The Washington times., 1927-12-21
! JEAN ELIOTs NEWS AND GOSSIP OF SOCIETY
Preparations In Progress for
Irish President's S Proposed Visit
TO Be Accorded Many
Honors; U. s. Minister
to ireland May Arrive
By JEAN ELIOT

ny JEAN 31AO@
saTHE President Of the
Irish Free State, /" viii
liam 7. Cosgrave, win come
to Washington on january
90 to remain until January
q and preparations are being
made to receive him with
due honors and to entertain
him lavishly.
He viii not, however, have
the distinction Of receiving . re-
turn call from President Cool
idge, an honor accorded Viscount
Willingdon, governor general Of
Canada when he was here in
December. The reason for this
is that Viscount Wilmington
ranks as q "chief Of state"
while Mr.. Cosgrave is not Off
ciaIly president Of Ireland, but
president Of the council of
ministers of the Irish Free
State and "rates" the official
honors due a prime minister.
mIHEsE are exalted enough in
j ali conscience. Mr.. Cosgrave
will Of course. be received by
President Coolidge and win prob
ably be guest at the White
House either at dinner or lunch
con. The British Ambassadors.
the Minister Of the Irish Free
state and the Minister of Canada
will entertain for him and so win
the Secretary Of state undoubt.
edly-aIthough this last isn't yet
official. Presumably many OF the
parties in his honor will be OF
the stag variety. for there are to
be no. ladies in the distinguished
visitors party.
He Is, to be accompanied by
Desmond Fitzgerald, minister Of
defense; Dermot O'Hegerty. sec.
retary Of the executives council;
Joseph p. Walsh. secretary of the
department Of external affairs,
and Colonel O'Reilly military
aide to the President.
The party is due in New York
on January IL and will go, thence
to Chicago for q visit before COM
ing to the Capital. Frem here
they will go to Philadelphia Tor
a day or two stay, then to. Bos.
ton for two days or more, and
they win be in New York from
February to February when
they will sail for home.
TIIE prospect OF the>1rish Presi.
j dents visit is made the pleas
anter for us here from the fact
that it viii probably bring the
American Minister to ireland.
Frederick Sterling. and Mrs. Ster.
ling to town. And they are old
friends. Mr.. Sterling has been
stationed here from time to time
IN his diplomatic career and Mrs.
Sterling was a Washington girl,
Miss Dorothy Williams. She Is
the daughter Of Mrs. John r. Will
hams, a sister of Mrs. Joseph
Letter, and was a great belle here
in her girlhood days.
The son who was born to the
Sterlings just before Mr.. Sterling
took over his post as first Amer.
lean Minister to Ireland, was
christened shortly after their ar.
rival and was named Patrick
David Sterling-to the great en-
tertainment Of Mrs. Sterling'S
friends here, whose unanimous
comment was, isn't that just
like Dorothy Srerling!" Apparent
ly it made a hit with the Irish
people, and one hears that the
Sterlings are ever so popular in
Dublin.
Representative and Mrs. Viii.
liam e. Evans and their daughter,
Miss Catherine Evans, will leave
town on Friday to spend Christ.
mas with Mr.. and Mrs. Harold B.
lHershman, Of Pittsburgh. Mrs.
Hershman was formerly Miss
Winifred Jones, Of Los Angeles,
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Evans.