The Washington herald., 1918-09-29

son Bradley house that II seems
probable that there's something in
it. 1t is a little difficult to see just
how t'ncle Sam could use that
house advantagccusly anyhow. II
is a tremendous place with tremon-
dOUs rOOms-was originally the
Gardner Hubbard house, which the
Brddlcys bought up some years ago
and made a big addition to: and IL
has wonderful bali rooms and gall
leries built to house the wonderful
collections which are the owners
hobby.
Inquiry as to the Ned McIeans'
developed that they had offered
their country home. "Friendship,'
out near American University Park
and Camp Leach. to the govern
meut, and that not propitiated by
that sop-its a good big one--it
had taken their H street house
some old residence property just
above the Shorcham. which has
been remodeled into stores and Of
fees. 1t is not the i street house
which is their winter residence.
Possibly the current rumOr that c.
c. Glover has been asked to give
up "WestovC-." his suburban estate.
out just beyond Friendship" may
have moved the MCLeans to offer
the latter. Presumably Mr.. Glover
will move into his town house on
X street little earlier thEn usual,
and Paymaster and Mrs. c. c.
Glover, jr, with c. e. %rd. who
have been visiting at WestOveI.
their own home Orchard Hill hav-
ing been rented for the summer to
the Bernard BaruChs-wlll take an
apartment-if they can get one
and that ugly word Commander"
will be avoided so far as the presi-
dent of Riggs Bank Is concerned.
But the Glovers moving into the X
street house calls attention to the
fact that Mrs. William +. Draper's
big house next door has been not only
empty, but boarded up for two years
ever since its mistress went to Italy
to join her daughter shortly after the
latter married Prince Andrea BuOu-
compaGni in the fall Of 1916. And just
lately it has been definitely annOun-
ced that she would not return this
winter-as had been rumored. Pos
sibly the house stands in her daugh-
ter's name and might thereby be cX-
empt from communicating, as by her
marriage Princess Margaret BuOn-
COmpagni became an Italian subject
and Italy is one of our allies, so
that We cannot very well take her
subjects property. otherwise it would
he a shining mark for those in search
of homes for war workers, even
though it is a perfect museum filled
with priceless tapestries,
books, pictures, porcelains, gathered
from all over the world-and it would
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is actually no storage to be had in
Washington.
The enormous and rather institu-
tional Beale house on Sheridan Circle
has, l understand, been taken over
and 2223 R street. occupied by the
Chilean embassy until the death last
May of DIR. Aldunate. the Chilean am
bassador-and l believe one of the
many handsome houses owned by Mrs.
Christian Hemmick who expects TO
spend the greater part of the winter
in New York as she did last. I am
told that the big Warder house at
Sixteenth and K which has been Tor
rent" for some time and the McMil-
Ian house on Vermont avenue, have
both been tagged.
II It comes to insisting on people
who have vacant rooms filling them
with war workers-well. it is anus
ing to think who would be hit II
that rule were universally enforced.
For. curiously enough, 1t is the
smallest families that occupy the
biggest houses. In fact, some OF
the conspicuously big houses In
Washington are occupied by So
ciety "dowagers" who live pracu-
cally alone, and are away much or
the time. For instance. there Is
Mrs. Marshall Fields big house up
on Sixteenth street; Mrs. Henry
Dimock's on Scott circle; Mrs. R. w.
Patterson's on Dupont circle: Mrs
Richard Townsend's a few blocks
further out on Massachusetts av-
enue, and Mrs. Robert Mccormick $
still further out-almost in the SUBJ
urbs. There is just one wealthy.
elderly woman occupying each or
those-when she happens to be In
town-which is not all told three
months in the year.
There is the Boardman house just
below Mrs. Patterson's, occupied by
Miss Mabel Boardman and her
mother. Mrs. w. ]. Boardman; the
Larz Andersons. big and mediaeval
looking, with only Mr.. and Mrs. An
derson in It, and they not in 1t
much of the time; the Pattens just
above. occupied by 1.-THE Patten
girls"-(everybody in Washington
calls them that, though frankly its
long while since)-and their sis
ter. Mrs. Corbin. who has lately
been renting her own house on Con-
lnecticut avenue and living with her
sisters; and at least a dozen more
places that would house a regiment
or at any rate, a company-which
are occupied. part of the year only,
by one or two women.
More than one small householder
whose house has been visited by the
house-to-house canvasser looking for
rooms, and asked how many rooms
he had. and how many In family;
how many bedrooms and how occu-
Ped: any thing in the nature of a
guest room-fyen . Davenport on