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! PUT ON SPEED.
Sparrows Point Steel Mills Go to
IS Per Cent of Capacity.

BALTIMORE, August (special) -
The Sparrows Point plant of the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation started
this month operating at S5 per cent OF
capacity, rate we'll above the III
per cent reported today for the cor
poration as a whole.
Current operations indicate that the
corporation will enter the fourth
quarter of the year with a consider
ably higher operating rate. Business
is said to be developing in satisfactory
volume and September usually wit.
Eesses a seasonal buying movement.
Untitled orders of the corporation on
August / were above the July figure.
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WILL REDEEM BONDS.

NEW YORK, August Z R).-The
Compania Central America has noti-
fed holders of it's per cent sinking
fund bonds that it will redeem on
is $15s,OOO of the bonds
due July /, 1925. Redemption will
be at face value and accrued interest.
The National City Bank of New York
is trustee.
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NEW YORK, August R.-For-
eign exchanges irregular; quotation in
cents: Great Britain, demand, Assn;
cables, 1854; 60-day bills on banks,
4S1 1916. France, demand, 800;
cables, sol. Italy, demand, 1864;
cables, 3.37 1902.
Demand: Belgium. 2.S4; Germany,
20. SOY; Holland, 1000; Norway, 21.90;
Sweden, 2675; Denmark. 26.32: Swift
zerland, 1892; Spain, 1910; Greece,
1.11h; Poland, 11.5O; Czechoslovakia.
2.96; Jugoslayia,. LIT; Austria. 14.121a;
Rumania, .46A; Argentina, 40.43;
Brazil, 1543; Toxic. 47.72; Shanghai,
SO. so; Montreal, 5.32 premium.
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Markets at a Glance

NEW YORK OFD.-Stocks, strong;
Atchison, New York Central and
Southern Railway at new highs.
Bonds, firm; French issues higher.
Foreign exchanges, irregular; French
and Belgian francs easier. Cotton,
lower; favorable weather. Sugar and
coffee, holiday.
CHICAGO-Wheat Lower; sympa-
thy with Winnipeg. Corn: Barely
steady; better weather outlook. Cattle:
Dull. Hogs: Steady.
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BONDS UNCHANGED,

NEW YORK, August z R.-The
average price of Sc representative
bonds showed virtually no change
during the last month, says the Index
of Security Prices, compiled by the
New York Trust Co. An increase of
l.25 points in the stock list, including
113 representative issues, was indi.
Gated.
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OFFERS EXCHANGE.

NEW YORK, August Z R.-The
Gas & Electric Co. has
it's offer to purchase the hold
ings of common stock of the PennsyI-
vania Electric Corporation. The AS
ISOLATED Co. now owns more than SO
per cent of the stock in the Pennsyl-
vania Co. AS an alternative to selling,
individual owners may exchange their
stock share for share for per cent
preferred stock of the Associated Co.
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POTATO MARKET STEADY,

CHICAGO, August Up.-Potatoes
Receipts, SO cars; total United
States shipments, 45S; on track, 1870
trading fair, market about steady
Kansas and Missouri sacked cobblers
1.60a1.75: ordinary, 1.35a1.55; Mime.
sofa, sacked early Ohios, 1.5Oa1.6 SIS. e
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PROFIT rs $1,6o7,11s.

NEW YORK, August R.-The
Pan-American Western Petroleum Co.,
with its subsidiaries, for the six
months ended June 80, earned a net
profit of 81 ,627, 11S, says report made
public today. This after the usual de-
auctions is equal to 1925 share on
500 .010 no-par shares of the combined
class IA" and class "B'' stocks.
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BUYS STEAMSHIPS.

BALTIMORE, August z (SpeciaD.-
The Merchants & Miners Transpor-
tation Co. has purchased the steam-
ship Lake Helen from the Consoli-
dated Navigation Co. and has added
the vessel to its Baltimore-F Florida
service. The vessel, 3,500-ton craft,
will be renamed the York and will
sail from Baltimore with freight for
Jacksonville and West Palm Beach
next Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON GRAIN.

The following prices of grain, hay
and straw were quoted in the Wash
ington market today:
Hay-Western, "a ton. No quo
tations on nearby product.
Straw-Wheat, IL; rye, IA.
Grain-Wheat, No. 2, garlicky, 1870;
corn, red or white, on cob. 4.30.
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COTTON GOODS STEADY.

NEW YORK, August z tSpeciaD.-
Cotton goods markets closed the week
on good volume of trading, with
print cloth quotations steady at tx
for 64x60s and SIS for 6Sx72's. Raw
silks were quiet and unchanged.
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BANK CLEARINGS.

