THE PRESIDENT'S SOCIAL SECRETARY.
Mrs. Eleanor Relyea, a clerk in'the signal office of the AVar Department, will be the next social secretary of the White House, at a salary of £200 a year.' Miss Isabella Hagner, who noiv holds that position, and who proved herself exceedingly efficient, will step back into the ranks or Government clerks, by executive order, and will bo given a place in the surgeon-general's office. The office of social secretary has been made to include that of companion to the President's wife, since Miss Hagner assumed its duties, ■and she has proved an invaluable assistant to Mrs. Roosevelt in all her family and State affairs. Mrs. Relyea was appointed to the War Department from Connecticut in July, 1907. She is a woman of culture, and has a wide acquaintance among society people in Washington, New York, and Newport.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 449, 6 March 1909, Page 11
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