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‘4 WASHINGTON. 
Miss Helen Cannon came on from 
Dansville, Ill., to assist. her father, 
Speaker Cannon, at his New Year’s re- 
ception. “The Cannons have summered 
at the Oceanside, Magnolia. 
._ U..,S. Ambassador Robert Bacon, 
who succeeds Ambassador White in 
Paris, will be housed in the same em- 
- bassy on the Cours la Reine between the 
Champs Elysees and the River Seine, 
one of the embassies the U. S. govern- 
ment plans to purchase. The ambassa- 
dor and his family occupied a cottage at 
West Manchester a few seasons ago. 
The marriage of William Phillips, new 
first secretary of the American Embassy, 
London, and son of Mrs. John C. Phil- 
lips of Moraine Farm, North Beverly, to 
Miss Caroline A. Drayton of New York, 
fixed for tomorrow in the metropolis, 
will have to take place in London the 
last of this month as a 1esult of the pres- 
ence in New York of Ambassador Reid 
owing to the death of his father-in-law, 
D. O. Mills. Mr. Phillips has to re- 
main in charge of the embassy. Mr. 
Phillips, who was an attache of the 
American embassy at Pekin, China, came 
home two years ago, June 29, 1907, to 
serve at his sister’s wedding, Mrs. Bol- 
ling, as best man, which event was sol- 
emnized at Moraine Farm on that date. 
Mrs. Phillips is now in Washington for 
the season. 
The United States monetary commis- 
sion is to publish a banking Jibrary and 
secure the collaboration of the world’s 
leading authorities. Prof. Abram An- 
drew, late of Harvard college and a sum- 
mer resident of Eastern Point, East 
Gloucester, is a member of the commis- 
sion. 
The North Shore artists’ colony will 
be shocked to learn of the suicide in 
Washington last month of John H. 
Souther, the artist, who spent his first 
season on the shore at East Gloucester 
last summer. He exhibited in the joint 
exhibition in August of 18 summering 
artists from all parts of the country, who 
united to display their works at the Haw- 
thorne Inn casino. "The deceased and 
his family, a young wife and three young 
children, leased the charming estate of 
Alphonso Davis on Mt. Pleasant avenue, 
East Gloucester, where there was a col- 
ony of artists, and remained until. early 
autumn. Mr. Souther committed .the 
rash deed. while his family was out-.walk- 
ing and left a note attributing the deed to 
losses through unsuccessful investment. 
He was a native. of. Erie,, Pa. .but had 
resided in Washington for 19. years, 
His remains. were cremated by his per: 
sonal request, 
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NEW YORK. 
The old James Fenimore Cooper 
mansion at Scarsdale, N. Y., where 
Cooper is said to have written the Leath- 
er Stocking tales has been sold for 
$105,250 to Wm. Livingston Bruen. 
‘There were 60 acres of land. James 
Fenimore Cooper, jr., is now an an- 
nual summer resident of the North Shore 
at Turk’s Head Inn, Rockport, and has 
also summered at Annisquam. He pos- 
sesses many of the fine traits of his an- 
cestor. 
By the marriage of Walter Wilson 
Metcalf of New York and Mrs. Doro- 
thy Prindall Norman of Newport, society 
is recalling the Gloucester girl’s romance 
and marriage with Mrs. George Nor- 
man’s late son, Hugh, which has identi- 
fied her prominently with New York and 
Newport society. Her present husband 
is a millionaire New York manufacturer. 
John Hayes Hammond has been elect- 
ed chairman of the new New York 
State branch of the North American 
Civic league for Immigrants, which was 
founded in Boston some two years ago 
by D. Chauncey Brewer, esq., a leading 
summer resident of Bass Rocks. The 
league is to aid the interests of immi- 
grants and safeguard their welfare in this 
country. Mr. Hammond recently sent 
a generous check for the Gloucester 
fund for old time fishermen. 
BOSTON. 
Ex.-Gov. John L. Bates, summer res- 
ident of the North Shore at Wheeler’s 
Point, Gloucester, recently addressed the 
Boston University Alumni on the ‘‘ Pow- 
er of Education.’ 
The recent report of Mer. M. J. 
Splaine, D. D., chancellor of the Cath- 
olic archdiocese of Boston, gives much 
credit to Archbishop Wm. H. O’Con- 
nell, now a summer resident of the North 
Shore, by his purchase of the beautiful 
estate of the late Jonas H. French of 
Boston at Bay View asa Catholic sum- 
mer college under his direction. He is 
especially commended for his work along 
charitable lines and the systematic basis 
upon which he has placed them. 
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Grant, jr., 
(Priscilla Stackpole) whose wedding at 
Emmanuel church on New Year's day 
was such a notable event, sailed last Sat- 
turday from New York for their new 
home in London where Mr, Grant has 
important business interests. 
_ Mrs, Eben D. Jordan has been enter- 
taining her sister, Mrs. Arthur W. Fos- 
ter of London. - ; 
F. L. Higginson of the Bans s Cross- 
ing colony has succeeded Walter C. Bay- 
a ne president of the Boston & Lowell 
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PHILADELPHIA. 
Miss Margaret Corlies of Philadelphia 
and Magnolia spent a portion of Decem- 
ber at Atlantic City. Miss Corlies is ar- 
ranging for a theatre party, tea to follow 
at the Bellevue-Stratford, Feb. 2, in hon- 
or of Miss Marvaret Corlies Houston, a 
debutante of the holiday season. 
By the death of Mrs. Thomas Wood 
of Philadelphia, mother-in-law of the 
Rev. Charles Wadsworth, D. D., of 
the Quaker City, Magnolia loses one of 
its annual and prominent summer resi- 
dents, and Philadelphia one of its 
well known figures in charitable, educa- 
tional and religious work. Mrs. Wood 
was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. 
John Penman of Mauch Chunk, Pa., 
and came to Philadelphia at the time of 
her marriage and gained a honored name 
for herself along philanthropic lines being 
manager of the Organized Charities, 
manager of the Kensington Hospital for 
Women, President of the Foreign Mis- 
sionary society of the North Broad Street 
Kensington church, of which her son-in- 
law, Rev. Mr. Wadsworth, was formerly 
pastor. The Thomas Wood Public 
School of Philadelphia was named for 
her husband, who for 50 years was 
prominent in educational work in Phila- 
delphia. She taught a class in the House 
of Refuge and was active in prison work 
also. Her funeral was held Dec. 6 at 
her residence, 2038 Spring Garden 
street, Rev. Mr. Wadsworth officiating. 
Her sons and grandsons were pall bear- 
ers. Rev. Mr. Wadsworth and family 
are also annual Magnolia summer resi- 
dents making The Oceanside their head- 
quarters. They are always actively iden- 
tified with the horse shows. 
Mrs. C. Howard Clark, jr., of the 
Manchester colony has been an active 
leader in charitable events the past weeks. 
She was one of the managers of a fair at 
the Bellevue-Stratford for the benefit of 
the Lincoln Day Nursery and a patron- 
ess of the Charity Ball. Miss Cicily 
Wayland of the East Gloucester colony 
was one of Mrs. Clark’s aides at the fair. 
- Mrs. C. P. Taft, sister-in-law of the 
President, has purchased the Philadelphia 
base ball park for $250,000 with a per- 
petual lease. 
Prof. D. R. Maclver, curator of the 
Egyptian section of the Free Museum of 
Science and Art of the University of 
Pennsylvania, has departed on his-second 
expedition for archzological exploration 
in Egypt, especially in Granope and 
Behen, where he found so many valuable 
things. Prof. Maclver isa North Shore 
summer resident at Eastern Point, East 
Gloucester, 
