The Washington herald., 1918-10-27

perience and are willing TO help. 1t
is under the direction OF the Public
Health Service, and Immediately in
charge of Lieut. Howard Fisk, whc
has his headquarters in one OF the
disused school buildings-all schools
have been closed since about the first
OF October-and is one of the busiest
persons in this town.
Mrs. George Vanderbilt is one OF the
wealthy women OF social position who
have flung themselves and their care
into the breach. Cars were needed to
convey emergency nurses and doctors
to their cases. and Mrs. Vanderbilt
was one of the first to respond. She
has rented her house on K street to
Mr.. and Mrs Eugene Meyer, of New
York, and expects to spend most of
the winter at Biltmore, near Ashe-
vile, n. c. But she was temporarily
at the Shoreham, when the need was
brought to her attention, and she
promptly responded. dismissing her
chauffeur. and offering her own serv-
ices and her car. She has been re-
porting at Webster School promptly
at 9 o'clock each morning, and taken
whoever needed to be taken. wherever
Lieut.. Fisk asked her to, for many
hours each day. Mrs. Cary Grayson,
wife of Admiral Grayson, and a par
ticular protege OF Mrs Wilson'S, is
doing similar service. Mrs. Thomas
P. Gore, wife of Senator Gore, of
Oklahoma; Mrs. Victor Kaufman,
Miss Louise Thoron, a debutante OF
last season, and Mrs. Charles J. Bell.
wife OF the president of one of the
largest trust companies in town, and
sister of Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell
and Mrs. David Fairchild. are others
who have volunteered for the inlu-
enza emergency motor corps.
The crest of the epidemic has
passed. they tell US. Certainly the
death rate has been reduced to nearly
half of what it was a week ago. and
the number of new cases is merci-
fully less. But people will not really
believe they are out of this particular
woods until schools and churches arc
open, and theaters and the ordinary
business OF pleasure resumed There
are, however, aside from the church
set for early next month, two con-
certs in which society is interested.
Casals is planning a recital here on
November !, which is next Friday.
and the wonderful French orchestra,
which has already been heard in New
York, is planning to make its Wash
ington debut-deferred from October
l6, because all the theaters were at
that time Closed-on the following
Wednesday. The lists of boxholders
are of the smartest and the parties
planned for each occasion SAVIOR al
most of mad dissipation, for these
days. So it is to be hoped that DR.
Fowler will relent and lift the ban
from the theaters. Otherwise there
are going to be whole lot of our
very best people sadly disappointed.
Everybody will remember that Ca
sails came very near to being the star
of that particularly brilliant benefit
concert that Mary Garden gave last
season at Mrs. Thomas T Gan'S 7
was for some British rehef--for Mrs
Can favors the Britishers-and who
was that particularly attractive Brit
ish officer who was a sort of master
of ceremonies, and brought down the
house by his very boyish and de-
lightful embarrassment when the
prima donna allowed herself to guy
him?
Anyhow Casals made a great hit
that night. especially with the
more seriously musical. Gcdowski
has said some very nice things
about Pablo Casals-the foremost
'cellist now in America" He sug-
gests that as Beethoven has been
called the modern Greek of compo-
sition, so Casals might be called
the modern Greek of instrumental