The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-26
CABINET GROUP
SHIFTS FROM
DAY TO DAY
Several Cabineteers Are
Anchored in Town
for Summer
By JEAN ELIOT

A THOUGH the Cabinet group
Az shifts from week to week, the
"A Secretary of State and Mrs.
Kellogg, the Postmaster General anu
Mrs. New and the Secretary OF com
merce and Mrs. Hoover are remain
ing in town all through the summer
All are happily situated TO
weather the dog days, for Seere'
tary and Mrs. Kellogg are oc'
cupying the pleasant home OF tns
Undersecretary of State ana Mrs.
Joseph Grew In Woodland Drive.
Postmaster General and Mrs. New
place. Hemlock Hedge. is as rustic
and woodsy in its setting as though
Il were deep in the country ana
the Hoovers' house, although IL
A. situated in the heart of town
s Street hard by the home O!
the late President Wilson-looks
out over a shady terrace, deIgnt-
fui garden and a grove OF Tor
est trees which give them all me
privacy and pleasant GOODNESS OF
suburban estate.
While none of them are dcinS
Anything which might legitimateiy
be called entertaining, the Kellogss,
the News and the Hoovers frequent
~ have a guest or two with them
for luncheaon or dinner, the meal
ofttimes being served on the terrace
ar In the garden. And Mrs. Hoo
YER had quite an ambitious hncheon
party last week for the Misses Mil
bred Katherine and Eleanor Huston,
daughters of G. r. Huston, former
Assistant Secretary of Commerce,
whose visit to Washington at the
time that Mrs. Thomas Riley Mar
shall and Mrs. Champ Clark were
in town helped revive echoes or
the Wilson administration.
DIR. Work Home Again
DR.. Hubert Work, Secretary of the
Interior, who has been making an
Inspection of the national parks and
played host to the Crown Prince and
Crown Princess of Sweden at Vel
lowstone, returned to Washington
fust as the Secretary of War and
the Secretary of the Navy were set
ting forth on their travels. Secre-
tary Of War Davis, who was Presi-
dent Coolidge's first official visitor
at White Pine Camp, Is at Islesboro,
Dark Harbor, Me-, for a short stay
with Mrs. Davis and the children
lie IL combining business with pleas
ure on this trip, having made in
spections OF the civilian training
camps at Plattsburg and Fort Ethan
Allan. Secretary. Wilbur, OF the
Navy, who was the guest OF Presi-
dent Coolidge over Sunday, Is now
heading westward and will visit
Alaska before joining Mrs. Wilbur
and Miss Edna Wilbur at their Cali
fornia home. Even official duties
viii hardly dull the edge OF pleasure
Of a trip to Alaska in August.
Attorney General Sargent, now in
town, Is making tentative plans to
90 early in August to Vermont where
Mrs. Sargent has been through the
summer. Secretary Mellon, OF the
Treasury, Is spending his vacation
abroad, motoring In leisurely fashion
toward Rome. where he is to visit
his son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. David X. Este Bruce. Score.
fzry Jardlne, OF Agriculture, IL at
present with Mrs. Jardine at South
ampton. Long Island, and Secretary
Davis. Of Labor, with his family at
Mooseheart. i'll.
Secretary Jardine will be a judi )
a. the twentieth annual flower show
% the Southampton Horticultural So
elsty at Agawam Park next Thurs
day and Friday. The Jardines have
the Abnev cottage in the Shinnecock
Hills back OF southampton for the
summer, and Mr.. Jardine, who has
several engagements to speak in
New England during the next few
weeks, will make his headquarters
there for the present.