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SOCIETY NOTES 
Many North Shore maids and matrons were seen at 
the dance which Mr. and Mrs. Richard Saltonstall of 
99 Bay State Road, Boston, gave at the Hotel Somerset 
in honor of their debutante daughter, Miss Muriel Salton- 
stall, who was very girlish and pretty in white tulle, 
daintly tucked over white silk. Among those present 
were: Mrs. William Caleb Loring, an aunt of Mrs. 
Saltonstall, who wore Dresden silk, the bodice being 
fastened at the side with a bow knot of diamonds; Mrs. 
John S. Curtis, an aunt of Miss Saltonstall, who was in 
green and gold brocade; Miss Rose Saltonstall, charming 
in blue tulle over blue silk; Mrs. Harold Jefferson Cool- 
idge, a cousin of Miss Saltonstall, in white satin and 
beautiful white lace. Among others present were: Miss 
Frances Bradley, who wore a blue velvet gown, finished 
with tulle and silver embroidery; Miss Elizabeth Paine, 
pink satin and pink tulle; Mrs. Gordon Abbott, black 
satin with a corsage of jet and with bands of ostrich 
feathers on the skirt, and for jewels, a long necklace of 
large turquoise beads and a pearl collar with diamond 
slides; Mrs. Walter C. Baylies, black satin and jet; Miss 
Charlotte Baylies, white satin with panels of pale blue 
satin and garlands of pink roses on the skirt; Mrs. Roger 
W. Cutler, yellow chiffon over yellow satin and a yellow 
satin bodice; and Mrs. William C. Endicott, black satin 
beautifully embroidered with jet beads and rhinestone, 
and, for jewels, a eee Baise and pearl necklace. 
It looks as though the annual race meeting at the 
Brookline Country Club, June 17 and 109, will be restored 
to its former popularity this year with such a man as 
Bayard Tuckerman, Jr., of Boston and Ipswich, chairman 
of the new board of 21 racing stewards, who will handle 
the event. The change this year makes the board of 
stewards three times as large as formerly and as all are 
men with experience in cross-country racing, there will 
undoubtedly be added interest in the sport. It has been 
decided to retain the Chamblet Memorial steeplechase, 
the National Hunt cup and the Brookline steeplechase, 
and there will be added purses over those of other sea- 
sons. ‘The stewards who are associated with Mr. Tucker- 
man are A. Winsor Weld, James A. Parker, Edwin S. 
Webster, Francis W. Sargent, Jr., Harry Lee, Gordon 
C. Prince, Francis Peabody, Henry G. Vaughn, James W. 
Appleton, Harry W. Smith, George S. Mandell, Fred- 
erick Ayer, Jr., John R. Macomber, Charles S. Bird, Jr., 
John P. Bowditch, Richard Mortimer, Jr., John Wright, 
B. Nason Hamlin, George S. West, and Lieut. Charles K. 
Rockwell. Frank S. Bryan, secretary of the National 
Steeplechase and Hunt association, will, as in former 
years, be starter and Pe eam the course. 
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An important sale of North Shore property, just 
made, is that of the estate of Charles W. Parker, at 
Marblehead Neck, to Frederick C. Fletcher of Brook- 
line, who will make this place his future summer resi- 
dence. He occupied the estate last summer under lease. 
In several previous summers Mr. Fletcher has been a 
resident for the season of cottages on the Neck, which 
from season to season he leased, so he is no stranger to 
that resort. The estate which he has just purchased has 
been known as “Red Gate” and it is the largest of any 
place on the Neck. It is situated near the Causeway, 
which runs from the Neck over to Devereux, and it 
faces Marblehead Harbor, on which it has a frontage 
of more than 700 feet, with private boat landing and its 
own boathouse. Picturesque rocks skirt the shore, giv- 
ing the estate added attraction. There are 240,000 square 
feet of land, with lawns, shade trees and fine shrubbery, 
rockeries, little ponds for goldfish, beautiful flower plots 
and a big rose garden, among numerous outdoor features. 
The house is a mansion of Colonial type, of large size 
with spacious rooms, and is well planned throughout. It 
is painted in Colonial yellow with white trimmings. The 
estate includes also a commodious stable and garage in 
combination. The sale was negotiated through the Mar- 
blehead real estate office of Gardner R. Hathaway, on 
private terms. The property is assessed for $90,800. 
It is the most important real estate sale in many years 
in this part of the North Shore. The purchaser, Mr. 
Fletcher, is an enthusiastic yachtsman and owns the big 
steam yacht, ‘‘Christina,’ and also a sonder racer, “Nina,” 
which is just now at Havana. 
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An important real estate deal, involving one of the 
largest and finest estates at Bass Rocks, Gloucester, has 
been negotiated, by which the splendid estate of the late 
Charles E. Pugh of Overbrook, Pa., has been transferred 
to George C. Thomas, Jr., of Philadelphia. Mr. Thomas 
has purchased the place for a summer residence. The 
new owner of the Pugh estate has previously enjoyed the 
invigorating summer air of Bass Rocks and formerly 
lived here, spending the summer of 1913 at “Twinlight 
Manor,” Bass Rocks, while during the season of 1912, 
he occupied the “Bramble Ledge” cottage at Eastern 
Point. The Pugh estate is one of the best and largest 
at Bass Rocks and is located on Bass Rocks road, Bass 
Rocks Point, next to the Way estate. 
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National Capital 
Events of Interest from the Seat of 
Government 
By J. E. Jones 
The Breeze Bureai, 
Washington, Jan. 26, 1915. 
Sout America BECOMES THE GOAT. 
Among the “self-made” million- 
aires of the United States may he 
found some of the most intollerable 
snobs and unpityiny autocrats that 
inhabit the face of the earth. One 
would think they ought to know bet- 
ter since they started “at the bottom.” 
But why expect such results, when we 
as a “self-made nation” are today 
poking the same sort of contemptious 
scorn at South America from which 
we so long suffered. Gradually it is 
beginning to percolate through the 
thick skulls of some of the best think- 
ers in American statecraft that South 
American diplomacy is of the top 
notch variety. Our southern nations 
have been appointing as Foreign 
Ministers and Ambassadors trained 
international jurists, and in the clash 
of brains they are proving themselves 
too strong and masterful for the poli- 
ticians, authors, lawyers, lecturers and 
novelists who are in charge of the hit 
and miss foreign policy of the United 
States and some other countries. 
South America is doing things for 
herself, and sneering mankind which 
has looked upon it with scorn, is be- 
ginning to sit up and take notice. 
Tre Lonety Monror Doctrine. 
The big brother nations have long 
entertained the notion that it was the 
duty to look after their weaker kin. 
Austria recently enforced this view- 
point with reference to Servia, and 
cee what happened. Now perhaps by 
this time none except the historians 
would have known that a man named 
Monroe was at one time President. 
had he not promulgated a “doctrine.” 
The United States has had its troubles 
with this “doctrine,” and the sort of 
protection it has prescribed for our 
