Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-17
Picked Up Here and There.

Young James Henry Robert Cromwell
has withdrawn from a class in economics
because he says
Everybody Happy in the instructor
This Family. dsnsbureer in
directly insulted his stepfather T. L.
Stotesbury. He referred to this mag
nate as an example Of predatory plu-
tocracy,' under which, he says, the
state university is suffering
In explaining his position in little
conversation at the Bellevue Stratford,
Mr.. Cromwell opined that "a quiz sec
ton in economics seems to be like an /.
w. w. meeting. Baldensberger said
the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
pany had the city by the throat and
was strangling it. When fellow
father is chairman of the board of
managers of that company it is mighty
unpleasant to listen to such statements.
This man teaches that the rich are
strangling the poor. That's ridiculous"
Mrs. Stotesbury has always been most
happy with her second husband. In the
midst of her beautiful art galleries and
treasures she once said, DalVely, short
" after her marriage: Il sometimes
look at all these things and say to my
self out loud, to try to make 1t seem
true: They are all mine-absolutely
mine"
Her children no less than herself have
found a real protector and adviser in
the big capitalist. The college boy con-
suited him gravely as to whether he
should withdraw from the economies
course. Mr.. Stotesbury, entirely with
out rancor. told him gravely that he
thought that was something for him
alone to decide: he would hold no re-
sentiment if he did not.
One more bachelor establishment is
to be added to the many which already
testify to mans
Another Independent growing domes-
tic independ
OdeA AAoAae' ence in Chica-
60 George Porter has leased for five
years one of the apartments being
completed on the corner of North State
and Scott streets. His mother, Mrs. H
H. Porter, expects to spend most of the
winter in California. so the fine old
Porter mansion, SO long an impressive
landmark on the corner of Cass and
Erie streets, will be closed for the first
time since it was built.
That he has undertaken to try house
keeping in an apartment indicates that
Mr.. Porter is not yet ready to build the
of the seven residences planned to face
Lincoln Park. near Diversey parkway.
Mrs Arthur Ryerson. Abram Poole,
Henry Dangler and David Adler are
about to break ground for their
houses. Just when the Frederic C. Bart
let's and Ambrose Cramers. the others
of the septet will build is not settled
yet.
Another well known Chicago bachelor
who entertains great deal in his own
h RI &c Poh 1a~ ton,
This week end he has as house party
at Monticello, in the southern part of
the state, the Frederic Bartletts, the
William Bernharts and Miss Helen
Birch. Mr.. Allerton's estate is set in
the heart of Illinois great wheat and
corn fields. He is himself an expert
enced and practical farmer and over
sees personally the development and
cultivation of his many thousand acres.
It is believed that this is going to be
an ultra gay winter in Philadelphia
Quite a number of
Raising Big Hopes the social ne
in Quaker City. wes hyve nsren rs
and relatives, and already there have
been heard of numberless plans being
made on an extensive scale for their
other day II was told of three ladies of
high degree who were in friendly com
petition for the 3lst of December, on
which dates. being New Year eve, all
three had set their minds upon giving
ball. The situation was compromised,
it is said. by one of the amicable con-
testants settling upon the 29th. But this
serves to illustrate the reason for the
belief that the coming season is going
to be one of the gayest in years.
Did you ever hear of young man
who was leaving town, going away to
live and lIpOn he