Evening star., 1922-11-19

both contracting parties have figured
| IN the social annals of twO-score
year years ago. Miss Margaret cassels,
OF the first Mckinley term and was
married here under the most bril-
liant auspices E. Francis Riggs,
VINO recently resigned from the
Francis son me Of % the D. banker. 1ae Gee George e.
Riggs. the associate of William w.
Corcoran In founding the famous
! institution which bears the name.
But the Riggs family has not been
known as Green Hill Manor or
Chillum Castle Manor for more than
forty years and it is the similarity
| OF their name to that of the original
which has led to this Constant error:
The Green Hill estate was part of
the great Manor Grant of Warbur-
ton now known as Fort Washington
on the Potomac and one Of the de-
lenses of the capital. which William
Digges. son of Sir Edward Digges.
royal governor of Virginia acquired
1 IN 1866. 1t remained in the Digges
| family during the intervening CEN
turtles, until just after the civil war.
| when the banker. George Riggs, ac-
quired it because of sale to set
tie the Digges estate between many
| heirs.
Green Hill is hallowed for all loyal
| w tOHldHS dS tHe place OIL retreat
Of L'Enfant. the founder Of the city's
eight years as the pensioner on the
bounty of William Dudley Digges:
whose wife was the daug ghter OF
p. Francis Riggs, since resigning
from the Army. has made his home
| in the fine old mansion. 1t came to
him through his grand aunts. the
! Misses Alice and Jane Riggs. who
| inhaTifa6 foth
The Red Cross Society of Phila-
| delphia has secured the celebrated
| home of Betsy Ross as it's head
quarters during the drive which be-
gan on Armistice day and which will
| continue throughout the week. Mrs.
Oswald Chew is in charge Of the
| revered old home and she has been
granted permission to place her desk
In the same room and on the same
| the place where Betsy Ross sewed
together the first American flag.
The Betsy Ross house. in Arch
street near Sd. is a municipal prop
erty and is as tenderly cared for as
the hall where the Continental Con-
gresS met. or even the Liberty bell.
and but rarely has permission been
granted to use the building, except
as a show place for visitors. The
Red Cross unit of Philadelphia wants
funds for country enrolment and
| more than 1000 of it's members will
disperse after the week and lecture
in the rural parts of the state, hoping
to gain recruits. The ladies will use
the sign Of the Betsy Ross house in
sending out their appeals and will
also sell pretty portraits showing the
heroine of the national flag at work
in the historic room.
Associated with Mrs. Chew are
Mrs. A. S. WE'LL and Mrs Sarah j. $.
Weisgerber and some twenty others
prominent in Philadelphia's social
and philanthropic circles. Mr.. John
Barton Payne is expected to speak
during the week.
When Gen. Arthur Davis MusgTave
was married in London last week to
Mrs. Francis Mackworth. widow of a
war hero and daughter of the Hon.
Arthur Lascelles of Templecombe.
Kent. the important American family
of Field became closely allied to the
British royal bride of Viscount Las
celes. for Gen. Musgrave's mother
was Miss Jeanie Field of New York
city. daughter of the late David Dud-
ley Field and the niece of the late
justice of the Supreme Court. Judge
Stephen J. Field. The Lascelles of
! Templecombe are cadet branch of
the same family, of which the Earl of
Hardwood is the head and into which
Princess Mary of Britain recently
married.
Gen. Musgrave is also the nephew of
Cyrus W. Field. and was so well
thought Of by that careful financier