Evening star., 1924-08-24
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
British Prince to Visit Washington Within
Fortnight-Notes of Local Interest Relating
to Prominent Residents.

lest appearance in public affairs, some
| of them being one or two by the
| famous Mast in which the youthful
and beardless secretary appeared with
| his great chief, Abraham Lincoln.
| These cartoons ran the gamut of the
years and represented the best efforts
of American and British artists for
nearly 40 years. Mrs. Wadsworth will
| have all these carefully removed and
! committed to the care of her brother,
! Clarence Hay, to safeguard for his
: son, John Hay, I'd, to whom they were
| left by the will of the late Mrs. Hay.
| The corridor leading from the car
| toon room had beautiful steel en-
| craving of the wreck of The Prairie
| Belle" which also was willed to a
grandson bearing the name of the late
! statesman and diplomatist. Mrs.
| Helen Hay Whitney received all the
manuscripts and autograph letters of
her father, and she will devise them
to her son John Hay Whitney.
Washingtonians visiting New York
| are frequent visitors to the RooSe-
welt Memorial Home. at 2S East
Twentieth street, Wh-re a large flag
! flies over the house in which the
most strenuous of Presidents was
born and where he passed his child
hood A register in the wide vain
sCoted hall fairly bristleS with names
of denizens of the Capital City, and
| few of those who attended the recent
Democratic convention in Madison
Square Garden failed to visit this in
tereSting spot. With so many MEM
bers of the family to aid the COM
mittee which purchased and restored
this house. the environments of
Theodore RooseveTt's early years
have been faithfully reproduced. The
halls suggest the immaculate neat
ness of the Dutch housewife, having
blue and white tiled floors and the
same shades in oiled paper on walls
and ceiling. The drawing room Is
Victorian. but in no respect can Col.
Ted be imagined in such stlr formal
SURROUNDINGS. The bed chamber
where he saw the light is, of course,
the shrine of the house, and IL is
furnished exactly as on that Octo-
ber day when Mrs. James Roosevelt
gave BIRTH to the future President.
There is the stout fOur-poster ana
fine coverlet, the hooked rugs ana
the sturdy bureau and cheSt OF
drawers The walls are hlled with
portraits of James and Martina bul-
loch Roosevelt and of their children,
while the place of honor over the
wide mantelpiece is occupied by an
oil painting of the first Roosevelt TO
land on these shores-Claes Marten-
szen Won Rosenvelt, who came TO
New Amsterdam in l649.
The Hon. Ronald Lindsay, so well
known in Washington, where he has
served in many minor diplomatic
roles. is about to be elevated to
knighthood for his eminent services
in Egypt for the past five years. Sir
Ronald as he is soon to be. has re-
Gently married Miss Elizabeth Sher-
man Hoyt. first cousin of his late
Wife Martha Cameron, and LADY
Lindsay Will add another to the list
of distinguished American peereSSes
The marriage occurred in June in the
beautiful country seat which Mrs.
Don Cameron purchased some 10
Years ago in Dorsetshire, and where
she makes a permanent home. Ronald
Lindsay is now British minister at
Constantinople, and he will take up
his residence there with his bride
early in September. Like all of the
Crawford clan of Lindsay, the future
knight of the Bath is sandy-haired,
tall and lean. He is the fifth son of
tho Earl of Crawford, who is super
chieftain of that wide-fung clan of
billsmen, the Lindsays, and would in
the ordinary course of events have
had small chance of inheriting
title had he not gained one for him
self in the field of diplomacy. Be
sides being British envoy to Con-
stantinople, Mr.. Lindsay is also high
commissioner of the disputed terri
tory in Turkey, and he will spend
part of the winter at the new Ottoman
capital, Angora. He served in Wash
ington under four ambassadors, be-
ginning with the first, Lord Paunce-
fote of Preston. He was for months
Charge d'Affaires of Great Britain