NEW YORK, August z (SpeciaD.-
New York bank cleaIings, $685., O0O,-
900; New York bank balances, $82,-
000,0 600; New York Federal Reserve
Bank credits, $76,000,0 900.
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BOSTON STOCK MARKET

BOSTON, August Following is
a list of today's highest, lowest and
closing prices for the most active
stocks dealt in here:
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CHICAGO STOCK MARKET.

CHICAGO-August 7.-Following is
a report Of today's sales, high, low and
closing quotations at the Chicago
Stock Exchange.
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Dividend rates as given in the above table
latest quarterly or half yearly declarations
Unless otherwise noted. extra or special divi-
dends are not included.
sPartly stock. fPartly extra. sPayable
in common stock. Plus 40 in stock paya-
this yearl-no regular rate. 3 Plus 10N In
common stock payable 2h Is. quarterly.
Payable In cash or stock. Plus Il "a In
stock. G Plus 2-60 share in stock. b Plus
ST In special stock. ! Plus 81 in sDecial
sock. Plus 2 n in stock.
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PRICE OF SILVER.

NEW YORK, August @.-Ba&
silver 61:s, Mexican dollars 47h.
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GERMAN BONDS AND STOCKS,

Quoted IN dollars per million marks)
Ger ct Nv ln) 5s 1914-1s 1I5O 90 1900 %
Hamburg 4 hs 1919.. 5000 iiOO0
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE. =.

Quotations furnished by W. B. Hibbs cj)
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Increase in Bank CIearings.

An increase Of 81 per cent in bank
clearings is reported to Dun's Review
by leading cities Of the United States
this week, the aggregate being ST.,
3s9 1853 900, against $3.50 $3.50. 900 a
year ago. The gain this week Is due
to a larger total at New York City,
where clearings Of $5,9S4 ,000, 900 ex-
coed by 11.2 per cent those for the
corresponding week of 1925. Amount
ing to $3,405, 15S, 900, the clearings at
the outside centers show loss OF o.6
per cent, although stable increases
appear at Boston, Pittsburgh, Cleve-
land, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Louis
Vile Dallas and Portland, Greg.
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ready I have seen and heard enough
to convince me of that 1t will not
assume its fun proportions until the
Spring breakup clears the way for
further prospecting. BUT it will
come. Peculiar conditions point to
it, Assays ON the properties now
being tested have shown eXtraor-
dinary values and surprising con-
sistency. ON the main vein, which
strikes roughly northeast and south
west, you can pick up samples bear
ing free gold, little glittering specks
that permeate the quartz, right across
at a width of 20. 40 and even 60
feet
The excitement aroused by the
Milhollnger gold mines wonderful
vein in 1911 shrinks in comparison.
The formation that carries this red
lake lead has been traced for 30
miles across country. and one pros
pector who staked here on Silver
three years ago told me he had fol.
lowed it all the way from the Mani
toba border, 80 miles away. 1t is
identical in character with some OF
the Porcupine Belt. but Porcupine
offered no sucn temptations to the
prospector. for the outcrops here
stand we'll out Of the ground. Their
surface indications are phenomenal
Great lakes and rivers make sum
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mer travel easy and rapid. For 10
miles to the east and nearly as far
west the country is staked solid and
the peculiar thing is that practically
all Of the claims have yet to be
prospected.
Snow covered the country before
the rush was really under way and
done since then. with little oppof-
tunity of close examination. They
follow the line of main strike
neglecting the northern half of the
Gronstone belt almost entirely
East Bay Lures Many. 4-
If the anticipations of the mining
men here are fulfilled there will be
fresh discoveries elsewhere in Spring
and fresh belts to he staked and in
a zone OF possible gold bearing rock
nearly 10 miles wide and 30 long.
At present interest centers in East
Bay. the northeast armor, the lake,
which is 16 miles away but directly
in line with the strike" of Lorne
Howies lead. II. j.. Holland, the
new mining recorder, had hardly hung
his shingle out today when he was
beset with applications for the re-
cording of claims along East Bay,
and prospectors have been going in
there steadily for weeks past 1T is
estimated that hundred claims have
already been staked there.
oS far the sourdough has had his
innings. A census of Red Lakes
floating population this Winter
would have read like a map of the
original percunine stalking, with the
name Of Alex Gillies, who discovered
the Hollinger, at the head of the
list. Gillies has been in charge of
development work on the HOWE
claims. He is quite unassuming and
cautious In his statements, but does
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not conceal his. faith in this new
camp.
ut undoubtedly looks promising, -
he told me.
Moore so than Hollinger did on
the surface?" / asked.
well. it is quite d different sort
of formation On the Hollinger we
had gold everywhere, this is one lead,
but bigger than Hollinger. 1t has
certainly the best surface showings
have seen since / staked those claims
in Porcupine," he answered.
John Hammel. CHAIRMAN of the
Howie Red Lake Syndicate. goes
farther. He is not lacking in expert
ence, for he has the development of
four or five successful mines to his
credit, and he declares outright that
the surface showings at Red Lake
are the most encouraging he has ever
seen. This and the Film Flon are
the only two discoveries l have ever
examined that left no room for
doubt" he said Il shall not be sur
prised if this proves to be the greatest
gold field we have ever had in
Canada. (Copyright 1920
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Rare Double Wait.
LIBRARY AIDS CHILDREN.
Mount Pleasant Branch to Issue
Registra tion Cards Next Week.

