The Washington herald., 1919-02-16

a recent publication by Philip Lee
Philips, who is chief of the divi-
sion of maps at the Government
Printing Office. 1t is "A List of
Aliases and Maps Applicable to the
World War"
OF the several engagements an
nounced during the week the most
interesting was that coming from Lon
don of Miss Elizabeth Asquith,
daughter OF former Premier H. H.
Asquith, to Prince Antoine Bibesco,
Councillor at the Roumanian Lega-
tion in London. Prince Bibesco was
formerly first secretary of the Ru-
manian Legation here. 1t seems as
though this announcement is authen-
tic and not a false alarm as was the
last time Miss Asquith's engagement
was published That time Hugh Glib
son, who was attached then to the
American Embassy in London, was
said to be the lucky man but 1t was
Immediately denied by both Miss AS
quith and Mr.. Gibson.
Lieut.. Harold Finkenstaedt. of
the Flying Corps, L. S. A, is
expected here in day or so
now from France for he is to be best
man at the wedding of his brother,
! Edward r. Finkenstaedt and Lillian
Birney On the 26th.
There are three Finkenstaedt broth
ers. Edward, Harold and Rudolph.
Edward is the youngest; is around y
years OF age; Harold, or Harry. as he
/ ls known by most OF his friends, and
Rudolph make their home in Detroit.
Their parents live in Bay City, Mich,
while Edward is in business-automo-
biles, l have been told-ln Cleveland.
\ They are not people of great means
and are Of German extraction. Harry
/ was in England representing some
steel Arm as an expert in the early
/ days of the,+1ar and because of his
I name the English people were most
/ unfriendly to him. finally making il
so uncomfortab Die that he left there.
Apparently the English are not as ac-
| customed to citizens with German
names and anti. German sentiments
as we are. At any rate Harry felt so
bad about it he considered changing
his name and only didn't do it be-
cause the English for Ffnkensta edit
Is "birdcage." He refused to be Mr..
Blrdcage and who can blame him.
So he came back here in 1915 but as
! soon as we entered the war, he went
into the aviation corps and did some
flying in Italy and France both. The
bridegroom also entered the service;
was a captain in the Quartermaster
Corps and was stationed in Washing
| ton for long time.
Talking of Detroit. brings to my
mind that Robert Lyon who was the
guest of Capt. and Mrs. Sherman
Haight. his brother-in-law and sis
| ter. is here again. He stopped by
for a visit about a fortnight ago
en- route from his old station at
Pensacola. Fla, TO Hampton, Va.
Then the other day he, with two
other lieutenants of aviation, few
| uI here from Hampton. They had
engine trouble all the way up and
did not want to return the next day
IN the same machine. But they
were instructed to do so and OF
course soldiers have to obey their
superior officers. They started back
the next day per schedule and took
the mail with them. But they had
| only gone about twelve miles when
their engine blew up and they were
all dumped into the Potomac River.
Fortunately they all kept their
heads about them and escaped un-
| injured. So they are all still here.
waiting for the machine to be re-
paired and meanwhile Robert is
busy going around to parties hav-
ing beautiful time with his young
sister. Laura Lyon. who is spending
the winter here with Capt. and Mrs.
Haight. Capt. Haight is out of the
service and spending most of the
time in New York. committing down
here for the weekend. Their home
is in New York. but Mrs. Haight used
to live in Detroit and is Identified
with Washington's Detroit colony.
Mrs. Laurence Benet has recently
returned to her Paris home after a
visit to the devasted parts of
France. a country she was very
familiar with before the Huns ruin
ed it. She writes her sister. Mrs.
Larkin Glazebrook-Mrs. Benet was
Margaret Cox of this city-that
human language cannot express the
horrors she saw. Mr.. and Mrs. Benet
| were among the founders of the
American Ambulance in Paris and
worked hard there until the army
took charge of it when we entered
the war. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Benet
need rest and their relatives here
are hoping they will come over this
spring for a visit. They use to come
over every year before the war and
have crossed once since the war but
! did not have time to come often
while busy working for their coun-
| try.
! The announcement that the
| American Military Hospital. No. l,
at Neuilly. a suburb of Paris, is to
be closed and the building returned
TO the French government for the
use originally proposed for it, that