é NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
SOCIETY NOTES. 
The Sylph, the President’s yacht, which was anchored 
in the harbor of Beverly all summer, entertained a 
merry company of young people by a breakfast recently 
in honor of Miss Helen Taft. The cabin was decorated 
with flowers and flags and a band played on deck. Lieut. 
Charles Russell Train, U. S. N., commander of the Sylph, 
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Mrs. John Hays Hammond gave the first cee 
tea of the Washington season last Saturday afternoon in 
honor of Miss May Hammond, daughter of Willian 
Hammond of California and Miss Eliza Morgan MeMul- 
lin of Kentucky. The Levi P. Morton residence, which | 
Mr. Hammond has leased for the season was beautifull: ve 
decorated for the occasion. Miss Elizabeth Hammond | 
assisted in the tea room. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond lett 
and Mrs. Train were host and hostess of the occasion. 
E. T. Stotesbury has been made chairman of the Red 
Thursday of this week for Russia where the Czar wishes — 
to confer with Mr. Hammond on mining methods in Si- — 
Cross Endowment Fund. During the recent New York 
horse show, Walter Winans bought from Mr. Stotesbury 
his $25,000 winning team of roadsters, Lugano and 
Como. They were blue ribbon winners in class 43 for 
pairs to harness. The price asked and received beat 
anything in the annals of horse show trading. It es- 
tablished a new record for New York. Lugano and Co- 
mo stand today as the most valuable team in harness in 
New York, if not anywhere. 
Mrs. Clement S. Houghton of Chestnut Hill and Man- 
chester and Miss Elizabeth Houghton of Boston and 
Magnolia are among the patronesses for the illustrated 
juvenile entertainment on Dee. 3, for the benefit of 
Denison House, the Boston College Settlement house. 
Senor Don Epifianio Portela, the Argentine Ambassa- 
dor, who has summered on the North Shore, is to be sue- 
ceeded at Washington by Dr. Clodovee Miranda Noan, 
former minister of justice, so reports advices from Bn- 
enos Ayres. 
A memorial house to the late Bishop W.N. MeVielar 
of Providence and Prides Crossing is to be given the 
Episcopal. diocese of Rhode Island, by Miss BF. C. Me- 
Vickar and friends. The Slater House, used for a num- 
ber of years as a dormitory for the Woman’s college of 
Brown University, has béen. chosen for the memorial 
building. 
Miss Rosalind Wood of Boston and Pride’s Cross- 
ing, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Madison Wood, was 
among the Boston debutantes at the annual ball at 
Tuxedo Park, New York, last Friday evening. 
beria. ; 
It is reported that Mr. and Mrs. John W. Cutler haved " 
purchased land at Beaver pond, which is on the Essex — 
aud Beverly street railway line, and contractors are now — 
figuring on the plans for their new summer home to be — 
erected there. Mr. Cutler and his bride are expected at 
Beverly Farms tomorrow for the winter. Contractors — 
are also figuring on the plans of a house for A. A. | 
Lawrence in the same locality as the Cutlers. 
Many North Shore summer residents will take an 
active interest in Lexington’s military carnival for the © 
minute men, It will be a winter carnival on Jan. 7, 
to form the basis for their building fund for a new 
memorial armory. Among the patronesses are Mrs. 
Taft, wife of Pres. Taft; Mrs. Eben Draper, Mrs. Curtis 
Guild, Mrs. John L. Gardner, Mrs. Eben Jordan and 
many others. Every form of winter sport will be en-— 
joyed at the carnival. Hot dinners will be served in a 
grotto to hold 1,000 people. 
Mrs. Sidney E. Hutchinson of Philadelphia and Bev- 
erly Farms and her sister, Mrs. J. K. Mitchell, 3rd, will 
be among the patronesses of the concert, Dee. 15th, at 
ne. Episcopal church, Philadelphia, being arranged by 
. J. Drexel Biddle. 
AC ete F. Ayer and family are still at their Harailton 
estate and will remain there indefinitely, as will S. Dacre 
Bush and family at their estate. 
James H. Procter is a frequent visitor to his Ipswich ~ 
estate which is undergoing extensive improvements. 
The interior finishings are now being made. 
Tuesday evening, Dec. 13, Miss 
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A.: Tucker of 
Lord Fisher of Kilverstone, G: C. 
Mary Shreve Ames of Dartmouth 
street, Boston, will give a dance for 
her debutante niece, Miss Elise Ames 
of Boston and Pride’s Crossing. 
Among the Boston entertainers of 
Mrs. Ten Eyck Wendell of Cazeno- 
via, N. Y., and Washington have 
been Mrs. S. Reed Anthony of Bev- 
erly Farms and Boston and Miss 
Adele G. Thayer of West Manches- 
ter and Boston. 
The Myopia Hunt Club. was the 
mecca for North Shore society folk 
of the hunting set on Thanksgiving 
day. There was a meet at noon at 
Underhill’s corner. Tomorrow (Sat- 
urday) George S. Mandell, master of 
hounds is tendered his annual com- 
plimentary dinner at the clubhouse. 
The Misses Bartlett of Boston and 
Manchester, who spent the summer 
abroad, spent a portion of this week 
with their brother; Nelson S. Bart- 
lett, who is still at his summer es- 
tate on Smith’s Point, Manchester. 
Boston and Manchester are plan- 
ning to spend most of the winter In 
New York. They have apartments 
at the Plaza. 
Miss Elizabeth C. Wood closed the 
Wood cottage at Manchester Wed- 
nesday morning. She made the trip 
to Brookline in the Wood automo- 
bile. 
Amory Eliot and Samuel Eliot 
spent the holidays at their estate, 
‘“Wildwood’’, on Sea street Man- 
chester. 
S. V. R. Crosby and family of 
Boston are at their West Manchester 
estate for the holiday vacation. 
Henry Clay. Frick of Pride’s 
Crossing is to give Bostonians a 
chance to view the best pictures in 
his art gallery. Fifty of his best 
ecanvasses will be exhibited at the 
Boston Museum of Fine Arts begin- 
ning Dee. 1. One picture to be 
shown is his Rembrandt for which 
he recently paid $300,000. 
in -—St: 
B., Admiral of the Fleet, father of 
Hon. Cecil Vavasseur Fisher of Eng-_ 
land, who married Miss Jane Mor- 
gan of Philadelphia, daughter of 
Randal Morgan, was tendered a 
banquet at the Bellevue-Stratford, 
Philadelphia, Monday evening of 
this week by Thomas Dolan, presi- 
dent of the United Gas Company. 
Among the guests present were E. 
T. Stotesbury and Charles E. Pugh. 
a summer resident of Bass Rocks. 
Mr. Morgan and his daughter are 
particularly well known in North 
Shore yachting cireles, especially in 
Marblehead, where the costly Mor- 
gan steam yacht makes an annual | 
trip when the Morgans are eruising 
along the New England coast. Miss 
-Morgan. became the bride of Hon. 
Mr. Fisher on Tuesday of this week 
Paul’s Episcopal church, 
Chestnut Hill, Phila. The bride is 
noted as one of the few women wha 
hold a sailing master’s license. 
