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14 Washingtonians and Guests Represent Colonial An- cestors at Remarkable Event for Benefit of Jefferson Memorial Foundation. One of the most remarkable balls Eiven in Washington in years was that at the Mayflower last night for the benefit of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, when hundreds t citizens of Washington and other cities impersonated in costume and manner their ancestors of colonial davs. The stately lines of the ball room with its deep ivory and gold decora- tion relieved by Pompelian red me- dallions, its walls lined with two tiers of boxes all filled with gorgeously dressed characters . from history, needed no other decoration than the few flags used to designate boxes of honor. The Governor Trinkle, guest of Virginia, E. Lee of honor, and who later dedicated the Thomas Jeffer- gon room, sat in the box of Mrs George D, Hope, the flag of Virginia, and that of the Governor flanked the stars and stripes, while the box oc- cupled by the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Wilbur, showed his flag. The reception opened at 9:30 o'cloc! the guests being introduced by the names of the eharacters they repre- gented. At 11 o'clock the entire floor space of the enormous room Was oc- cupled by the 12 sets dancing the Minuet, each set named for a patriot in history and all of them led by Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman and Mr. Lynch Luguer. March of History. The most picturesque feature of the ball was the March of History, which started at midnight. The procession was notable for the large number of men and women appearing in historic role. George Washington was repre- sented by a collateral descendant, Walter Davidge, and the first Gover- nor of Maryland by his great-great- grandson and namesake, Thomas Sim Lee. This splendid ranged and directed by Yalkenburg, with Mrs. Logan Feland as Columbia, the spirit of liberty, bearing a large American flag, lead- ing it. The pages of history started with today, the immigrants of Ellis Island representing the up-to-date stranger in this new world. Then came the World War, and different periods of our history, going back to Santiago de Cuba, Heroes and Heroines of 1860, From the Days of Guadalupe, The Pioneers of 1812, Signers of the of Independence, “The * Our Revolutionary An- stors, Colonial Dames and Squires, Pilgrims of New England, Cavaliers of Virginia and Maryland, Bearers of the Cross Into the Wilderness, Native American Indians, Scotch Forefath- rs, Dutch Forefathers, Quakers, the panish Adventurers, the Cabot Ex- pedition, Companions of Columbus and Back to the Old Crusader: The award of prizes was made shortly after the close of the march for the most accurate historically, for the most beautiful and the most orig- inal, Clifford K. Berryman, the car- toonist, heading the committee mak- ing the awards. Senator Claude Swanson was chair- man of the pageant Guests at Ball The Ambassader of Cuba and Senora procession was ar- Carleton Van Ploneers of Yesterds n Declarat Spirit of * de 1a Torriente were guests in the Oliver Walcott box, for which Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman, Mme. Eken- gren and Mrs. Robert H. Elister Chapman were joint hostesses. Oth- ers in the box were Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam Penn Cresson, Col. Theodore Davis Boal, Mr. Browner and Mr. Tuckerman. The Secretary of the Navy and M ‘Wilbur were honor guests in the New | York State box, for which Mr. and Mrs. Cabot Stevens were hosts. They | named the box for Mrs. Stevens an- cestor, Gen. George Clinton of New | York, Mrs. Stevens appearing as her | ancestress, Lady Betty Lounsberry, and Mr. ftevens as his ancestor, bastien Cabot. Mrs. Wilbur repre- mented her ancestor, Mistress Olive Doolittle of Senaca, N. Y. Their other Ruests were Mrs. nford Bissell, as Mistress Alice Southworth, wife of Gov. William Bradford of Plymouth Colony: Mrs. Wilkinson-Collins, as Mrs. John Jay; Mrs. Grosvenor