The Washington times., 1927-07-09
JEAN ELIOTS NEWS AND GOSSIP OF CAPITAL SOCIETY
OF MARYLAND
CONTINUES
Mrs. Let's Has House
Party at Cedar
Point
By JEAN ELIOT

lust back from a visit in Chi
cago, Mrs. Frank c. Let's is
spending the weekend at her home
on Chesapeake Bay. Although Mrs.
Let's has made her headquarters
at her residence in Massachusetts
Avenue through the spring and
summer, she has been entertaining
q good deal Eat the shore and her
guests there find themselves in a
delightful Old World atmosphere.
The house, which Mrs. Let's
bought about a year ago Is over
200 years old. The new owner has
restored it in. keeping with the
original design, has redecorated it
delightfully."- and has filled it with
fine old early American furniture.
The estate is located about a
mile below Cedar Point, where the
Patuxent opens into Chesapeake
Bay, and overlooks lovely stretch
of salt water 25 miles wide. And
within the last few years a charm.
ing Washington colony has grown
up in this vicinity. Mr.. and Mrs.
Elisha Hanson, who recently pur.
chased the Paul Dulaney place,
have completed extensive improve
ments and are now established in
their new home. And other Wash.
ingtonians with summer homes in
the neighborhood are Mr.. and Mrs.
Leonard Nicholson, jr., Miss Georgia
Green, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert T.
Shannon, Mr.. and Mrs. William
e. Shannon, Mr.. and Mrs. Adam
Weschler and Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
T. Kalbfus.
NichOlsons Early Settlers
The Nicholsons were among the
early settlers" Of Cedar Point.
Their first idea was to spend an
occasional week end at their
shack" through the summer sea-
son, but they have SO learned to
love the lazy life on the Chesapeake
that they spend more and more
time there, quite deserving Len
will, their charming home on the
Rockville Road during the summer
months.
Mrs. Let's has been intermit.
tently a resident of Washington
since the days of the great war
when her late husband came to
the Capital to serve with the Amer
lean Red Cross. Her daughter,
Courtney Let's, made her debut
here. A year or two ago she was
married here to John Borden, we'll
known Chicago capitalist and club
man, after having been previously
married and divorced and after hav-
ing lived out of Washington for
good many years. This summer, be-
lieve, Mr.. and Mrs. Borden are
cruising on their yacht, Northern
Lights" with a party OF. guests
with Alaska as a goal.
New Discovery Of Maryland
The new discovery of Mary
land" of which 1 have been writ
ing of late continues. Not only is
the Cedar Point colony flourishing
this summer, but Washingtonians
seem to be cutting out the Balti-
morians, who first made the pic.
turesque Gibson Island Club their
own; and both Sherwood Forest and
Bay Ridge are becoming increas-
ingly popular with people from
Washington.
incidentally, many of the fine old
estates in Maryland are being pur-
chased and restored. And I hear
that Mr.. and Mrs. B. Sumner Welles
have been negotiating Tor one of the
finest, Oxon Hill Manor, which be-
longs to Walter D. Addison, and
which stretches for several miles
along the Potomac shore, with its
northern boundary nearly touching
the District line.
Mr.. and Mrs. Welles have been
searching for months for a suitable
country place, the while living at
1855 Massachusetts, Ave. but have