Evening star., 1925-06-14
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Locating Presidents Summer Home at White
Court" Makes North Shore of Massachusetts,
Popular Rest Place.

room of the mansion has been left
practically as it was when the aristo-
crat, knickerbocker, held high court
for the gentry. There is great
stone mantelpiece with insets in the
chimney for baking and here Lady
van Schaick kept her dishes steam
ing hot for the serving and had many
of them prepared right in sight of the
guests at the massive old table which
had come from Amsterdam. One of the
interesting things is the pen where
runaway slaves were kept after being
captured and it is still shuddering
place, though now its grimnesS Is
lightened by soft lights and comfort
able benches very convenient for the
tired dancers. The latticed window is
framed in lignum vitae wood, the
hardest known, and it had become
firm as iron in the passing centuries.
The sentimental who try to carve
their initials on the lattice have their
knives dulled and broken without
Morgan. Mrs. John Stewart McLen-
nan and Miss Margaret McLennan.
Mrs. Frederick Goodrich Crane and
Miss Rosemary Crane and Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Gilbert Colt and Miss
Priscilla Colt were among the guests
at the Pittsfield ball.
The late Marcus Ward, who left
S5,000,000 to provide a comforta BILE
club home for respectable widowers
and bachelors, had a fine sense of
humor. For in the instrument
through which he made this novel
benefaction he paid fervent tribute
to the pleasures of a well conducted
home for a single man and contrasted
such lot with the usual lonely neg
lected male without woman or
kindly relative to look after his needs.
Various of Mr.. Wards relatives have
vainly tried to break his will and the
case has gone through all the courts
in the past five years. But now the
Supreme Court has upheld his tesla
ment and the trustees of the estate,
John o. H. Pitney and John r.
Hardin of New Jersey, have pur-
chased a 10-acre tract of land on the
high ridge above Maplewood and
work on the building will begin in the
next few weeks. Every man ad-
mitted must deposit with the man.
agement $500 which will be placed at
interest and the proceeds distributed
monthly to purchase tobacco or any
small luxury. Otherwise everything
is to be furnished. Mr.. Ward, who
had lived almost all his life in New
ark, n. j., and was a manufacturer
of that city, had made his home dur
ing his declining years at the Essex
Club and to it he left a handsome
portrait Of himself and fine general
library.
The Minister from Honduras, Senior
Luis Bogran, has been much inter.
eSted in the controversies which rage
with more or less warmth as occasion
demands about the maiden name and
married name of women and the
proper use of the same. Senior
Bogran, who is a semi-American in
that he was educated here and has
spent many years in various posts.
wonders that the Spanish way of
solving this problem is not put into
effect. A Spaniard at home as in the
colonies, always places his mothers
~" equivalent to "and" in English.
but this to the bewilderment Of most
Americans, who naturally take the
last as the surname. Still not only
does the wife among the Spanish re-
tain her identity, but it is carried
along with her children. When q
married couple have children they
the mother equally with that of the
father is carried by each child, so that
geneology, so difficult in this country,
is easy and exact among the Latins
of Iberian blood. Senor Bogran points
out that his small son is the twelfth
Luis in male descent, but instead of
jr. or I'd, Sd. ETC., of local custom,
is distinguished by that of his mother,
or when the names are alike, as often
happens. by some outstanding family
name in her line. 1t seems a simple
adjustment, as the Latin Americans
tell it, for a woman after marriage
continues to hold her name, especi.
ally in the social sense and among
her friends. In the case Of the wife
of the Honduran envoy, she is always
who is the wife Of Senior Luis
Bogran.
Hill Crest, the magnificent 20o.acre
country seat established in West
chester County, N. Y, by the late
William A. Read, was sold recently
to the Progress Club of New York,
on the younger members by a golf
course and unlimited swimming
facilities. But the passing of this
sumptuous estate, with it's fine old
Tudor mansion set in a park of more
than fifty acres. abundantly wooded,
and with a fringe Of flower gardens
and sunken places given over to
aquatic plants, has caused profound
regret among neighboring property
owners. Many lament that it is not
possible in this country to invoke the
laws of primogeniture and make 1t
incumbent on the oldest son of a
man who creates a fine country seat
to keep the same in proper order.
For so many old estates in rural New
York have been sold under the ham,
mer, and usually to suburban clubs,
that 1t seems the inevitable that If a
man leaves more than one heir, none
wish to spend a portion of the income
IN maintaining the country seat Hill
crest will probably fare better than
any of the surrounding estates, for
the golf course lies in rolling open
country and can be almost indefi-
nitely extended without spoili IL the
general contour. But many regret
that the majority of lily pools will be
turned into swimming pools, which is,
of course, more practical for a club.
Miss Jean Roosevelt, who last week
married her cousin, Philip J. Roose.
welt, is the niece of Mr. Robert Roose-
Velt of this city and granddaughter of
the late Robert B. Roosevelt, who was
an outstanding Democrat in the fam
lily councils as many of the name are
Republicans. This Robert Roosevelt
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