Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1926, Page 46

51 Mrs.RALPH ‘“{§° with Senas : ir daughter has gtay Arizona. .CAMERON, v Cameron and ted for Washington Maintains Air Of Festivity, Though Many Officials Are Qut: of Town Interesting Group of Young Matrons at Foreign CapitaIS*Wholean-Henderson Wedding. Potomac River Again Popular. ;UST, the dullest month of the year socially in Washington, still A has a semblance of gayety, with informal parties at lunch, or tea, or dinner, and not infrequently to swim. Since the recent war forced many to stay through the Summer months the fact that Washington is, after all, no hotter than many resorts, swimming pools have been “put in,” filling a long-felt want and making the Midsummer more agreeable for those who have to remain in town. There are always many diplomats who stay herc through the Sum- mer, though the heads of missions cstablish Summer embassies and lega- tions clsewhere, and with diplomats as guests the most informal party has an atmosphere of importance clacr Henderson to Mr. Joseph Edward Wholean Thursday was somewhat of a surprise to many, as Mr. Wholean had expected to sail Wednesday for his post as commercial counselor of the United States embassy in Rome. When Mrs. John B. Henderson announced the engagement of her granddaughter carly in July 1t was generally believed the wedding would take place before Mr. Wholean went so far away, though Mrs. Henderson gave no hint of a date for the wedding. Mrs. Wholean is particularly well fitted for her role as the wife of an Amcrican representative in foreign lands. She has literally been raised among forcigners, as her grandmother has always drawn the diplomats about her very generaily, especially the European and Oriental foreigners. Mrs. Wholean has mastered several other languages in addi- tion to her own, and has scores of friends among the diplomats who have been accredited to this post, some she has made for herself and many she has inherited from her father, the late John B. Henderson, and from her widely beloved grandmother. Mrs. Wholean, thpugh going to a foreign country, will find several voung American women in her circle. Chief among these is Mrs. David K. E. Bruce, nee Mellon, wife of the United States vice consul at Rome. The two young women will find the official or diplomatic precedence re- versed in their cases, under these new conditions, for while Mrs. Wholean, as Miss_Henderson. had no official position through any member of her familv, Mrs. Bruce, as Miss Mellon, was far up in the official line as the daughter and official hostess of the Secretary of the Treasury. Mrs. Wholean, as the wife of a member of the embassy staff, precedes Mrs. Bruce, wife of the vice consul. The consular service is quite distinct from the diplomatic service and below it in the matter of precedence. HE marriage of Miss Beatrice Van Renss MONG other young American women at Rome is Mrs. Edward Savage Crocker, 2d, wife of the third secretary of the embassy, formerly Miss I.. Lispenard Seabury, who was presented to society here by her aunt, Mrs. Austin Kautz. Not far from Rome are the first secretary of the lega- n in Bern, Switzerland, and Mrs. Alan F. Winslow, the latter formerly Miss Rosamond Castle, daughter of the- chief of the division of Western European affairs of the State Department and Mrs. William R. Castle, jr., and Mrs. S. Pinkney Tuck, wife of the United States consul at Geneva, Switzerland, formerly Miss Beatrice Beck, daughter of former Solicitor General and Mrs. James M. Beck of Washington. Then there are Mr. and Mrs. Allen Welsh Dulles, the former being a nephew of Mrs. Robert Lansing; Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey Richardson, the latter formerly Miss Helen LeSeure, granddaughter of former Speaker Cannon, and Capt. and Mrs. Adolphus Andrews, all of whom are temporarily at Geneva, and the United States agent for reparation payment and Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert, who are at Berlin. Mrs. Gilbert was before her marriage Miss Louise Todd, niece of Mme. Hauge. All of these young matrons were identified here in the same circle as debutantes and belles before they married. HE delights of the Potomac River are again being recognized after many years of lethargy, and the number of small craft, and not a few larger vachts, abound not only in the channel and about Potomac Park, but farther up the river above Georgetown. Many years ago the boat clubs at Georgetown had an important place in the social affairs of the Distict, before the days of so many “Winter residents,” who close their houses on the first warm day and do not return until after Congress con- venes. Society has only recently recognized the beauties of the river and the comfort of a houschoat or even a launch to cruise leisurely along for week ends. Corning were hosts at dinner last evening at Sea Urchins, their Summer home at Bar Harbor, Me., in honor of Maj. and Mrs. John A. Warner. Few Informal Parties Here and in the North The Secrotary of Commerce and Mrs. Hoover entertained a small com-| Mrs. Henry F. Dimock gave a large pany informally at Ginner last eve.