With the opening OF the new chill
dr"n's room at the Mount Pleasant
branch of the Public Library, it was
announced today that children will be
registered for library cards Monday.
March s. from , to $50 pm. and
on Tuesday, March .. from > to S
pm. Parents are especially invited
to accompany the children in taking
out their registration cards in order
to sign their applica lions and to in
spect the new children room. Books
VIII be loaned for home use. begin
ming Thursday. March II.
Hours for the children's departmen.
OF the library on Mondays, TlaIrs-
days and Fridays will be from . to
3:30 pm. on Tuesday from 10 8
pm, and Saturday from 9 am. to 3
pm. 1t was explained that the size
of the library staff does not permit
opening Of the department on We'd.
nesdays.
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Perry's Famous Ship.

Admiral Peary's famous old Arctic
ship, Roosevelt. has been converted
into a sea-going tug, and is now owned
by the Washington Tug and Barge
Company. The Roosevelt sailed from
Puget Sound the middle of last month
with two barges in tow, taking $780,
600 feet of lumber and lightera ge
equipment to Miami, Fla. She is ex-
pected to arrive in Balboa some time
in the near future. The Roosevelt is
the ship on which Admiral Peary
started his successful trip to the North
Pole.
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First Novelist Given Honor.

James Fenimore Cooper. America n 8
first representative novelist, is being
accorded a new and lasting honor by
Yale University. 1t will be in the ma.
ture of a Cooper room at he Sterling
Memorial Library. Among other mem
orabolia viii be the manuscript OF
Misunderstanding Tales" and three
diaries OF the author. THE Spy, -
Pioneers" and "The Pilot all were
written before Cooper was 30 years
old, and they constitute a trllogy suf
ficient to give him lasting fame
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Memorial to Ambassador.

A marble fountain recently COM
pleted in the town of La Basse,
France, has been dedicated as a me-
mortal to Robert Bacon, American
Ambassador to France from 1910 to
1912. Col. Bacon, as liaison officer
with the American forces, spent many
months at La Basse during the World
War
Evening star., 1926-03-04
E[DR|DGE TO CLEAR
RULES ON TURNS
Requests Section Affecting
Traffic Right and Left at
Lights Be Rewritten.

Assistant Corporation Counsel +. W
| Thomas was requested today by Traf
| fic Director Eldridge to reWrite the
section of the trafiic regulations deal
/ ing with the manner in WHICH motor.
lists may make right and left turns
on thoroughfareS on which traffic is
directed by automatic lights. The
! request came as a direct result of the
action of Judge John p. Mcmahon
1 IN Traffic Court last night. who held
! that the law was not clear as to which
of the four lights the motorist should
! obey and dismissed William G.. Kim
hall for making a right turn into a
street. although faced with a red
| light.
Judge McMahon would not com
ment on the regulation today Par
agraph x OF section IS of article Is
Of the revised traffic code reads as
follows: AT all intersections con
troiled by traffic signals right hand
turns shall only he made on the green
signal and left-hand turns shall only
| he made on the red signal"
Regulation Awaited Action.
a regulation to clarity the meaning
OF the paragraph had been sent by
the traffic director to the District
commissioners on February s. but
never acted upon. it was learned to-
day. In view of the decision of
Judge NcMahon the entire question
was reopened today and turned over
to the office of the corporation Coun-
sci.
Assistant Traffic Director Moller. in.
terperting the present regulation, said
motorist going north on Sixteenth
street with tn" green lights flashing
north and south, must wait until the
east and west green lights flash before
making right turn at any inter
section. When wishing to make a left
turn he must draw into the middle
of the intersection of the eaSt-W'est
street, across the line Of waiting traf-
tic near north south crossWalk. and
wait for the green light to signal
east and west traffic to proceed before
making the turn to proceed east or
west.
Rare Double Wait.
In case he comes to the intersection
proceeding north or south with red
light against him. Col. Moler said
he must wait for Il green light per
mittinS north and south traffic to
proceed. draw across the east and
west intersection and wait for the
east and west green light to flash
Only in rare instances, the assistant
traffic director explained. will such a
double wait be necessary. and even
ut the longest little more than a min
ute can elapse before the turn may
be made. as the lights fash for 35
seconds in each direction
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Finding
Diamonds

