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Vol. x. 
_ SOCIETY NOTES 
The .new - Fishermen’s.. Home, 
Gloucester, founded by generosity 
Hays Hammond,. was 
opened Monday for publie inspec- 
tion.. Over 300° were received by 
Dr. John Dixwell of 
Boston ran _up the flag while the 
visitors and the seven inmates 
cheered.,.A message was sent to Mr. 
Hammond at Washington telling 
him of the successful opening of the 
home.. re 
-Mrs. Jacob 6. Pee. the Misses 
Helen. Burnham, 
Paine, Mary:...S. Ames, 
Katherine P. Loring, Mrs. George T. 
** Rice, Mrs. William B. Rogers have 
sent out invitations to the 20th an- 
“ niversary . 6f- Brooke 
Chandler street, Boston, on Tues- 
House, 79 
day. afternoon, January 9th, at four 
o’clock. Miss Katherine P. Loring 
- will give a brief history of the work 
of. the house, which was named for 
the Rev. Stonford Brooke, formerly 
pastor of the First Chureh (Uni- 
-tarian), where the work began, and 
-. the Rev. Paul Revere. Frothingham 
and Robert A. Woods will speak on 
the value of such houses to the city. 
eae will be served at 5 0 ‘clock. 
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pasuacy promises to be a month 
of auto shows in New York. The 
importers opened their salon at 
Hotel Astor on the 2d and will con- 
tinue it through the 10th. The 
Automobile Board of Trade will 
hold its twelfth annual show in 
Madison Square Garden of pleasure 
' vehicles 
only January 6th-13th. 
January 10th-17th will be held the 
’ twelfth annual show in New Grand 
Central Palace of pleasure and com- 
’ mercial vehicles. © 
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Mrs. Robert Carter Heaton is still 
staying on at her country home 
at Beverly Farms, 
mother, Mrs. Hall Curtis, returned 
although her 
Spruce 
Mrs. 
several. weeks ago to her 
street residence in Boston. 
_ Heaton is leaving in mid-January 
for a trip to the south, where she is 
intending to pass three weeks, at 
; the eonelusion of which she is sail- 
ing for Europe to remain until the 
late spring. 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, January 5, 
1912. 
No. 1. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Robert P. Bass, governor of New 
Hampshire, and Miss Edith H. Bird, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
S. Bird of East Walpole, Mass., will 
be married at the bride’s home on 
January 20th. After a fortnight’s 
wedding trip the couple will make 
their home in Concord. This en- 
gagement is a notable one. The 
Birds’ estate is known as ‘‘ En- 
dean.’’ Miss Bird is prominent in 
Boston society and in hunt circles, 
as is her sister, formerly Miss Jo- 
anne ©. Bird, who married Louis 
Agassiz Shaw, of Boston and Bey- 
erly Farms, a member of the Somer- 
set, Tennis and Racquet and other 
clubs.. The ‘‘Endean Beagles’’ have 
formed a famous pack in Norfolk 
County hunt events. Governor 
Bass is a Harvard man, class of 796, 
and of the Harvard law school ’98. 
He lives at Peterboro, N. H., where 
he personally conducts a farm of 
about two thousand acres. It is a 
famous estate. He is the first di- 
rect primary governor of his State, 
and has been strongly favored as a 
eandidate for United States sena- 
tor. He is deeply interested in for- 
estry and is an officer of the Na- 
tional Forestry Association. Gov- 
ernor Bass recently has taken a 
large house in Concord, N. H., for 
the winter, and his mother, Mrs. 
Clara Foster Bass, is to come from 
her home in Chicago, where her son 
was born, to spend the winter with 
him. Miss Bird’s family are spend- 
ing the winter in New York city. 
Invitations were issued by Mr. 
and Mrs. John Hays Hammond, 
who recently returned to Washing- 
ton from their Gloucester country 
home, ‘‘Lookout Hill,’’ for a dinner 
Wednesday evening in honor of the 
Russian ambassador and Mme. Bak- 
hmeteff. On Friday evening, Jan- 
uary 12, Mr. and Mrs. Hammond 
are giving a reception for the Amer- 
ican Ambassador to England and 
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. 
George N. Towle of Newton 
Centre and Mystery Isles, Beverly 
Farms, was recently elected presi- 
dent of the class of ’85, Boston 
Latin school. Mr. Towle is a mem- 
ber of the Manchester Yacht club. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. Boylston Beal will give a 
large dance at the beautifully ap- 
pointed ballroom of the Chilton 
club, Boston, January 18th, in 
honor of her niece, Miss Jane Mor- 
gan ot New York, granddaughter 
of Mrs. Henry S. Grew of Boston 
and J. Pierpont Morgan of New 
York. Mrs. Beal is also giving a 
dinner this evening previous to the 
assembly at the pomerset, Boston. 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Munn, 
formerly of Beacon street, Boston, 
and West Manchester, who sailed 
for Kurope in the early autumn for 
a stay of a year or more, have gone 
from the Hotel Astoria, in Paris, for 
a visit at St. Moritz. 
Dr. and Mrs. Carroll Dunham 
(Margaret Dows), of Hillside, Ir- 
vington. N. Y., have leased Seecre- 
tary of the Navy George von L. 
Meyer’s house on Beacon street, 
Boston, for the winter to be near 
their three sons, Messrs. Carroll 3d, 
Dows and Arthur L. Dunham, who 
are at Harvard. Dr. Dunham is a 
Harvard ’85 man and a member of 
the Tavern Club. 
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On January 16th and 17th nearly 
all the prize-winning Boston ter- 
riers of the Eastern section of the 
country will be seen on the Conti- 
nental Roof Garden, Philadelphia, 
which will be enelosed to pro- 
tect the valued canines and pub- 
he trom frigid _ blasts. It is 
expected to be the greatest specialty 
show ever held in_ that city, 
and will be under the auspices 
of the Philadelphia Boston Terrier 
Club. While it will be devoted ex- 
clusively to Boston terriers, enough 
entries have already been received 
to assure its suecess. This was ac- 
complished through the many 
special prizes donated by  elub 
members and admirers of the breed. 
Mrs. Stephen Van _ Rensselaer 
Thayer, who spent part of the sum- 
mer with her mother-in-law, Mrs. 
S. V. R. Thayer, on the North Shore 
at Pride’s, was of the guests at the 
luncheon Ambassador and Mrs. Ba- 
con gave at the embassy in Paris 
recently, 
