NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. X. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The engagement has been an- 
nounced of Miss Edith Wendell, 
second daughter of Professor Bar- 
rett Wendell of Harvard and Mrs. 
Wendell, and Charles Devens Os- 
borne of Auburn, N. Y., and nephew 
of Mrs. James J. Storrow. (Helen 
Osborne). The announcement was 
made at a recent tea which Profes- 
sor and Mrs. Wendell gave at their - 
home, 358 Marlboro street, Boston. 
Miss Wendell was a debutante of 
the past winter and the secretary of 
her sewing cirele. Her brothers are 
Barrett Wendell, Jr., Harvard ’02, 
whose wife is a daughter of Francis 
Lee Higginson, of the Pride’s con- 
tingent, and William Wendell, Har- 
yard ’09, whose present home is in 
New York. Mrs. Geoffrey Wheel- 
ock of Shanghai, China, is the sister. 
Professor Wendell’s only living 
brother is Evart J. Wendell of New 
York. On her mother’s side Miss 
Wendell’s uncles are Charles P. and 
Maleolm S. Greenough. Mr. Osborne 
is of the Harvard class of 1910. Af- 
ter his graduation he made a trip 
around the world. His late mother 
was a daughter of Mrs. A. L. Devens 
of Cambridge and a sister of Arthur 
Lithgow Devens of the Manchester 
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Aeroplane history was made from 
a national standpoint for the North 
Shore during the recent visit of the 
U. S. warships in Salem harbor. 
Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, 
commanding the second squadron of 
the Atlantic fleet, went aloft over 
Salem harbor in a Burgess hydo- 
aeroplane with Phillips Ward Page 
and landed near the cruiser Georgia 
the Admiral’s flagship. Admiral 
Fiske is the first naval afficer of his 
rank to test such an. airship. 
There was a distinguished audi- 
ence for the recent interesting lec- 
ture’ which Rustom Rustomjee of 
India gave in Huntington hall, In- 
stitute of Technology, on the ‘‘Dur- 
bar of India.’’ He also appeared at 
the Chilton club during his Boston 
visit. Amotig his patronesses at the 
Technology lecture was Miss Kath- 
erine P. Loring of the Pride’s con- 
tingent. 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, May 24, 1912 
SOCIETY NOTES 
At the races of the Washington 
Riding and Hunt club, which 
opened last Friday over the historic 
Bennings course, leaders of society, 
military officers, official Washington 
and hundreds of regular race goers 
were on hand to make the opening 
race notable. The Potomac Steeple- 
chase was won by Ivan Fox’s big 
cross-country horse Alfred Noble. 
General Leonard Wood, chief of 
staff and acting in the capacity of 
steward, presented Mr. Fox with 
the silver plate donated by Mrs. 
Lathrop Brown of New York City 
(nee Helen Hooper of Boston and 
West Manchester). Lieut. George 
S. Patten, Jr., who married Miss 
Ayer of Boston and Pride’s, was al- 
so a successful contestant in the 
races. ; 
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James W. Appleton of New York 
and Ipswich, M. F. I. of the Myopia 
Hunt club, and Captain C. W. G. 
Sowerby, R. N., of Washington and 
Beverly, have been chosen judges of 
hunters at the Turf and Field club’s 
horse show at Belmont park, New 
Ipswich colonists are beginning to 
assemble for the season. Among 
the earliest arrivals on Argilla road 
are Dr. F. B. Harrington and family 
of Beacon street, Boston; Dr. Ar- 
thur A. Shurtleff and family of 
West Cedar street, Boston, and Mrs. 
Mary A. Lord of New York. At 
Castle Hill have settled R. T. Crane 
and family of Chicago, at the mag- 
nificent Crane estate. 
A recent hospitality in Washing- 
ton was the dinner, which Pay Dir- 
ector and Mrs. Charles E. Littlefield 
gave at the Chevy Chase club Wash- 
ington, prior to the weekly dance. 
The Littlefields by their proposed 
plan to summer abroad will be 
among the absentees from Magnolia. 
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Ames and 
their family have closed their Bos- 
ton residence and are at their North 
Easton estate for the immediate sea- 
son. Later on they will open their 
Pride’s Crossing villa for the sum- 
mer. 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
Miss Dorothy Sturgis, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. R. Clipston Sturgis 
of Beacon street, Boston, will be 
married to Lester Harding of Cohas- 
set, in St. Stephen’s church, Cohas- 
set, June 1. Mrs. Norman E. Stur- 
gis (Harriette A. Woods) of the 
Ipswich colony will act as matron 
of honor, and the bridesmaids 
will be the Misses Katherine Clark, 
Barbara Bolles, Katherine Hub- 
bard and Caroline Cabot of the 
Beverly Farms contingent. Miss 
Gertrude Sturgis, a cousin, will be 
flower girl. Richard Bruce Hard- 
ing will be his brother’s best man, 
and the ushers will be R. Clipston 
Sturgis, Jr., Albert Ellis Harding, 
John W. Tuckerman, Jr., Granton 
HI. Dowse, Frederick I. Emery and 
Edward A. Winsor. The ceremony 
will be performed by the Rt. Rev. 
Robert Codman, bishop of Maine, a 
cousin of the bride, assisted by Rev. 
F. C. Landerburn rector of the 
chureh, Rev. Samuel 8. Drury of 
St. Paul’s school, and Rev. Howard 
Barlow of Cohasset. A reception 
will follow the ceremony at the 
Sturgis home on Beacon street, Bos- 
ton.. The honeymoon will be passed 
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Enlarging the Manchester colony 
recently are the families of Dr. L. 
Vernon Briggs of Boston at ‘‘Stone”’ 
cottage on the [Hemenway estate, 
that of Dr. George H. Washburn at 
their Masconomo street cottage and 
Mrs. R. C. Winthrop at West Man- 
chester. All are Bostonians. 
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The nuptials of Miss May Loring 
of Boston and Pride’s and Samuel 
Vaughan of Boston are under ar- 
rangement for July 10 at Pride’s. 
They will be on a very simple scale. 
There will be no attendants. The 
bride elect is the only daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Augustus P. Loring of 
Boston and Pride’s. 
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Mason 
and their family, to which a little 
daughter has recently been added, 
have closed their house on Glouces- 
ter street, Boston, and are at their 
Ipswich villa on Heartbreak road 
for the summer. 
