Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27

objections made an impression on Lady
Beatty. She persuaded the earl Ia
buy, calmly told the superstiyious
rural workers that if they objected to
lucrative employment, she could send
to London for many willing to come;
she had the beautiful old beeches
thinned out and treated scientifically,
and the entire interior of the house
remodeled after modern ways. The
abbot'S ghost has seemingly given up,
and the snakes were, of course, only
fictional, and Reigate Manor, under
the Beattys, is this Summer one of
the gayest and most popular country
homes adjacent to London.
Lady Lee of .Fareham continues her
jealous crusade to attract Americans
visiting Britain to spend part of their
sojourn in the historic country of
Northamptonshire, where, with vast
expense and much mental and ply
steal exertion, the homes of great men
in history have been located and re-
stored to their primitive conditions.
Sulgrave Manor struggles against the
growing tendency to search out the
Washington beginnings of an older day
in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where
the family flourished a good three CEN
turtles before one of it's members mi
grated to Sulgrave. The home of the
immediate progenitor Of the Adams
family has been added to the attrac-
tions of this part of England, and, of
course, the Franklin shrine attracts
its hundreds of American visitors.
Though the eminent patriot benjamin
Franklin, suffered abject poverty in
the New World, his people in Great
Brington We're well-to-do artisans.
owning a handsome stone house, sur
rounded by goodly acres, wherC their
f1ocks grazed. The Franklins owned
the only grist mill in the village be,
sides having q foundry which added
considerably to the family income.
The Washingtons at this time had
suffered such reverSeS that they
owned nothing and were dependent on
the Earl Spencer, the generous patron
Of Shakespeare, whilst the AdamseS
were small tenant farmers near Lit
tie Brington in Northamptonshire.
Edwin Booth has at least reached
the hall of fame, and his bust by Ed
mund T. Quinn was O few days ago
placed in the stately colonnade of the
New York University as the gift OF
the PLAYERS Club Of the metropolitan
city. Mr. Booth, it will be remem-
bered, bequeathed to this association
of which he had been a member, his
handsome nome III 6TdI1IleECy Tdih
m the big city, where the Players now
keep their library and museum. The
unwilling of the bust was done by the
grandson Of the eminent actor, Edwin
Booth Grossman. Booth is the second
celebrity in the dramatic profession to
be selected for the honor Of a niche in
the arcade, the other being Charlotte
Cushman. Only Americans who have
been dead a quarter of a century or
more are eligible for this honor, a pro
vision which has caused some grum-
bling among those who have in mind
heroes whom they wish to honor inn
mediately. At this rate Of procedure,
since the great in any walk Of life do
not die every day in this country nor
in any other, it will be somewhat past
the year 1000 before all the inches in
this mob e colonnade have been filled.
The memorial tablets make a total of
$50 and they are placed just below the
niche to be occupied in course of time
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