Evening star., 1924-07-20

to enter the City of New York via the
newly established gateway, but he
was by all odds the most renowned
who ever came while Castle Garden
was the gate of entry. In those days
as now the park there about the water
front was called the Battery, and
practically all of New York and many
from other parts came down to well
come the generous friend and ally Of
the colonial cause. John Quincy
Adams, soon to be elected President,
was James Monroe's Secretary of
State, and he was on the dock to ex-
tend a cordial greeting from the Chief
Executive, who was Lafayeite's close
friend and sympathizer, and whose
untiring efforts had saved the Mar
quise de Lafayette, his beloved wife,
from the guillotine.
Mr.. Henry r. Huntington, whose gifts
to Pasadena in the matter of art treas
ures and rare books has lifted that
small California city into rivalry with
London. Paris, Dresden and the Italian
art centers, is passing this summer, as
he did last, in the personal supervision
OF the last touches of completing and
cataloguing the library. The vast build
ing, where the greatest collection of
books which this continent possesses will
be sheltered, is finished in the structural
way, but many of the mural decorations
are vet to be added. The building is
E-shaped. the middle wing containing
the books proper and the two outside
portions being devoted to exhibition
rooms of famous book plates. printers
marks and reading rooms, with the cata-
logue rooms occupying vast portion of
the north end. The best of 50 noted H.
brarieS has been absorbed in Mr.. Hunt
ington's gift to his home city, Pasa
dena- The most celebrated of these are
the collection known as the Kemble-
Devonshire, sold in block by the present
DpvnnShirp historic
lectionS of the Earl of Ellesmere, the
Church and Chew libraries. ". l.. Levi
sohn's Washingtoniana. the Judd Stew
art manuscripts on English history and
the j. +. Nicholson aggregation of
papers on the Civil War DR.. George
Watson Cole, who was selected as per-
manent librarian, has already been two
years on the catalogue, and il will be at
least another twelve months before these
great treasures will be at the disposal
Of students. The library, which has
| been named that of San Marino, is
fireproof building of brick, cement and
stone covered with the soft stucco so
often used in Spanish architecture, and
the bronze doors which admit the visi-
tors TO the three major divisions are
among the most beautiful in existence
and were designed in Florence.
a dainty touch of sentiment led Mrs
Handford Meade TWitchell to select
Hot Springs, Va. as the scene OF her
wedding the early part of this month
She was Miss Virginia Sterry, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederic Sterry
of New York, and had been named to
| honor her birth State. Mr.. Sterry may
be well called pioneer of the Hot
Springs, now famous and popular
American spa, for he built the Pillars
his handsome home not far from the
beautiful Hotel Homestead, and here
he passed his honeymoon some 25
years ago. Here, too, his daughter
was born and passed happy summers
IN her childhood. In fact. the Pillars
was always home to her. and the New
York domicile Just "a place where She
spent the winters. For several years
past Mr.. and Mrs. Sterry have lived
at the Plaza, and it was here that
Virginia, now Mrs. TwitchelI. was in
troduced to society and enjoyed sev-
eral seasons of belleship. The Sterry-
TWltchell nuptials have been among
the FEW such events staged at the Hot
Springs this summer. The young cou-
pie came to Washington briefly on
their way to New York, where they
sail the end Of this month for a pro-
ionged stay in Europe.