Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-01-06
New Ball Room Used
At New Year Dance
At Fort Humphreys
Transition to 1885 Marked
by Gay Tableau-Bal.
looms Simulate Bunches
OF Grapes.

fOET HUMPHREYS, va, Jauuary
ga delightful entertainment was
held at Mackenzie Hall on New Year
eve, when the beautiful new ball room
was the scene of dancing and merry
making. Under the direction Of Lieut..
Joseph L. johnson the ball room had
been decorated with silver trees, holly
and pine sprays and cones. Wall
lights were surrounded with holly and
great groups. of bright colored balloons
overhead simulated huge punches of
grapes. A large Christmas tree deco
rated with colored lights could be seen
through the French window leading
onto the porch.
At one end of the ball room large
clock designed by Maj. Robert G. Will
liams reminded the guests that the
old year was nearly ended. Just be-
fore midnight the music stopped, the
lights were lowered and Father Time,
in the person of young officer, ap-
peared with his scythe to tear away
the old year and reveal the new. Just
then the personihcation of the new
year arrived on the scene. This was
another young officer, CARRIED in the
traditional fashion of the infant of
time, with the additional accessories
of Sam Browne belt, officers hat
and cigar.
AS a clock chimed the hour the in
FAINT made his bow, the music re-
sumed and noisemakerS and Serpen-
tine were distributed to the dancers,
while at the same time the balloons
were suddenly lowered from the
rafters. Dance music was played by
the post orchestra.
A number of officers and ladies en-
tertained at dinner preceding the
dance Monday evening.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Walker w. Miner
were received at the post Saturday
morning with great welcome. Lieut..
and Mrs. Miner, who were married
Thursday, December 81, at Newton,
Iowa, were met at the gate by
mounted guard of "a horSemen,
band and large group of officers and
ladies. The horsemen, each carrying
q red and white Engineer flag, saluted
the lieutenant, who with his bride,
was placed in pontoon to be drawn
to their home. In the parade to the
Miners quarters the mounted guard
preceded the pontoon, which was fol-
lowed by a number of automobiles
carrying friends. Lieut.. and Mrs. Mil
ner are established in quarters IS.
Maj. and Mrs. B. B. Browne enter
tanned with breakfast for IA at their
home the morning of New Year day.
Their guests were Col and Mrs. Walter
Kruger of Washington, Capt and Mrs.
Heath Twichell, Capt. and Mrs. Karl
B. Schilling, Lieut.. and Mrs. Samuel
j. Adams, Lieut.. and Mrs. Edward M.
Markham, jr., and Lieut.. and Mrs.
Walter Kruger, jr.
Capt. and Mrs. Homer B. Petit
had as their house guests Friday of
last week Capt. and Mrs. S. H. Crit
fifth, who were en- route from Fort Du-
pont, Del, to Knoxville, Tenn, where
Capt. Griffith has been assigned to
duty. Capt. and Mrs. Petit have been
entertaining Capt Pettit's father and
his mother, Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Pet
tit of Byron, ILL.,, during the last two
weeks.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Thomas A. Adcock
entertained Lieut.. Adcock's West Point
claSsmate, Lieut.. j. r. Ranck of Fort
Monmouth, N. j., over the holidays.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Stanton L. Brown
returned Sunday after an absence of
10 days, during which they visited
Mrs. Browns father and mother, Mr..
and Mrs. G. r. Gidley at New Bed
ford, Mass, and Lieut.. Browns par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Brown at
Meriden, Conn.
Capt. and Mrs Brom r. Whitthorne
entertained with a tea at their home
at o'clock the afternoon Of New
Year day.
Capt. and Mrs. Robert F. Gill have
had as their house guest Capt ellis
aunt, Mrs. A. G. McClelland of Re-
hoboth Beach, Del. and Chevy Chase.
Mrs. McClelland left Wednesday for
her Winter home at Chevy Chase.
Capt. Gill's nephew. Mr.. Frederick
Lehman, who is student at Mount
ST. JoSeph's College at Baltimore, left
Tuesday after having spent two weeks
with his uncle and Mrs. Gill.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Herbert Lopez, who
left Fort Humphreys last year when
the lieutenant completed a tour of
duty here, were house guests of Capt.
and Mrs. Homer B. Petit Wednesday,
after having spent the holidays with
Mrs. Loper's parents at Baltimore.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Lopez left Thursday
for their home at Omaha, Nebr., where
Lieut.. Lopez is now stationed. They
were accompanied by Miss Marion Gill,
who has been spending the holidays
here with her parents, Capt. and Mrs.
Robert F. Gill.
Cadet John r. Wright, jr., left
New Year day for West Point, after
spending the holiday vacation with
his parents, Chaplain and Mrs. John
r. Wright.
Miss Katherine Vrendenburgh Is
spending this week end with her
cousin, Miss Ethel Page Matheson,
daughter of Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. R. D.
Matheson. Miss Vrendenburgh is en-
route from Freehold, N. j., to Rich
mond, Va, where she attends ST.
GATHERINGS School.
Lieut. and Mrs. Warren NJ Under
wood returned to the post Tuesday
from Fort Monroe, Va, where they
had been entertained since Sunday
by Lieut.. and Mrs. j. P. Shumate.
Cadet Paul S. Reinecke, jr., re-
turned this week to Millard's West
Point Prep School at Washington,
after having spent the holidays with
his parents, Maj. and Mrs. Paul S.
Reinecke.
Miss Dorothy Gilhus, daughter of
Maj. Gilhus, retired, and Mrs. Gilhus
Of San Francisco, was the week end
guest last week of Miss Evelyn Wright,
daughter of Maj. and Mrs. John r.
Wright. Miss Wright is spending the
current week end in Washington with
Maj. and Mrs. Cornell and their
guest, Miss Gilhus.
Mr.. Tumulty to Address
Democratic Women s Club