|dinner party last evening in her Sum- ning in their S street home, the dinner [fner home at Bar Harbor, in compli- being served on the terrace. ent to the Governor of Maine and rs. Ralph O. Brewster, who are her . Representative-and.MrseParker S.iwuests over-Sunday, | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, vy Yo ador Hetcher « for& Cl’xarming Young Family Graces Homc Of Ne’w District Commissioner Doughertys, Natives of Bay State, Have Lived Here Since Marriage. The Capital City lacks the dignity which the presence of a mayor ana his corporation can lend to civic gath- erings or municival amenities, but for some years past the Board of Com- missioners, facetiously called a com- posite lord mayor, has been accordea all the courtesy which the big cities render to their official chief. Mr. Cuno Rudolph, as chairman of the board by reason of senlority, figures as the representative of the city on all important occasions, and his col- leagues, the newly appointed mem- ber, Mr. Proctor Lambert Dougherty, and the Engineer Commissioner, Col. Franklin Bell, do not fail of attention Mr. Dougherty has been for 2 vears a residemt of Washington, but his early days here were studiously spent, and it was not until some years after his marriage, in 1910, that, be. coming a householder, he entered more heartily into its social as well as its civil life, Mrs. Dougherty was Miss Grace Holmes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Holmes of Cam- bridge, Mass., and the romance be- gan with the visits of the Commis sioner to his old home in that scho- lastic city. The wedding was cele brated in the home of Mr. and Mrs, Holmes on October 12, 1910. Mrs. Dougherty was educated in the schools of Cambridge. Commissioner Dough- erty attended the public schools in his home city and then matriculated in the Institute of Techonlogy and took his degree in 1897. He is the son of Rev. M. A. Dougherty of Cam- bridge, and he and his family are members of the Unitarian Church There are four children, one boy and three girls, Proctor Lambert, jr., who is 15, a student of the McKinley High School; Elizabeth, who is at- tending theé E. B. Barnes Public School, is 9, and Frances H. Dough. erty. There is an infant daughter, just 13 months old, and she has been given the quaint, old-fashioned name of Faith. Mrs. Dougherty, who becomes one of the important hostesses of the Caplital, is of a domestic type, but also is prominent in the affairs of Al Souls’ Church, which she and the Commissioner attend. She is a mem- ber of the Woman's Alliance and of the Twentieth Century Club, both of which are activities of this Unitarian congregation. The Commissoner is an active member of the Laymen's League of All Souls'. The new Commissioner presents many cultured and varied character- istics. He has been for many years a student of botany and is a member of the Botanical Ciub of this city. The activities of this body have been for years mainly directed from the De- partment of Agriculture and its mem- bership includes the most illustrious naturalists of the city. Having a scientific knowledge of plants and a deep love for them, Mr. Dougherty will be a stanch friend of the pro- posdd arboretum and of all the measures which mean a more beauti- ful and sclentifically planned Wash- ington. He has been for some time one of the governors of the University Club and of the Washington Society of Engineers. Having devoted his leisure from his professional labors to clvic reform, and social welfare, the new Commilssioner is a member of the Rotary Club, of the Board of Trade and of the Chamber of Com- merce. In all these assoclations he has been conspicuous and he comes into his important office with perhaps {a wider personal knowledge of more of its citizens and in every walk of life than his recent predecessors have possessed. Mr. and Mrs. herty are both members of the Cémumbia Country Club and frequently entertain MRS. ROBERT E.OLDS, f seas with Mr.Olds assistant semmg 40w on the i of-State.. Officials and Residents Absent From Washington Four Cabinet Officers Remain in Capital —Others in North and West—News of Society in General. The Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Curtis Dwight Wilbur, will return to Seattle the end of the week from a trip to Alaska, and after spending a few days there will join Mrs. Wilbur at their home in Francisco. The Secretary of Lahor, Mr. James J. Davis, who is with Mrs. Davis and the children at Mooseheart, Ill., for a vacation, will leave there next week for a trip to the Pacific Coast. The Acting Secretary of the Treas- ury, Mr. Gerrard B. Winston, will re- turn tomorrow