Evening star., 1925-04-19
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
President Coolidge and Vice President Dawes
Descended From Patriots, Specially Inter-
ested In Lexington Anniversary

familiar gathering place for Americans
In London since Ii was for years
leased by Mrs. Martyr T. Kennard,
who had been the widow respectively
of Samuel J. Colgate, the soap mag
nate, and of the Earl of Stafford. The
Countess of Stafford, as British eti-
quette permits her to call herself, de-
spite her later marriage to Mr.. Ken
nard. was in Washington for the in
auguration of President Coolidge and
Vice President Dawes.
Robert Emmett, the Irish patriot,
whose memory is SO tenderly cherish
ed in all parts of the world where his
fellow countrymen have emigrated
was at one time well represented in
collateral descendants in many parts
of the United States. Emmett's
brothers all left Ireland and settled
in this country after his execution
in 1898. DR.. Thomas Adds Emmett
was the grandson of the patriots
eldest brother, Thomas Adds, and of
his large family, once residents of
New York City and Montreal, Canada,
not one remains in the Western
World. DR.. Thomas Emmett amassed
a large fortune and left substantial
benefaction to various institutions in
inheritances to his children. His only
daughter, Miss Katherine Emmett,
married two years ago the Earl of
Denbigh and of Desmond and now
preSideS over part of the ancestral
domain of the Enmetts in the glori-
Gus age of Erin. Miss Aileen Emmett,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert En-
NETT, now living in London, will
within the week wed Alastair Camp
bell, whose mother was Miss Blanche
Havemeyer, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Havemeyer of New York,
and whose father, Maj. Adair Camp
bell, is member of Parliament for
Glasgow and head of great drapery
firm there. Miss Emmett has two
brpthers in the British army. The
elder, Thomas Adds, married the
daughter of Sir Kennel Rodd, British
Ambassador in Rome.
Never has the Continental Congress,
National Society, ID. A. R., foregath-
cred under such brilliant auspices as
the present, but for the first time in
20 years the patriotic women will miss
the eloquent greeting of NJ. JuSserand.
If the speeches of the former French
Ambassador had been collected into
book form they would make an in
valuable adjunct to colonial history
in all the phases in which the French
army of alliance was involved. NJ.
JuSSerand traced in his numerous ad-
dresses to the Continental Congress
the career of Lafayette and of the
Marquise de Lafayette, and he placed
before the congress picture or
Franklin working for the cause of
liberty in an alien land and before
a sumptuous court of autocrats, which
is a tribute to the great American
rarely paid even by his own country
men. There will be a memorable
concourse of distinguished women at
this congress, but Mrs. Larz Ander-
son will be among the absent. She
had accomplished wonders as libra
rian general of the society. and she
appreciated the value of NJ. Jusse-
rand's addresses to the extent of en-
deavoring to have them collected from
published reports and from such notes
as the former Ambassador had re-
tanned. Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson sail
ed about the middle of March for
cruise of the Mediterranean. They
journeyed into Palestine for Holy
week and remained near Jerusalem
over Easter. They will return to this
side in May, and will occupy their
home on Massachusetts avenue for a
few weeks before going to Weld,
Brookline, Mass.
New York is beginning to vie with
London in Turing Briushers as perma-
nent residents, just as the British
capital does Americans. Within the
past six months two young Britons of
title have entered the banking bust
ness, and they Joined some 20 others
who have been engaged in financial
operations for two years. OF the re-
cent arrivals one is Hon. Oswald Bal
1f l,n n,-1 AK-+l Da1
four, who was so frequent a visitor in
Washington during war times. Young
Mr.. Balfour has taken a house on
Long Island and has invited his
mother, an eminent publicist, to spend
the Spring and Summer here. Lady
Frances Balfour is the widow of Col.
Edward Balfour, younger brother Of
the earl, and she is one Of the most
forceful speakers among the cham
pions of equal rights. Lady Balfour is
the sister of the Duke of Argyll, who
as Marquis of Lorne was royal Cover
nor of Canada, and whose wife was
Queen Victoria's daughter, Louise. The
Viscount Holmesdale. fourth son
of the Earl of Amherst, is the other
permanent Sojourner, and he is in the
same bank with Mr.. Bafour. The Wis
count is the cousin of the Hon. John
Francis Amherst, who recently mar
rleQ MISS COrn6lla NdnQ6TDlll, ana he
will visit his kindred at Biltmore dur
ing the first prolonged vacation he can
obtain from his duties. This embryo
banker was a member of the Cold
stream Guards during the war and re-
ceived the Victorian medal and the
order of merit.
In these leveling days. when the
rich and mighty do not scorn to seek
fame on the stage and when titled
ones of the Old World and the gently
born in this Republic deem the foot
lights the ideal place to retrieve fallen
fortunes. 1t is interesting to know that
Charlotte Cushman was the very first
member of the elite set in New York
to 60 on the stage and still retain her
place in the social armament This
eminent actress has recently been
voted a place in the Hall of Fame, and
in order to purchase the bust which
is to fill the niche assigned her it has
been found necessary to sell the
gorgeous velvet gown and ermine
cloak which We're worn in her cele-
brated presentation of Katherine of
Aragon in Henry VIII" Miss Cush-
man never married, although de-
scendants are frequently ascribed to
her. For instance, Miss Louise For
aker. daughter of the late Senator