NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
VOL. Ix 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Announcement is made by Mr. 
and Mrs. Augustus P. Loring of 
Marlboro street, Boston, of the en- 
gagement of their only daughter, 
Miss May Loring, and Samuel 
Vaughan. The announcement was 
made at Pride’s Crossing, where the 
Lorings are to remain until after 
Thanksgiving, and Miss Loring was 
most generously remembered with 
felicitations and flowers at the tea 
Wednesday afternoon at the Loring 
cottage. Miss Loring came out sev- 
eral years ago at a brilliant ball. 
Her debut was postponed a year in 
order that she might pass some 
months in Paris and study singing 
with Jean De Reszke. She is most 
talented, and has distinguished her- 
self in many ways. She is heiress 
to a generous fortune, and has dis- 
tinctly Bostonian affiliations, her 
mother having been Ellen Gardner 
prior to her marriage, so that the 
near relatives are George Augustus 
Gardner, Mrs. John UL. Gardner, 
Mrs. George Howard Monks, George 
P. Gardner, Mrs. Francis B. Boyer, 
Mrs. Roger Wolcott and others 
equally as well known. Mr. Vaugh- 
an is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. 
Warren Vaughan (Ellen Parkman) 
of Beacon street, Boston, and is the 
brother of Miss Mary E. Vaughan, a 
former president of the Vincent 
Club. He graduated from Harvard 
two years ago and is a member of 
the Tennis and Racquet Club. No 
date has been decided upon for the 
wedding, but it is understood that 
the engagement will be of brief dur- 
ation. 
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Mrs. Wallace Goodrich of the 
West Manchester colony and Mrs. 
Louis C. Elson of the Bass Rocks 
contingent were patronesses at the 
first dance of the senior class of the 
New England Conservatory of Mu- 
sic, Boston, Tuesday evening. 
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The Secretary of the Treasury 
and Mrs. MacVeagh are to give a 
large reception at their residence in 
Washington this evening in honor 
ef Lady Gregory of England, who 
is in Washington during the engage- 
ment there of the Irish Plavers, re- 
cently in Boston, when Lady Greg- 
ory received many social courtesies. 
MANCHESTER, MASS., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1911. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Washington’s winter colony is 
beginning to settle and already the 
social calendars of many prominent 
hostesses are being formulated. At 
the country club at Chevy Chase, 
the suburb of Washington, Mr. and 
Mrs. Robert B. Roosevelt gave a din- 
ner party Tuesday evening as a final 
festivity before the marriage Wed- 
nesday in Washington, of their 
daughter, Miss Olga Roosevelt, to 
Dr. J. Breckenridge Bayne of New 
York. Yellow and white chrysan- 
themums and autumn foliage were 
the dining-room decorations and an 
orchestra played throughout dinner. 
In addition to Miss Helen Taft, the 
guests included those forming the 
bridal attendants at the wedding. 
The bride is a cousin of Ex- 
President Roosevelt. The ceremony 
was performed at St. Thomas’ 
ehurch at 4 o’clock, followed by a 
reception at the Roosevelt home on 
Massachusetts avenue. Dr. Bayne 
and his bride left for a Northern 
trip after the reception. The bride 
has been one of the most popular 
girls in Washington since her debut 
two seasons ago. She is accounted 
the richest heiress in the Roosevelt 
connection. 
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President and Mrs. Taft invited 
members of the Cabinet and their 
wives and a few other guests to the 
White House, Wednesday evening to 
hear the choir of the Mormon Taber- 
nacle sing. 
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Baron Uxkull, attaché of the 
Russian embassy, in Washington, 
who has been transferred to Japan, 
will sail from New York on Novem- 
ber 21st for Europe, enroute to his 
new post. Count Czechonic, now 
stationed at the Austro-Hungarian 
embassy in London, is expected in 
Washington the last of this month, 
to sueceed Count Felix Brussels, 
who goes to Munich. 
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One of the earliest December 
dates for debutante dances in Bos- 
ton, will be that at Copley Hall, 
December 8, which Mr. and Mrs. 
Robert Hale Bancroft of Beacon 
street, Boston, and Beverly, are giv- 
ing for their daughter, Miss Eleanor 
Bancroft. 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
The debutantes of North Shore 
society have been holding the cen- 
ter of the social stage in Boston all’ 
this week. There have been many 
demands on the time of Miss Eliza- 
beth Bigelow, one of the ‘‘buds’’ of 
the Manchester contingent. She 
has been invited to assist at all such 
functions. Wednesday afternoon 
she assisted in the tea room at the 
reception of Mrs. Charles Emerson 
Fuller of Beacon street, Boston, in 
honor of her granddaughter, Miss 
Madeline Fuller McDowell of Cam- 
bridge. Miss Bigelow’s own for- 
mal debut came off yesterday after- 
noon at the Tuileries, Boston. Mrs. 
Prescott Bigelow, her mother, ar- 
ranged a charming reception fol- 
lowed by dancing. Among the 
young women, who assisted were the 
Misses Esther Slater, Edith Foster, 
Florence Lee, Edith Wendell, Fran- 
ces Saltonstall, Caroline Fessenden, 
Margaret Sargent, Gertrude Amory, 
Dorothy Briggs and Alice Williams. 
Miss Bigelow is one of the most at- 
tractive of the younger smart set on 
the North Shore, an accomplished 
horsewoman and a successful con- 
testant at the leading horse shows 
of the season. 
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Mrs. William R. Cabot of Boston 
and Beverly Farms, was among the 
matrons, who were in charge of 
Wednesday’s bazaar at the Trinity 
chureh parish house parlor, Boston, 
in aid of the St. Monica’s Home for 
sick colored women and children. 
There was a fashionable attendance 
during the luncheon and tea hour. 
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Miss Agnes Pfaff attended the re- 
ception given by Mrs. C. Howard 
Walker at the Tuileries, Boston, 
Tuesday afternoon in honor of Miss 
Katherine Walker, her daughter. 
Miss Pfaff is a niece of Mrs. Gerard 
Bement of the Beverly Farms colony 
where she has resided the past year. 
She is a debutante also of the pres- 
ent season. 
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Vineent Astor of New York, and 
Harrison K. Caner, Jr., of Philadel- 
phia and Manchester, are among 
the Harvard undergraduates ap- 
pearing at the debutante functions 
of the autumn season. 