from Newport, where he is spending the week end with Mr. and Mrs, Woodbury Blair of ‘Washington, Mr. and Mrs, Blair were hosts at dinner fast evening preceding the musicale given by Dr. and Mrs. Pres- ton Pope Satterwhite. The Acting Secretary of the Navy, there and are entertained by their scores of friends. The home of the new Commissioner is a pretty, modest place on Jenifer street, Chevy Chase, and they have lived there about seven yeaws. For five years absorbed in civic reform and better municipal conditions, Mr. Dougherty has proven his devotion to his cause by accepting, at a consider- able financial sacrifice in comparison with salaries, the post of District Commissioner. He was assistant to the vice president of one of the most opulent elevator companies in the country and its personal representative in Washington and he yields exactly onefourth of his salary {n becoming one of the city fathers, D. C., AUGUST 8, Mrss ELI of New York, Mr. Theodore Douglas Robinson, is in New York over Sunday. Senator and Mrs. James W. Wads- worth, jr., will go to Pride's Cross- ing, Mass., the middle of the month to visit Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Gordon Means in the Summer home Alham- bra, overlooking Mingo Beach. Representative and Mrs. Ogden Mills have arrived at Newport, R. L., on their yacht Alcalda. Surgeon Gen. of the Arm¥ and Mrs. Merritt W, Ircland have returned from a three weeks' motor trip to Nova Scotia and Canada. ‘The commissioner general of immi- gration and Mrs. Harry E. Hull have with them In their apartment at Wardman Park Hotel their son, Harris Hull, who has just returned from the Reserve Officers’ School at Minneapolis after finishing his school vear at the Shattuck Military Academy. The United States Minister to Bo- livia and Mrs. Jesse S. Cottrell, who have been "spending six weeks at Wardman Park Hotel, sailed Friday for Arica, Chile, from where the Min- ister will go to Bolivia to resume his duties. Lieut. Comdr. Willlam Cogan, U. S. N., retired, and Mrs. Cogan have moved into their apartment at 2301 Connecticut avenue after spending the week at the Hotel Brighton. Comdr. and Mrs. Cogan recently re- turned to their former home here after station at' Mareg Island, Calif. Mrs. Cogan was befort) her marriage (Continued on Sixth Page) * 1926—PART 2. CONTESSA ROGERI diVILLANOVA., ZABETH CHASE, who will atten iss Lauya Winder Mayshail at hee wedding August 11. Betrothals of Interest Announced Today Are For Autumn \Vec‘dings Niece MiSS Nebeker‘ 0{ Agriculture Secretary, to Wed Lieut. Taylor. An engagement of unusual inter- est in official circles is that of Miss Delia Nebeker, daughter of the for- istant Attorney General and ank K. Nebeker of 3409 Woodley road, to Lieut. John Sterling Taylor of Richmond, Va., son of Mrs. Carrie Carter Taylor and the Mr. John Sterling Taylor of Rich- mond, Va. Miss Nebeker is the niece of the Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs. Willlam M. Jardine. The wedding will take place in October. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Morris of 71 Park avenue, New York, and the Trees, Ossining, N. Y. have an- nounced the engagement of thelr daughter, Virginja Dorothea, to Lieut. Earle H. Kincaid-of Coving- ton, Va. Miss Morris is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris and grand- daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Morris of Virginia. She was educated at the Knox School for Girls and Miss Fuller's School, graduating from the latter, and afterward attended Sweet Brial Col- lege, Va. Lieut. Kincald graduated from the Naval Academy in 1918 and during the World War served with the fleet in Turkish waters. He was a mem- ber of the original crew of thes U. 8. S. Shenandoah and is now at- tached to the U. S. 8. Kittery at Hampton Roads, Va. Lieut. Kin- caid is the author of several articles on the uses of weather maps for ships at sea, which have heen re- cently published. It has just been announced by the Navy Department that Lieut. Kincaid's method of plotting the course of storms by the use of the radio compass has been employed to avold the last. hurri- wife of the first secretary i her Wardmanw Park. apart [alian Embass of the/ ment. The retiring Ambassador of Spain, Senor Don Juan Riano, is expected to return to Washington this week from York Harbor, Me., where he went to join Senora de Riano, who is visiting her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Chandler P. Anderson. sador of Great Britain, rd, was the honor guest at luncheon yesterday of Mrs. Godfrey Lowell Cabot, who entertained at her home, the Ouaks, at Beverly Farms, Mass. The Ambassador is spending the remainder of Summer embassy Mass., and motored to Mrs, home. The Ambassador of Mexico, Senor Don Manuel Tellez is expected to come to Washington this evening from New York, where he arrived yesterday, after spending a few weeks in his home in