Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-07
COSMOPOLITAN AIR
PERVADES CAPITAL
Arrival of Conference Delegates
Gives Washington Semi
Foreign Aspect
HOTELS N CITY JAMMED


tsn atmosphere was in reality but @
tenuous shadow of the reality that now
exists.
State Department and Foreign Office
clerks wearing uniforms, the essential
parts Of which are tor, hats and pearl
rray spats, are everywhere on the ave-
Sues that converge on the Federal
buildings. Dowagcrs with daughters oi
marriageable age plus and marriageable
oIipibility minus smoke cigarettes in the
botel dining rooms. The newspapermen
~ are as familiar with the streets oi
PXin or Paris or Constantinople or
petrograd as they are with those in
their home cities, are here in force. The
Industrious 'local committees are
working with might and main on what
promises to be n successful attempt to
mar the scenic charm of some of the
capitals most noted avenues.
Delegates Met With Due Ceremony
Troops of cavalry dash through the
streets, acting as escort to arriving for
eign delegations. The Union Station
Is place of great interest. Here high
officials of the Government assemble to
greet the incoming representatives OF
the nations which are to participate in
the conference.
Each arrival is attended with much
ceremony. The Secretary of State,
sometimes accompanied by the Secre-
tary Of the Navy, and pink checked
young men from the State De-
nartment, welcome the foreign delegates
AS they step from their special trains
and lead them in solemn procession to
the east entrance of the station, where
motorCars furnished by the War De-
partment are waiting.
As the american officials and the
foreign visitors step out into the open,
there is pause. Buglers sound ruff
fes. Then military band plays the
national anthem of the nation whose
delegates are being received. The civil
ans doff their hats the army and navy
officers come to salute. The band gives
the "Star Spangled Banner" When
It Is finished the War Department mo-
tOrcars drive up, and the foreign dele
gates with their American escorts are
taken away to their houses or hotels,
followed by the galloping cavalrymen.
The matter Of housing the hundreds
OF distinguished visitors and the ad-
viserS, experts, secretaries, attaches and
clerical assistants accompanying them
has been a problem to Washington. The
conference Is taking place at time
when the city still feels the effects of
overCrowding due to the abnormal war
population.
Most Of the japanese representatives
are Quartcred at the Shorcham. They
occupy three floors Three blocks away,
at the POwhatan Hotel, another. three
floors are occupied by1 members of the
Japanese contingent. These two hotels
were required by the japanese purely
for residential purposes, and 1t was
necessary for the japanese Embassy to
find other quarters for offices.
The british delegation has three floors
at the Hotel Lafayette. short distance
from the White House, and another
in Sixteenth street. These were taken
solely for residential purposes. and no
room was left for working quarters for
the large SeCretariat. So the Embassy
took two floors in the Franklin Square
Hotel, Mt Fourteenth and X streets,
where the officials of the special 'Ihfs-
sion and their host of experts, transla-
tors and clerks will attend to the bust
ness features of British participation
in the Washington gathering.
House Offered Lloyd George
The house which Lloyd George will
occupy If he comes to Washington was
obtained through the courtesy of its
owner, Mrs. Charles A. Mum,
wealthy resident and mother of Charles
A. Mum, Jr., and Zurnee, Mum,
Of Philadelphia. Mrs. Mum is giving
the house rent free. with the use of it's
furniture leaving the British Govern
ment to find "a considerable number of
buffers, cooks and other servants who
will lab ka t,,r sc
the Prime Minister If he manages to
cross the Atlantic. The residence, des-
ignated as 1901 Massachusetts avenue,
faces Scott Circle from the northwest.
1t Is of the style which found con-
siderable vogue in Washington imme-
diately after the Civil War land for
many years later. red brick, with a.
squareness favored in old Washington
residences. 1t has a salon of spacious
dimensions and a small ballroom, but
cannot be described as pretentious in
the sense of OrnatenCss or. size. Scott
Circle is a center of the fashionable
section Of Washington and so environed
by attractiye houses, with broad ave-
nues criss- crossing the circle and tiny
public parks wherever the avenues con-
verge, that Lloyd George, If he comes.
Will find much to attract the eye as
ne looks from his windows or leaves his
temporary residence to attend the ses-
Slons of the conference
Where Balfour VIII Stay
Arthur j. Balfour, the second member
OF the British delegation, who will be
iS chief in the absence of the Prime |
Minister, has taken furnished apart
ment IN new and large building op-
PoSite the British Embassy. This build |
ing stands at the intersection of Con-
nectlcut avenue, \ and Eighteenth |
ssUeets, two blocks away from the Mum |
home.
g., ~ Is built on a triangular bit of land,
nS pointed end fncing down Connecticut |
avenue and nfordimg from the southern |
windows view of the White House !
una the Potomac River beyond. Next |
70 IT, on one side, is the former embassy
VI 'hc Imperial and Royal Government
austria Hungary, now occupied by |
tSplrSentatlycS Of the Swedish Govern
HHent' Hnt' In charge of the interests of |
tiu'lrla and Hungary in America for
onJ rJ "Ur period. Opposite the southern
Tr C~u oi this apartment house is the
c "u'TH OF the Covenant, which PreSi-
lstml hrhlamin Harrison and other dis
"GulSh"d men attended. and which has
nprso,,,n.5 sunni som" OF the leadlng |
personalities of Washington.
i, racing Eighteenth street is the resi-
mmce re OF Robert Lansing, former Sec
sscc1arE OF State, with whom Mr.. Bal
@ rUur became well acquainted when Ap
Pain RIS IN Washington as the head of the
GfrniSh f" War Mission in 1917. Mr.. Bal.
s sOur VIII have as near neighbor on the
Ilme IIame Iioor Of the apartment house,
ino,nun ipnu loot on" of the American plen-
h,orn.'"rleS h.orn in the Washington con-