H. Backus, as the Statue of Liberty, in honor of her ancestor, Mrs. Bedlow, who owned and gave the land on which the statue is placed. Mr. Backus represented Gen. Clinton, first overnor of New York State: Mr. James Cra was Gen. Stuyvesant; Mr. enry K. Bush-Brown represented n. Schuyler. Other distinguished aw York State guests in the box in- cluded Senator and Mrs. Royal Copeland and Mrs, Freistedt Secretary Gore In John Marshall Box. The Secretary of Agriculture, How- ard M. Gore, was guest In the Chief Justice' John Marshall box, the box being sponsored by Mrs. Julien Jac- quelin Mason. whosc other guests were Gen. and Mrs. Richard C. Mar- shall, jr.; Maj. and Mrs. James A. Mars, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Childress, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. W. Bateson and Mr. Cyrus Mantz. The Governor of Virginia, E. Lee Trinkle, representing Washington's native State, Virginia, was with Mrs, Trinkle, a guest In the box of Mrs, George D. Hope, who first entertainad a4 large and distmguished company at dinner in the Mayflower Hotel. Later Gov. Trinkle dedicated the Jefferson room. Mrs. Trinkle wore a handsome evening gown of this perfod with a fancy headdress. Mrs. Hope's gown was of ancient rose point lace, the fabric once furnishing the stately robe of an ancestress, and mounted over cloth of silver. The fichu of the BRown s of Chantily lace and the dainty andkerchief carried by a bride of former generations was of rose point. She was lovely in her white wig of colonial da; Senator and Mrs. Overman Entertain. Senator and Mrs. Were in the North Carolina box, the latter acting as hostess and repre- menting her great-great-grandmother, Grace Greenlee, daughter of Gen. Charles Greenlee. Others in_the box were Dr. and Mrs. Gilmer Brenizer, the latter as her ancestress, Mrs. Waddell, wife of Gen. Hugh Wad- dell of Carolina before the division making _two States; Mr. and Mrs. Minor Falrfax Heiskell Gouverneur of Baltimore, house guests of Dr. and Mrs. Brenizer, and Mrs. Robert A. Dunn of Charlotte, N. C., sister of Dr. Brenizer, who is their guest over Sunday. Mr. Gouverneur is the head of the male descent from President Monroe, and Mrs. Gouverneur is the descendant of Col. Willlam Fairfax of Virginia and the attorney general of the Confederacy, Mr. George Davis of Wilmington, N. C. Mrs. Dunn, formerly Miss Adele Brenizer, is descended from Mr. John A. Gil mer of North Carolina. Others in the box were Mr. and Mrs. John H. Small, Miss Nannie Dinwiddle, Mrs, Henry Jones Ford, Mrs. French and Mrs. Chiswell. Interstate Commerce Commission- er and Mrs. Frederick Irving Cox and Dr. and Mrs. Macpherson Crich- ton were joint hosts In_a box, the guests including the Minister of Guatemala and Senora de Sanchez Latour, Commissioner and Mrs. David Lee S. Overman H. Blair, Mr. and Mrs. Lyford of Chicago and Col. Jennings C. Wise. Dr. and Mrs. Crichton entertained their guests at dinner before the ball. Judge and Mrs. Wilbur Turner had CHARACTERS OF HISTORY APPEAR IN GORGEOUS COSTUMES AT BALL Mr, and Mrs. Victor Kauffmann en- tertained in their box Representative and Mrs. Adam M» Wyant, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Denls E. Nolan and Mrs. J. Herbert Wood. Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, who was Miss Andrews of Maryland, and who has a most interesting family back- ground, later took her guests to the ball, where she had a large box. Hostens in Arts Club Box. Mrs. Willoughby Chesley s hos- t in the Arts Club box and was dressed as. her great-grandmother, Ellza Charlton Beatty of Winchester, Va., Others in the box were Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Lyon, in Oriental cos- tumes; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mus- grave, as a beau and belle of George- town in the days when Georgetown was in Maryland: Mr. L, Morris Lei senring, as his grandfather, John G Morris, and wearing his suit of a Nankin coat, flowered vest and skin- tight trousers; Mrs. Leisinring, as a colonisl lady; Mr. and