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WASHINGTON. 
Mrs. J. Montgomery Sears has sold 
her estate, ‘“ The Briar’s,’’? at Bar Har- 
bor to Edward Beale McLean, who mar- 
ried Evelyn Walsh, only daughter of 
Thomas F. Walsh of Washington. The 
estate is one of the show places at Bar 
Harbor where Mr. McLean's parents 
have always summered. 
Owing to the serious illness of Gen- 
eral Wm. Draper in Washington many 
invitations extended in honor of his de- 
butante daughter, Miss Margaret, have 
been necessarily recalled. General Dra- 
per and family have frequently summered 
on the North Shore, being Manchester 
colonists. 
Dr. M. A. DeLaney, President Taft’s 
physician, who summered at Beverly, 
has been promoted to the rank of major 
in the Medical Corps of the Army. He 
is a graduate of the class of ’98, Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania, (medical college. ) 
Fred W. Carpenter, secretary to the 
President, a familiar figure in Beverly last 
summer, spent the Christmas holidays 
with his people in Sauk Centre, Minne- 
sota. 
Rear Admiral J. E. Pillsbury, U. S. 
N., was a member of the geographic 
board that declared Peary the discover of 
the North Pole. Rear Admiral Pillsbury 
is a summer resident of the North Shore 
of long standing and for many years he 
and his family made Hawthorne Inn, 
East Gloucester, their home, but after 
their daughter’s marriage to Mr. Rich- 
ardson of Boston and Magnolia, they 
now make the Oceanside at Magnolia 
their summer headquarters. It will be 
recalled that Rear Admiral Pillsbury con- 
ducted the naval war manceuvres along 
this shore a few years ago. 
Arthur Pue Gorman, son of the late 
Senator Gorman of Baltimore, Mary- 
land, is assuming his father’s place as 
Democratic boss of that state and has 
senatorial ambitions. [he late senator 
and his family are well known Magnolia 
summer residents. 
Edward W. Redfield of Philadelphia, 
who served as a judge at the Gloucester 
Day Pageant last August, exhibits his 
paintings at the Corcoran Gallery of Art 
until Jan. 23. The list of honors award- 
ed Mr. Redfield is probably exceeded by 
no other living American painter. 
Mrs. Lewis More, sister-in-law of 
President Taft, and who represented and 
accompanied Mrs. Taft so much on the 
Shore. last summer, has arrived at the 
White House for the social season and 
will haye much of the representative, so- 
cial responsibility there for her sister, 
who is still not ableto discharge all of the 
exacting duties of her exalted position, 
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PHILADELPHIA. 
Edward T. Stotesbury has been elected 
a director of the Fidelity Trust Co. to 
succeed Arthur Brock deceased. 
Miss Cintra Hutchinson was present 
at the debutante ball of Margaret Corleis 
Houston at the Bellevue-Stratford, Jan. 
6, and assisted at the debutante tea of 
Mildred Scott Pearce, Jan. 7, at the lat- 
ter’s home, 2020 Spruce street. 
The unexpected death of Arthur 
Brock, chairman of the board of directors 
of the American Iron and Steel Manu- 
facturing company, necessarily caused a 
quiet wedding of his niece, Miss Debo- 
rah Norris Brock, and Quincy Bent of 
Sparrows Point, Md., on Jan. 3, at- St. 
Mark’s Episcopal church. The bride- 
groom isa son of Major Luther S. Bent 
of Philadelphia and Annisquam, whose 
estate at ’Squam is the show place there. 
Major Bent is at the head of the Anni- 
squam Yacht club and well known in 
North Shore society and yachting circles. 
Mr. Bent’s bride is considered a very 
beautiful girl from the fashionable ranks 
of the Quaker City, but she also has a 
serious side to her efficient nature. Fel- 
ton Bent, who brought a bride to’ Squam 
a few seasons ago, assisted at his brother’s 
wedding. Steadman Bent was best man. 
