Evening star., 1925-07-26
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Wilson's Tomb Becoming Mecca for Pilg Trim ages
Orb-Dawes Nuptials Interest Society.
Woman Heads Hunt Clubs

early in pre-Civil War days. He
located at Rippon, Wis, married there
Miss Jane Ruggles and reared large
and successful family in the Badger
State. William Ruggles, named for
his maternal grandfather. married
Miss Margaret Booker of Whitewater,
Wis, and soon after he became as
sociated with his famous cousin in
various enterprises in Lincoln, Nebr.
He is now president of the Jackson
County heat and lighting plant, and
member of the board of trustees of
the Vice Presidents bank, the Central
Trust of Chicago; is president of
the Board of Education in Evanston,
and is, in word, the same type of
successful business man which all the
Dawes brothers and cousins are.
Young Mr.. Dawes is associated with
his father, and his bride is a sculptor
of acknowledged talent and one of the
leaders in the art colony which has
grown up about the Field Museum
Mr.. and Mrs. Neil Dawes have gone
on a siX-week motor trip in northern
Wisconsin and thence to the Canadian
Rockies. and will on their return oc-
cupy a pretty villa in Glencoe near
the paternal mansion of Mr.. Dawes.
NJ. vladimir BoumiStroff, for 10
years chamberlain of the Car and
whose escape from Russia after the
Bolshevist triumph with his clever
young sister, Mile. Valerie, makes
breathless reading, is among the
Russian refugees who have conquered
fate and have amassed a comfortable
fortune in the land of exile and
achieved a splendid social position
The chamberlain was able to secrete
a few jewels and securities and was
not absolutely destitute, as so many
titled MuScoviteS were on reaching
a friendly harbor. But he faced the
necessity of obtaining additional in
come, and he found a repaying outlet
for his talents in costumry and
pageantry in New Yorw City. Now,
under committee, formed as a Rus
sian Exiles Special Relief Associa-
ton, and of which Mrs Henry P.
Dawson and Mrs. William X Van
Valerie Boumistroff are about to en-
large their field and undertake SIM
liar work in different parts of the
section. Col. Owen D. Young, so
highly regarded in this city for his
arrangement of outdoor celebrations,
like the dedicating of monuments and
public buildings, is one of the mem
bers of this national committee which
is to secure the talented Russians S
Io-opcIdIlOn III planning IeleS Wnlcn
will benefit him and his sister some,
but the Russian exiles far more
Others on this national board are
r. Fulton Cutting of New York City,
DIR. John Grier Hibben, William NJ.
Chadburne, William S. Schieffiin and
Prof. Michael Pupin.
A sub-deb Of the brilliant social sea-
son at Newport this Summer is Miss
Evelyn Bigelow Clark, great-grand
daughter Of the statesman and author,
John Bigelow, who filed many politi-
cal roles Of Importance. Miss Clark
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Francis Clark, whose home. Wren
than Hall, in the older section of
Newport, has been a center of fash
ionable life through three generations.
Mrs. Clark is the daughter of the sec
ond John Bigelow, oldest son of the
scholar and publicist, who was among
the several distinguished statesmen
and writer's who followed Benjamin