Mrs. Carl van Valkenburg and Johannes van Val- kenburg and Nantzy van Valkenburg; Mr, and Mrs, Roy Neuhauser, the lat- ter as Margaret Tennant Shaw, and Miss Alene Solomons - as Rebecca Machado of Portugal in the sixteenth | century. Mrs. John Ryan Devereux, who was one of the guests in the Arts Club box, represented her distinguished ancestress, Dionis Stevens, wife of Tristram Coffin, first governor of Nan- tucket, and her daughter, Mrs. Rich- ard Jeschke, wife of Capt. Jeschke of the United States Marine Corps, went to the ball as the wife of Knels Wins- low, brother of Gov. Winslow of Massa- chusetts. The box of the Colonial Dames of | America, chap 3 was occupled by Mrs. Robert Lansing, Miss Lansing, Miss Gertrude Myer, the Rev. Walden Myer, Mrs, Arthur Mason Chichester | of Leesburg, Va.: Mrs. Arthur Addi- son, Mrs, Dickinson Jewett, Miss Gertrude Jewett and Mrs. Charles S | Hamlin as her ancestress, Alida Slich- envorst, on the occasion of her mar- | riage Jo Mr. Schuy of New York. Mrs. Henry W. Fitch was hostes: in the Gov. Enos Thompson Throop | of New York bex and had as her guests Adm and Mrs. Gleaves, | Miss Gleave Mr. and Mrs. uu:‘l\. Wendell of Cazenovia and Mr. and| Mrs, Hewitt Wells [ Mr. Stuart Gibboney of New York, president of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, whose box was | named for Alexander Hamilton, had as his guests from New York Mr. and Mrs. Jaumes D. Hurd, Mr. and Mrs. Bdward Mallep-Provost Murphy, Mr. Henry Alan Johnson, secretary of the foundation; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Barrett of the board of governors and treasurer of the Centennial Election, | and Mr. and Mrs. Frederic W. Twy- man of Charlottesville, Va. Mr. Gib- boney represented his ancestor, Pat- rick Henry, and Mrs. Gibboney imper- sonated Dame Throthingham of New England. . Honors Connecticut Governor. | Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood's box was named by her for her ancestor, William Phelps. from Tewksbury, England. appointed by the king to govern Connecticut, 1635. Her guests included Mme. Grouitch, Mr. William Phelps Eno, Maj. and Mrs. Goetz, Miss Anne Gordon, Mr. Sufdam, Miss Mary Morgan and Mrs. George Ehle. Mrs. Robert E. Lee was hostess in two boxes, and among her guests from out of town and from the city were Mrs. Francis L du Pont, Mr: G. Tracy Rogers, Mrs. Henry Wilder Keyes, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sim Lee, Mr. and Mrs. John Leonard Proctor of Vermont, Mrs. Thornton Boland, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Drayton, Mis: Mattie Harris of Roanoke, Va. Julla Phillips of South Carolina, | Judge John Rutherford of Rifhmnnd,‘ Capt. Frank Jervey and Dr. T. S. Lee. | Mrs. Lee's in the minuet included | Mrs. Lee, dancing with Capt. C. T. Brooks, U. S. M. C.; Miss Edith Dav idge, dancing with Dr. M. C. Dol Mrs. Lawrence Lee, dancing with Mr. Lawrence Lee; Mrs. Willlam Living- ston Crounse, dancing with Mr. Charles Light. Dexcendant of John Ads Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Wilcox had the John Adams box, Mr. Wilcox al going as President Adams, of whom he is a direct descendant, and Mrs. Wilcox as Mrs, Adams. They had as their guests Mrs. Frederick Huide-| koper, representing the old Dutch family of Huidekoper, and Mrs. Up-| shur Moorhead, representing the | of John Chew The were of the Louls XVI period. Mrs. Richard Parker Crenshaw had the box named for her ancestor, Maj. Gen. John Custis of Arlington, Va., and Mrs. Crenshaw attended the ball as her great-great-grandmother, Mrs. John Sergeant of Philadelphia; Mrs Absolem Waller as her ancestor, Mar. Rambert DuBois, French Huguenot of South Carolina; Mrs. Claudian Northrup, as Mrs. John Faucheraud Grinke of South Carolina; Miss Helen Griffith, as Lady Yeardley, wife of the first colonial Governor of Virginia; Miss Carolyn Chamberlain, as Maria Moseley of Norfolk, Vi Miss Ellen Wise Crenshaw, as Maria Mayo, wife of Gen, Winfield Scott. The men in the Custis box were: Fulton Lewis, as Evan