Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-08
TALES of Well Known Folk
s:..:::s::In Social and Official Life
Japanese Ambassador and Wife Intensely Inter
: - ested in Cherry Trees Transplanted From
Native Land-Notable, Events at
Home and Abroad

tinue its social annals. Built with
pafnstaking care and with each detail
wrought out for the special pleasure
and convenience of DR.. and Mrs. Page,
1t was painfully true that neither
ever took much Joy in it after the
Perry Belmonts had erected their
residence opposite and shut off their
view down New Hampshire avenue.
Now the Perry Belmont place accu-
mulates dust and a dreary sign offers
II for rent cor sale, furnished or un-
furnished. Its owners have not occu-
pied 1t for four years. The Pages
heightened out their sojourn in York
Harbor and spent but little time in
washington after the Belmonts built,
and finally. when DR.. Page had been
the mansion at the service of home
less ambassador from Rome, the late
Count Macchi de Celere. He also
allowed Baron Romano and his
family to live In his home, but evil
uphoiders of sixnor Ricci did not ap-
peal to him. for to that diplomatist
the house was not leased. The pres
ent owner Is Mrs. Thomas Lindsay of
Boston. who as Florence Field was
Such dead Official calm as settled
on Washington when Congress ex-
pired March is reminiscent of
miliar to those who have lived in the
capital In more recent years. Not
only the President. Vice President and
practically two-thirds of the legis-
lative branch departed. sun hunting.
as the phrase goes, but not for many
years were 80 many of the cabinet
families absent at the same time.
And the south claimed a vast pro-
portion of the vacationists, and not
only our south. but Bermuda. the
Bahamas or the farther Antilles. and
all the resorts of the Florida coast
both on the Atlantic and the Gulf of
Mexico. called the happy, care-free
tourists. who took complete posses
sion of the Georgian and the Carolina
towns and those quaint little villages
which dot the delta of the Missis
sippi-Biloxi, Pass Christian and
Alexandria. Senator and Mrs. George
Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania and
Senator Davis Elkins of West Vir-
gfnia passed a pleasant fortnight in
Miami and now are in Nassau. at the
Colonial Hotel, where they will re-
main month or more. This con-
gressional party. augmented by sew
eral other members since Easter. have
been frequently entertained by the
governor of the Bahamas and Lady
Cordeaux. The latter. who Is de-
voted to dancing. has recently caused
a wonderful outside pavilion to be
erected near the governors palace.
and she can entertain all the official
| world of her husbands tiny domain
! and a generous proportion of i'm
portant visitors. To the dance Easter
Monday some 1000 guests had been
hidden, and among them young Rich
ard Cleveland. who with his bride is
passing the honeymoon in this witch
ing part of the world.
American yachtsmen are deeply in
terested in the news that King George
| of Britain is overhauling his favorite
| craft, the Britannia, and having it
prepared for the racing events of the
channel and mayhap In American
| waters. The Britannia could, IL her
! owner were whimsical, celebrate her
! many triumphs in closely contested
races, and these when the king was
sailing the briny blue with no notion
of having to take over the command
of the ship of state. For one thing.
the Brittania will race at the Cowes
on board, If not at the helm-some-
thing in which he would delight. He
has retained his old helmsman, Maj.
Philip Hunloke, all these years, and
the presence of that gallant amateur
! tar in Cowes is sufficient to start
tongues wagging over the royal in
| tentions. After the venerable yacht
! Is entirely renovated. she Is to make
! triumphal tour around the island,
decked out with all her flags and PEN
nants and insignia of victory, and
| hurl her defiance at all corners. Mai.
Hunloke would like nothing better
than to enter the Britannia in some
of the races on this side and see IL
he cannot change Sir Thomas LIP
tons luck. Though the king recently
: sold his Cowes residence to his SON
! in-law, Viscount Lascelles, he has