Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-15

lence of it's climate for all kinds of
throat and lung troubles; the reli-
gious, who travel in multitudes to the
miracle shrine of Lourdes, which is
the next station after Angeles. and
gently the sentimental. who are
bound for the next point below Tar
bes. to visit the house where Mar
shall Foch was born and spent his
toyhood. Mr.. Lehr delights in taking
American friends to all the noted
is go filled with the Foch memories
and even with the Foch family.
The eldest brother, Gabriel, an adj
vocate. lives in the square stone
house where his illustrious brother,
as we'll as himself, was born, and the
horse market is exactly the same as
when Ferdinand. at the age of eight,
broke in all the unruly colts and
passed an opinion of equine flesh,
which was received with serious at
tention by the officers Of the remount
station. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Lehr took
an active part in Red Cross work in
their region during the late war and
they were both in Tarbes when its
most illustrious son made his recent
visit there.
Students of history have accomplished
so much for the Capital city and its
visitors that it is seemingly high time
literary cleaners should add theiK
part, in this matter of landmarks
scattered So widely in various parts
of the District of Columbia. Those
excellent tablets set up to designate
important events of the past or their
connection with illustrious people are
a delight to the stranger and kindle
anew the enthusiasm of the resident.
But in the manner Of marking off
houses where eminent men or women
have dwelt, even briefly, all American
70 in, he nf in
the old world.
Visitors to Paris may count at least
six houses which bear a brass tablet
announcing that within had dwelt in
such a year the reverend American
philosopher and statesman, Benjamin
Franklin. A house where Monroe
dwelt when acting as minister from
this country during the terror and
from which he went forth to save the
life of the sanity Madam Lafayette
many visitors. but though the father
Of the famous doctrine lived in Wash
ington years before he attained the
White House. his memory is not per-
petuated as in Paris.
The American visitor swells with
pride even in that hallowed region of
Shakespearean glory. Warwick and
Stratford, to find that the sojourn Of
Washington Irving at the Red Lion
Inn is made historic. The comfort
dDie armenian from Wnlcn the authoI
of "Knickerbocker Papers dreamed
over the fire of sea Goals stands in the
exact spot and his bedroom is almost
as much literary pilgrimage as
that at Stratford Yet this most adj
mirable Of native authors and pos
sibly the first to make American let
tiers respected abroad lived at vary
ing intervals for nearly forty years
in Washington. and yet not a single
one of the many homes he occupied,
several of which are still standing,
bears any distinguishing sign. Those
who depart from the Mount Vernon
railroad terminus, near 18th and
Pennsylvania avenue, would be in
terested to know that the printing
shop opposite the ticket Office in D
p. Van Ness and that there the gentle
sage of ''Sunnyside" spent several
winters and wrote some fine pictures
of the Washington of his day.
He was also the guest for two years
of John p. Kennedy, the Baltimore
years as the William Writ mansion.
on G and 10Th streets. And frequently
was Irving entertained as house guest
by Daniel Webster in the domicile
National Chamber of Commerce and
known to Washington people as the
w. w. Corcoran mansion. other
homes of Irving have been treated
most ANONYMOUSLY ny time ana are
squalid lodging places or dingy bust
ness Offices. Nevertheless II would
serve a good purpose to mark them
all.
In the matter OF royal visits, South
America will soon entertain, not only
the Belgian king and queen, but in
every possibility the King and Queen
of Spain as well In October next
grand celebration IL planned to COM
memorate the rounding of the straits
of Magellan by the erudite discoverer,
and while the actual ceremonial will
be staged in Patagonia, all the con-
King Alfonso has definitely promised
to be present at the opening cere-
mony, bupt whether Queen Victoria
will accompany him Is still profile
matte. She is one Of the many royal
ladies who is much incommoded by
he and she Is urging