Fine. perfect diamonds are
worth going far to find.
South African fields yield
ninety-fve per cent OF the dia-
mond output Of the world.
No new fields are being dis
covered.
30 new fields have been d'S'
covered now these many years
Shafts in the diamond m'neS
arc being driven deeper ana
deeper.
And as the shafts descend the
Weld grows less and less oota
in quantity and in quality
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Strike Leaked Out Last Autumn.

The chips. as they fly. are carefully
collected, relgiously sequeStered in
small canvas bags and labeled for the
assayer. AS each little sack is filled,
a number ScraWied on the rock in red
paint marks the spot where its con-
tents have been taken.
Mining history is being written. and
these are the characters that record
erty of the HoWie Gold Syndicate. are
the focus of the greatest gold rush
Canada has seen in ESCore OF years.
and this deSoiated community assures
itself that it il to form the nucleus of
a great camp.
The news OF the strike leaked out
last Autumn. later on came the news
that it looked big" and sourdough
and cheechako hit the trail. Some of
them have staked and gone. congratu-
lating themselves that they were in
early, the tents of others are scatter
ed around the shores of the lake, no
one knows how far, and many others
still are struggling over the trail from
Hudson on the 130-mile journey, which
l have just completed.
1t was only last evening that
arrived and The departure OF a Hud-
son Bay courier by dog team has
brought the opportunity Of sending
out this message. He will carry it
out to Hudson, lonely little sta
ton on the main line of the G. y.
r.. for dispatch from there.
This will be Il stampede proba bly,
unequaled since the klondike. Al
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K. II 4 r IS 6 c O.
s14'S' 50
SIS

Fine, perfect diamonds are in
consequence harder and harder
to procure.
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Prices are steadily moving
upward.
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The marvel is that we are able
to hold prices SO consistently
low and within reach of all de-
grees of buying ability.
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We are able. by reason Of our
extensive buying and our unique
purchasing privileges, to con
Time to command fine, perfect
diamonds at prices well within
reason.
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Safety for YOU.

Safety for us.
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Yet our insistence upon fine.
perfect diamonds continues un-
abated. in keeping with our
acknowledging policies for
more than half a century.
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Yet it's not a marvel after all.
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Safety in diamond investment
cannot be found outside of fine,
perfect stones.
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VILLAGE OF TENTS SPRINGS UP
AT NEW CANADIAN aKLONDIkE''
Yelping of Dogs Mixes
With Taps of Hammers
at Red Lake Find.
Stampede Is Expected as
Soon as Winter Weather
Breaks Up.
BIZ Il. PAUL READING.

mTsheg INTO Red Iake. a disfance zee Of Isl
mites from Raihead beating all other press
correSpondents, This dispatch ,cds SEM OIL
". J. scott. "a s@cond "1y ID Il Toroato on Star ne,cS
paper correspondent, is making same triI
today bg Hrst airDtaRe To enter gold -couniTV
Special Dispatch to The Star.
RED LAKE. Ontario. February "a
Tucked snugly in one corner of a
bay near the outlet of this stragglinG
sheet of frozen water is a cluster of
tents. They are pitched on hastily
constructed log cribs and roughly
fioored with hewn spruce. Through
the roof of each a section of rusty
stove pipe thrusts itself at a rakiSh
angle, belching white wood smoke
that rises straight upward in the
frosty atmosphere.
One of the tents bears above its
flaps the end of a packing case bear
ing in staggering black letters the
portentous legend, aiming Re tcorder'. ;
Office Another. though it does not
vet boast a sign. is a provincial police
poSt a third is the office and a
fourth the cook tent, this last, per
haps the most important of all. for
hunger enaWs increasingly in the cold.
To the little poplar trees that stud
lhe Shofe a ieSlon OF doSS are cnalieu
- huskies, collie ours, nondescript
mongrels of intricate ancestry. fish
eaters--the uncivilized and unrequited
slaves of 4 harsh regime. They fill
the air with doleful sound. the colles
yelping shrilly, the huskies, unable
to bark. rousing the echoes with that
Wailing ululation that resembles the
cry of neither dog nor wolf. but is
the song of the wolf dog alone.
But through this chorus of mourning
rings another sound, most as inces-
SAINT and of supreme significance, the
unmistakable tapping of steel upon
rock. 1t explains this whole North
land spectacle, for it is the noise of
the samplers, patiently chiselinc chan
nels across the wide band of quartz
where Lorne HOWE last Summer
struck gold
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For we do the largest diamond
business in Washington and our
tremendous volume allows us to
minimize profits.
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Insuring every diamond patron
an investment of absolute
safety and unquestioned value.
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SOCIETY
President and Mrs. Coolidge Hosts at
Dinner and Musical Last Night
for Supreme Court.