Lewis, member of provincial assembly of Pennsylvania; Millard Lewis, as Jona- than Hoyes, member of provincial as- sembly of Pennsylvania; Charles Mar- bury, as Francis Marbury, county leu- tenant in 1680 for Prince Georges, Md. ; James Cralg, ae Gov. Peter Stuyvesant of New York, and Capt. Langworthy, as Roger Williams. Double Set for Minuet. A double set for the minuet were also guests in Mrs. Crenshaw’'s Custis box, including Miss Louise Ireland, Miss Natalie Hammond, Miss Laura Towne, Miss Elizabeth Parker, Miss Carolyn Chamberlain, Miss Ellen Crenshaw, Miss Margaret Dow, Miss Betty Ives and Ful- ton Lewis, Millard Lewis, Mitchell Car- roll, Randolph Carroll, Charles Marbury, Capt. Langworthy and Lee Hoover, Mrs. Jane Blackburn Moran was hostess for the Blackburn-Washing- family costume: | Swith, Mrs Blackburn Washington, and had as her guests Mr. Walter D. Davidge as ien. Washington; Mrs, Horace Mac- farland as Mistress Dolly Madison; Mr. Thomas Campbell Washington as his great uncle, Justice Bushrod Washington, favorite nephew of Gen. Washington’ Elizabeth Holmes Wash- ington as his wife; Mrs. Allen Wash- ington as Hannah Lee, sister of Richard Henry Les, signer of the Declaration of Independence; Mrs. Emma Washington Baxter of Phila- delphia as her grandmother, Catherine Thomas Blackburn, wife of Bushrod Corblp Washington, 2d. Four genera- tions represented in this box, the fourth being a child of 6, all lineally descended from Augustine Washing- ton, brother of George Washington, and Col. Thomas Blackburn, a Revolu- tionary hero;| Mrs. Elizabeth Wash- ington Baldwin representing young Betty Washington, sister of the general, who married Fielding Lewls, and whose family estate, Kenmore, has recently been preserved and set apart as a shrine by the people of Fredericksburg, Va. Jnmes Monroe Box. Monrce box had as hostess Miss Maud Gouverneur, who appeared as Mrs. Nicholas Gouver- neur of New York, her direct ancestor, and Mrs. Rose Gouverneur Hoes, rep- resenting her great grandmother, Maria Hester Monroe, the first White House bride. The guests were Mrs. Harry Freeman Clarke, Miss Alice Harriman, Miss Florence Butler, Miss Fannie Wells, Mrs. Charles W, Ken- nedy, Miss Marcaret Doane of Mont- clair, N. ¥, and Lieut. Gouverneur Hoes, U, S."A., who appeared as Presi- dent James Monroe, his great-great- grandfather, wearing the court dress The James worn by Monroe when presented at the court of poleon, in 1803, at the | time of the nezotiations in connection | with the Louisiana Purchasé, for which | he was President Jefferson’s emis- sary. Mrs. Mitchell Carroll’s box was named for Daniel Carroll of 1y, from are descended all the Carrolls of Revo- lutionary history. Mrs, Carroli's guests were Mrs. Edward Terry Sanford, Sen- ator and Mrs. Swanson, Miss Helen Carusi, Miss Louise Ireland, Mr. Ger- hard Gade, Mr. Mitchell B. Carroll and Mr. Randolph Fitzhugh Carroll. Mrs, Carroll's guests all represented their colonial ancestry. Visi in Box. The Society of Sponsors of the United tes Navy occupied a box, all the aring colonial costumes and g ancestors of high degree. Mrs. Goldsborough Adams was sponsor for this box, and those occupying seats were Mrs. Russell Langdon of Baltimore, Mrs. Reynolds T. Hall of P’hiladelphia, Arthur T. Sutcliffe, Mre. Robert ns and Mrs, Albert Matthews of York, Mrs. Goldsborough Adams, =. George Barnett, Mrs. Hewett Wells, Mrs. Albert Statal, Mrs. Austin Kautz and Mrs. Dahlgren Pier Mrs. Howard i.. Hodgkins was spon- sor for a large box taken by the Dis- trict of Columbia Daughters of the American volution, bearing the name of Gen. and Mme. de La Fay- ette, in honor of the general's visit to this city just 100 years ngo. State and chapter officers and committee chairman in this box .included Mrs. John Beavers, State regent and box hostess; Mrs. James M. Willey, Mrs. David_D. Caldwell, Miss Helen Har- man, Mrs. Jaspar Marion Beall, Mrs. Richard B. Owen, Mrs. G. Wallace Hanger, Mrs. Redwood Vandergrift, Mrs. Jessica Acker, Miss Caroline F. John