Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-12

the homes of the seventeenth CEN
fury, and its rooms now seem OF
gigantic size, the kitchen covering
more space than the ordinary ball
room. Isaac Halsey built the house
on a land grant received from the
royal governor in 1910. This emf
grant was cavalier of Great Haddes-
den, and belonged to leading family
of the county. but he. became en-
broiled in political feuds and sought
to mend his future in the new
world. He came to Long Island when
it was a dangerous adventure and
the annals of the island contain no
more poignant tragedy than the
murder of Mrs. Halsey by the Indians
who resented the encroachments on
their lands DR.. and Mrs. Niles are
lineal descendants. one of Isaac Hal
sey and the other OF his second VIE
who was Ann Johns. widow OF a.
citizen of New Amsterdam. Edwardus
Johns who had settled near South
ampton in 1913. and who is esteemed
with Halsey as one of the founders
of Southampton and all the region
of Long Island.
Sweet St Francis of Assist, would
that YOU would come again. as
L
ago seems TO be answering that sum-
mons in the Tooth anniversary of his
birth which will be commemorated
on October all through Italy and
especiailv at Assist which lies about
60 miles south of Rome. American
conSuls report almost as many NlSeS
asked for to attend the ceremonleS OF
the gentle saint of poverty as oc-
Cured during the Holy year and the
same activity is apparent among
other nationa1ities. Assist. snail
and picturesque town of the Cmbrlah
high 'ands. owes whatever celebrity 1t
possesses to it's patron. st. Francis.
one of the most remarkable figures OF
the Christian church and admired as
much by ProteSta hts as by those OF
the Catholic faith. Its pilgrimage
church attracts visitors all through
the year and In the past 10. some
fairly good hotels have been built. But
Assist and, indeed. all the surrounding
towns of Umbria will not accom-
mOdate the pilgrims who are haSteh-
ing thither in order to honor the
saint on his natal day so that the
overflow is to be sent to Foligno. the
lovely little city of Raphaers appeal
ing Madonna. and to Spello, the
Colonia Julio of the Romans. while
all the converts have remanded their
inmates to tents and temporary shell
ter to give the cloisterS to the pill
grims. Some of the largest con
ventual establishments of the world
are on the hills around Assist. st.
Clara S can shelter vast number OF
women and the others can find food
and pallet on the floor in the three
mammoth houses Of the Franciscans.
American consuls are sternly adVls-
ing against the visit unless the pill
grim is sure at least of pallet. the
hotels. inns and peasant homes having
promised every inch of their space
three months ago.
The late Mrs. John King Van
Rensselaer, wrote a book some ~
years ago which has been popular in
Newport this Summer The Social
Ladder" wherein are described the
first visitors to build homes in the
famous Rhode Island resort, and
those were II in number and the
year was 1894. These pioneers or
the queen of resorts in the Western
Word came from Boston, Charleston
and New York. The New Workers
were dominant from the first, and
one of the first visitors to Newport
to record his impression, Philip
Hone, one-time mayor of the city.
wrote that in the Summer of 1884
he met Beach Lawrence, Prescott
Hall, Henry Durand and Delaney
Kane as he came from a surf bath.
Beach Lawrence. one-time governor
of his native State, built an elaborate
home on the outskirts of the village
and planted the best varieties of APP
pie trees They produced good fruit
and afforded a fine shade, in which
| the fashionable ladies played at
| joggle board, a plank attached to a
chair in which sat a lady in need of
exercise. She pushed the board, and