Evening star., 1922-05-14
Plan Memorable Party
For Pocahontas Unveiling
Distinguished Representation of Patriotic and
Historic Societies Will Go to jamestown
Island for Ceremony June 3.

the numerous pdtTlotlc 6iiu HiStoi iSe'A
societies fsWashington will journey
down the Potomac to attend the in
teresting ceremonies planncl in con-
nection with the unveiling of the
statue of Pocahontas, on jamestown
Island, June g. The erection of the
graceful and pleasing figure of the
Indian princess by William Ordway
Partridge will commemorate the 2l5th
anniversary of the landing of the first
permanent colony from. England un-
der the redoubtable Capt. John Smith.
The first settlements along the James
river, under Sir Walter Raleigh, and
some previous ones under spanish
guidance perished from disease sT,; or @ .ne
attacks of hostile Indians. Ihls set
Element at jamestown dates ,ofhcially
from May 13, 1907, and is. therefore.
thirteen years prior to the lanqlnS
of the Massachusetts, pilgrims at
Plymouth The Pocahontas Memorial
Society, which had collected the FUNDS
for this worthy tribute to the noble
Indian maid who twice saved the col
ony from certain destruction. was
founded in this city about hfteen
years ago, and it now claims mem-
bership Of 5000. in practically every
state of the Union and many OF the
insular possessions. Membership has
not been confined to descendants OF
Pocahontas, though the society is
largely composed of those who trace
their ancestry back to the courageous
young friend of the whites against
her father, Powhatan. The memorial
society was founded jointly by MISS
Lizzie McLain of this city and MISS
Mary Desha of Kentucky Its pres
ent officers are Miss Ella Lorraine
Dorsey. president; Mrs. William OF
way owen, Mrs. \. Campbell Pryor
and Mrs. John l.. McNeill, vice presi-
dents: Mr.. Charles c. Glover is treas
urer, with Mrs. John r. Garrison as
assistant treasurer; Miss Mary Lee
Goddard. recording secretary, ana
Miss Lillian Reed, corresponding sec
fctary. Mr.. Charles Crittenden Cal
hour is the legal officer.
The Gloucester Hunt Club, on the
York road near Philadelphia. is get
ting ready to celebrate its 2oOth
birthday anniversary in fitting man
ner in 1926, when the nation will also
celebrate. The old White Horse Inn
was the rallyins point in those good
days when Gen. Washington rode to
the hounds and all the fox and hound
loving squires were attending the
Continental Congress or detained IN
Philadelphia by public business. The
Gloucester no longer figures among
the active clubs OF today. but Its
memory is kept alive in half dozen
other clubs which grew out of II. The
Fox and Hounds Club of Baltimore
is the next most venerable hunt in
this country. but IL has long been in
corporated into tt Long Green VAL
ley. The Chevy Chase is the oldest
about Washington, for until the late
Clarence Moore labored so success
fully for the local organization. the
hunting contingent was content to
journey to Warrenton or Middieburg
for the sport.
With summer seemingly we'll on the
way, vacation plans are conspicuous
ly absent from the announcements
made by the President or any of his
official family. Yet the President and
Mrs. Harding admit that If they have
deep-rooted preference in the way
of relaxation entertainment and in
tellectual pleasure it lies in travel
ing. Before the chief magistrate en-
tered the Senate he devised his year
with relation to three months when
he and Mrs. Harding. having studied
and read, could make leisurely tour
of the country Of their choice.
There is not much territory be-
tween the oceans or the border line
in Canada and again on Mexico and
its gulf, which they have not covered
quietly and with every preparation
to enjoy it's past as well as its pres
ent condition. They have been to
almost every alien land, and to all
the insular possessions of the United
States. They had intended to go to
Alaska during that memorable sum-
mer of 1920 when the presidential
nomination swallowed all previous
schedules. 1t is unlikely that the
President and his wife will choose
any special summer home, but follow
their program of last summer in TAX
ing cruises on the nearby waters and
making week end or longer visits to
intimate friends in cooler regions
than Washington is in July and Au-
gust. June is entirely consumed with
garden fetes and the many other
a grand climax. For the moment. a
country home for the President Ian
Euishes. but there are indications
that when the graver problems are
adjusted this one will receive atten-
ton and there may be summer
White House on the western hills or
on the grand embankments of the
upper Potomac.
A friend of the Secretary of the
Treasury has recently sent him a
pleasant reminder of happy days
which will not be his until he retires
from his present onerous post. 1t is
years ago at Aix-les-Bain when
Mr.. Mellon and his close friend. the
late Henry Frick. and the celebrated
art collector, Charles J. Knoedler of
New York and Paris. were there. Mr..
Mellon and Mr.. Frick passed many
of east France. and then journeyed
to Paris with the collector to inspect
some of the early purchases in the
celebrated collection of Mr.. Frick
left to the city of New York. Mr.
Mellon was a. frequent voyager to
Europe. going sometimes severa'
times year, but such a holiday is
far removed from his mind just now
Probably he will again lease that
picturesque cottage at Hot Springs
and establish his daughter, Miss Ailss
Mellon, and his son Paul when the
latter finishes his school term.
The appointment of Most Rev.
Bonaventura Cerretti. papal nuncio
at Paris, to be secretary of state to
the new pontiff, Plus XI, Is received
with much interest in Washington.
where the prelate spent almost
twelve years as auditor Of the apos-
Archbishop Cerretti was sent as
papal delegate to the Catholic Church
in Australasia and he lived for near
ly four years in Melbourne. During
his Washington residence he was a
prominent social figure, as he was
possessed of great urbanity of man
ner and that other indispensable
requisite, a gift of many languages.
Mgr Cerrettfs lofty elevation calls
attention to the many diplomats for
merly stationed in this capital who
have been called on to fill the most
Responsible posts in their own land.
for t1.1agh the Roman pontiff sends
his envoy only to the Catholic
Church in this country, the members
of the papal foreign service are es-
teemed as among the most gifted in