F. Little, Mrs. How- ard L. Hodgkiny, Mrs. H. J. Tavlor, Mrs. Bertha M. Robbins, Miss Cather. ine E. Polkinhorn. Mrs. Henry B. Polkinhorn, Mrs. Samuel Polkinhorn, Miss Helen Stout, Mrs. A. C. Tolson and Misx Amy Gilbert Ofmcialx The box of Mrs. Mark Potter and Mrs. Willlam G. Wheeler named the Jackman-Winslow box in honor of Capt. Jackman, who led his company at the BRBattle of Bunker Hill, and whose son Timothy was drummer boy of the company, who are ancestors of Mrs. Wheeler, and in honor of Gov. Edward Winslow, first Governor of Massachusetts, an- cestor of Mrs. Potter. In the were r. and Mrs. William G. Whe r, Commissioner and Mrs. Mark Winslow Potter, Commissioner of In- ternal Revenue and Mrs. David H Blair, Assistant Attorney General and Mrs. Rush Holland, United States District Attorney and Mrs. Peyton Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. William F. Dennis and Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Williamson. Mr. and Mrs. George Hillyer, jr., of Atlanta, Ga., named their box the ieorge Walton Box,” after the signer of the Declaration of Inde- pendence and among their gu were the Governor of Georgia. Hillyer took the part of his ancestor in the minu Mrs. John Speed Morris was hoste: in the Jefferson box and guests were Col. and Mrs. J Randolph Kean, Comdr. and Mrs. Wil liam Tel Smith, Miss Cornelia Jef- ferson vior and Miss Margaret Randolph Taylor ana veral others all descended from Jefferson Mrs. Page Morris Hunter, repre- senting Mrs. Hugh Mercer; Miss Ev- elena Prescott Kean, representing the Window Selton, afterward Mrs. Thomas Jefferson; Miss Edlen Featherstone, representing Anne Cary, and Miss Virginia Dickens were also in Jefferson box and danced in Thomas Jefferson set. Colonial Dames Box The Colonial Dames of Virginia had a box which was occupied by Miss Mary Williams, as her ancestress, Mary Taylor Pendleton; Mrs. Baggott, as her great-great-grandmother, Nell Rose; Mrs. A. R. Shands, as Frances Fouke; Mrs. McCain, as Lady Jean Douglas; Mrs. Martha Todd, as Martha Cary, Maj. MecCain, Dr. Shands, Mrs. Willlam Meade Coulling and Mrs. Richard Henry Lee. Guentx of Mrs. Worrell. Mrs. Margaret Hopkins named her box for Stephen Hopkins, and appeared as the signer of the in Box. Winslow the Declaration of Independence, having as her guests Mrs. Frances Eliot Hickox of Massachusetts, Mr. Lewis D. Peppler, Mrs. Lucy Cooper Shaw, Mr. Wickerson Snead Asbury, Miss Bertha M. Nalls, Miss Margaret Laffy, Miss Lucie H. Borck of Baltimore, Miss Lillie Nohowec, Miss Klisabeth Weaverling, Mrs. L. B. Holderby of Salt Lake City, Miss Mary Lowden and Miss Marguerite Lowden of Alexandria, Va. Miss Mary Maxwell was hostess in the box named ' for Gen. Willlam ton-Lee box, appearing as Lady Anne as their guests in_their box Judge and Mrs. J. Harry Covington, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wilson, Mrs. Elbridge Moore, Mrs. John C. Merriam, Dr. MacLain &nd- Dr. Lawrence Evans- - Maxwell, officer in the War of the DR.CALDWELLS SYRUP PEPSIN THE FAMILY LAXATIVE" whom | box | among her | ferson | the | Worrell | Medorem Crawford. The guests were dressed {n colonlal cos- tumes and the hostess was in the Maxwell clan tartan and Caln-Gorm shoulder brooch brought by her an- cester from Scotland. Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin Rush Logie's box was named.“Logle of Buchan,” and they appeared as Lqgle of Bucan and Lady Somersall, ~respectively. Their guests included Miss Taylor Logle, as Jessie Logle, great-grand- daughter of Logie of Buchan; Mrs. John Ritchie, as her ancestress, Lady Jane Gra Mr. John Ritchie, as Gen. Robert Nelso Capt. Conrad of the Navy, as Lord Somersall; Mrs. Conrad, Dorothy Edmonston, her great- as grent-granddaughter; Maj. and Mrs. Thornton, in colonlal dress; Mrs. Thomas H. Taliaferro, as Mary Fitz Randolph of Middleham, an ancestress before the Crusaders, and Miss Doy, as Martha Brown Ogle, wife of Gen. Forman. Represents Her Mother. Miss Alice Lane of the Louise Home attended the ball representing