Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22

of Michigan. The latter, notwith-
standing the departure of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Henry Getty Chiffon. wife
of the former first secretary of the
British embassy, will come with Mrs.
O'Brien to pass the winter months.
DR.. and Mrs. David jayne Hill, who
lived here under the Mckinley ad-
ministration. when DR.. Hill was first
assistant secretary of state. have d
comfortable home in Rhode Island
minister to Switzerland, then to The
Hague, where he was a delegate to
the first peace congress, and later am
bassador to Germany. There are for
mer senators and members and lesser
lights of the official world galore re-
siding at the capital and a coterie of
widows of distinguished public men.
who find some comfort in the scene of
their triumphs.
James w. Wadsworth, jr.. senator
from New York, is among those who
are combating many sorts of oppo
nents in an effort to retain his toga,
and the struggle is of intense inter
est in Washington. Senator and Mrs
Wadsworth. though maintaining a
home in the Genesee valley and ea
tirely identified with it's development
are in every sense Washing tonians
and have been since their childhood
The senator is the son of a former
member of the lower house and came
to the capital in his early teens
while his wife, the younger of the
two daughters of the late Secretary
of State John Hay, has lived here
practically all her life.
Senator Wadsworth was the init
mate friend of Adalbert Hay and be-
gan his visits to the family home on
18th street, when his wife was in the
pinafore stage. The Wadsworth
holdings in Genesee and Livingston
counties, New York, are principally a
grant from the state authorities in
recognition of eminent services rem
dered by several members of the
family through the revolutionary and
Indian wars. For a century or more
this vast landed estate has been man
aged after the manner of British
manor lords, the farm land being di-
vided into suitable allotments and
given out on long leases. the owner
making repairs and paying increased
taxes and all extraordinary assess
ments. 1t has been phenomenally sue
cessful as a business venture and APP
parently meets the approval of the
most advanced social economist. For
conditions are changing even in the
wonderful Genese valley and tenants
who have leased for generations are
not content to do so. but are depart
ing to spots, where they may obtain
freehold of their farms, and the new
race of tenants does not reach the
standard of the old.
Senator Wadsworth's home is a
splendid farm and wooded preserves
at Groveland in Livingston county,
and with the experience obtained in
managing a ranch in the Panhandle
of Texas. he possesses as much repu-
tation as an infallible judge of live
stock and sound crops, as he is of
wise Legislative measures. A warm
friendship exists between Senator
Wadsworth and the republican candi-
date for President and it is rumored,
if fate is good to Senator Harding
and unkind to Senator Wadsworth.
the next Secretary of War will be
the present chairman of the commit
tee on military affairs. The Wads-
worths have an interesting family.
the elders of whom are just begin
ming to take part in the juvenile
events at the capital. Jerry is at St
Marks preparing for Yale and Miss
Evelyn is rapidly climbing into the
subdeb class.