Evening star., 1924-09-21
ny MARGARET II. DOWNING.


Watertown. one of the oldest and
most historically important cities on
Massachusetts Bay, is coming into
full share of the limelight as the
presidential campaign gathers mo-
mentum. For in this picturesque and
important stronghold of the Puritans,
President Coolidge'S grandfatherS rest
in the old cemetery, their graves
piously kept in order and their tomb
stones telling a noble story quite leg
IDLY and with commendable brevity.
The President. even in the stress of
busy days, visits this sacred spot al
least once year and he must derive
hope and inspiration from the honor
able record, which he reads in the
venerable graveyard. The first Cool
idges, the immigrants of the line. ar
rived in the Massachusetts Bay col
ony probably in the early 1640s. They
located in Watertown and they Strug-
gled with the rigors of the climate
the onSlauGhts of the Savages and
other perils of the wilderness for
more than so years. They died with
in three months of each other in 1851
and possibly that cemetery wherein
the names of so many great citizens
of this republic are inscribed con-
tains no more touching record than
that of John Coolidge, Sr.. and Mary,
his wife, both aged SO years. Four
other John CoolidgeS have their
graves nearby. for it was the sixth
John. father of the President. who
migrated from the Massachusetts
town into Vermont.
See New England First" is another
phase of the campaign which is ap-
pealing widely to Washingtonians
who have reversed their vacation days
for leisurely motor trip in Autumn
Seeing New England at this season
means to see some of the spots remi-
niscent of present-day great men as
well as the heroes of the past. Wa
tertown on Massachusetts, Bay will
be included in many of the patriotic
pilgrimages not only because it was
the first home of President Coolidge 5
people, but also for other and as
weighty historic reasons. \ declara-
tion of independence was signed there
on matters of state and of the church
as early as 1881. A robust shepherd
of souls, the Rev. George Brooks. an
ancestor of the illustrious divine
Phillips Brooks. took issue with the
royal governor, Sir Richard Salton-
stall on a matter of taxation. and
then with the pastor of the church in
Boston about doctrinal teaching, and
came out with flying colors in both
controversies. Gen. Joseph Warren
was born and reared in Watertow
and went forth with his troops to die
at Bunker Hill. One of the pilgrim
ages to the fine old town is the resi-
dence of the third John Coolidge, still
in excellent preservation, which
served Gen. Washington as head
quarters for brief time in the first
year of the Revolutionary War. Wa
prtn n Massachusetts
ANNALS. is called the mother town
and the old bee hive" for from this
foundation d major portion of the
residents of Maine, Vermont and Con
necticut derive their origin.
Mrs. Ogden l. Mills, recently mar
ried to the Representative from New
York. will, when Congress conveneS
preside over pleasant home JUS
where Washington and Georgetown
meet, in that thoroughfore of hand
some houses. built in the early eight.
eenth century. Mrs. Mills was Doro-
thy Randolph before her first mar
riage to Robert Fell. and she is the
sister of Mrs. Robert Spear Hudson
who makes Washington her home
part of the year Her brothers. Philip
Emlen and Wister Randolph, are ac-
tive members of Phladelphia's social
set Now that Representative Mills
has a chatelaine for his beautiful
home at O and Twenty-seventh
streets, he will have his two wards
Winthrop and Barbara Sands, with
him. and will place them at local
schools. They are the orphan grand
children of his former mother-in-law
Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt. ST., and
were placed under his care by decree
of court He is very fond of these
oil nd in Siiy q
occupying his extensive estate al
Woodbury., Long Island, he invariably
had them there, and during all holi-
days. at his New York residence on
East Sixty-ninth street. Mr.. Mills
has passed nearly all Summer at Mar
raganSett Pier, where his bride, has a
cottage. He is the brother of the
Countess of Granard and of Mrs.
Henry Carnegie Phipps, and both
ladies are often his guests at Wood
bury, in the New York house. and
may possibly come to Washington
His aunt, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, main
tains no home near the sea coast, and
during her visit to Long Island, she
invariably stays at the Mills estate
rather than at Mr.. Phipps' because
Of it's isolation and quiet. Represent
ative and Mrs. Mills will remain in
New York City until after the elec-
tion and will then come to Washing
ton to get the house on Q street ready
for the Winter.
One of the prettiest of Baltimore
prospective buds, Miss Mary Clark
Dulany, has announced her wedding
date, and that without the formalit1
of either making her bow or having
period of engagement Blader
Lowndes. jr, the fance, is we'll known
in Washington and represents sew,
eral of it's oldest families. Young
Mr.. Lowndes is descendant o.
Maryland's last royal governor, Gov
Thomas Bladen, founder of the sleepy
old village, which was once the mos
thriving port in this section, and ht
deScends also from christopher
Lowndes, one of the opulent shipping
merchants of Bladensburg in it
palmiest days. Several branches o
the Bladen, Tasker and Lownde'
families figured among the origina
proprietors of the land on which tn
capital stands and many of thei