Evening star., 1952-04-20
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Evans, the famous Fighting
Bob: former Secretary of State
and Mrs. John w. Foster and
Prof. and Mrs. Willis Moore, the
former chief of the Weather Bu-
reau for many years, were in the
company.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald de Ko-
ven. who had come from their
New York home for the winter
Mr.. de Koven, then a well-known
composer making an effort to or
ganize and establish a symphony
orchestra in the Capital-were in
Icluded. and also Controller Ridg-
ley, whose widow, Mrs. William
Barrett Ridgley, still lives in their
Twentieth street house.
CotiIIion Held
One of the dancing events in
that April so years ago was the
Sixty Couples Cotillion, which was
held at the Chevy Chase Club. OF
this event the society column of
The Evening Star carried the
story. "The Sixty Couples Cotil-
lion was the dancing event Of last
might and the pleasant associa-
tion of ideas which the mere men
ton of the name has called up
has added another interesting
chapter in consequence.
Mrs. Charles H. Campbell,
Mrs. John c. Poor, Miss Meyer,
(now Donna Julia Brambilla)
Miss Merriam, (the present Mrs.
John Gross of Bethlehem, Pa
and Miss Owen with Mr.. Arthur
Addison and Mr.. Charles Camp
bell led the cotillion. A buffet sup
per was served at midnight"
Among the subscribers to this
Sixty Couples Cotillion were
Comdr. and Mrs. William Shef-
field Cowles, Miss Roosevelt, now
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth; Mr..
and Mrs. Alexander Legare, DR..
and Mrs. Ralph Jenkins, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Lee. Miss Edith Root, |
now Mrs. U. s. Grant, III, whose
father. Elihu Root then was Sec
retary of State; Miss Mary Sheri-
dan. Miss Lincoln. daughter of the
Robert Todd Lincolns: Miss Marie
Barnes. later Mrs. Mark Brooke
and still living in Washington
with her son-in-law and daughter,
MIR. and Mrs. John r. Slidell: Miss
Anita Poor, Miss Flora Wilson.
whose father, James Wilson was
Secretary of Agriculture for sew
eral administrations: and Miss
Barney, who later lived for many
years in Paris and as Mrs. Drey-
fus Barney has returned to the
Capital and lives at the Shore
ham.
Miss Hanna, afterwards Mrs.
Medill Mccormick and a member
of the Lower House of Congress
from Illinois after the death of
Senator Mccormick, and Miss
Eleanor Patterson who became a
newspaper editor in recent years,
were others on that list, as also
were the Misses Edes, one now
Mrs. c. Fitzhugh Talman, the
other Miss Elizabeth Edes, who
still live in the Capital.
Men Subscribers
The men who were subscribers
included Frederic L. and Reginald
Frederick de Courcy Faust, Ma
than Wyeth, DR.. Mathew A. De-
Laney, Gen. Maxwell v. z. Wood
hull and Charles H. Woodruff,
Charlie Poe, Anthony c. Addison,
Capt. George T. Langhorne, 1t.
Edward McCauley. jr.. Robert w.
Patterson, III, Mr.. James W..
Wadsworth. Jr.. for many years a |
representative in Congress from
New York; Mr.. John H. Gibbons,
later Navy captain: Mr.. William
Laird Dunlop, jr., Mr.. Harry Har-
wood Rousseau who became al
Rear Admiral; Alexander Legare,
Reginald deKoven, Woodbury. and
Gist Blair, Ormsby McCammon,
William H. Merriam, Arthur
Peter, Navy 1t. John M. Hudgins,
George Howard, and Andrew and
Charles Bradley.
John w. Foster, who was Sec
retary of State in the Benjamin
Harrison Cabinet, and Mrs. Fos-
ter entertained the distinguished
Japanese nobleman, County Mat
sukata. The reception was given
in the Foster home then at 1409
street at S o'clock and of the
party The Evening Star of April
Is, 1902 wrote: "The occasion was
an exceedingly pleasant one.
bringing together as it did so
many who have enjoyed travelling
in the fiowery kingdom and are
acquainted with its eminent men.
Sir Henry Strong. of England,
was another distinguished visitor
in their drawing room.
1.-THE rooms of the Foster resi-
dence were decorated with cherry
and apple blossoms and a further