There was a blare of trumpets at Westbury, L. I., and John Wingate Weeks, Secretary of War, appeared before a crowd of 10,000 people. Others present were Mrs. Rene La Montagne, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, II, Major General Mason M. Patrick, Harry Payne Whitney, John S. Phipps, Brigadier General Hugh H. Drum. It was a gay assemblage, in holiday attire.
The assemblage included Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont, Mrs. J. E. Smith Hadden, Mrs. Sidney Fish, Mrs. Hinman Bird, Miss Kitty P. Smith, General John J. Pershing. The gay throng surged about the place.
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