Evening star., 1925-09-06
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
United States Business Holds Ambassador
Fletcher In Rome-Epoch Marked by Amerii-
can Women's Bid for Senate Honors

for him. This hotel was then called
the West Point and, in the modern
concept of the term, 1t is one of the
oldest in the country, having opened
its doors for visitors in the Autumn
of 1929. Gen. Jackson was among
its first guests, the President having
accepted the invitation of Martin
Van Buren to visit the Military Acad-
emy and to spend a few days in the
hostelry. It's register is probably the
most valuable from the standpoint of
autographs TO be found in this coun-
try. every Chief Executive, from
Jackson to Harding. having trans
scribed his name on its pages, this
in addition to every other sort OF
outstanding citizen Of the country
and, most of all. the illustrious for
eign visitors. But the old hotel, like
everything which approaches its hun
dredth birthday, has become de-
crepit and utterly inadequate to
meet the eXigencies for which 1t was
erected. Visitors to West Point in
three fourths of the year frequently
mount to 300 daily and the West
Point at pinch can take care OF
about 200 comfortably. SO 1t has
been doomed to destruction, though
much OF the material and an of the
furniture and historic equipment will
be installed in the handsome modern
hotel which viii rise on the same site.
This new edifice will be known as the
Gen. Sylvanus Thayer and thus the
first military governor of the reser-
vation Will after almost a century,
receive the signal honor he deserved.
The transfer of DIR. Karl Won Lew
inski from the German embassy to
the very important office of consul
general of Germany in New York. and
who. with his wife Frau Emma Pom
eroy Won Lewinski, will leave the
Capital, will be much regretted in
Washington, but his new post offers
better opportunity for preferment in
the diplomatic service of the republic.
Germany. under the new dispensa-
ton, is making the greatest effort to
build UP its trade and the CONNER
cial side of diplomacy overbalances
the old idea Of statescraft. DR.. Won
Lewinski is on familiar ground in
New York City. for, having COM
pleted his studies in his home city,
Breslau, he studied in the University
of Berlin and during this time met
and married Miss Emma Pomeroy,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Pomeroy of Denver, Colo. Shortly
after his marriage he and Frau Won
Lewinski came to New York, where
the doctor entered Columbia and took
a three-year course in law and
economics. His wife, meantime, en-
tered the law school of the New
York City University and took her
degree about the same time as did
her husband. Frau Won Lewinski IS
now in Switzerland with her young
daughter. 1nsrer, but she will return
to Washington in October and will
pass part of the Winter here, plac-
Ing her children in the Central High
School, which they have attended for
two years, and occupying her old
home, on Sixteenth street. She will
make frequent visits to New York
and she and the children will spend
all the holidays there, that DR. Won
Lewinski finds it impossible to pass
in his home here.
Rev. p. J. Browne of ST. Johns,
Newfoundland. who Is, however, now
a resident Of Washington and editor
of the Catholic Historical Review. pub
lished in this city, is among the scores
of representatives whom American
seats Of learning have sent to the