Evening star., 1925-11-29

urely moments after the successful
ending of the sessions. This was
staged at the old-fashioned rambling
brick house, 17lS III street, which had
been the residence Of distinguished
bachelors to greater extent than any
house in Washington. Mr.. Fletcher
lived there for some time, and q more
recent disciple of the higher diplo.
macy. the Assistant Secretary of
State, Leland Harrison called it home
until last Summer, when he married.
Mr.. Parker Gilbert was Mr.. Harrison S
chum in. the days when the eminent
financier of the Reparations Commits
sion called 1t home, too. Basil Miles,
when a bachelor and one of the shin
ing lights of the disarmament confer
ence under President Harding, lived at
171S. He Is now a benedict and has
become secretary of the lnternationd!
Chamber of Commerce in Paris. Col.
Sherwood A. Cheney, President Cool
idge's military aide, was among the
guests at Old Home Week, but the
luSter of the home as the resort
bachelors is somewhat dimmed, thougl,
1t Is retained by these illustrious own
ers before mentioned as a sort OF club
and place to abide when, they run into
Washington on business. The Am
bassador to Rome was one of those
who acquired title to the old mansion
at time when comfortable home in
Washington was rare possession
and he favors continuing the posses.
sion of it against unforeseen contin-
gencies.
Thomas Chippendale is q name to
conjure with, and the appeal Of his
artistic laborS is stronger than ever
since Mrs. Coolidge is so fervent an
admirer of the fine furniture of an or
der day, that 1t is with deep gratiflca
ton that the news is received from
London that his quaint little shop in
st. Martins lane has been acquired by
the Antiquarian Society and will be
preserved for future generations. The
Thomas Chippendale who achieved
Worldwide fame as a maker of fine
furniture was the second of the three
who bore the name, and his cabinet
shop has engaged antiquarian atten-
ton as much for the fact that the
master craftsman was a thrifty per
son and had built a roomy place and
had as tenants Hogarth and Sir
Joshua Reynolds. St. Martins lane
was in those days a rendezvous for
fashion. beauty and brains. and many
of those who visited the portrait paint
er also went to Chippendale'S to select
a chair to be used as a background.
Many of these chairs appear in the
portraits Of Sir James Thornhill, for
several years ChippendaleS tenant.
For even in those days Thomas Chip
pendale. I'd. was acknowledge to have
revolutionized the making of chairs,
as regarded comfort and beauty as
we'll as for symmetry and unusual de
signs. He was elected into member
ship OF congenial circle of celebri-
ties, and his Endorsement was signed
by David Garrick. the actor, and Oil
Yer Goldsmith. and some of the con.
vivial revels We're staged in the old
cabinet shop.
Gen. Sir Edward Bellingham of
County Lough, who has recently been
elected member of the Senate of the
Irish Free State. is one of the en-
thusiastic champions of the develop
ment of Black Sod Bay, on the west
coast Of Ireland. for the purpose of
establishing direct steamship com
munication between that port and
New York and other American coast
cities. Sir Edward is an old New
Yorker. and lived in the American