NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The French embassy headquarters 
is to be located at Manchester again 
the coming season. Miss Sarah 
Brown’s large house on School 
street has again been leased, through 
the Boardman agency, to Mon. Le- 
favre Pontalis, who will be the 
charge d’affaires again this summer. 
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M. B. Gilman has _ leased the 
Wheaton cottage, at Old Neck, Man- 
chester, for the coming season to 
Mrs. Walter Alexander of New York 
City, who had the cottage last 
season. 
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Lieut. and Mrs. George 8. Patton 
of Fort Sheridan, Ill., are receiving 
congratulations on the birth of a 
daughter. Mrs. Patton was Miss 
Beatrice Ayer, a daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Frederick Ayer of Boston, 
and Pride’s Crossing. Their mar- 
riage took place last May in St. 
John’s Church, Beverly Farms, and 
was followed by a reception at Ava- 
lon, the summer home of the bride’s 
parents. 
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John S. Ames and family of North 
Easton are to spend the coming 
season on the North Shore. They 
have leased this week through the 
Boardman agency, the Ernest W. 
Longfellow cottage on Coolidge’s 
Point. The Longfellows are to sum- 
mer in Europe. 
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North Shore society folk are much 
interested in the entertainment and 
lecture for the benefit of the Free- 
man school of Historic Costume to be 
given at Copley Hall, Boston, Wed- 
nesday afternoon, April 5th at 3 
o'clock. The most beautiful exam- 
ples of the modern harem skirt will 
be shown. Mme. Alma Webster 
Powell. the beautiful opera singer, 
will appear in this new fashionable 
costume. Mrs. Elizabeth Freemen of 
394 Marlboro street, Boston, is con- 
ducting the entertainment. A recep- 
tion follows at 4.30 o’clock in honor 
of Madam Alma Webster Powell and 
Miss Adelyn Wesley in the parlors 
of the Copley society. 
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F. Lewis Clark, commodore of the 
Eastern Yacht Club, Marblehead, 
and Mrs. Clark have returned from 
a three months’ sojourn in Southern 
Europe. They are now in their win- 
ter home in Spokane, Wash. 
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Mrs. Wm. M. Wood of Boston and 
Pride’s and Miss Wood have re- 
turned to Boston from a sojourn in 
Newport. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Countess Luise Alexandria Von 
Bernstorff, only daughter of the 
German ambassador and Countess 
Von Bernstorff, was married Mon- 
day in Concordia Luthern Church, 
Washington, to Count Raymond 
Pourtales, until recently an attache 
of the German embassy. The cere- 
mony was followed by a reception 
in the German Embassy. President 
and Mrs. Taft, Miss Helen Taft, the 
Vice-President and Mrs. Sherman, 
members of the cabinet and prac- 
tically the whole diplomatic corps in 
- Washington attended. According to 
an old German custom, there were 
no maid of honor nor best man. The 
bridesmaids were Miss Cecilia May, 
Miss Mary Sutherland, Miss Elsie 
Aldrich and Miss <Alys Meyer. 
Count Von Bernstorff escorted his 
daughter into the church and gave 
her in marriage. Count Pourtales 
and his bride left Washington Mon- 
day night for New York and sailed 
for Germany Thursday. Count Por- 
tales has been transferred to the for- 
eign office in Berlin. 
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Dr. George H. Washburn of Bos- 
ton and Manchester, sailed on the 
25th on the Lapland for Southern 
France. He will be absent five 
weeks. 
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George von L. Meyer, secretary of 
the Navy, lectured at the Harvard 
Union, Wednesday night. 
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The late Prof. Edward Payson 
Crowell, D. D., professor emeritus of 
latin and literature at Amherst Col- 
lege, who died last Saturday, was 
born in Essex, Sept. 7, 1830. He 
was the son of Rey. Robert and Han- 
nah (Choate) Crowell. Prof. Rob- 
ert W. Crowell of Colby college is a 
son of the deceased. 
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The report from Washington that 
‘the engagement of Miss Mary South- 
erland to Postmaster General Hitch- 
cock is soon to be announced, has 
aroused much interest in North 
Shore society circles, as Mr. Hitch- 
cock is the only bachelor member of 
the cabinet and Miss Southerland is 
so well known at Magnolia at Hotel 
Oceanside. Miss Southerland, a tall, 
striking brunette, is the daughter of 
Rear Admiral W. H. H. Southerland, 
USN, ‘and one of the leaders in 
Washington society. She is Miss 
Helen Taft’s most intimate friend. 
Postmaster General Hitchcock, while 
on the North Shore last summer, was 
entertained at Beverly Cove by Mrs. 
Levi Z. Leiter, 
SOCIETY NOTES | 
Simplicity marked the wedding 
last Saturday morning of Miss Helen 
Longyear, whose father has been 
ealled the richest man in New Eng- 
land, to Lieut. Carroll Paul, civil 
engineer, U.S.N., at the home of 
the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. 
John Monroe Longyear, on Leicester 
street, Brookline. Only the marvel- 
lous: floral decorations of the house 
marked the wedding as that of an 
heiress. There were no attendants 
and only a few relatives and friends 
were present. The ceremony was 
performed by the Rev. O. P. Gifford 
of Brookline. Lieut. and Mrs. Paul 
will sail for the Philippines, where 
Lieut. Paul has been ordered for 
duty at an early date. Miss Long- 
year was graduated from Technol- 
ogy in 1909 and was art editor of 
the Technique. Lieut. Paul, who 
has been on duty in New York, was 
born in Japan and appointed to An- 
napolis from Nebraska. His parents 
are Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Paul of 
Annapolis. The Longyear family 
have been summer residents of Man- 
chester. 
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The wedding of Miss Joanna Da- 
vidge of New York City and Kast 
Gloucester and Dr. David Randall 
Maciver of Philadelphia was _ sol- 
emnized in New York, March 22, at 
the Grace church. <A reception fol- — 
lowed at the bride’s home, 10 East 
17th street. Dr. Maciver is the late 
curator of the Egyptian section of 
the museum of the 
Pennsylvania. He is also a lecturer 
and explorer. Dr. Maciver and 
his bride will spend the summer at 
the Davidge cottage, which, is near 
that of Asst. Secretary of the U. 3. 
Treasury, A. Piatt Andrew at Hast- 
ern Point. 
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Directly the death of the late 
Nathaniel Thayer of Boston and 
Newport became known, Mrs. Sam- 
uel D. Warren recalled the invita- 
tions which she issued previously for 
the wedding of her second daughter, 
Miss Katharine Lee Bayard Warren, 
and John E. Thayer, Jr., which was 
planned for the opening 
April, in the Arlington Street 
Church, and was intended to be one 
of the largest and most brilliant hos- 
pitalities of the spring. The wed- 
ding will take place 
scheduled, but at the residence of 
the bride’s mother, and will be shorn 
of the many elaborate features 
planned. Only the relatives and a 
favored few intimates will be pres- 
ent. 
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