Evening star., 1924-06-29

the colored race, is, according to hg-
ures recently prepared by Senator
George Wharton Pepper, the rich
est nun in this country and this after
$2.0oo,o 900 Of the principal of her for
Francis A. Drexel Of Philadelphia.
banker and one time partner OF tho
late George w. Childs.
Mother Katherine used this vast
sum In connection with what is known
as the contract school system, build
Ing and equipping houses in fifteen
different states to carry on the work
of the Catholic Indian missions OF the
United States and to the section given
over to the colored population. Mother
Katherine is the eldest OF the two
daughters of Francis A. Drexel and
inherited the major part of his great
fortune. This has recently been aug
mented by the death of Walter George
Smith. who had married Miss Eliza
beth Drexel, who died some twenty
years ago, leaving no children. She
her husband to the charitable and be-
nevolent activities in which her sis
ter is engaged. Senator Pepper stated
that, though Mother DrexeIs income
is vast fortune in itself, less than
$1,000 annually is expended by her in
personal expenses and the remainder
goes to charity and benevolence ana
is thus nontaxable.
Mother Drexers only brother. Fran
els A. Drexel, jr.. was the father OF
Elizabeth and Katherine Drexel. VINO
married in Washington. some twenty
five years ago, John and Eric Dahl =
gren. The former died and is buried
in the Dahlgren Memorial chapel at
ow is now Mrs. Harry Lehr. Mr.. and
Mrs. Eric Dahlgren were divorced
and the former lives in New York,
and the latter in Paris.
The Hon. Ramsay Macdonald. pre-
mier of Britain, appears in new role
in the recently published life of his
wife, where he is her biographer un-
der the title of margaret Ethel Mac
Donald" Perhaps the labor leader
makes more popular appeal In TINS
book than he ever has before and II
tation and reveals sentimental side
of his character seldom hitherto sus-
pected
the movements in which her husoano
attained international tame long pc
fore he was, and it is plain that he
regards himself as her convert ana
the handspring of his work. Her
true womanliness is shown In touch- :
ing instances, and her ability to max e
issue even when she was conducting
crusades which have resulted In the
widest benefit to her sex and to labor
ing people generally. The British
premier has written with great fer-
vor. although with the restr aint which
is his by heritage and which shows
so strognly in his public papers
Mrs MacDonald's monument. erected
by the denizens OF the London
slums whom she had aided so sig
nally. recently was unveiled in the
small park in the Inner Temple,
where she sat so often and held
open-air conferences with her clients
Mr.. William c. Wells. the author
of the guidebook to Sulgrave Manor
and its neighboring village, Ecton
in Northamptonshire, which is the
cradle of the Franklins, has, after
years of incesSant search, discovered
the brasses which were stolen from
the tomb of Lawrence Washington
owner of Sulgrave, which is now a
national memorial to the family OF
the illustrious patriot who rests at
Mount Vernon.
Americans, who visit Sulgrave
Manor by the thousands. never felt
sensitive over the reiterated asser
tion that seven of the thirteen memo