Evening star., 1925-08-23

the Washington Embassy, and from
the beginning of his residence Senior
Goncalve2 has been prominently iden-
titled with the athletic activities of the
corps. He was during his school years,
a good player of soccer, the form of
foot ball which is more popular in
Brazil than in this country. He is also
a great admirer of water polo, game
unknown about Washington. Rio has
the most wonderful provision for this
variety of the favorite sport, vast
salt water pool, where the players
perform the agile feats in swimming
that the other poloists do on horse
back.
The former Governor OF Illinois and
one time a member of Congress from
that State, Mr.. Frank o. Lowden. will
without doubt, pass down to fame as
the best type of CincinnatuS which
the country thus far has produced.
Mr.. LoWden is a farmer by choice and
by that fact that it is one thing which
interests him more than anything
else, and to continue being one he
refused to be a candidate for Vice
President just as he had refused a
seat in President Hardings cabinet.
For long time the former governor
farmed for the love of it and, having
an ample fortune, he was content to
lose money in his experiments. Now,
however. he is deep in ways and
means to make the immense stock
and grain farm, Sinnissipi, become as
profitable as any Of his banking in
vestments and he has lately taken
over huge rundown cotton planta-
tion in the wilds of Arkansas and is
giving it the most scientific care. Mrs.
LoWden is as enthusiastic over rural
life as her husband, and often all the
family remain the year through at
Sinnissipi, going to Chicago and to
New York for the briefest of sojourns
to hear some music or to see a play
or two.
The President of Cuba, Gen. Gerar-
do Machado was one of the colleagues
of the late Senor GonZalo de Quesada,
in the cause of Cuba Libre and il was
entirely fitting that under his auspices
the splendid mauSoleum which a
grateful country has erected in Ha-
Vana to honor that patriot should
have been dedicated. Senor Quesada
was the head of the junta, which re
mained in Washington from the be-
ginning of the Cuban insurrection de-
spite heroic efforts on the part of the
Spanish legation to dislodge him. I'm
doubtedly IL was his personal quail
w
tiuenced the Congress of the United
States so sympathetically in the Gu
ban cause, and led the way to inter
vention. Senor QueSada was a resi-
dent of Washington for almost six
years and few aliens ever possessed
the national confidence to a higher
degree. After the independence, he
was named the first Minister here and
his work was all constructive Two
of his children are natives of Wash
ington and it is with much interest
that the rumor is received of the wild
owed Sonora de Quesada's return to
her old home. Her children are mar
rled and the ties which bind her TO
Havana are not so strong as they
We're. The daughter of that revered
patriot and philanthropist. DIR. Man
uel Miranda, Sonora Quesada has a
large fortune and may live where she
wishes. Her husband was Cuban
Minister to Germany and died in Ber-
lin in 1915. The remains rested there
until about five years ago, when they
were removed to Hanava by the
Cuban government and had been
placed in a temporary vault pending
the completion of the fine monument
unveiled recently by the Cuban Presi-
dent.
Washington deeply regrets the
transfer of the air attache of the
Italian Embassy, Capt. Calderara, who
has been, in the regular line of naval
changes, sent back to Rome, where
he will head a division of the aerial
service in the admiralty. Capt. Cal
derara was the pupil of Orville Wright
and is, in fact. the pioneer in his line
in the Italian navy. He became con-
sumed with the idea of flying in his
youth and watched every development
in every part of the world. When
the Wright brothers were in Paris,
and taking pupils. young Calderara
persuaded the Italian government to
let him try his luck. Mr.. Wright
thought very highly of this novice
from Italy, his first pupil, from that
ancient land. and a warm friend
ship still exists between the naval
officer of King Nictor's realm and
Wilbur Wright Signora Calderara
is possessed of rare social charm and.
with her mother, the Contessa Maria
GAMBIA, who lived with the family
in Washington, but has lately re-
turned to her home near the baths
of Lucca, in Tuscany, has made a
distinct niche for herself, and her
departure will be keenly regretted.
Signora Calderara mastered the prin-
ciples of flying. and she was fire.
quently her husbands companion in
the aerial trips. The Contessa GAMBIA
is one of the prominent leaders of
the Feminist party in Italy, and she
goes every year to Rome when the