Evening star., 1924-08-31

'Continued from Sixth PageD
Island. has pitched it's tent For the
skill with which the Piping Rock Club
dining hall has been papered with
hunt scenes and with bits of water
courses and rustic bridge which sur
round the house is downright
achievement. The windows are
framed in narrow delicate green
moulding which blends so adroitly
with the landscape paper that it takes
Keen eye 20 determine the line Of
demarcation. Against the north side
the mural space is unbroken for more
than so feet between the French win
dowS and here is n perfect replica OF
the same scene beyond the walls. The
carpet is a marvellous rug OF taupe
velvet and the chairs of rich ma
hogany in the Chippendale style
are upholstered in copper colored
satin which makes a cleaning con-
trast to the dark greens and browns
of the papered walls. The table is
what is now known as the tavern
table, the latest fad and which has
displaced the briefly popular narrow
refectory table. Piping Rock Club
has some glorious table adornmcnts
the gift of its opulent members and
al these will be in full array for its
epochal event Of dining the Prince
of Wales
New York City. possibly anticipat-
ing revival of the glorious days of
the American merchant marine which
was the foundation stone of this the
greatest of cities in the Western
world. and perhaps in all the world,
is making great preparations to hon
or the memory of those merchant
princes whose homes and business
houses have long since been demolish-
ed. A number I Broadway. now
huge skyscraper. lived Herman lie
Roy. who in the War Of 1872, sent out
fast sailing vessels to Europe and
the East Indies. nearly every one of
which escaped capture and returned
Ito New York with a cargo which in
those days was almost equal to mug
gets of gold. The lie Roys were origi-
nally from Philadelphia. and Herman
was the third generation on American
soil. He married into the celebra ted
Newbold family of New York and
eventually transferred his principal
interests to the city which had out
stripped his old home. In Washing
ton Square lived old William Edgar,
a tremendous power in commercial
circles and whose argoSieS sailed
forth from his string of warehouses
on the East River to the ends of the
earth. EdGarS, Newbolds lie Roys
Bayards. Setons, McEvers and How
lands-all shipping merchants-weret the
top cream of New York society when
the nineteenth century was in it's
first quarter. and they lived like
Eastern nabobs in houses which are
now vast banks, office buildings and
such like. But Gotham is realizing
her debt to the old merchants, and
visitors will within the next month
read on neat tablets among the busi-
ness signs on the tall buildings that
in such a year the home of such a one
had stood there. A bit of biography
will be added, for instance, that Caro-
line. daughter of Herman and Caro-
line Newbold lie Roy married Daniel
Webster.
Mr.. J. Nelson Caldwell of Cincin-
natl. who was in past years d fire.
quent visitor to Washington has Just
given a large tract of land about
his Clifton, Ohio. estate, as a wild
flower and bird sanctuary, as memo
rial of his wife, the late Stella Ross
Caldwell. Mrs. Caldwell had during
many years gathered an incredible
number of trees. shrubs and wild
flowers Indigenous to Cincinnati and
it's environs, but which through
ihuhlcipdl ACTIVITY ana the craze of
subdividing farms into building lots.
had almost been exterminated Some
years previous to her death Mrs
Caldwell and her husband had given
about 10 acres called the Rawson
Tract and through the usual devices
had attracted the birds, especially
during their migratory periods. The
city fathers of Cincinnati intend to
incorporate both these generous gifts
into the park system of Clifton and
to preserve the present planting in
their entirety. Mrs. Caldwell found
that by placing lettuce leaves and
some chopped hard boiled eggs about
pools and baths, mocking birds would
tarry for weeks in Clifton and all the
noted songsters, like wood thrushes
and larkS would prolong their ct.y