her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson Hooe, Who was a descendant of Presi- dent Tyler and of President Van Buren and Col. Phil Thompson of Louisville, Ky., Miss Minor of Vir- ginia represented her grandmother, Lucy Landon Carter of Cleveland, daughter of Landon Carter of Cleve- land and Mildred Washington Willis and wife of Gen. John Minor of Hazel Hill Miss Ions Rebecca Culberson went as her mother, Emily Dashiell, daugh- ter of Gen. Matthias Dashiell of Metipquin, Somerset county, Md., Mrs. Philip. H. Powers impersonated her great-great-grandmother, Lady Judith Howard of Howard Hall, England. Susanna Johnson Summers, whose mother was a daughter of Zachariah Forrest, who was descendant of Lady Forrest, the first Colonial Dame of America, was revresented by her granddaughter, Miss Leah Burkhardt. Miss Mary J. Williams appeared as her ancestress Mary Taylor, wife of Henry Pendleton and mother of Judge Edmund Pendleton of Ed- mundsbury. Comex ax Washington's Alde. Mr. David Meade Lea attended the ball dressed as his great-great- grandfather, Gen. Richard Kidder Meade, Gen. Washington's aide, to whose un- happy fate fell the details of the execu- tion of the unfortunate Maj. Andre. Gen. Meade was also a great-great-uncle to Mrs. David Meade Lea, for the reason that he married Eliza Ran dolph, while his own sister Nancy Mead?® married his wife’s brother, Richard Randolph, both being the children of Jane Bolling and Richard Randolph of Curls Neck, Va. Mrs, I is descended through another branch of this same family and impersonated Mrs. Randolph | Charles Light represented his| ancestor, Col. Charles Porterfield of | | virginia: Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. | Beresford appeared as Lord and Lady Howe; Mrs. Warner A. Gibbs repre- sented Adelina Patti, and Mrs. San- ford Bissell of New York appeared as Mrs. William Bradford, wife of Willlam Bradford, first governor of Plymouth Colony. Box Namied for Ancestor. Representative and Mrs. Thomas Harrison named their box Rich- Henry Lee, for their direct an- All their guests gppeared in including Mrs. Henry D. Flood, Comdr. and Mre, Evelyn Byrd, Mr. and Mrs. Horace G. Smithy, Dr. and Mrs. Henry Randall Elliott, Mr. i Dudley Carr, Mr. Burr Powell Harri- son, Mrs. Lucien Carr, jr., and Mrs Franklin Rog Mr. and Mrs. George Calvert were in the Lord Baltimore box, appearing as Lord and Lady Baltimore, and other well known characters in American history were represented by their descendants in this box, In- cluding Dr. William Bowie, as Gov. Robert Brookes; Mrs. Bowie, as Elea- nor, wife of Chief Justice Sprigg tichard Tasker Lowndes, 3d, as Gov. Tasker; Mirs. Harvey Wattles, as Ver- linda Cotton, wife of Gov. Stone; Mrs Richard Hill, as Lady Dudley Diggs; Miss Nancy Wattles, as Pris- cilla’ Alden; Edward Burr Powell, as Col. Levin Powell, 16th Regiment, Virginia Continentals; Mrs. Richard Tasker Lowndes, jr., as Mrs. Samuel McDowell - of Col. McDowell, one of Gen. Washington's aides; Harvey Wattles, as Capt. John Wattles of Massachusetts Colony; Capt. Arthur Fairfield, U. S Fairfield of Maine; Mrs, as_Nancy Douglas Sims; Miss Pauline Wilcox., las her great-grandmother, Emlily | Donelson, ~ mistress of the White House during President Jackson’s administration, and Mrs. William S Powell, as Mistress Mary Brewster of Serooby Manor, w Elder Brew- Mr. w ard cestor. costume, In the Lord Baltimore were Representative Millard E. ber of Willlam Penn's council; Hubbard as Betsy Ross, the first American flag; Ross Hubbard, who Mr. tion of Independence; Morris as a colonlal Morris. In Jersey Group. Louise Pennington as hostess, liam 8. (1803) and his wife; Frank G. Odenhelmer as hostess Van Dyke Jobe as he Boudinot, wife of Ric slgner; Mr. and Mrs. . Pearl Moore Gray, Miss Murfel Lee, and thaniel Nesbit Holems, dame of Savannah, Ga gues a costume of the Spanish Lady Castle, Valentine Galwa Blake ¢, Ireland of Mrs. | the ball given in Columbia, S. C. honor of the Marquise de Lafayette upon the occasion of his visit in 