Evening star., 1923-05-06
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Chain of Oblond Flower Beds in White House
Grounds Reminder of Mrs. Roosevelt
Notes of Prominent People.

unusual interest and importance
Ma rshall Field. Sd. has entered the
ring for race horses and has built
| an extensive establishment near
Huntington. l. l., but his trainer Is
to bring all the steeds to Virginia.
He and Mrs. Field are at present in
| Lexington. KY. looking over posi-
has been raising her own racers for
some time in her Virginia stables, has
a number ready to enter under her
| own colors Mr.. w. Averill Hartman.
| who purchased neany all or the
Gently has obtained ar estate near
! le>sburg and is diligently raising
! blooded horses. Joseph Il. Choate of
Boston is among the newcomers III
the racing field. and he is locating
his stables near Philadelphia and will
take part in all the events cf country
tracks nearby. Young Marshall Field
i has kept up Il stable of English
breeds and these he intends to bring
over this Year. but not to race them.
| the leased preserves of Virginia and
| keep to his American stock for
racing. The usual activity Is mani
fest in the racing and hunting coun-
, meets of this month and next, Will as
! usual focus national and International
| attention. Gen. Pershing has been
raising some fine horses not far from
! Arlington Farm and a horse show in
! Fort Myer is among the pleasant pos
f, Sibilities of the later season. The
| polo games will be entirely distinct
! from this assembling of blooded
horses in Virginia and Maryland.
g, Many Washinstonians are con-
c"rned in the purchase of Monticello
and its conversion into Il historic
! shrine with jefferson memorials to
| be arranged in proper order. and they
are naturally interested in the re-
| modelling of Lord Warnings famous
! estate in Kent. from which the great
| American statesman drew his ideas.
| jefferson was frequently visitor to
J Foots Cray. as this venerable kentish
seat is called. and the splendid man
| sion which he built on the high hills
/ of Monticello shows the influence of
| the Palladian structure which crowns
| the garden in Surrey. The grounds
at Monticello also are laid out after
| the same pattern with the massing of
evergreens, the formal plot and the
! rose bowers much as they We're when
/ Sir Francis Walshingham. the power
! full minister of Queen Elizabeth. en-
| joyed their beauty. F"ote-C1ay.
! which is a corruption OF the original
! owners name, Simon de Fot Cray.
! las history which goes back to the
Saxon kings and the gardens and
grounds among the most vener-
| able in England. The present man
sion. built by Palladio in 1543, was
/; remodeled in 1880. when the Wal
| shingham heirs were forced to sell
their patrrnony and an opulent pew
| terer. Boucher Cleve. became the
! owner. II was as the guest of
Nicholas Nansitart. who was for
many years chancellor of the ex-
| cheQuer. that Jefferson visited the
! estate which he so faithfully re;.ro-
duced In Monticello. Lord Warins
pur released the entire grant in 1899
| and has with the aid OF some distin-
! guished students cf Palladian archi-
| lecture restored all that was changed
| by the pewterer. Tie original draw
; i,rgS of the eminent Venetian are pre-
served in the great library at Foots-
! Cray and also his careful sketches
of the garden. lake and forest pre-
! serves
/, Wilmington claims one of the oldest
! literary Institutes in this country.
and having celebrated it's one 10th
! anniversary, the present members Of
| the ancient society are getting ready
! their complete annals, which go back
| to the Swedish occupation of the
Delaware and the Brandywine. The
| first institute was kind of young
amusement and bore a tremendously
[ long and involved name. December
! Is. 1887. the present institute was
! founded by Charles Fl. Wharton.
| Nicholas Way. Jacob Brown and
! James and Thomas Lea. Direct de-
scendants of all these are among the
members today. In the splendid new
! library of the institute there has
! been removed from the old quarters