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are under the care of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, who hold
| many meetings annually in the house
and whose pious task it is to keep the
graveyard trim and the stones in
good repair. The first master of
| mond. who took possession of his
grant in 1857. Hammond graves
from I'LL to the present may be
found in this holy rood and many
| original. The last owner was con-
Quoting model dairy. and the gov
ernment has taken over all this for
; the benefit of the future heroes OF
the Navy.
slip of a girl not yet fourteen,
| Miss Ethel McClary of the New York
| lWomen's Swimming Associat ton, holds
! the world record in thrashing 800
yards in trif1e less than four min
utes. and that on the very first day
of swimming entries for champions
| to compete on various municipal
beaches in this country and Europe.
Miss McClary has been exhibiting her
method in pools of the Y. w. c. A.
and of athletic clubs and she has
given a wide vogue to what is termed
| the crawl stroke-the eight
movement which athletic teachers
have been trying in vain to popular
lze for seasons past She has proven
cal for speed and endurance as well
as for sprinting contests. Those who
keep account of progress in amateur
sports say that swimming has now
passed tennis in the patronage of
Americans and that the most pro-
inounced gains have been made in
records. especially in those cities
which. like Washington. make a spe-
cialty of the bathing beach. Groups
; of champions are being forced to
challenge each other all along the
Atlantic coast and thence across the
continent to the Pacific. Miss Nc
Clary's performance takes the cham
| pionship in the feminine group from
San Francisco. which has held ii in
different winners for several years
past 1t also takes it from the
! famous swimmer of London. Miss
Conner, who made such a record at
the Olympian games.
The Nassau-B Bahamas Club which
, has fair membership in Washing
| ton. has been much affected by the
destruction of the fine Colonial Hotel
| by fire within the fortnight, and its
i new home will probably be moved to
the other side of the city of Nassau
Henry T. Hunt of this city is among
the managers summoned to a con-
ference with his colleagues in New
York city. OF these are Edward
| AsTOZeT, ROuman " anafndksf ana
James Potter of Philadelphia: George
b. Hulme. O. H. Gruner and Stewart
Waller of New York: Baylor HicI-
| man of Louisville. and A. +. Mat
| thews of Toronto. This clubhouse
at Nassau. in the Bahamas, Will be
among the roomiest and most lux
urious in that region of the world
and will cost something like $1,000
| 0e0. Besides every facility for sport.
golf. tennis. racing and swimming.
! there will be ample accommodations
, for housing the members and their
season. Nassau has other hotels
! near by. but the Colonial was one of
! the most comfortable and was con
Quoted on the old-fashioned lines
which make so many of the hostelries
iof European resorts so popular.
Several generations of Canadians
have passed the cold season at the
Colonial and their grief at its de-
! struction is liks that for a home.
The Nassau Bahamas Club is more
nearly International than many of
those SO called. although the funding
! of the clubhouse is entirely an Amer
| lean activity.
;one of the most distinguished of the
, foreign residents of Washington. is
! busily engaged on her official report
ito the Colombian government on the
! recent Pan-American conference of
women. at which she represented the
department of labor in Bogota. The
daughter and the granddaughter of
1.-TWO eminent citizens of Colombia.
Nine. de Coronado devotes her entire
/ time to organizing charitable and
iphilanthropic associations in Latin
! America after the more practical
methods established here. Her grand
! father. the late Gen. Louis Peron de
| la Croix. served on the staff of the
revered liberator of the Spanish colo
| nes in the southern hemisphere. Gen.
rapher. The ''Diario de Bucaramanga.
the George Washington of South
America Is the classic of the private
life and public achievements of the
! South American hero. Gen. de la
! Croix left many personal reminis-
cences of the wars of independence.
! in which he served as a brigadier
general under Bolivia, in Colombia.
Ecuador and Venezuela. Gen. de
Coronado. madame's fatherinlaw. be-
! honorable of the Spanish families
twho accompanied the Conquistadores
J of the early sixteenth century and
there is scarcely region where
! Spanish domination was established
that the name Coronado is not hon
various resorts and hotels of the old
| days. Nine. de Coronado has lived
! in Washington for the past ten years.
Word comes from wondering Amer
! leans that for the first time since the
devastating war old Karlsbad has re-
turned to its former glory and it is
crowded to the last inch with Amer
cans North and South, English and
French. and, the hotels and pensions
| filed to overf1owing, the farmhouses
i in the suburbs have been dragged
| into service. to the great profit of
their owners. Some glory pertains
! to Karlsbad this summer never known
before-a fine race course, for in
! stance, where the invalid seeking
quiet and seclusion for shattered
nerves may behold the reckless rid
| ing of every sort of gypsy and
| dweller in the nearby mountains.
Under the old regime of the monks
| the Bohemian resort was conducted
| on lines as severe as those which
prevail in the cloister. if the visitor
came to drink the waters and to take
F; the cure. There are still the old
hotels and kursaals for those intent
only on pleasure and who visit the
spa but seldom. Karlsbad, as usual,
| attracts royalty in large numbers,
though this season it is the variety
before which is written Eek" The
former king of Saxony and his chill
dren spent several weeks in Karlsbad