1524, in the mode of The dress is made hat time. empire India muslin, embrotdery thread lace style, and is box also Ty- dings, Mrs. Dudley Morgan, Mr. Wil- bur Watson Hubbard, who attended s his ancestor, Luke Watson, a mem- Mrs. who made Wiibur represented George Ross, signer of the Declara- Mrs. George bride and Mr. In the New Jersey box, with Mrs. were Mr. and Mrs. Pennington as Gov. Wil- Pennington of New Jersey Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Treat, who went as Robert Treat and his wife, with Ephraim Penning- ton and others, of the city of New- The Margaret Brent box, with Mrs. was tor, Pepita Taledano; Miss Elizabeth r ancestor, Anice ard Stockton, a J. Henry, Mrs. ray, Blodgett representing Stephen Hart's daughter, Mary Hart, who married John Mrs. Matthews as Mrs, Na- colonial Among their were the Minister of Panama and Senora de Alfaro, who wore a colonial period; Mrs. Henry Parsons Edwin as Menlow David du Bose Gaillard who wore the dress worn by her great-aunt, Mrs. Edward Gendron Palmer of South Carolina, at with ruffles of Tambour and insertions of Englisn The hat is a copy of the Sim Leé of Maryland, at the time of the Revolution, delegate from Mary land to the Constitutional Congress, and Secnator from Maryland. Mrs. Thomas Sim Lee as Abigail Dagget. her grandmother in the fifth genera- tion, wife of Col. Thomas Harvey of New Hampshire, with Ethan Allen at the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, and later with Gen. Gates, in the defeat of- Gen. Burgoyne at Saratoga, and Miss Frances A. Walker as Mary Meade Walker, wife of Col. George Walker, one of Gen. Washington's aldes. Among the guests in Mrs., Frank Morrison’s box, named “The Spirit of 1860," were Miss Fanny Mary Early, great-great-niece of Gen. Jubal A. Early, who wore a lovely costume be- longing to one of the members of the Early family in bygone days, she be- ing a descendant of Lord Early of England. Miss Cosmelia Russell, and ark in 1656; Mr. Pennington Satter.|Miss Emma Russell, representing the thwalte as his ancestor, Benjamin |Russell family of Virginia, wore old Franklin; Capt. Robert W. McNeeley, | black satin and lace and Cosmelia U. S. N. as his great-grandfather, |Russ=ll wore with her costume a Capt. Basil Gaither, and Mrs, McNee- | hand-carved comb once owned and ley as her great-grandmother, Be-|worn by the family of Napoleon Bo- hethland Foote Moore, who married | naparte. Gen. Willlam Butler; Mrs. Lewis 3 e Stewart as Betsy Ann Huntington, OO SsE M Dex. 4 Miss Francesca Stewart as Molly | , Mrs V. Marshall Clopton of Call- Pitcher and Mr. . Waddy” Wood and | formiaghiostess ofithe Col. Johs Fiela Tatoheny Sy 3 . had as her guests Senator J. b Cfi’;fi:(‘:;_“*"‘ In costume, but [ppomag Heflin, Mrs. Robert Love Taylor, widow of the late Gov. Rob- ert L. Taylor of Tennessee; Maj. Vie- occupled by members of the Political | {740 Cas T mbiery b ot Study Club, ofgasized in-1800-as onefiy 1 tr P el L GO ke olfest wemme's: oluks in. the Lo ity T Elin, SOLaT ona ek 1 Distoict, Margaret Brent having besp [ 1ros pesmns Waen et Mo, 1~ ::;;“ea:’l‘i:l‘t woman suffrage leader In | yoh " Moreison Kerr and Mr. Frank s o ry— v s 2 3 i N 1645, When she asked For n voss apa | Sullivan of Portland, Oreg. ~ Mrs. & Yoica Tu WBe Minytand Kivasuiy. | —Smton SEENEEEC A% Rer Erent Siant By Jatsimer vopessonates hee| ST o T Soln piole, wia bor great-great-gra e s. S tne T SHE ol Gae and_granddaughter ' of Col. George ?:,,",}D:F-Zh;“up:E-xyrl»‘:'xr'a:dm;'““r?'v.l ot e mewmber of the Moute Oflcl) Juhm Plats Maw Taylor ey Dicksan: Hullos-1734). Mrs. Claes| ‘inieq her ancestor, Elizabeth Tay- daughter of Margaret: Brent. Other|arcenios, Jaery Pall, mother of Gen .‘.