Evening star., 1924-06-22
Republican Nominee
And Wife Well Known
To Washington Society
Gen. and Mrs. Dawes Lived
in Capital During First of
Mckinley Regime.

Scores of Washingtonians are not
relying on the publicity end of the
Republican campaign committee to
furnish intimate views of Gen.
Charles Gates Dawes and Mrs Dawes,
for there are many still here who
knew them Intimately when Char
lie," as he is affectionately called by
thousands, was not the international
character that he is now, but the
controller of currency, and when Mrs.
Dawes directed the ways of her
household as quietly and efficiently
as she does in her more spacious and
elegant home in Evanston. In those
opening years of the Mckinley ad-
miuistration the Dawes home was
that substantial brick residence next
door to the old Hotel Hamilton and
now the neighbor of the new hostelry
There were two children. RUFUS
Fleming Dawes. a fine outstanding
boy, was nine when his parents came
to Washington, and who became one
Of the pupils of the Friends School.
His accidental death in 1912 was
deeply regretted here. The little girl,
CAROLYN, now Mrs. Melvin Burton
Ericsson, was two years younger and
had a governess at home in the first
years, and she later joined her
brother at the Friends School. In
those days, as now, Gen Dawes and
his family were attendants at the
CONGREGATIONAL Church, on 10th and
CT streets, and they will thus be
bound to the incumbents of the White
House by another tie should the fates
be kind in November.
Reside at New Willard.
When Gen. Dawes was director Of
the budget for about fifteen months,
in 1s20-21, he and Mrs. Dawes dis
liked either closing or renting their
home in Evanston, and SO they took
quarters at the New wizard, ana
Mrs. Dawes remained as much or the
time in Washington as she could steal
from the many philanthroplc inter
eSts which she has at nome many
changes had come into the family
in the Intervening years. Carolyn
the daughter was married, and two
children boy, Dana, and a glrl,
Virginia-had been adopted into the
family to replace, as it were, the
empty chairs in the happy househoio.
ten and both are in school in Evans
ton and are being educated most
carefully as were the older mem
bers of the Dawes household
The wife of President Coolldge-S
running mate is woman of unusual
force of character, though reserved
and reticent with the outside world.
She and Mr.. Dawes began their love
affair, which continues undlmmed
through all these years, when both
Dawes as Caro- d. Blymyer was an
annual summer visitor to her grand
parents in Marietta, where the I'aWeSes
had lived for a generation and Where
a considerable portion or the 1anliy
still reside. The marriage occurred
in January, 1889, and immediately
afterward fortune had begun to smile
on the budding fiuancier. They iiVeo
in Marietta for time, but were resi-
dents of Chicago when they came 10
Washington in 1897.
Mrs. Dawes has been interested In
all benevolent movements in behalf
of children, and her work IN EVANS
ton has gained her the enthus1astlc
praise of the city fathers, as well
as her associates and friends. she
has taken such hold on the crusade
begun in the middle west some M
teen years ago to induce people VINO
can afford to support orphaned or
dependent children to adopt them
that now it is quite the ordinary thing
for the opulent to have a little group
of youngsters to whom they give all
that actual parents are expected 10
do. Mrs. Ericsson has been the able
assistant of her mother in all these
worthy movements. and she having
but one boy, Charles Dawes Ericsson,
has adopted two others to keep him
company.
Coolidges Neighbors.
When the Charles Gates Daweses
lived at the New Willard the Calvin
Coolidges were their near neighbors,
and both families got on friendly
terms. Mrs. Coolidge found many
points of contact with Mrs. Dawes
besides the fact that she attended
the same church and was interested
in all it's activities. Mrs. Dawes is
essentially domestic and the two had
many pleasant talks on such themes
and while they talked their knitting
needles clicked merrily. Mrs. Dawes
established a wide reputation for her
accomplishments with her knitting
needles during the world war. though
her family and friends had been
aware of her talents long before