Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-03
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
President Coolidge to Celebrate His 55th Birth
Anniversary Tomorrow. independence Day.
Special Notes-Personal Sketches.

seat of learning. Inc war OepdIt
ment, like the State and the Post Or
fee Departments. has adopted dis
tinct policy in reproducing historic
edifices whenever it Is necessary tt
| remodel an older building or in the
case of a new one, but the operations
at Camp Meade furnish the first ex
ample OF its application. Hereafter
| when building is ordered in certain
section the State authorities will be
consulted and their opinion largely
! followed in selecting architectural
plans. The Maryland Historical So
/ ciety was largely influential In the
| fine type of the new buildings at Camp
Meade.
| Mr.. James Ford Rhodes of Boston
| one of the most eminent of living his
| torical writers, though far advanced
! i'm the seventies, continues in active
| life both as banker and a chronicler
| OF important events. The brother OF
| the late Mrs. Mark Hanna and the
uncle of Mrs. Medill Mccormick, Mr.
Rhodes was frequently a visitor TO
| Washington, and he still comes on oe
casion to visit other relatives here and
| to greet his colleagues in the field OF
historical research -1r. Rhodes. &C
cording to his friends, was supremacy
| interested in the achievement of Col
Lindbergh and wrote him kindly let
| ter. In a far different but equally as
vital a way. this venerable scholar
was a crusader to England. In 1913
| he was invited, because of the clarity
of his vision and the broadness of his
| Interpretation, to deliver a series OF
lectures on the Civil War at Oxford
He remained for several months in
England and was entertained by Its
historical scholars, and Mr.. Rhodes
may be said to have been the forerun'
ner of those who have cleared away
the misconception and enmities re-
lating to that great strife and Eng
lands open sympathy with the South.
He is a native of Cleveland. Ohio; was
most carefully educated. for financial
career and furnishes an example of
one who can do two things supremely
well. He inclined toward letters in
early years and winning the prize Of
fered by the Duke of Loubat for an
essay on the Republic during the first
25 years after the independence, he
forsook the counting house for almost
90 years and devoted himself eXclu.
sively to studying and interpreting
history. He returned to banking in
terests. and Boston has been his home
since 1900.
Miss Sarah Cooper Hewitt, better
known to thousands of New Workers
as Miss "Sallie," will carry on the
work which she and her sister, the
late Eleanor G. Hewitt, began in their
girlhood in connection with the Cooper
school. They began teaching at times
duringthe lifetime of their grandfather,
Peter Cooper, the philanthropist, and
all these years they have continued
their labors, gradually charging their
sphere to include the collection of a
fine library and many works of art.
Miss Sallie and Miss Nellie, in their
plain black gowns made of that silk
which in past years was called gros-
grain and which has been specially
manufactured for them in Lyons. now
that so few women use it, spent hours
in the library daily, cOurteousiy an
swering questions and advising the un.
certain ones about a course of reading.
Miss Eleanor Hewitt died during this
past Spring, and her large fortune,
left in trust for her brother, Erskine,
and her only sister, will eventually
swell the endowment fund of the in
stitute. For almost half a century the
sisters and their brother. who is a
bachelor, have spent the Summers at
Ringwood Manor, in the Ramapo Hills
Of New Jersey, and they Continued
their practical charity even on .vaca.
ton. The children of Abram S. Hew.
lit, who had married Sarah Cooper,
daughter of the generous benefactor
of the poor of Gotham, they occupied
his fine home at 9 Lexington avenue
long after skyscrapers had closed
around them and their garden was
rated at many thousand dollars a
square foot.
The Ambassador to London. Mr..
Alanson 3. Houghton, has climbed the
last rung Of the ladder of fame, in that
he is presented in most attractive
guise as the chief character in a novel
recently published by Mrs. Williams.
Ellis and called 1.-THE Wall of Glass"
Mr.. Houghton is said to have enjoyed
the description Of himself as having
"a face as civilized as that of Jesuit
father" and he is shown always in
such dignified poses and always as the
hero of the occasion that he could not
help feeling some degree of satisfac-
ton. Not since the days of the Dis
raeli novels has a writer been so bold
about depicting cotemporaneous char
acters in stories. Mrs. Williams-EIlis
in addition. failed to do what all others
who drag living people into the pages
OF fiction; that is, declare that all the
characters drawn were wholly imag-
mary, a precaution which other novel
lists take to avoid the libel laws, if the
picture does not please the original
Details of the diplomats interest in
the remodeling of the house Where he
is to establish his embassy are given
with much precision and some of the
rooms are described most ingeniously.
Mr.. Houghton, who is now in his own
country on brief vacation: will re.
turn to London late in July. This
novel. in which he plays so genial and
conspicuous a part, has not yet
reached the reading public on this side
Of the ocean, but it is gradually COM
ing over in the form of gift to
friends Of the Ambassador and his
family,