The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-30
NoTABLEs IN WASHINGTON.
SOME INTERESTING PERSONAGEs
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

A., American Countess Whose Nus.
band Really Owns Large Estates.
she Is Aiding Miss Clara Barton.
sr. Charles Warren stOddnrd ana
v9ts interesting Life-A Flying Trip
10 monticello, the Home OF JefRer-
son.
washington, May 25.-Many interesting
strangers may always be found in our
-atonal capital, but this spring there
,aoros TO be an unusual number of them.
Among the most prominent, just now, are
,f,a Count and Countess df Brazza-Savorg-
man who have taken furnished house in
+be fashionable quarter, expecting to re-
main several months. The count, who
renresents Italy in the universal postal
congress, comes from an ancient and dis
tinguished family, and is an eminent
scholar and inventor. His wife nee Slo-
.-r, was born of American parents, in
New orleans, but while yet child. went
abroad with her widowed mother, to re-
side. and Immediately after her gradua-
zion from a French convent school, met
and married the young count.
The Di Brazza's estates are among the
Finest in Rome, and their palace is the
center of attraction for many Americans
who winter in the Eternal City. The
countess, who is a favorite at court, and
closely identified with Queen Margaret, is
extremely philanthropic. For some years
she has been greatly interested in the
everyday life of the Italian peasant wo-
man. and has done a good deal to better
fbeir condition. Their chief occupation is
the making of exquisite laces, which ruin
the eyes in a short time, yet bring wretch
edlv poor prices. 1t was through the
countess di Brazza's earnest efforts that
on exhibition of this industry figured at
the Words Fair, in Chicago, and has
since been put on the United States mar
ket
and energies to the Greek Red Cross So
ciety, striving to awake popular interest
in its behalf and to swell the fund for
the suffering Greeks. To this end she
had delivered lectures on the subject in
various parts of the country, with excel
lent financial results. Now the National
American Greek Red Cross Association
has ramifcations in nearly every state of
the union and it's Washington auxiliary
has enlisted not only the most exclusive
circles of upper-tendon, but department
people," and even the school children are
working for the cause and adding their
contributions.
The countess, who is generally accom-
panied by Miss Clara Barton of Red Cross
fame, is very convincing in her addresses.
She graphically depicts the results of the
war with the Turks-scenes of horror and
distress, some of which have come under
her own observation-the helpless dying
of starvation and the wounded being de-
MED even chloroform to lessen the agony
of amputations. Receptions are being
given to the countess and Miss Barton in
the best houses of the city; a loan-exhi-
bition OF somebody's collection of artistic
Greek draperies and antiquities is being
held under the auspices of Mrs. Senator
Hawley a grand mass meeting will occur
on May 80; in short, the Greek Red Cross
has become fashionable fad of the hour.
A sample entertainment was that given
yesterday by Mrs. Pellew in honor of the
Countess dia Brazza-Savorgman and Miss
Clara Barton. The spacious, fiower-deck-
ed drawing rooms were filled with Wash
ingtOns creme-de-la-creme. The countess
looked chic in a gown of blue organdie
with dainty lilacs traced upon it, She
wore a poke bonnet, trimmed with nod
ding lilacs in blue and white, with gauze
ties crossed in the back and tied quantity
at one side. After a brief reception, the
guests adjourned to the dining room,
where chairs had been placed in rows be-
fore f1ag-draped platform, so that all
might be comfortably seated while listen
ing to the addresses of the afternoon Dr.
Quinn Of the Catholic University accom-
panied by a bright Greek lad-his pro-
tege-was the first speaker. He was fol-
lowed by the countess, who gave a concise
account of the condition of affairs between
the Greeks and Turks; and theu Miss
Barton detailed her Red Cross work in
those unhappy regions. Afterwards tea
uahues were served, and all the enthusi-
astlc audience, who were not already mem
Ders OF the Greek Red Cross Society, were
ehFoled-including such notables as Bish-
op Satterlee, Nine. Patenotre, wife of the
british ambassador, the daughters of Sir
Julian Pauncefote Mrs. Harriet Lane
johnson and many others.
Speaking of notable people. one of the
most interesting in Washington, though
seldom heard of in his carefully maintain
% seclusion, is Mr.. Charles Warren Stod-
caro-, late of the South Seas. His home,
iar from the sacred precincts of the fash
iohaole west end mo. 300 NJ street,. is
mat Of a traveder, a savage of the Pa
enc islands, an intensely devout Catho-
nc a philanthropist, poet, student and
recluse. He calls it 1.-The Bungalow" and
also st. Anthony's Rest" 1t is a little
t"o-storied brick, set in a tiny tragic
formed by the crossing of New York ave-
nue. at NJ street. Tender green ivy clings
10 the walls and chambers over the bay
WINDOWS The bit of door yard, outlined
by rusty iron fence, is fun of bloom
ing neur-de-lis, and across a much-trav-
eled path is one of our innumerable gov
eminent reservations" a small, fat IRON
SNAPPED park, green as an emerald, with
pudding trees and fountain playing in
tne middle. but it is a good Protestant
lountain," remarked Mr.. Stoddard, a hui
inorous twinkle in his dreamy eyes. ut
doesn't play on Sunday" The home life
OF the author of the South Sea idys is an
luyl In Itself, filed with the quaint and
unusual. There are three occupants Of
the bungalow besides the poet-Jules, an
Cuerly French peasant who is cook,
NaeL messenger chambermaid and man
oi-al-work Kenneth. the 17-year old boy
"nom Mr. Stoddard had adopted and Liz
Ilue' the queerest little dog I'm the world.
jules who has the benignant countenance
ol Pere Marquette. formerly lived with
we Fathers Of the Catholic University.
when the university was established
"'re eight years ago, Mr.. Stoddard was
CiHed from Notre Dame College 10 the
Snalr OF English literature. For six years
ne lived in Divinity hall-such a solitary