The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-07
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A group of distinguished men
went up to Oyster Bay yester-
day for the annual pilgrimage
to former President Rooseve1t's
grave. There were about 200
in the party -prominent men FROM
several cities-an organization or
society of admirers Of Roose
welt calling themselves ''the Roose-
Welt Pilgrimage" They visit his
grave each year on the allniver.
sary of his death. Lawrence Alb.
bott. OF New York, is secretary
OF the society.
They had ceremonies at the
grave, after which Mrs. Roose.
welt, the Presidents widow, en-
tertained the party ct luncheon
at the Roosevelt home. Sycamore
Hill. Mark Sullivan was In the
party, also Governor Pinchot and
Senator Hiram johnson, or Cali.
fornia, who were such close
friends of Roosevelt. Mark
Sullivan is rapidly acquiring
"a reputation as clever speak.
err as well as writer. and Ii
in great demand for speeches. He
is to make an address on Tues
day before the Council Of Jewish
Women at the Eighth Street Tenn.
pie at o'clock on the diverting
ana most timely topic. Where
the World Went Off the Track. !,
Doesn't that sound interesting?
For q man who has become 80
very prominent in the writing
game" Mark Sullivan IL COM
paratively new at 1t. Edward
Box, ! believe, claims to have
started him on his literary career
when he engaged Mark Sullivan
to help him and the Ladies Home
Journal to fight patent msdi-
cinss. Sullivan was D lawyer ana
il . Harvard graduate. / think.
MISS MARION MITCHELL,
daughter Of Mai. and Mrs.
Charles Lee Tilden, OF Alameda,
Cal, and well known in Wash
ington. where she has visited
extensively, has just written from
Spain to one Of her friends here.
The letter Is rather jolly and in.
teresting. so ] am passing some
OF It on to you. Before quoting
from the letter ! might mention
that Miss Mitchell and her sister.
Alexine, were the very first Amer.
lean girls to go to Paris to work
with the American Fund for
French Relief. Both girls speak
French fluently and are skilled
chauffeurs. They contributed their
cars TO war service. Indeed. Ma
rion Mitchell went nearer the
front than any woman that served
during the late war. Alexine IL
now studying 1T the Sorbonne, In
Paris.
Well, here is the excerpt from
her letter:
AS you see, have rolled away
out of France dosing moss at
every revOlutiOn) across the Pyre-
nees and down into Spain, the
land OF romance. Primarily 1 was
In search OF adventure and sun.
shine 1.-THE summer having been
frigid in Francel. In Seville I
have found sunshine real Afri.
can sun and skies OF incredible
blue-and adventure seems to be
IN the air, though nothing extra.
ordinary has as yet happened to
mes But this week I am to '.fly''
with q Spanish aviator, and next
week df things go welD an Eng.
fish aviator tin the mail service)
is going to take me and an Amer.
lean (the vice CONSUL here) across
to Africa to Tangiers. Inasmuch
as war is going on there at
present. anything may happen
even II we only take q spill In
the Mediterranean!
Il am living with a privats
family In SevflIa-~a family CON.
sisfting Of an aged but peppy ne.
NORA her pretty. dark-eyed, TIT.
an-haired daughter. q Boston KfrI
ana a man tthe consurs private
secretary from Washington, D
C., whose name is Clifford Wayne
McGlasson. 1t is a merry house
hold. take a Spanish lesson
every day from a very black-eyed
young Spaniard who luckily fol
mel speaks fluent French; guitar
lessons three times a week from a
funny old cross-eyed fellow who
doesn't know a word Of either
English or F'rench--we converse
in the sign language; and dancing
twice a week from a young dane
ing star who looks as though ht
had just stepped off the Bowery
The sonora insists that / 20 t.
my dancing lessons chaperoned BY
the eldest and most respectable o.
their servants who walks always
five PAGES to the rear and keeps
an eagle eye out for gallant cava
liers who might make eyes a