Evening star., 1924-08-10
BY MARGARET Is. DOWNING.

Southampton. to which all road
will lead for the next few weeks, IL
the social as we'll AS in the sense o
gatherings OF sports people, is de-
youtly hoping that the welcome given
to the Prince of Wales will not in
clude that brand of weather whici
is known as the regular English sor
and which does not make for the
popularity of the bathing beache"
nor for gayety on the varandas. So
inhospitable has been thl climate that
the famous street fair has been al ban
doned and all energies devoted to
shaping matters for indoor fetes for
!. the royal visitor in case the al fresco
social events are impossible. Mr.
Clarence Mackay, whose estate, Har
Dor Hill, adjoins that of the Hon.
Frederick and Mrs. Guest, Roslyn
Manor. where the prince will stay
has returned from Il series of visits
TO Other portions of Long Island and
Is with his daughter. Miss Ellin
Mackay, preparing to do. bis share
Tor the heir of Britain and her vast
dominionS. Those fortunate enough
To possess homes in the vicinity OF
ing them with guests for the Meadow
brook polo contests
This graceful and exciting game
has been continuous performance
IT Long Island cit hs ever since mid
July and the enthusiasts have been
busy ShowerinE honors upon that
latest hero out of the west. Mr. Eric
Pedley, who has been the champion
pr the San Mateo. Peninsula for the
past two years. This brilliant Young
haa Ii
nents of the reputation hitherto held
hy crack members OF the Piping Rock
and MeadoWbrook Clubs and of sew
eral on the lower island
Sir Richard st. Barbe Baker.
nephew of Sir Samuel Baker, we'll
Known traveller and explorer, and his
frequent comrade, will arrive in New
York this week, and though his mis-
sion is to cross the continent to Join
some American friends in Wyoming.
he VIII stop long enough to greet the
Prlnce of Wales and accept the hos
Capt Baker. for he is in the regular
military service and attached to the
Lancers, is to lead an expedition of
Brltons and Americans to hunt big
south Africa. He has an incidental
mission also in promoting the forma-
ton of what is called in those far-off
regions as Watu Wa Mott or forest
aid OF several forest rangers formerly
employed by the United States Gov
erment in the national preserves. Sir
tfichard t..nar and the prince are fast
terested in that proposed tour of the
British dominions in the dark conti-
nent scheduled for next spring for
the prince. Sir Richard, renowned
traveller and huntsman, will return to
New York late in October and set
sail from that port to the Isthmus of
Sea and the Red Sea, thence. down the
east coast of Africa to Mombosa. He
and his friends plan to be absent for
two years and will expore that un-
known region in the kenya colony
$4,000 square miles and filled with the
rarest and most inaccessible varieties
of big game.
Sir Esme and Lady Isabelle Howard.
who, with their son, Mr.. Francis
Howard, have recently returned from
Canada, were the guests of Lord
Gen Byng of Vilmy at the gath an
nual horse show held outside of
Toronto in the beautiful park at
Eglinton. The governor general of
the dominion. who is more familiar
as Gen. Byng of the Belgian
front during the World War. was the
guest of the Rotarian Club Of Toronto.
and SO, too. the Howards. who had
accompanied him from Ottowa. The
worlds Rotarian convention, it will
be remembered. was at the time hold
ing sessions in Toronto and all was
drew so heavily on adjacent Ameri
can cities and from the equine sec
tion all over this country, that the
Ambassador felt as though he were
than. Just now the genial repre-
sentative of King. George is busy
attending horticultural shows which
begin about the first of August and
continue in rapid succession and
with eager competition all up and
down the North Shore of Massachu
setts. Nothing so.delights the many
enthusiastic gardeners of that sec
ton as to have British visitors COM
pare their efforts favorably with the
which also are due about this time
in England. Bishop Lawrence Of
Massachusetts has this year joined
the exhibitors of roses and delphi
example of Dean Hole of Rochester.
the venerable friend of Charles
Dickens and who is honored as the
father. of all the rose shows ever
held for competitive purposes in
Nine. Amelita Galli-Curci is one, :,
song bird from alien parts who does
not sail away with the closing of the
Metropolitan or Chicago opera houses.
She gayly AYERS that she finds this
country as fine in the Summer as in
Winter, and she has recently proved
the charm of the Catskills for those
who follow the dramatic or musical
career of the stage. This Summer has
witnessed the completion of the Eng
lish manor house of gray stone which
she has erected on the crest of hill
which overlooks the Hudson Valley
about Kingston and the diva now is
deeply engrossed in removing the fur
nishings from the Jacobean mansion
which she owns in Kent, England,