Show Grand Garden Party Boston llA garden party was given this afternoon at Old Elms the residence resi-dence of axGovernor Claflin Newton villa in honor of the seventieth birthday of Mrs Harriet Beeoher Stowe The party was under the auspices of Houghton Hough-ton Mifflin Co The moro prominent persons present were Oliver Wendell Holmes John G Whittier J 0 Trow bridge t Bronsori Alcott Wm B How i ells Thomas Bailey Aldrich Elizabeth Stewart Phelps 3Tre Burnett George P Lathrop Mrsr Bayard Taylor and daughter Bore Hawthorne Lathrop Nora ferry James Barton Lucy Stone E P Whipple Lucy Larcom Lyman Abbott Louise Chandler Mbulton Mrs John Q Sargent Mrs Ole Bull Judge Tourgee Honry Ward Beecher Charles and Edward Beaeber and wives Isabel A Hooker Beecher Rev Charles E Stowe Mrs Stowes son and Frederick Douglass Addresses were made by Mr Houghton Henry Ward and Edward Ed-ward Beecher and many leltess were read from absent friends and admirers and a poem was delivered by Oliver Wendell Holmes Mrs Stowe also made a few remarks |