Coolidge would not begin to receive
he general public before ! o'clock,
men and women began to assemble
before the Pennsylvania avenue gates
before II o'clock and policemen who
have handled crowds of New Year re-
ceptions for many years, predicted
that the throng this year would come
near TO establishing record. Those
who arrived early We're given plenty
70 entertain them. however, as the
cars of ambassadors swept up the
drive of the White House. one after
another,
Trumpets Announce Hosts.
1t was II o'clock when a fanfare OF
Crumpets announced the presence of
the Pl esident and Mrs. Coolidge, who
walked hurriedly to the blue room, ac
companied by the military and naval
aides. who made the presentations,
and those members OF the cabinet
who have returned TO the National
Capital from holiday vacations else
where The director of the budget,
the diplomatic corps and the director
general OF the Pan-AmeriCan Union
We're the first TO be received after the
cabinet.
BY virtue of his rank rs dean of the
diplomatic corps. Senor Don Juan
Rfano V GayanSos. cha mberlain to the
King of Spain and Ambassador EX-
lraordinary and Plenipotentiary. and
his staff was given the honor leading
the procession Of brilliantly uniformed
diplomats through the blue room.
where the President and Mrs. Coolidge
greeted each with genuine cordiality.
Next followed the Ambassador of
Chile, whose country is so much in
the limelight over the Tacna-Arica dis
Dute: the Baron de Cartier de Mar
chienne Amha ssador from Belgium:
Sir Esme Howard Of Great Britain
and the other diplomats in the order
of their precedence.
The Chief Justice of the United
States Supreme Court, himself once
President of The United States. ana
the associate justices, the presiding
Judge and associate judges of the
Court of Customs Appeals the chief
Justice and associate justices of the
court Oh Appears. OF the DlSlrlCt OF Co
Iumbia, the chief justice and the asso-
ctate justices of the Court of Claims.
and the chief justice and associate Jus
tees of the supreme Court OF the Dis
trict of Columbia We're next in line.
Members of Congress.
They were followed Immediately by
Senator's and Representatives in Con
gress: the librarian OF Congress; Army
Navy ,~d Marine Corps officers; the
staff ne commanding general of
the D- ,.t militia the Coast Guard.
The Public Health Service and the
Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Off
GERS of these organizations down to
and including the grade of lieutenant
colonel and commander. Next came
bureau chiefs of the Government
Offices.
The Society of the Cincinnati led the
section Tor patriotic organizations,
followed n order by the Aztec Club
Of 1S47. re Associated Veterans of the
Var of -s46 81 the Military Order of
the LJyaI Legion of the United States,
us The GRAND Arnv of the Republic, the
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