NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER, MASS., FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1911. 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
John Hays Hammond, special ambassador of the 
United States at the coronation of King George V., 
seiled for London on the White Star Liner Cedric, last 
Saturday, with Mrs. Hammond, his sister, Miss M. KK. 
Hammond, and the four Hammond ehildren. John Hays 
Hammond, Jr., Harris, Richard and Natale. ‘‘My 
appointment as special envoy of the United States to 
the coronation,’’ said Mr. Hammond, ‘‘is a great honor. 
I feel that I shall represent all the people of the United 
States.’’ They expect to return to America and to their 
summer home at Freshwater Cove early in July. When 
Mrs. Hammond was asked if the report that her jewels 
would be the most valuable at the coronation was true, 
she replied, ‘‘I am tired of hearing about them; how- 
ever, you won’t have any need to be ashamed of them.’’ 
Then pointing proudly to her children, she added: ‘‘I 
might say, like Cornelia, ‘These are my jewels’.”’ 
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Mrs. Francis A. Lane has closed her winter home 
at 3640 West Pine Boulevard, St. Louis, and is again 
pleasantly located at her summer residence, in Univer- 
sity lane, Manchester Cove. 
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A wedding of much social prominence in Pittsburg 
yesterday, was that solemnized at the Shadyside Pres- 
byterian church at 5:30 p.m. The contracting parties 
were Miss Carolyn Hays, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. 
Henry Hays of Westminster place, Pittsburg, and U.S. 
Grant Curry, son of Mrs. Henry M. Curry of Pittsburg 
and M.enolia. 
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The engagement of Miss Helen Wick Ford, daugh- 
ter of Mrs. John S. Ford of Youngstown, Ohio, and 
Manchester, and Dr. Elshasser of Berne, Switzerland, 
is announced. The wedding will take place June 28th at 
the summer home of Mrs. Ford on University Lane, 
Manchester. 
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Pittsburg society women, many of whom summer 
on the North Shore, are taking an active part this week 
in recognizing the presence of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers in Pittsburg, the first econ- 
vention there in twenty-seven years. Receptions and a 
grand ball at Hotel Schenley have been features of the 
eonvention. 
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Assistant Secretary of the Treasury A. Piatt An- 
drew has been sojourning at his Hast Gloucester summer 
home. He had as guests Mr. and Mrs. W. EH. Wilson 
of Washington. Mr. Wilson is Assistant Secretary of 
State, and has summered at Magnolia. The party vis- 
ited M. A. Walton, the Gloucester hermit, last Sunday. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Claude Kilpatrick of St. Louis and 
Magnolia, were among the passengers who arrived in 
New York on the last landing of the Mauretania. 
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Former Justice Moody is said to be weathering the 
early summer in Washington very well. It is understood 
that he has made no plans as yet to return to Magnolia 
this season. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Miss Marion MeGinley was the guest of honor at 
a dinner party recently at the Pittsburg Golf club. 
Iler host was Henry Clay Bughman, Jr. Covers were 
laid for twelve. It was complimentary to Miss MeGin- 
ley in recognition of her departure for her summer 
home at Manchester. The Bughman family have a sum- 
ner home at Greensburg, Pa., called Melrose Farm. 
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Mrs. William F. Draper and Miss Margaret Draper, 
who recently arrived in London from their season at 
Cannes, have engaged a large apartment at Hotel Ritz 
daring June. The Drapers were at Manchester last 
season. 
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Mrs. William Hooper, who sailed for England on 
the maiden trip of the Franconia, is also representing 
Boston in London, just now, where she is staying at the 
Berkeley. 
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S. Reed Anthony and family of Boston have arrived 
at ‘‘Rose Ledge,’’ their summer home on Hale street, 
beverly Farms. They plan to spend a portion of June 
in San Francisco. 
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North Shore society was found Memorial Day in 
large numbers in attendance at the Chestnut Hill horse 
show. Among the entries were Alexander H. Higgin- 
son and wife and Miss Alice Thorndike. 
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President Taft has consented to review Roxbury’s 
Fourth of July parade in her celebration of ‘‘ Roxbury 
Day.’’ He plans to arrive in Beverly July first. Sen- 
ators Crane and Lodge will also attend the Roxbury 
celebration. 
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Friends of Mrs. John W. Cutler, of Beaver Pond, 
North Beverly, are extending hearty congratulations 
upon her new dignities as cousin, a very promising boy 
having been born several days ago to Mr. and Mrs. 
Stuveysant Fish, Jr., of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Fish 
were married last July at Garrison, New York, at which 
place Mr. and Mrs. Cutler (Hmily Rosalind Fish), were 
married some weeks later. 
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The international polo match at Meadowbrook 
Tuesday afternoon, savored very strongly of Boston’s 
reshionable coterie, a number being among the box- 
holders, as well as a number of the North Shore sum- 
mer residents so prominent socially. Bostonians in the 
fist of box-holders were headed by Guy Norman and his 
brother-in-law, Fred H. Prinee; Alexander Cochrane, 
Rodolphe Agassiz and Secretary of the Navy George von 
i. Meyer, while others were Amory Hodges, who is to 
he on the North Shore this summer, with ‘‘Harry’’ Pratt 
McKean, brother-in-law of Quiney Shaw; Childs Frick, 
‘‘Reggie’’? Brooks (brother of Mrs. E. V. R. Thayer) ; 
k. T. Wilson, Jr., son-in-law of Mrs. Lawrence Mason 
J. P. Morgan, Jr., who married Miss Grew;- John 
D. Cheever, cousin of David Cheever; Vice President 
and Mrs. Sherman, Col. Roosevelt and Governor Dix, 
