Evening star., 1924-06-08
I1arrelds Occupying
Famous Mansion as
New Home In Capital
Furnishing to Be Completed
in Fall When Senator and
Wife Return.

1t is a commonplace saying that all
members of the higher official set
rass very. busy days, if they take a
serious view of their obligations.
Senator and Mrs. Harreld. though Of
fcially from the land of the black.
--;9onda, are Kentuckians VITA the
well developed hospitable instincts OF
their region, and they have for the
raSt year added to the usual routine
If the day that of completing the
renovating of their handsome new
home, at 1S41 10th street, and moving
into it before they started for the
Cleveland convention. After that is
over they start for Oklahoma City,
where imperative business calls them
both. This spacious house has been
familiar to Washingtonians many
years. 1t was, for instance, the home
for long time of the late James
Wilson during the first years of the
Mckinley administration and where
his daughter. Miss Flora Wilson, pre-
sided so gracefully. 1t later was the
domicile of several legations. the
Serbian for time and the Persian.
Many Changes Made.
But those who were accustomed to
attending fetes in those days would
scarcely recognize the mansion, now
rhat the carefully prepared remodel
ing of Senator and Mrs. Harreld is
completed The entrance has been
turned to the T street side. where a
stately stairway leads above and a
short hall opens on the left on a vast
drawing room facing 18th street. and
the dining room on II street. All the
old partitions of former days have
been taken out and both drawing
room and dining suite are Of unusual
s.ze and graceful contour. Senator
and Mrs. Harveid spent many anX-
!cuS days on this labor. and Mrs.
Harreld has really used every mo-
lrcnt possible from other duties Seek
ing the proper equipment for the
rooms. They finally succeeded in
having the renovation we'll enough
house they occupied on Corcoran
street near 18th. Much remains for
J,eXt autumn and Mrs. Harreld will
give much thought to the interior
arrangement during her sojourn in
Ter perma merit home, in Oklahoma
city. Senator Harreld will accom-
parry her there after the Republican
convention and probably will return
TO Washington about the middle of
July.
Give Home to SON.
Another home will claim their at
tention in Oklahoma City. that of
!oung Ward Harreld. which his par
cnts presented to him soon after his
rather haSty marriage here during
the Easter recess to Miss Eleanore
Begg, daughter of Representative and
Mrs. James T: Begg of sandusky:
SDhio. Ward is the only child of
senator and Mrs. Harreld and was
pursuing his studies at the University
of Virginia when he came to Wash
ington because of trouble with his
eyes. and incidentally for the spring
ecess. But Cupid can quicken the
ght-wonderfuily. so that on Good
Friday he and Miss Begg were mar
ried very quietly. They are quite
youthful couple, neither being yet
twenty. But the elders on both sides
they went at once to oklahoma City.
where Ward has entered the oil
business. Senator Harreld gave his
son and daug law 4 charming
home near his own, and Mrs. Harreld
is to aid in the furnishing.
Natives OF Kentucky.
senator and Mrs. Harreld are both
nat tfVcs of MoTgantown. Ky. They
Y ere comrades from their early years.
and the marriage occurred soon after
the future senator had completed his
law course in the National University
there until 1906. when Mr. Harreld
selected Ardmore, Okla, as the
proper place for a man who wanted
to get along in the world to try his
fortune. He was very successful in
the practice of law. and also in the
main industry of his adopted state.
In 1917 he retired from the legal
profession and entered politics. He
had served one term in the House
before he was elected to the Senate.
Senator and Mrs. Harreld, being
kcntuckians. are naturally fond of
horses. and after that books are their
hobby. The great library which has
been fitted in their Washington home
stretches across the second floor, just
as the drawing room does below. and
is stacked with treasures gathered
during the past twenty-five years.
Mrs. Harreld is of the domestic trend
and in Washington she finds 1T Z
struggle. because of rival allure
ments, to give sufficient time to her
to keep it's machinery run
ming smoothly. Both she and her