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PHILADELPHIA. 
Six hundred-and fifty covers were 
laid for the banquet of the Penn- 
sylvania Bankers’ association in the 
ballroom of the Bellevue Stratford, 
Wednesday evening, the guests in- 
cluding well known financiers from 
New York, Chicago, Boston, Pitts- 
burg, St. Louis, Baltimore and 
Washington. F. Hopkinson Smith, 
author-artist, was one of the speak- 
ers, his subject being ‘‘The Old and 
the New Type of Business Man.”’ 
Harrison K. Caner of Philadel- 
phia and Manchester has been elect- 
ed a director of the Huntingdon 
and Broad Top Mountain R. R. Co. 
of Pennsylvania. 
The engagement of Miss Elsa 
Grant and the Marquis Luigi Serra 
di Cassano of Rome is of much in- 
terest to Philadelphia society since 
Miss Grant’s grandmother was a 
cousin of Mrs. Thomas F. Bayard, 
wife of the U. S. ambassador to 
Rome, under Cleveland. 
Miss Amie H. Clark of Philadel- 
phia and Manchester was one of the 
attendants at the wedding of A. G. 
B. Steel and Miss E. Amy Howe of 
the Quaker City in the Church of 
St. Luke and the Epiphany, Feb. 1. 
The event was one of the fashion- 
able weddingss of the season. 
The art exhibit at the Philadel- 
phia academy of Fine Arts is daily 
the scene of animation, the private 
view bringing many social leaders, 
painters and sculptors and women 
prominent in artistic circles to view 
the pictures. Mrs. J. K. Mitchell, 
3rd., a daughter of E. T. Stolesbury, 
was a member of the reception com- 
mittee. It is most gratifying to 
state that three North Shore artists 
captured awards, Howard Gardner 
Cushing and J. Alden Weir of Bos- 
ton, and Childe Hassom of New 
York and East Gloucester. Mr. 
Cushing’s portrait secured the 
Temple gold medal; Mr. Weir’s, 
‘‘The Hunter’s Moon,’’ the Walter 
Lippincott prize of $300, and Mr. 
Hassom, the Jennie Sesman gold 
medal for his painting entitled, 
‘‘Summer Sea.’’ Mr. Hassom was 
at East Gloucester last summer. 
Hassom cottage, East Gloucester, a 
Delphine Hotel annex, is named for 
this distinguished artist. 
Mrs. I. W. Kemble and Miss 
Kemble of Philadelphia, well known 
guests of the Oceanside, Magnolia, 
are at the Royal Poinciana, Palm 
Beach, Fla. 
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WASHINGTON. 
President Taft has completed ar- 
rangements for attendance at the 
Lineoln day dinner of the Republi- 
ean club of New York, Feb. 12, at 
the Waldorf-Astoria. 
The Speaker and Miss Cannon en- 
tertained the following well known 
North Shore summer residents at 
their recent dinner: Representa- 
tive and Mrs. Fassett of Grapevine 
Cove, East Gloucester; Mrs. Mark 
Hanna and Miss Boardman of Man- 
chester. 
Mrs. L. Z. Leiter of Washington 
and Beverly is entertaining Mrs. 
Stonewall Jackson and gave a din- 
ner in her honor. 
Among the distinguished summer 
residents of the North Shore, who 
assisted at the unveiling of the 
statue of Gen. Lew Wallace in the 
Hall of Fame in the Capitol were 
Senator Beveridge and the Turkish 
charge d’affaires, Rustem Bey, the 
latter at the Oceanside, Magnolia, 
last season and the former a mem- 
ber of the cottage colony at Manches- 
ter, a few seasons ago. Gen. Wal- 
lace was minister to Turkey, an 
honor conferred by President Gar- 
field in honor of the world-wide 
recognition of ‘‘Ben Hur,’’ the late 
general’s literary materpiece. 
Secretary and Mrs. Meyer were 
at home to a company of 400 guests 
on Jan. 27, when their beautiful 
erystal and white drawing-room 
was transformed into a_ brilliant 
ball room. The orchestra of the 
Marine band furnished dance music. 
Buffet lunch was served. This was 
the last of their evening functions. 
At the dinner in honor of Presi- 
dent Taft given by Atty.-Gen. and 
Mrs. Wickersham among those to 
meet him were Rear Admiral Evans 
and wife, Rockport summer resi- 
dents, during the North Shore na- 
val redezvous at Rockport, and Mr. 
and Mrs. Walter Denegre of New 
Orleans and ‘‘Villa Crest,,’’ West 
Manchester. 
The Count and Countess de Cham- 
brun (nee Longworth) leave Wash- 
ington, Feb. 9, for a six-weeks’ so- 
journ in Mexico. 
President and Mrs. Taft enter- 
tained the entire congressional cir- 
cle and several hundred additional 
guests, Tuesday evening, at the 
White House. 
Mrs. U. 8. Grant, 8rd., of Brook- 
line, presided in the dining room at 
the Tuesday evening reception of 
Mrs. P. Rixey, wife of the surgeon 
general of the navy. 
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BOSTON. 
R. L. Agassiz of Boston and Ham- 
ilton will contest in the internation- 
al polo games to be played at Georg- 
ian court, the Lakewood, N. Y., es- 
-tate of George Gould of New York, 
on April 21 and 30. Players from 
England and Ireland are to contest 
also. 
The works of Lester G. Hornby © 
that are being shown in the New-— 
bury street gallery include his etch- 
ings of Marblehead, for which town 
he has done what Whistler did for 
London, ‘‘transformed the common 
place with charming and peek 
power.’ 
The patronesses of the smart as- 
sembly this evening at Hotel Som- 
erset will include such well known 
North Shore colonists as Mrs. 
Gor-— 
don Abbott, Mrs. Rudolph Agassiz, 
Mrs. Bryce J. Allan, Mrs. 
Ames, Mrs. 
and Mrs. William Endicott. 
Oliver 
Frances L. Higginson 
The following well known sum- 
mer residents bf the North Shore — 
are acting as a committee of the 
new Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 
who are appealing for funds for its 
maintenance:Francis Bartlett and 
F. L. Higginson, ‘Pride’s Crossing; ' 
Jefferson Coolidge, jr., and Gardin-— 
er M. Lane, Manchester. 
The engagement of Mrs. 
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Linzee Snelling of Newton Centre — 
and Russell G. Fessenden of Boston — 
is interesting North Shore society, — 
since Mr. Fessenden is a brother of | 
Sewell H. Fessenden of Chestnut 
Hill and Manchester. 
The Boston Symphony Orchestra— 
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has been en tour this week and apa 
peared in Buffalo, Detroit, Cleve-— 
land, Erie, Rochester and Syracuse. 
Monday night they will play in Troy 
and Tuesday morning are due in 
Boston again. 
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Our item of last week regarding Har- _ 
vard’s oldest alumnus 
We said that the Hon. 
Coolidge of Manchester now held that 
distinction. We should have said that 
the distinction fell to the Rev. J. T. 
Coolidge of Cambridge. 
26, 1831, and he was graduated from 
Facvatdi in the class of 1850. 
It is odd, isn’t it, that in a world 
full of lost buttons one never by any 
chance comes upon a lost button-_ ; 
hole? 
was incorrect — 
T. Jefferson 
Our Manchesill ‘ 
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