Evening star., 1926-06-13
TALES of Well Known Folk
: In and Out of Washington
Nestsand Seclusion Await President Coolidge at
White Pine Camp-Cov. Smith Saves
Wild dFlowers-Plans of Royalty
BNNrARGAREr b. DOWNING.

White Pine Camp, in the Adiron-
dacks, where the President and Mrs.
Coolidge hope to find genuine rest and
solitude, is secluded and easily pa
trolled and guarded from intruders.
but nevertheless it Is but miles
from the main highway between New
York and Montreal and one of the
busiest highways in the country. AS
the crow flies, or as the motor roads
now go. 1t is not remote from the
most fashionable camps in this region.
those about Upper ST. Regis Lake, and
Paul Smiths renowned landing Is but
5 miles distant. Osgood Lake, around
which White Pine Camp has been
built, Is one of the most primitive re-
naming in the mountain range, and
within 200 feet of the clearing for the
dwelling the wilderness closes in as
picturesquely and completely as in the
great unexplored woods of northern
Canada. Mr.. Irwin r. kirkwood, the
owner of this unique estate, is the
publisher of the Kansas City Star. and
his wife, the daughter of that citys
most famous editor and newspaper
man. the late William r. Nelson. was
q friend of Mrs. Coolidge for many
years. 1t had often been the intention
of the President and his wife in
years past TO visit Mr.. and Mrs. Kirk
who are fortuante enough to own
home In Vermont have not the press
ing need to keep cool quarters in
Summer, and of course in any other
season the kirkwoodS would not be
there.
Lady Ellenborough, widow of the
seventh lord of that name, is a fire.
Quent visitor to her mothers old home
in Pittsburgh. and she has recently
been in that city to assist at some
dedicatory exercises in the handsome
Schenley Park. This peeress is the
daughter of Mr. Edward Schenley,
formerly of Halifax but one of the
Iron City'S successful business men in
his latter years. Mrs. Schenley re-
moved to London after her husbands
death and it is her handsome resi-
dence in Princes Gate, Hyde Park,
which she sold to j. Pierpont Morgan,
the elder, which is now being re-
modelled as the American embassy.
Lady Ellenborough's late husband
was the fifth in descent from the
Lord Ellenborough of the eighteenth
century, whose son. Thomas Law was
so heavy a speculator in the real
estate Of the Federal Capital. and who
married the stepdaughter Of George
Washington. Elizabeth Custis. That
Lord Ellenborough was Bishop Of
Carlisle, and 1t was his heir who be-
came the famous barrister and lord
chancellor of the realm. Thomas Law
never used any title in this country.
though he could have done SO, but he
was much sought by all British visi-
tors of that early day, and his house
the most pretentious in Washington
during the first decade of its exist
ance. The present Lady Peterborough
has no children and the title goes to
a collateral branch. But her fortune,
inherited from her parents, renders
her independent as to income. and this
will probably return to this country
and to her brother, the second Ed
ward Schenley, who lives in Pitts
burgh.
NJ. Jules and Nine. Jusserand may
asSuredly be relied upon to return to
Washington If the recently launched
plans TO erect a monument to Ad-
miral De Grasse materialize, for this
was pet project of the former Am
bassador from France. In his book
Comrades in Arms" NJ. Jusserand
emphasizes the heavy debt which
American liberty owed to the French
admiral. who with ms fleet so ably
reinforced the armies of Washington
and Rochambeau outside of York
town. In many addresses delivered
on patriotic occasions in this country
he has explained that the colonists
owed more to DE Grasse than to
Rochambeau and Lafayette com
bined. yet no memorial has ever been
erected to him. though lesser heroes
have been honored. A fine bust of the
French admiral adorns the main cor
rzdor Of the French embassy. placed
by the former Amba ssador and left
there when he removed his personal
possessions, when he and Nine. JUS
serand returned to France in January,
1925. The well loved Gallo statesman