The New York herald., 1922-07-02
Washington Less Deserted Than Usual
Il for the Fourth of July Holidays

America. since he Is scheduled to sal
on July 19-and / shouldn't wonder II
the same vessel brought Chief Justice
Taft home. since he too is due at the
American Bar Association meeting in
California in August. though l am not
sure that he Is due at the Canadian
meeting which follows 1t and Is to fbe
held at Vancouver.
John w. Davis, one time United States
Ambassador to Great Britain, will ac-
company Lord Shaw on his tour through
this country and representatives Of the
Canadian bar will meet him at Seattle
and escort him to Vancouver An added
interest will be given his trip by the
fact that he will be accompanied by
his daughter, the Hon. Mrs. Vaughn
Thompson. to whom he addressed his
Letters to Isabel His address at
San Francisco will be on 1.-THE Range
of the Law" while his subject at Van
couver Is to be Law as Link in the
Empire" l understand that Baron
Shaw Is at present serving in Ireland
as the head of a commission on compen-
sation for losses, and one would gather
from the daily news reports that 1t
would be rather hard for such commits
sion to keep up with its work.
1t will depend on whether Baron Shaw
stops in Washington on his way to or
from the bar association meetings
whether the Ambassador will be here to
receive him or Mr. Henry Getty Chiffon.
Counsellor of the Embassy and at pres
ent Charge d'Affaires. At present Mrs.
Chiffon Is still in town to play hostess
to any distinguished Brltlshers who may
come this way. but she is going out to
join her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
J. O'Brlen, at their country home near
Grand Rapids about July 10-she and
Ler little girls-and Mr.. Chiffon will be
here alone for while.
Miss Bromwell's Wedding.
1t seems likely that Miss Mildred
Bromwell, whose engagement to Capt.
r. N. Bailey, the British Naval Attache.
was announced about ten days ago. will
travel with Mrs. Chiffon She under
went an operation for appendicitis since
the announcement of her engagement.
and while she is doing very we'll is not
quite really for the trip to Charlevoix,
with her mother, who starts this after
noon or evening So 1t was arranged
that she visit the Chiltons for a little
while before going out to join her
mother and grandmother. Mrs. Matthew
p. Scott, at Charlevoiy, where the latter
has a summer home.
Though there has been no date an
nounced for the wedding, beyond the
general one of "in the early fall. prob
ably" the details are being planned.
She has asked Miss Margaret Garding
to be her maid Of honor. and one
gathers that Miss Ailsa Mellon will be
one. Of the bridesmaids, but some of the
lady's particular friends-notably Milli-
cent Rogers, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. II. Rogers, and perhaps Miss Brom-
wells closest chum-have been abroad
for months; and Miss Margaret Flint,
whom she visited In Bermuda during
the winter. sailed recently-and she
may find it hard to collect the group
of bridesmaids she wants at the time
she wants them. And a little later,
Miss Katherine Mackay, whose engage
ment was announced within a day of
Miss Bromwell's, may herself be a bride
and unavailable. since she Is likely to
be honeymooning herself.
Presumably also the convenience OF
Capt. Bailey's relatives will have
some bearing on the date. He Is the
son Of the late Sir James Bailey of
Lofts Hall, Essex. England-and one
OF large family. One of his brothers
is or was-in the Horse Guards and
another Is married to a daughter of
Lord Inchcape. So the matter of fix
ing the date Is not quite so easy as
one might imagine it to be-
However. to get back to distinguished
visitors who seem to be somewhere on the
horizon, there Is DIR. William Solf, very
distinguished German statesman, who
is making his way across the continent
having recently landed at Vancouver
He has been serving as German Ambas-
sador at Toxic lately-certainly a deli
cate and difficult mission, calling for the
highest quality Of diplomacy-and is fire.
quently mentioned as likely to be German
Ambassador here. succeeding DR.. Weld
feldt. whose mission is admittedly TEN.
porary. since he is managing director
of Krupps, and they seem to feel that
they need him badly at Essen. Wash.
ington knows DIR. Solf chiefly as having
been Secretary of State for Foreign AT
fairs during the closing month of the
war, and having, on the whole, guided
a sinking ship as well as 1t was possible
| to guide her. Before that he was Min.
| lister of the Colonies at Berlin, and fol
ten years before that Governor of Samoa
He is credited with more intimat,
knowledge of the problems of the Pacific
and of the countries bordering Thereon
!. than any other German statesman living
| His family is not titled, but 1t Is wha
the English would call zone of the ole
county families" of Germany, which
think rather better Of themselves thar
| of the newly titled.