Evening star., 1923-08-13
TALKS and TALES
With and About
CAPITALS GUESTS

Congress, pronounced activity
around the lObbies of local hotels has
/ been noticeable for the past two or
three weeks
! The funeral ceremonies for the
late President, of course. were ac-
/ countable for the presence in town
/ of many of the visitors during the
| last ten days, scores of high public
officials having journeyed here TO
pay their last respects to the dead
Executive. yet many Of the guests
were on business and pleasure bent,
and as it is only natural TO expect
that much hustle and hustle will re-
/ suit because of the change of the
mead of the government il is most
ilkely that the list of visitors to the
city VIII increase rather than di-
mlnfsh from now on.
AT the New Willard Hotel, where
President Coolidge has made his
temporary headquarters since taking
UP the reins of leadership, crowds
continue to promenade through the
lobby and peacock alley" Many of
these are only anxious for a glimpse
OF the new Executive. but the Will
! lard. like other hotels, is unusually
/ crowded for August
| A tall, well preserved, kindly faced
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| Hotel La Fayette meditating over the
inspiring beauties of the Lincoln Me
| mortal. his first visit to which he had
| made the day before. 1t was Rev.
Alvah S. Hobart of the Warburton
Avenue Baptist Church of Yonkers.
n. Y, who delivered the memorial
address over the late President al
| the services conducted Friday in the
Calvary Baptist Church. Mr.. Hard
i lngs house OF worship here. Tho
| clergyman said words could not eX-
press his appreciation of the wonders
of the beautiful structure.
! Dr. Hobart is no stranger TO Wash
! ington, he having been lifelong
! friend and college mate Of the nuch
| who up to the time Of his death had
served for years as pastor of Calvary
! Baptist Church, and for seven years
at one period had supplied for DR..
| Greene during the month Of August.
1t was for this reason that DR. Ho-
! bart was invited to deliver the ad-
| dress last week
DR.. Hobart and DR.. Greene both
| were products OF Franklin county,
VT. both attended Colgate College
! in the class of '73, and both entered
| the ministry after their graduation.
DR.. Hobart first took charge Of the
ionkers Church, in 1885. serving
| there until 1900, when he retired to
accept professorship at Grocer The
i illogical Seminary. where he served
| for twenty years. He relinquished
| duties at the seminary in 1920, to
! return to his first love. on Warburton
| avenue, Yonkers, where he has been
| since.
DR.. Hobart is an enthusiastic ad-
mirer of President Coolidge. and said
he felt confident the American peo-
pie would soon understand his quiet
manner and learn to love him as they
did his predecessor. He is man of
| few words. but a deep thinker. and
! will unquestionably prove his ability
as leader" said the clergyman. Dr.
| Hobart will leave for his home in
New York today.
| Another interesting guest at the
La Fayette is Chance Vought of New
| York, head of the Chance Nought
Corporation. naval aircraft designers
and constructors The concern is
busy building aircraft equipment for
! the Navy's battleships and new scout
cruisers just coming into commits
! sion, and Mr.. Vought is here to look
over the new design equipment or
! the 1925 program.
| There is little about aircraft equip
ment with which Mr.. Vought is not
familiar. he having been one of the
| pioneer airmen of America. and, with
/ Orville Wright. Glen Curtiss and a
! few others. forms the last connecting
| link between the old and new schools
which have made the heavier than
air machine what 1t is today. he
| made his first flight in 1910.
! Asked Americas aircraft standing
i in general, Mr.. Vought said that this
! country had nothing to fear. There
are European countries ahead OF US
in some special equipment, he SAID.
| "but for general aircraft development
we are more than holding our own"
F-c oh
| aviatrix and secretary-treasurer OF
the corporation. is with her husband:
They will remain III town several
days.
Dressed in sensible hot-wcathcr
fabrics so usual in the far east,
Judge NJ. C. Van Horne of the inter
national court at Alexandria, Egypt,
!fanned himself in the lobby of the
Hotel Washington. preparatory TO his
departure for New York. whence no
will sail for his post. returning by
way OF France and Switzerland.
Judge Van Horne stopped of IN
Washington to witness the funeral OF
President Harding. after vi@i; 10
his family in Columbus, Ohio.
He was warm personal friend or
the late President and was greatly
distressed over his death. "-fmerica
| has lost one of its finest characters,
| he said.
; In reply to a question as to Sen-
eral conditions in Egypt, Judge Van
Horne said that things were very
exceedingly low at present, which
may be taken as a barometer" he
said "The price of cotton in Egypt
usually follows that in America, eX-
cept when some great speculation is
| attempted and then everything goes
| crazy"
| Completely tagged out after par
ticipating in one of the greatest
motion picture feats ever accom-
plished, Karl K. Fasold of New
York, expert photographer of the
Pathe News. who mas accompanied
every President since Roosevelt on
all of their tours, registered at the
| Raleigh Saturday, arriving in the
| city on the special presidential tram
| from Marion, Ohio.
| charge of pictures taken of Presl-
! dent Harding while en- his trip to
Alaska and return, anu by hercuiean
effort managed to ship scenes OF the
| funeral in San Francisco to the east
train carrying the body arrived at
| Washington.
! The feat, which marks a new
record in such work, was accom-
plished by the aid of airplanes, the
| films from which plates were struck
being carried by aviators to Omaha,
where relief flyers took them on TO
| Chicago. Fresh planes were used be.
| tween Chicago and New YORK, anu
scenes of the funeral used IN many
of the eastern papers. inciuolng Inc
Star, were struck from these orlSi-
mails.