‘.:mz.»m“:r the party included Mrs. DT AbS Tev o Manros box wesd M 4 e Streator, Mrs® Forrest Vre i i t man, Mrs. Frank Oersmyo 8t VIoos| 414’ Mrs, Harry Freeman Clark, the nan, Mrs. verman, Mrs. A. L. | 2 earing as her ancestcr Rtheinstrum, Mrs. Jerome Clark, Mrs, | }Atter app ,, and ne an Richard F. Trwin, M Mrs. James Monroe, and wearing an E. Fowle Mpr. and Mre. John | icinal dress worn by Mrs. Monroe r and Mrs. R. M. Muleare. : A & dlaey when presented at the Court of Na- Mra. Jobe In Hostess. Mr. Richard E. Shands rep- Mrs. Nannie Green Jobe was hostess his ancestor, Col. Francis for the Richard Stockton box, and her | Eppes guests were Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Le| Mrs. Conrad Becker's hox was Merle. as Lord and Lady Barrymore:|named for Leonard M. Deakins, colo- Miss Eugenie Le Merle as her ances. |nel of a famous Maryland regiment, Harley Ferguson, Miss McCormick, Dr. John Lyons, Mr. and Mrs. Under- wood and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Walker of New York City Col. and Mrs. Herber c Mary Lewis "urh)‘(A\llr‘,“:\;“!‘:"‘;‘“s: | Semator Moses Guest. Vries. Col. Beveridge and Mr. Alton| Mrs. Thomas H. C. Reed named her Brook box for Maria Catherine Easterly M Delos A. Blodgett and who married William Ashton of the Charles G. Matthews were host colonial period, and she went to the In the Stephen Hart box, Mrs.|ball as Mrs. Ashton, her great-great- -grandmother. Mrs. Reed’s guests were Senator and Mrs. Moses, Mr. and Mrs, Buxton of the British embassy, Capt and Mrs. John Edie, Mr. and Mrs. Henr; Ashton Little and Mr, Bond Cochran Mrs. Brewster Marwick gr being Josiah with other Quakers, Nantucket as a_grant of King George 1V of England. E. T. Reade, sister of Mr. coran Thom and niece of the late W W. Corcoran, appeared as Macy, who, land from in fn 1767, in Baltimore County Md., and who married Thomas coran and came to Georgetown 1788, Mr. Corcoran 50 gentlemen on horseback who met mon of and her guests inciuded Col. and Mrs. | was host- ess in a prominent box, her ancestor| 20 owned the Isiand of Mrs Cor- Mrs. Thomas Corcoran, born Hannah Lem- Cor- in being one of the INDIAN SINGER DEMANDS $250,000 FOR ARREST | Charged With Silk Theft. | Case Was Dismissed. |WAR COMMITTEE REPORT , ON GERMANY DUE SOON mit Conclusions Am- bassadors This Week. Vernom T. Orrison sickness and disease. A warm house BITUMI Build a protecting ring of comfort about A Orrison Coal Con;pany 1523 L S NW. “COAL WITH A OuL” Keep Warm in the Spring your home makes for happler The best coal is none to good for your family's cor peop health. Some coal is full of dirt, ashes and clinkers, whic help keep the house warm, but does cost money. ( cbal from us now SUPERIOR GRADES OF ANTHRACITE AND OUS COAL “THERE’S A REASON FOR OUR SUCCESS” Main 951 ch the all he Princess Atalie Unkalunt Was| Foch Says Allied Group Will Sub- to By the Associated Press By tle Associated Press P ARDSLEY, N. Y., February 21.—| PARIS, / February 21.—Marshab Miss Eva Rider, a singer known on|Foch. president of “the Allied War the concert stage s Brincess. aealle|COmMittes, appeared before the a 8¢ as Princess.Atalle |y, y0a0rs council today and Unkalunt, an Indian name for “Sun-|nounced that the comm et shine Rider,” vesterday flled suit for on Germany's military ac $250,000 damages for alleged false|Which is being formulated fr arrest, malicious prosecution and |24l T e A ] : s and |y esic e ready some time nexf conspiracy. The defendants are| week corge H. Ainslie, a Fifth avenue art| He said that the military expe dealer; Nis daughter, Mrs. Lucte [3Te £VIng the maticr most careful ai- Afnalle JEenediot, and, Head Crons, & ap b evidence roroe e bulkine private detective will need a fewr more days to pre The plaintiff, who is of Cherokee!pare their conclusions Indian descent and lives in New York | The war committee's findings will he City, was arrested on complaint of |referred to the allied governme Ainslie and Mrs, Benedlct last Oc-|previous to the mesting of the a tober, charged with the theft of valu- | pagsadors’ council, for a prelimina able silks from Ainslie’s home here. | exchange of views The charge was later dismissed | L The singer charges the silks were | = “planted” in her valise by the de-| Guests at the Metropole Hotel at tendants. 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