The Boston Symphony Orchestra ap- 
peared at the Academy of Music Mon- 
day evening of this week, Mischa Elman, 
soloist. 
Mrs. O. Thorndike Howe of Law- 
rence, nee Anne S. Rotan of Waco, 
Texas, who assumed the leading role in 
Euripedes’ Greek tragedy, ‘“ Medea,’’ so 
finely given recently by the Boston Bryn 
Mawr College club in the ballroom of 
the Bellevue-Stratford, is a well known 
North Shore summer resident at Bass 
Rocks and Grapevine Cove, her marriage 
being the result of her Bass Rocks’ ac- 
quaintance with Mr. Howe, whose par- 
ents, Dr. and Mrs. O. T. Howe of 
Lawrence have a handsome estate at 
Bass Rocks. Mrs. Howe’s parents, 
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rotan, now have 
a beautiful estate at Grapevine Cove, 
East Gloucester, opposite Congressman 
J. Sloat Fassett’s mansion. Their Bass 
Rocks estate they sold to the Charles 
Scotts of Philadelphia. Another sister 
of Mrs. Howe 1s the fiancee of Win- 
throp Sargent, jr., of Philadelphia. 
The Minister from Cuba and Madam 
Velez, who were diplomatic new comers 
last season at Manchester, haye the 
Leighton ~ residence,’ 2108 Sixteenth 
street, the former hottie Gf the’ Argentine 
Legation. : 
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PITTSBURG. 
Mr. and Mrs. D. Herbert Hostetter 
of the North Beverly colony are soon 
due at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, 
Fla. 
Mrs. George Evans Tener of Sewick- 
ley recently introduced her daughter, 
Miss Edith Anne Tener, by one of the 
largest and most handsome functions of 
the holiday season. “The Teners are 
well known Magnolia summer residents 
who sojourn at the Oceanside. Many 
prominent Sewickley people who come 
to Magnolia were present also. Mrs. 
Tener presided at the teatable at the 
Sewickley Woman’s Club social after- 
noon recently when Prof. Stockton 
Axson of Princeton University lectured 
n ‘‘ Robert Browning.’’ Prof. Axson, 
too, is a North Shore summer resident 
of long standing making the Harbor 
View, East Gloucester, his annual sum- 
mer home. 
Herbert Du Puy of Pittsburg and Man- 
chester is said to be the second largest 
holder of New York realty being recent- 
ly in a $3,000,000 deal there. 
Henry Clay Frick recently contributed 
the sum of $250 to the fund for old time 
fishermen of Gloucester. 
Pittsburg anticipated greatly the advent 
of the Boston Opera Company in their 
midst but were not prepared for Bonci’s 
and Nordica’s strike. Bonci, it is whis- 
pered, is jealous of Constantino’s success 
and Nordica claims that she was not paid 
enough. Sec. Edwin Westby of the 
Boston Opera Company stated he was 
glad they cancelled their engagements 
for so-called opera stars soon learn the 
world does not have to depend on them 
or their vagaries and there are always 
others as good to take their places. 
Tetrazzini and Mary Garden of the 
Hammerstein forces were also on a pro- 
fessional tiff while in Pittsburg. 
H. C. Frick Coke Company has been 
the first of the big industrial firms to re- 
store wages cut by the 1907 business de- 
pression, the new scale to go into effect 
Monday, Jan. 16. A recent article by 
E. J. Edwards on the ‘‘ Foundation of 
Great Wealth,’’ states that Mr. Frick 
got the ideathat if the West was going 
to make iron and steel it had got to have 
coke to do the smelting. With a few 
hundred dollars as sole capital, he went 
into the coke making business. Despite 
the ‘panic of 1873, his strategic position 
in business affairs has made him one of 
the country’s greatest capitalists. He 
has recently acquired more valuable coke 
fields in Connellsville, Pa. Mr. Frick’s 
$2,000,000 for a park in Pittsburg is in- 
cluded in a list of notable benefactions 
for 1909. 
