Evening star., 1923-05-27
Family Of German
Embassy Counselor
Show Hospitality
Nine. Won Lewinski, Daugh-
ter of Early Settler in Col
orado. Who Became Rich
In Gold Rush Days.

The counselor of the German en-
bassy. DIR. Karl Won Lewinsh, is
member of the arbitration board
which is sitting on the reparation
clause of the peace treaty, and in his
homeland is among the most brilliant
and successful of its jurists. He
was prior. to his. appointment to
Washington. chief Judge of the su-
preme court of Prussia. and his beau
t1ul home off the Kaiser, Alice, in
Berlin, was a central point of intel
lectual as well as social life.
In Frau Won Lewinski another
American chatelaine of the diplo-
matte corps in Washington is rep
resented. She was before her mar
rage Miss Emma Pomeroy, daughter
of the late Richard Pomeroy, a native
of the quaint little village of Totnes,
In Devonshire. who became a natu-
r&lized citizen of Colorado and made
his home in Leadville during the gold
fever. Nine. Won Lewinski was born
IN the boom city and lived there for
almost six years. Her father was a
distinguished engineer. who operated
the mines, and later was commits
stoned to prepare a report on the
Nicaraguan canal when this nation
contemplated that route rather than
through Panama. Mr. Pomeroy built
one of the first brick mansions in
Denver and to the present time it is
mouse, the most pretentious of it's
Kind built in the now fiourishing cap
ltal of the Centennial state.
Home I'm New Haven.
Long residence in the tropics i'm
paired Mr.. Pomeroy's health and he
removed with his family to New
Haven, where the wife of the German
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and later went through the entire
course of the New Haven High School.
OF decidedly intellectual turn, she
entered the New York University. and
after making the usual collegiate
course she received the degree of
LIB. Some years We're then passed
in Paris and Berlin. where music the
languages and art occupied her time
1t was in Berlin that the then Miss
Pomeroy met her husband. but the
acquaintance was casual, and it was
only after DR.. Won Lewinskf came to
this country to study law in Harvard
and afterward in Columbia University
that his Courtship began in real
earnest. Nine. Won Lewnski was deep
in what is known to students as the
ease" system of law when Cupid in
tervened and she submerged her own
ambition to become perhaps another
Portia, 10 preside over the home Of
DIR. Won LewinsI<L But naturally her
est in legal tang1es have been OF ut
most value TO her husband
The world war found DR.. Won
I-ewinski and his family resident in
Berlin. and they remained there dur
ing the entire period. They know
what it means to be cold. hungry and
insufiiciently clad, but they refer to
the time philosophically now. though
IL aged both prematurely. There are
two children--Pomeroy Karl, who is
-ho
eleven, and both are students of the
Force School, on Massa achusetts ave-
nue.. DIR. Won Lewinski is a native of
Breslau and is the son of Gen. Karl
Won LeWinski of that ancient city.
Educated for Array.
He was, however, born in Salisbury,
In the Tyrol. and was educated for
military life and was for a time con-
nected with the legal. department of
the war min Stry of Bresiau Having
married AN American wife and 1, re-
cetNed part of his education herethe
counselor is well equipped to under
stand the questions. involved in the
alien enemy act. which is one of the
main points that the board of arbi-
trat1on must determine. For the pa st
three months the Won Lewinskis have
occupied the beautiful home of Sem
ator and Mrs. Key Pittman. on 18th
street near Lamont street and they
have been dispensing pleasant hos
pltalty Nine. Won Lewinski has
never been TO Colorado since she left
there. a little girl of less than seven. |
II the duties of her husband will
permit. they and the children will
make motor journey to Denver and
leadvilIe, perhaps going as far as
the Grand Canyon before turning back |
to Washington. But it may be that |
DIR. Won Lcwinski will be summoned |
to Berlin in connection with the rep-
arations which he is handling for the
German republic. and in that case |
his family will accompany him and
pass the summer in Silesia.