Mexico. The Minister of Finland, Mr. Axel Leonard Astrom, sailed yesterday from New York on the Rotterdam to spend about three months in Europe. The secretary of the legation, Mr. Bruno Kivikvski will be_in charge of the legation during the Minister's ab- sence. of The Minister Columbia. and Senora de Olaya, who are visiting in Montreal and Quebec, are expected to return to Washington next week. The Minister of Panama, Senor Dr. Don Ricardo J. Alfaro, sailed yester- day on the Calamares to join Senora de Alfaro and their family in their home in Panama The Minister of Bolivia and Senora de Jaimes Freyre and Senorita Yo- landa Jalmes Freyre and the members of the legation staff are expected to return to Washington today. They motored to Philadelphia to attend the celebration of- Bolivia day, at the Sesquicentennial, Friday. The Minister of Hai¥f, Mr. Hanni- bal Price. will go to New York the first of the week, and will sail Tues- day on the Ancon for Haiti. He will Join his family in Port au Prince, and accompany them to a resort in the mountains of Haiti. The Minister of Austria and Mme. Prochnik entertained at dinner last evening in compliment to Miss Violet | James, sister of Mme. Prochnik, who is visiting them. Miss Loranda Proch- nik, daughter of the Minister and Prochnik, left Washington for Southampton, where she i3 the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman for about 10 days. The Minister of Latvia and Mme. cane which swept the West Indles and the coast of Florida. The marriage, which will take place in the Autumn at The Trees, Ossining-on-the-Hudson, the coun- try place of Mr. and Mrs. Morris, will unite two of the oldest families of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Hampden Wilson, 1436 Girard street northwest, announce the engagement and approaching mar- riage of their daughter Blanche Pecle to Mr. Robert Welmore James of New- port wedding will take place in October. Mrs. Irvine W. Hutchison an- nounces the engagement of her daughter Nellfo Mr. Trent Ainsworth of this city, »fle wedding will take place in the Autumng vews and Richmond, Va. Thej Vacations of Diplomats Continue Interesting Spanish and Mexican Envoys Return From Brief Absences—Austrian Minister and Mme. Prochnik Hosts. Seya will return to Washington the end of the week from a motor trip to Long Island. The Minister of Ciechanowski had as their their box at the tennis matches at the Essex Country Club at Manchester, M the secretary of the British embassy and the Honorable Mrs. Brooks. Other members of the diplomatic corps who attended the matches last week were the second secretary of the British embassy and Mrs. Thomp- A. J. Pack, commercial sac- v_of the British embassy, and John Joyce Broderick, wife of 1 counselor of the British embassy. Mrs. Broderick had with her her sister, Mrs. Frederick Tabor of Alken, S. €., who has a house at Manchester for the Summer. The Minister of Bulgaria and Mmae. Radewa wlill leave Washington next Sunday a month in the North. will visit several resorts along the coast The Minister of Sweden, Mr. W Bostrom, who companied the Crown Prince Gustavus Adolphus and the Crown Princess Loufse of Sweden on a tour of the United States, is now in San Francisco. The crown prince and princess sailed Thursday for the Orlent. The Minister will leave California. shortly for Washington and is ex- pected to arrive in September after making several visits en route. The charge d'affaires of Cuba and Senora_de Baron, who are at At lantic City, will return to Washing- ton in about 10 days. Their mare riage took place in Baltimore Wed- nesday in the presence of the bride's family. They will make their home at the Wakefleld Apartment, on New Hampshire avenue. Mme. Tilmont, wife of the charge d'affaires of Belgium, is visiting friends in Italy. She will return to Washington some time in October, Gen. Augusto Villa, military at- tache of the Itallan embassy, will return to his apartment, at Ward- man Park Hotel, the middle of the week. after spending several days with friends in Boston. The assistant military attache for aeronautics of the Krench embassy, Maj. Georges Thenault, will o to Cape Cod, the latter part of Au= gust to join Mme. Thenault, who Is there with her mother, Mrs. O. M., Spencer. ‘The Senoritas Grisanti, daughters ot the Minister of Venezuela and Senora de Grisanti, will he amon the guests at tea this afternoon of Mrs. Mina Durilhet, who will .enter- tain in_ compliment to her house guest, Miss Marie Loulse Burton of New Orleans. o Mrs. M:nly Hoste;;- For Visitor From Ohio Mrs. All Manly entertained at luncheon at the Women's City Club Tuesday in honor of Miss Pauline O'Connor of Ohio, who is visiting her sister, Mrs. Frank P. Cahill; Miss Louise Quigg of Eldorado. Ark., house guest of her cousin, Miss Ellen Quigs, ur:i »;::, Louis Bessey of Kentucky, who ‘recently, come . 1o JWashings ton to reside. u‘ o