NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. X. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Last Friday Secretary of State 
Knox accompanied by an_ official 
party of halt a dozen persons, sailed 
from Key West for Jamaica on 
board the armored cruiser Washing- 
ton. Secretary Knox was to have 
boarded the Washington at Palm 
Beach, but owing to the gale he and 
his party went to Key West by rail. 
The secretary was accompanied by 
his son, Hugh Knox, who will act as 
his secretary, Captain Powell Clay- 
ton of the Eleventh United States 
Cavalry, his military aide, William 
Tecumseh Sherman Doyle, chief of 
the Latin-American division of the 
State Department, and several other 
persons. The naval aide is to be 
chosen from officers on board the 
cruiser and will probably be Lieu- 
tenant-Commander R, H. Leigh. 
The secretary was accompanied by 
Mrs. Knox and his daughter-in-law, 
Mrs. Hugh Knox, the recent bride. 
Seeretary Knox and family have 
been summer residents of the North 
Shore. Hugh Knox and his bride 
were guests late last season at 
Pride’s of H. C. Frick and family. 
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“London Assurance,’’ a comedy 
by Dion L. Boucicault, was pre- 
sented by the staff of the Vexillum, 
the paper of the Volkmann school, 
Boston, last Thursday and Friday 
evenings. Among those taking part 
was Robert Shuman Steinert 712, 
son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander 
Steinert of Boston and Hospital 
Point, Beverly, and grandson of A. 
Shuman of Boston and_ Beverly. 
Prof. Volkmann is a North Shore 
summer resident of Bass Rocks. 
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, accom- 
panied by her daughter, Miss Ethel 
Roosevelt, sailed from New York for 
Colon Saturday on the United Fruit 
Company’s steamer Turrialba. They 
are on a pleasure trip. Theodore 
Roosevelt, Jr., wife and child, late 
of San Francisco, are to reside in 
New York city in the future. 
Young Roosevelt will be employed 
in a bond office in Wall street. 
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Mrs. Henry L. Higginson is in- 
eluded in the list of patronesses for 
the Junior Charity club’s theatricals 
at Jordan hall,- Boston, April 12. 
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Manchester, Mass., Friday, March 1, 
1912 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
Miss Anna Seaton-Schmidt of 
Washington, a summer resident of 
East Gloucester, gave an informal 
talk on Auguste Kodin, the French 
sculptor, and his works at the Bos- 
ton residence of Mrs. Maynard 
Ladd yesterday afternoon. Mrs. 
Ladd is a summer resident of Man- 
chester and a sculptor of note also. 
Miss Schmidt has known Rodin and 
his wife for fifteen years, has vis- 
ited them frequently at their home 
at Mendon, and has been _ enter- 
tained there in the most friendly 
and informal manner. Her deep 
study of and devotion to art, her 
long residence in Paris, her intimate 
acquaintance with many of the 
greatest artists, have eminently 
qualified her as an authoritative 
critic of French art. As some of 
Rodin’s work is soon to be shown 
at the Museum of Fine Arts, the 
talk was timely. Mrs. Ladd’s 
bronze group of the ‘‘ Water-Sprites 
Leaping in the Spray’’ is now on ex- 
hibition in the front room at the 
Copley Gallery, 103 Newbury street, 
Boston, for a little while, before it 
is sent to its owner, Mrs. E. 8S. Grew 
of Boston and West Manchester. 
This bronze is a replica of the one 
invited to the present Pennsylvania 
Academy exhibition, Philadelphia, 
where it has been very cordially re- 
ceived by the eritics. The Philadel- 
phia Public Ledger called it ‘‘a fo- 
cal point of interest,’’ in the exhibi- 
tion, and spoke of its buoyancy, 
vigor and freedom. When it is put 
in place, the jet of water is to spring 
from a base of iris porphyry gran- 
ite on which the group will stand. 
The rhythm of the figures carries 
out the idea of leaping water. 
around which the sprites dance. 
Mrs. Ladd’s ‘‘Sun-God,’’ for Mrs. 
Scott Fitz, and the triptych of the 
‘Spirit of New England,’’ both in 
bronze and gold, will be shown, la- 
ter, at the gallery of Doll & Rich- 
ards, Boston. 
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Mrs. Henry S. Grew of Boston and 
Manchester, is spending this week 
with her daughter, Mrs. J. Pierpont 
Morgan, Jr., at East Island, L. I., 
where the Morgans have a country 
estate and are sojourning during the 
Lenten season, 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. George Lee, of Boylston st., 
Brookline, and Beverly Farms, rep- 
resented Brookline on the outward 
bound Adriatic from New York 
Wednesday of last week, having 
joined friends for what bids fair to 
prove a thoroughly delightful tour. 
Mrs. Lee is going first to Madeira, 
and thence to Gibraltar, Algiers, 
Villefranche, Genoa and Naples, 
where she leaves the steamer, and 
goes direct to Rome for a visit of 
several weeks, extending over the 
Easter period. At the conclusion of 
her stay in Rome, Mrs. Lee is plan- 
ning to go on to Paris for several 
days, and to sail from Cherbourg 
for home early in May. Directly 
she arrives, the Lee estate at Bev- 
erly Farms will be put in readiness 
for occupancy. 
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The trustees of the Corcoran 
Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 
have announced a special exhibition 
of paintings by Cecilia Beaux, on 
public view in the gallery until 
March 17. Twenty-eight paintings 
and four drawings, covering sixteen 
years of production, are in the col- 
lection. Most of the works are lent 
by New York, Philadelphia, Boston 
and New Haven owners. Miss 
Beaux is a distinguished summer 
resident of the North Shore at East 
Gloucester. 
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Ambassador Uchida, who _ repre- 
sented Japan at Washington and 
visited President Taft at Montser- 
rat last season, has been sueceeded 
at the capital by Viscount S. Chin- 
da. The new ambassador is a grad- 
uate of De Pauw university, Ind., 
where he was a classmate of former 
Senator Beveridge of Indiana. He 
was Ambassador to Germany when 
ordered to Washington to sueceed 
Ambassador Uchida. 
Recent contributors to the Ed- 
ward Everett Hale statue fund are 
Mrs. Henry. S. Grew and Mrs. W. 
Seott Fitz of the Manchester con- 
tingent. The fund has now reached 
$25,693.53. 
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Alexander Cochrane of Boston 
and Pride’s has subscribed $1000 to 
the Boston Grand Opera fund. 
