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08 Feb 1908

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Washington Post

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Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America

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Feb 08, 1908

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25

Ball Room Thronged as Larz Andersons Entertain

A midwinter ball at the White House hosted by Mrs. George Vanderbilt and guests drew about 100 society figures from New York Philadelphia and Washington. Diplomats from major capitals attended and a cotillion of 75 couples followed a reception transforming the small room into a green garden with palm fronds and pink blooms. Guests included top government officials and ambassadors such as Secretary Root and Mrs Root, Secretaries Meyer Garfield and Interior officials, and numerous counts barons and ambassadors from Europe.

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George Vanderbilt Herbert Wadsworth Pierre Lorillard E. Hopey Slater Beekman Winthrop Purdy Lerz Anderson Frederie Keep Robert Bacon Palme New York Philadelphia Waitimore Camesone Washington Charley McCawley Paris Root Meyer Julia Meyer Navy Metcalf Interior Garfield Hengeltuuller Mme Jusserand von Sternburg Bryce Moncheur Justices White Justice Holmes Justice Moody Bmty Low Bacon Huntington Wilson Robert Shaw Oliver Oliver Marion Oliver the Navy Newberry Honey Hoyt Hoyt Murray Crane Viking Elkins Foraker Depew Mas. Bourke Cochran Nicholas Lonnerti Haren Ambrozy Count ‘Toro Baron von Stumm Roynarda Adhemar Miss Langham Margaret Roosevelt John Ridgely Carter Birs Hilborne L. Roosevelt Freditia Morgan Count Hotefelut Larz Anderson van Rensselaer Alfred Vanderbilt Root Wel Richardson Clover Bulkeley Kean Misa Kean McCawley William Corcoran Eustis van Vechten Oreatt Charles Glover Thoman Nelson Page Count van Hatafelat Germany
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Vanderbilt Widow Likely to Wed Count Hadik Abroad

Close friends report Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt will wed Count Hadik soon. The wedding would be in Hungary where her daughter resides, and she will live abroad afterward. Rumors linked Miss Gladys Szechenyi’s engagement and Mrs Vanderbilt’s remarriage, with Hadik introduced by Count Szechenyi at social events in Paris and Berlin. Mrs Vanderbilt, a widow nine years, now stands nearly alone. her fortune's size and bequests under Cornelius Vanderbilt’s will bolster expectations of a new match. The will left cash and major properties to the widow, including Pitty-seventh Street mansion and Newport’s Breakers, with art and jewels. Continued on ninth page.

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Cornelius Vanderbilt Szechenyi Mrs Vanderbilt Countess Hadik Hungary Gladys Mrs. Vanderbilt Newport Harry Payne Whitney Cornelius Alfred Gwynne Reginald Vanderbilt Agai Pitty-seventh Fifth Avenue
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Cardinal Satolli seeks state clearance to sell Colonna sarcophagus

Rome reports Cardinal Satolli, bishop of Frascati, asking the council of state for authorization to sell a Gracian marble sarcophagus with inlaid oak doors formerly owned by the Colonna family and now in the Episcopal palace. Proceeds would fund palace repairs. The council debated and again deferred the request, signaling state rights over church property.

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Aperial Calle Washington Post Rome Cardinal Satolli Ie Bishoop Frascati Council of State Colonna Episcopal Palace
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Valentines Valentine G Street Tenth St Barathea Everat Chled Fluor Rauscher Larz Andersons Entertain Peabody Jacob Riis Roosevelt Senator Beveridge Fairbanks Frederick Benedict Dwight Alis Dwight Lnner Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus John Watts Kearney Gibson Fahnestock Chatard Admiral O'Neil Childs Howard Reeside Perry Belmont Anthony Drexel Lawrence Townsend Lowden Representative Lowden Ilingis Grant Watson Connecticut Avenue Richard Reid Rogers Joseph Blackburn Isthmus Frazier M Sanford Anna Har Shaufer Mrh & L Massachusetts Eben Draper White House Secretary of the Interior John Crayke Simpson Sinpaon Rudolph Kauffmann Joseph H. Crawford McKim W. Duncan BicKim Dinmer de Martel Columbia Mille Des Count d'Adhemar Marcus A. Hanna McCormick Chi Jtago Carey Langhorne Viscount de Chambrun France Richard Butler Belasco Theater New Willard Harriet Richardson Miss Richardson Vassar Hannis Taylor Edward Gallaudet William Closson Franklin T. Sanner Goebel Gebel Ohio Rochambeau Harriet M. Barbour Horton Naples Europe Wheeler H. Conquest Clarke N Street Northwest Clara Kyle Crank the Grafton J. C. Kelton C. H. Tittman Joseph E. Thropp Twentieth Street Thomas E. Nobie Charlotte Emerson Main Massachusetts Avenue S. W. Atkinson Mary R. Goff N Atreet Northwest SLOAN Washington, PD. C C. G. Sloan & 60 Street, Auctioneers Taste of ‘the Post Vivien Penna. Ave Lucios F Street Louis Foer Uth St The St ‘Ss Sons Droop Tetrazzini Mme, Louisa Tetrazzini New York Opera London Patti Ina Vere Rigoletto Garo Nome Augia Lalatecmoce Rende Ictor E.P Droop & Sons CO Pennsylvania Ave W. & J. Sloane Seale H Street N. W. Tel Palais Royal Prince Phoning Mala Aext Tnr Great Atlantic & Pacific Texco E Sts Gallery OF Foreign Arts Dupont Circle V. D. Rosen N. W Ini Wien ECRU Jace Philipsborn Eleventh Street Burchell N. W. Burchell Brentano Stoke F PLAYM 04Th Street Barris Shafe Company
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