Taft White House Dinner Concert Opens Cabinet Season
President and Mrs Taft hosted a state dinner for cabinet members and guests in the state dining room followed by a musical program. Attendees included governors, senators, and senior officials, with several absentees in mourning. The evening featured pink roses and maidenhair ferns and music by the Marine Band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HE Preguteur
Taft
Army
Wood
Knox
War
Dickinson
Secretary of the Navy
Marine
Sherman
Commerce and
Barbor
Nagel
Norton
Kean
Burton
Delaware
New Jersey
Virginia
Mann
Illinois
Deneen
California
the Treasury
Hilles
Archibad W. Butt
Evan Williams
Tefor
F. A. Selberling
Katherine Bruot
Vanderbilt Dowager Holds Ground Amid Avenue Changes
In New York the Vanderbilt matriarch insists she will not move as Fifth Avenue widening plans threaten the historic iron fence and lawn by her mansion at Fifty Seventh Street and Fifth Avenue. Meanwhile Newport’s army and navy colony expands with Rear Admiral Sperry and Mrs Sperry planning their future home.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Fifty-seventh Street
Fifth Avenue
New York
Forty-eighth
Fifty-Ninth Street
Vanderbilt
Newport
Charles Sperry
Sperry
Army and Navy
Stephen B. Luce
French B. Chadwick
William H. Everett
U. 8
William B. Fletcher
Maj
David Price
Dublin
Duke of Manchester
George
Queen Mary
Kylemore Castle
Hinerahi Isle
Great Durbar
India
Asquith
Balmoral
California Delegation Hosts Grand Washington Reception
Holden West notes yesterday’s elaborate reception at the New Wizard in Washington honoring California delegates for the Panama exposition. The ballroom thronged with 450 guests including Vice President Sherman and Justice McKenna, with Marine Band music, tea service, and tropical decor. Senator Pires will host a Pacific coast delegation dinner in the Red Room to discuss coast needs.
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Holden West
California
Washington
Palma
Marine Band
Pacific Coast
Ballant
Sherman
White
Ballinger
Pacific Slope
Andrew Carnegie
White House
Joseph McKenna
Justice McKenna
Frank P. Flint
Senator Flint
Joseph B. Knowland
James C. Needham
Jutiaz Kahn
Sylvester C. Smith
Everis A. Hayes
Franklin K. Lane
Reginald Nicholson
Charles F. Stokes
Oscar Lawler
Augustus , Fechteler
Gillett
Wiliam W. Morrow
Cutler
Leon Sloss
Frank L. Brown
A. W. Scott, Jr
Isabella Hagner
Charles Hagner
Willam Barret Ridgely
Charles Kappler
Henry Oxnard
John C Black
Isabella Clarke
Dwight
New York
Foster
Vermont
Foss
Hitnels
Broussard
Louisiana
Bartlett
Nevada
Esch
Wisconsin
Estopinal
Needham
Hahn
Senator Pires
Willerd
Dinner Guests at Gen Croger’s Table Reflect Social Scene
Tom Smith led a list of guests including Miss Julia Whiting Miss Dorothy Deeble Miss Louise Bayne Miss Margaret Stead Miss Alice Boyd and Miss Ruth Pilling with her guest Miss Harper Gen Croger hosted a dinner for Representatives Bates Weeks Anthony and their spouses plus Mrs John J Pershing Miss Nannie Macomb and Mrs Alen Marla t and others.
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Ton Smith
Julia Whiting
Dorothy Deeble
Louise Bayne
Margaret Stead
Alice Boyd
Ruth Pilling
Miss Harper
Gen. Croger
Bates
Representative Weeks
Representative Anthony
John J. Pershing
Nannie Macomb
Jana
Alen
Debutante Helena Smith Receives at Parents' Home
Miss Helena Smith debutante hosted by Rev Dr and Mrs Smith in N Street with red decor and silk gown. Guests included Misses Saintler Whiting Bacon Hellen Ray Gracia Wood and Mrs Moran's recent dance attendance. Teas hosted by Mrs H C Pratt with several assistants.
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Helena Smith
C. Ernest Smith
N Street
Benjamin Pilson
William H. Rapley
Mareélla, Smith
Barbara Smith
Sophy Saintler
Baltimore
Julia Whiting
Mildred Bacon
Louise Hellen
Marie Ray
Edith Gracia Miss Wood
Hampton Court
England
Smith
Entertains Chief Justice Dinner Cards Issued
The Attorney General issued dinner invitations for December 1 to honor the Chief Justice. Mr Justice and Mrs McKenna hosted last night in their Connecticut Avenue apartments. Mrs Franklin Lane hosted a dinner for Miss Helen Hyde visiting the Netherlands minister and Mme Loudon. Guests included the minister and Mme Loudon, Senator Dillingham, the U S Treasurer Leo McClung, and Mrs Bixler. Mrs Preston Gibson hosted a Belasco box party for Mr Gibson's new play with supper at Rauscher's afterward and minstrel music. Mrs Woolsey Aspinwall entertained luncheon for Miss Elizabeth Colling with guests including Miss Haywood, Miss Brooks, Miss Greely, and Miss Cot.
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Greely
George Haven Putnam
New York
Putnam
Arnold Hague
Arthur Jeffrey Parsons
John B Henderson, Jr
Mme. Lefevre Pontalis
Mme. Peretti de la Focca
Mr. Justice
Mrs. McKenna
Connecticut
Franklin Lane
Helen Hyde
Netherlands
Mme. Loudon
Mme, Loudon
Dillingham
United States
Leo McClung
Bixler
Preston Gibson
Belasco
Wooltey Aspinwall
Elizabeth Colling
Doris Haywood
Dorothy Brooks
Gertrude Greely
Margaret Cot
Return of Dr Frank Anderson and Family to Old Home
Dr Frank Anderson and Mrs Anderson welcomed guests yesterday afternoon at 169 Nineteenth Street after years away while he served at Annapolis. The couple were greeted by their daughters Miss Dorothy Anderson and Miss Eleanor Anderson. Mrs Anderson wore a blue chiffon gown over American beauty.
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Frank Anderson
Anderson
Nineteenth Street
Annapolis
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