Evening star., 1925-04-05

knighted before his death, which
occurred in 1920. Lady Lowther fire.
quently visits her home city, where
she has many relatives and her
daughter will be formally presented
at one of the Philadelphia assemblies.
Miss Spender-Clay is the only daugh-
ter of the former Pauline Astof,
daughter of William Waldorf Astor
who became a British citizen and died
Baron Astor of Cliveden. She Will
be presented at the first drawing
room in May and next Winter will he
the guest of the Vincent Astors in
New Yoork City and of her mothers
reAyes, the Pauls of Philadelphia
NJ Spender- Clay is a handsome, ath-
leth maid who rides well and who
had been particularly identified with
the army branch.
DR. Charles Custis Harrison, former
provost of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, who has just received the
$4,000 award which, through Mr..
BokS generosity, the City of Phila
delphia makes annually to one of its
citizens for conspicuous service to the
community, is very well known III
Washington, where for the past 40
years he has been frequent visitor.
The City of Brotherly Love rewarded
pendous work during the ) years he
was the executive of the State uni
versity. For he secured an endow
ment of 1000, zoe, erected 90 build
ings trebled it's ground space and in
creased it's library eight-fold ESIJ
Washington and the Nation at large
knows DR. Harrison chiefly for his
splendid efforts which saved Valley
Forge as State park and has pre-
for oil
time. marking off The vari ous en-
campments and as far as possible re-
storing and retaining in original out
line the rude huts and underground
dwellings. where the patriots suffered
so keenly in the crucial lays OF the
War of Independence. Only within
the past few years has DR. Harrison
secured the needed 100000 for the
beautiful monastic chapel, which. is
a memorial of the soldiers who were
encamped at Valley Forge. Dr. HaE-
rison is now 81 years of age and,
having large private fortune
amassed in business enterprises, the
100000 has already been donated to
the Valley Forge chapel fund and the
perpetual endowment of roads and
hedges about this park. DR. Harrison
graduated from the University ~
Pennsylvania in 1861 when the guns
had begun to roar about Fort sumter,
and he saw war at it's bitter est
throughout the entire conflict be-
tween the States.
The Genealogical Society of Pennsyl-
vana, in utilization with the Historical
Association of that State, gave one OF
the most memorable exhibits in the an
nails of both when family chests were
opened and the precious contents placed
for public inspection during three days.
Historical students from far and wide
foregathered to examine the first work
of American silversmiths which in Penn
sylvania antedate the renowned work
done in New England and New York by
a full so years. 1llustrious smiths of
Boston flourished from 1850 until after
the end of the colonial period, as, for
instance, Paul Revere, who was at the
head of his profession when he became
immortal by his midnight ride. New
Amsterdam or New York, its later
name. had artists in pewter in the late
seventeenth century but the silver
smiths were of the middle eighteenth
century, when Nicholas Roosevelt be-
came master of the craft But beautiful
silver bowls and exquisitely chased
pitchers, cups and urns were made in
Philadelphia in 1890. Philip Syng of