Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Daughters of Mr.. and Mrs Garrett A. Hobart Soon
to Make Debuts-Senator Bingham
Reveals Salmon Story.

many such clubs in Toronto. Ottawa
] and near their home in Murray Bay.
| When the Worlds Poultry Show
| opens in Ottawa on July q and con
| tinues its sessions until August 4,
those who journey thither will have
the privilege of beholding the hand
some cockereis raised on the AL
berta ranch of the Prince Of Wales,
who is to be a large exhibitor and like
wise a contender for prizes. This
| World Poultry Show is deemed one of
the most important international
events of the year, and no less than
| seven royal exhibitors have already
been listed and more are expected.
King Gorge of England has exhibited
| his bantams in all the shows since the
! first was held at The Hague in 1921,
and so too has Alfonso of Spain, who
was so enthusiastic over the display
in Queen Wilhelmina's capital that he
invited the projectors the following
year to Madrid. where the second ex.
hibition was staged. Ottawa has been
icontending since 1925. but only secured
the honor for this year. Queen Eliza.
beth of Belgium, who, being a ply
stefan and a dietitian. has always been
interested in good laying chickens, and
has her special exhibit ready for ship.
nfent to the Canadian capital Queen
Wilhelmina will also send some fine
blooded fowl which she prefers and
which have tremendous name in
Holland, but among fanciers of this
land are called simply the Barred
Rock" An exhibit will also go from
the royal family at Copenhagen and
from Queen Maude of Norway, sis
ter of King George. and like him the
proud possessor of a special stock of
barnyard pets. From this ,>ourtry
there have been listed 1000 entries
with that superb chicken both for lay
ing and eating, the Rhode Island Red.
in the lead by a long stretch.
Mr.. Archibald Flower, chairman of
the board of governors of the Shake.
Speare Memorial Theater at Stratford.
on-Avon, has recently made a second
visit to this country to secure funds
for the completion of the new building.
The appeal for funds was launched by
Hon. Stanley Baldwin, prime minister
of Great Britain, and practically the
great world of fashion and of politics
was behind the project to erect a
larger and more modern theater at the
place where the immortal bard was
born. The old theater, built i'm 1878,
had long ago proved inadequate and, |
as Mr.. Flower observed, it could not
comfortably seat the Americans alone
VINO Hooked to Stratford to hear the |
plays in such ideal environment. stiu
less the equally enthusiastic Britons
and the visiting colonials. This old
theater was destroyed by fire in March
of 1926, and the controversy about
tearing it down was thus avoided.
Ihere seemed unanimous opinion that
the new theater should be worthy of
the cause, but unfortunately ready
money TO begin operations came so
slowly that Mr.. Flower, who knows
MS United States very well indeed. de.
termined to put the question to the
ShakeSperean admirers of this coun.
try, Canada and Australia. The chair.
man or the Memorial Theater project
mas Wlttily observed that George IIT
ana ms ministers. though parting this
country from the mother country
ponticaiiy, could not cut the bonds
wnlcn united it to Shakespeare's coun-
try.
Mr.. Allen C. Clark, president of
the Columbia Historical Society. with
his associates on the committee for
marking hallowed spots in the Dis
triet OF Columbia, has conferred a
faVor or inestin1able historic value
IN the erection of tablet in Willard
Hotel, the ceremony occurring dur
ing the past week. This old hostelry
has so many points of interest that
Mr.. Clark and his committee viewed
an embarrassing wealth of political.
historical and patriotic associations.
combined with literary legacy Of
unusual importance. Charles Dick
ems made the first Willard Hotel a
target of unreasonable abuse during
his visit in 1912. but he took it all
back when he returned in 1868 and
during a serious attack of influenza
received such kindly treatment from
its proprietor. Mark Twain lived for
more than year in the second Will
lard Hotel and abused it also, but
Washington Irving had a genuine
affection for the Willard, and so. too.
a. lengthy list of celebrities whose
names are carefully guarded in old
registers which are among the liter
airy assets of the hotel. But one of
the genuinely sacred associations of
the Willard Is that it offered asylum
ana sanctuary to Lincoln when he
came into Washington, March 8.
1851. so quietly that bare score of
his political followers knew where he
was staying. He had alighted on the
outskirts of the city and walked to
the hotel after dark, and having on
new and somewhat harsh footwear,
he was in pain and was lacking a
pair of comfortable slippers. These
were supplied by the hospitable
boniface, Henry Augustus Willard,
who had borrowed them from his
father in law. Judge Daniel Kellogg
of Vermont, then visiting Washing
ton. These slippers in an excellent
state Of preservation are among the
relics of the great Liberator. highly
priced by the descendants of Mr.. Will
lard resident in Washington.
The late Henry Kirke Porter's
house, at I and Sixteenth, just now
presents a forlorn appearance, but
the garden was never more lovely.
Although surrounded by a high brick
wall, the fortunate passerby some
times gets a glimpse of rich sylvan
beauty through the open gate as the
caretaker goes about his necessary
tasks. There are no larger or more
luxuriant gynka trees in the Capital
than the six which hang their
branches over the / street wall and
they droop like the fronds of mon
strous ferns. A stately row of Lom-
hardy poplars stand like sentinels on
the side of the garden where 1t
originally joined the garden of the
Corcoran house, and these, too, have
a height and LEAKAGE which is unique
for the species. One of the most
appealing of trees may be seen In
big maple almost over where the
stables of the late John Hay were