Arthur Capper viii be Joint h"steSSes
a a reception this afternoon from
to o'clock At the New Willard
Hotel They will have alternating 81
he tea table Mrs. Frank +. Kellogg.
Mrs Dwight f.. Davis. Mme. Pete.
Sonora de Alfaro. Sonora de San-
chez l.atoir. Mr%. !iarisn tiSke
stone Mrs. Edward 4. sanford. Mrs.
Francis t.. Warren. Mrs. James r..
Watson and Mrs. 4. t.. George.
Assisting them viii be MIS- john
/: Hendricks Mrs. E"teri Nelson
StantieId. Mrs. Daniel K. Anthony.
Mrs Fred \. BIitteu. Mrs. j. \.
Tincher Mrs. James StronG. Mrs.
Homer Hoch. Airs. HAYS T.. White.
Mrs William AyreS. Mrs. W. II.
Spr"ul. Mrs. thaun"eN Little Nine.
Won Lewinski. Mrs. Fey'"G Gordon.
Mrs. John a Huh. Mrs. Charles
L.owndeS. Mrs. David Blair Mrs.
Thomas f. Walsh Mrs. John Allan
D"ugherty. Mrs. Wiiliam R"uenherG,
Miss Flora Wilson. Mrs. Z. {. Nc
chora. Mrs. Louis owsieN, Mr~.
Frederick Mckenua. AIRS. Parker W.
West. Mrs. Louis Titus. Miss Rooney.
MIS-. James NJ. Green. MIS-. hoherl
F.. Mackenzie. Mrs. James haftich,
Mrs. Philip Pits campbell Mrs.
Emerson Howe. Mrs. Enorh chase
Th" red room has been decorated
win pink roses aud pire organ
aud orchasttr, VIII play duriuG IN"
afternoon.
Senator and Mrs. DAVID A Reed via
entertain a company at dinner thi~
evening in honor of the Spea keI of
the House and Mrs. Long worth.
The Speaker Of the House of Rep
resentativeS and Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth will be the guests in whose
honor the Assistant Secretary "t
State and Mrs Leland Harrison VIII
entertain AT dinner January -.
Representative and Mrs. 4. A. Eaton
have as their house guest in their
apartment Al Wardman Park Hotel
Mrs. Everett Tracy of PlainteId. y. j.
Mrs. Tracy is the widow Of Col. Tracy.
who was head vi the camoutiaSe di-
vision in France during the war.
Miss barbara Stantield. daughter of
Senator ana Mrs. Robert Nelson Stan
tleid. was the guest of honor al lunch-
eou today OF Mrs. Richard III. Lane.
who entertained company of i6 al
kauschers FOR her daughter. Miss
DorOIhea Lane.
Miss Lane viii leave Wednesday
Tor a series Of visits IN Philadelphia,
New York and Boston.
Mr.. Robert l.ecour-Gayet. financial
attAChe of the French emba Ssy has
returned to his apartment al Ward
man Park Hotel after spending sew
erai days in New York City
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Paxton Blair
il. the latter formerly Miss Gertrude
GruSNenor of Washington have re-
turned 10 their home al 4 East Eighty
eighth street. New York from their
wedding "trip. The marriage of MIR
anu Mrs. Blair took place in the
Church Of The Covenant December >
and MAS followed by !. reception ia tls.
hnin'' VI the brides parents. AIR and
Mrs. Gilbert II. GroS\ enor.
Mrs. 4. NJ. kaufman viii not Ice.
al home next Monday. january IS btiI
viii be 4 home on Mondays there
after.
Mrs. r.. II. q. Slater. W ho closed her
house on Eighteenth street several
weeks ago and went to Palm Beach
Fla. WAS hostess Al luncheon there
yesterday. entertaining in her ocean
boulevard home.