The Washington times., 1928-10-25
Ter in Society VIII Not Occupy
Washington House This Season
Stephen B. Elkins
i Go to California
Ext Month From Her
Tome in ,Ventnor

ose this season one OF It's
sorandduchesses. !" For Mrs.
Sfephen B. Elkins has de-
cided not to open her house
At 1926 K st. this winter.
She is answering the call
of California. And after a
few weeks more at her sum
mer home in VentnoE, n j.,
she will set forth across the
continent to stay until spring
In the sunny southern sec
ton of the State.
OF late years Mrs. Elkins
has been cutting short her
stay in Washington. And
small wonder. There has
hardly been a month for a
long time that the sound OF
the hammer and saw has
not been heard IN her block
on K Street, tearing down
beautiful old residences that
were a glory to the street
and erecting office buildings
in their place.
Has Been Willing
Mrs. Elkins has been willing
20 sell her house here for sew
eral years, realizing the en-
eroachments of business. But
abe has not been looking for a
purchaser. And so the price she
has put on her property is high
enough to exclude any but the
prosperous and the most insis-
tent.
When the Democratic women
were seeking a place for their
clubhouse two or more years ago
they were very much interested
in the possibilities of Mrs. FL
kins' house for headquarters.
However, there was not unanirn-
ity among the club members IN
this regard, and, as the cost
was somewhat beyond their
reach, it was not voted on.
So the Democrats moved from
their first home on Connecticut
Avenue to the very satisfactory
house which they now occupy at
1925 New Hampshire Avenue,
formerly the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Wilcox.
y II
For Visitors
The Minister Of Canada and
Mrs. Vincent NJ say will enter
tain at Iuncheo.. OF Sunday in
honor Of Field Mar aal Lord Al
ienby and Lady Allenby. On Sat-
urday afternoon Colonel Pope
Hennessy, military attacl1e of the
British Embassy, will give a tea
IN their honor and General Perish
ing win give a luncheon at the
Metropolitan Club for Lord Allenby
on Saturday.
Mrs. New. wife of the Post
master General, will go to her
home In Indianapolis to vote,
leaving Washington on November
1 and stopping in Dayton, Ohio,
for q few days en- route. The
Postmaster General will meet Mrs.
New in Indianapolis on Novem-
Der 4.
The Secretary of Commerce,
William =. Whiting. entertained
at lunchean at the Willard Hotel
yesterday.
Mrx. Theodore Douglas Robin
son. wife OF the Assistant Secre-
tary Of the Navy, returned yes
terdaY from California, where she
had been with err son, Douglas
Robinson, for q Jrtnight. Douglas
Robinson will renain on the West
Coast.
Married
The maria = of Miss Marjorie
Mullins, daughter of Mrs. Will
liam James Mullins and the late
Mr.. Mullins, of Franklin, Pa,
10 Lieut.. William Jessup Lessen.
ring, son Of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Conrad Leisenring, of
Washington, took place at noon
today in the chapel of St. Bartholo-
news Church, New York. The
ceremony was performed by the
Rev. DR.. Martin Aiger, Of Frank
lin, Pa, and was followed by a
wedding breakfast in the italian
Garden Of the Ambassador.
The bride was graduated from
Miss Masters School, in Dobbs
Ferry. The groom is a lieutenant
IN the United States Naval Avia-
ton Corps. They will make their
home in Pittsburgh.
Major and Mrs. Maxwell MURRAY
entertained informally at dinner
last evening at the Chevy Chase
Club for their niece, Miss Con
stance Hagen, Of Ireland. who is
their guest. Tomorrow Mrs. Muir.
ray viii go to Orange. Va. TO b
the guest Of Mrs. r. M. Brady for
q week.
Miss Katherine Judge has gone
10 New York, where she will re
main until the middle of next
week.
Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. James NJ.
Blythe, who have been at the
Wardmsn Park Hotel for the pa st
Two weeks. since their return
from Denver, Colo, are leaving
today for Colonel Blythe's new
post at Petersburg, Va. lie will
nave charge of the construction
program for the new battlefield
memorial at Petersburg.