Evening star., 1924-10-12
Tales of We'll Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Presidents Address to Base Ball Team Stamps
Him as Fan-Notes on Others
Prominent.
by MARGARET b. DOWNING.

President Coolidges witty address
to the base ball team a few DAYS ago
writes him among the Chief Magls-
trateS of the Republic as both d stu
dent and an admirer of the great
national spirit. He played a good
came himself in the early 90S, and
there are photos eNtant showing him
in regular regalia and looking like
pillar and support to the Amherst
team, as no doubt he was. He never
went in for foot ball, as did the pres
eut Attorney General, Harlan Ffske
stone, who was just a class ahead of
the President III graduating from
amherst. 1t would seem from old
records gotten out during the recent
exciting days OF base balloon that
every President for a half century
has been fan, though it is evident
that Theodore Roosevelt went into
il less keeuly than the others. Grover
Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison
were both enthusiastic, as also most
3Ssurcdly was the lamented Mckin-
lev while James 4. Garfield in Con-
--reSS waS Il practical friend. in that
he secured Federal jobs for the play
ers when they were idle in Winter.
AS for other games. President Roose-
welt conferred national distinction on
tennis and his kitchen Cabinet-aS
his partners and opponents were ia
Cctlousiy callled--inc!uded some OF
Washiugton'S most noted pubiicistS
and diplomatiStS. Of the latter were
the French AMBASSADOR and the late
British ambassadors. Sir Michael
Herbert and Sir Cecil Spring Rice
when he was first secretary OF en-
hasSy, aud the late German ambas-
Sadcr Baron Speck Won Sternberg.
President Taft lifted golf into ma
tIonal popularity. for before his time
Il had been deemed entirely game
for elderly and ailing retired million
aires. Cunning and fishing were the
UaStimcs of President Cleveland, and
others before took their holiday
either with gun or rod. Games seem
10 date from the Roosevelt and Taft
administrations Wilson and Harding
were daily golfers for health'S sake,
but the present incumbent OF the
high office Of President finds cXer-
f. else. relaxation and amusement in
long daily walks.
Those who accompanied President
and Mrs. Coolidge during their brief
Soiourn III Vermont say that one OF
the most cOuEeuial visitors they had
was the famous inventor. Thomas \.
Edison, who motOred over as the
guest Of Henry Ford from the Way
side Inn at sudbury, Mass. Mr.
Ellison. as all the world knows, is
Very deaf and it always strikes those
" no meet iilIi t'i Nii' iiA ''''iN '''>'>
surely he of all people could devise
some electric appliance which would
make conversation less difficult Eos
Sibiy he surlniSed this question in
Mrs CoolidgeS frank eyes, for he
ripped out a small object from an
inner pocket and MAS instantly IN
communication with the circle on the
Coolidge veranda, But he told his
distinguished audience. this is
cherished secret and use it only once
in u blue moon, or when am received
SO grariouSly by the President ana
his lady. You see. / found out very
earIt in my career that people lose
lot of valuable time listening TO
things of no interest to them, 50
make it very hard for them to talk
to me | save at beast 4 working
week each month
The late Malcolm Douglas sloane
whose death IN carly september threw
Al important portion OF the Newport
and Southampton community into
mourning. was the only son Of Mrs'
Henry White, and his death has
caused her intense grief. For lie was
only in his fUrtie I'll year and had
ss.rniugly a most useful and success
ful career in sight. Tie was married
to Eliuur Lie, daughter Of Mr.. ana
Mrs. Charles Lee of Boston, rela-
tive of Mrs. Nicholas LongWorth-
Tho Douglas Sloane "statc at Port
Washington j. among the most beau
tiful and we'll kept i'll that section,
aud there his widow and children VIII
make their home ali through the
YEAR. Mr.. Sloaue's elder sister, Mrs.
James AbcrcrOmbic Burden. owns the
handsome estate at Syossct, which
WAS the Scene of the most important
chapter ut social history which has
hitherto -beeI written of Long Island,
.r;....
John Henry Hammond and Mrs. Will
liam B. Field Osborn. Mr.. Sloane's
sudden demise caused the withdraw al
OF Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whit !
MY from the gay cites prepared for
tn" Prince of Wales, and in Newport
the eAt"usiV" program arranged by
Mrs. Nar derbilt had to be Cancelled.
In YICW Of her mourning, il is doubt |
ful If Mrs Henry White will ccme to |
Washington this Winter, though Mr.. |
y hitc pluus to open his home on
Crescent place for Il short time in |
hecemh"r, i custom which he has fol- |
low I'll for several years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Belmont, who |
have announced the reopening Of |
their home on New Hampshire avenue |
after an absence OF almost five years, !
Will look, when they are again estab- |
lshed, upon u changed environment. |
The lamented Thomas Nelson Page !
and Mrs. Page have both departed |
from earthly scenes and their fine |
homo, after being diSmautlcd and the |
contents auctioned, is now the resi- !
dence Of Mr. and Mrs. William T.. |
Dennis. Nearly every house on both |
sides of the triangle where Mr.. Bel |
-Wont built his Washington home has !
changed hands once, some three |
times, since the real estate uphcayal |
which followed the signing of the |
irmistiCe. Intense improvements in |
the way OF tearing down old houses |
and erecting big apartments has !
marked the interval and Connecticut |
avenue, nearby. is as much Il business |
center as Fourteenth and + streets |
The air of permanency which marks |
that part of Dupont Circle where Levi !
Letter built his substantial home |
some 80 years ago, and at Il cost |
which would not erect decent look |
ing garage nowadays. is maintained |
by the mansion of Mrs. II. r. Hit |
sr., with its marvellous border of
evergreens and laurels, and of the |
marble domicile of Mrs Robert Pat
terson and the yellow brick Of Her |
bert WadsWorth But New Hamp- |
shire avenue presents a different ap-
pearance and plainly is in that tran
sition period which a witty architect
describes as being like man caught |
changing from business into dress |
clothes.
Don Luigi Aldrovandi Marescotti. |
Count di Eiano, who for almost 90 |
years was the Italian consul general. |
first at New York. then Philadelphia |
and lastly Chicago, has just been |
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