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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. XV 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The annual meeting of the Manchester Yacht club 
for the election of officers was held in Boston Monday, 
when the following were chosen: Charles K. Cummings, 
commodore; Francis M. Whitehouse, vice-commodore ; 
Charles EF. Hodges, Jr., rear commodore; Arthur M. 
Merriam, secy. and treas. Henry S. Grew, Charles E. 
Hodges and J]. Amory Jeffries were elected to the execu- 
tive committee; Henry S. Grew, Charles E. Hodges, 
Roger L. Putnam, Charles K. Cummings and Ingersol 
Amory, regatta committee; Arthur M. Merriam, J. Amory 
Jeffries and Charles E. Hodges, Jr., house committee. 
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Mr. and Mrs. E. Palmer Gavit of Manchester and 
A.bany, N. Y., have gone to Santa Barbara, Cal., for the 
balance of the winter. 
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The second Philomatheia ball at the Copley-Piaza, 
Boston, Wednesday evening was a brilliant affair and on> 
of the largest of its kind ever held in Boston. Mrs. Ed- 
win Arthur Shuman, president of the club, was head of 
all the committees in charge. With the cooperation of a 
large staff of chairmen of committees, she worked ont 
plans to make the ball one of the social events of this 
season. 
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The 25th anniversary horse show of the New Riding 
club last Saturday afternoon at the club’s headquarters on 
He enway and Norway sts., Boston, was a red letter 
day in the annals of the club because it rounded out a 
quarter of a century of existence of this well-known pri- 
vate equine organization. The club will hold its annual 
Invitation Day on Saturday, Feb. 17, at 2.30 p. m., and on 
this occasion Robert S. Bradley will again offer a wrist 
watch to the winner of a class for ladies’ hacks. In all 
classes Invitation Day cups are offered by the club. 
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Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs. William 
Phillips gave a dinner in honor of the British Ambas- 
sador and Lady Spring-Rice last Friday in Washington. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Reginald de Koven’s musicale last 
week at their New York home, 1025 Park ave., was a 
1rost enjoyable affair with over two hundred people in 
attendance. 
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The Heinz family of Pittsburgh is interested just 
now in building a private theatre. The Howard Heinz 
family summered in Manchester a year ago. 
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John Hays Hammond is president of the Rocky 
Mountain club, which is planning a million-dollar club- 
house in New York. 
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Mrs. Henry W. Stephens, who summers at Pride’s 
Crossing, is entertaining with a musicale at her hone in 
Grosse Pointe, Detroit, ree S 
News from Palm Beach tells of the arrival of Henry 
C. Frick and a party composed of Bryce Allen and Her- 
bert Leeds of Boston, Charles Carstairs of London, and 
Tohn P. Grier of New York. The Alexander Cochranes 
are scheduled to arrive this month. Mrs. John E. Lan- 
caster and Miss Rosamond Lancaster of Worcester and 
Magnolia will arrive this week after a short stop in New 
York. Mrs. William G. Fitch of New York, mother of 
*he late Clyde Fitch, is spending the winter at Augusta, 
Ga, 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, February 2, 1917 
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SOCIE. DT YeNO ras 
Mrs. Frederick Ayer and her daughter, Miss Kath- 
arine Ayer, of 395 Commonwealth ave., Boston, have been 
visiting friends in New York the past week. Mr. and 
Mrs. Ayer have kept their residence at Pride’s Crossing 
open all winter. 
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Walter D. Denégre and family are to leave New York 
the last of this month for California to remain six weeks 
or more. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Philip Dexter have cards out for a 
dinner which they will give on Feb. 12, at their home, 65 
Marlboro st., Boston. 
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Mr.-and Mrs. Barrett Wendell, Jr., entertained at 
dinner last Friday night at their home, 248 Marlboro st., 
Boston, 
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“The Treasure of tiie Aiazon” is the title of the 
musical play which the Vincent club will give for tts 
annual show at the Wilbur Theatre, Boston, in April. 
Miss Mary Copley Amory and her sister, Miss Margot 
Amory, the latter a débutante, have written the libiet o 
and Miss Louise McAllister and Miss Miriam Sears, the 
president of the Vincent club, have adapted the music. 
Mrs. Renfrew’s orchestra will furnish the music for the 
show and James Gilbert will be, as usual, the coach. The 
dress rehearsal will be given on Tuesday afternoon, April 
24, and the regular performances on the afternoons of 
April 26, 27 and 30, and the final one on May I. 
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Mrs. Aksel Wichfeld, Mrs. Joseph Leiter, Mrs. 
Reynolds Hitt and Mrs. Henry C. Perkins are among the 
boxholders for the ball at Rauscher’s, Feb. 12, benefiting a 
city charity in Washington. 
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The wedding of Miss Christine Snelling, daughter 
of Mrs. Russell G. Fessenden, of Boston and Marblehead, 
to Loring Wilkins Coleman, son of Mrs. Joseph Coleman 
of Chicago, will take place during the coming summer. 
The engagement was announced last spring. 
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Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Loose of Kansas City and East 
Gloucester are in Washington at the Willard, guests of 
Representative and Miss Cannon. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Frothingham of Boston have 
been guests of the latter’s son and daughter-in-law, Mr. 
and Mrs. Andrew Weeks Anthony, in Bristol, R. I. 
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Mrs. John Hays Hammond was noted among the 
natronesses for a concert at the Colony club yesterday 
in charge of the Woman Suffrage party of New York 
and also in the list interested in the benefit for Hampton 
Institute held last night in New York. 
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Mrs. Marshall Field gave a dinner for thirty guests 
at her home in Washington last Friday. 
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The Fitz-Eugene Dixons and George D. Widener of 
Philadelphia gave a ball at the Ritz-Carlton last Thurs- 
day. The Dixons, who were at Beverly Farms last sum- 
mer, and the Wideners have been more or less in mourn- 
ine since the Titanic disaster, in which Mrs. Fitz-Eugene 
Dixon’s father and brother, Harry Widener, were lost 
Since then her grandfather, the late Peter A. B. Widener, 
died. Her mother, who married Dr. Havilton Rice, 1s 
now exploring the Amazon river with her distinguished 
husband. 
