Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
BY MARGARET n. DOWNING

Mr.. W. Clark Noble, the sculptor, OF
this city. whose work IL well known
and may be admired in many foreign
as well as American cities. is about to
undertake in behalf of the LEnfant
Memorial Committee OF New York
City a statue Of the accomplished
Frenchman who was the author OF
the ground plan on which Washing
ton has been built. The memorial So
ciety, which Is we'll supported In New
York City, proposes to erect the
statue before the City Hall, of which
L'Enfant was the designer, and to
embody 1t as a general tribute OF che
Nation in its greatest city, to the gal"
liant Frenehman who served In the
Revolutionary War as and aid-de'
cap to Washington, and as captain
of engineers in the Royal French
Corps, was so diligent in erecting
trenches and in defending Savannah.
The Society of the Cincinnati Is also
interested in this effort to honor the
neglected patriot, for he drew its IN
sigma and his facile pen was the first
to conceive the idea OF the American
eagle with outstretched wings, now so
familiar the world over. LEnfant,
as the late DIR. James Dudley Morgan
often pointed out, was singularly neg
lected by the Federal Government and
by the City of Washington, to whom
it owes it's grace and beauty of design
and location. DIR. Morgan was the
grandson Of William Dudley Digges,
who offered an asylum to the penni'
less genius in his old age and at
whose home. Chillum Manor, Green
Hill, Md, L'Enfant died in 1924. AS
the inherit.,r of all the private papers
of the Frenchman, DR.. Morgan left
them to the Library of Congress and
as president of the Columbia Histor'
ical Society he was instrumental in
having L'Enfant's body removed from
Green Hill to the stately tomb in Arl.
ington. But no statue, tablet nor
bust of the city's founder has ever
been erected within its corporate
limits nor is there a street, park or
even public building named in his
honor.
Mr.. Louis Enstein, who Is the chief
supporter and enthusiastic attendant
of the open air opera given at Ravin1a,
Chicago's loveliest suburb on Lake
Forest, has begun, under cooperation
Of the Illinois Health Department and
the Agriculture Department group
working there, an intensive campaign
have been as sensitive about this pest
interfering with the pleasure of the
open-air performances as San Fran
ciscans are about illusions to earth
quakes. But ignoring the agile pest
in the press and in conversation did
not lessen its ravages, and the open
air opera project was definitely threat
ened. The scientists Of the Agricul-
ture Department attack the lively
insect in its stronghold under the
water, and the crusade begun at
Ravinia in early May. despite the
rainy season, always so hospitable TO
mosquitoes, already shows signs OF
success. Different sections of the
Jersey coast have been successfully
treated. and all along Buzzards Bay
The trea tment has exterminated the
winged singers so largely that now
only when the wind is in certain
directions is 1t uncomfortable to ven
ture beyong screens. Mr.. Charles
Fa,'well Winton. grandson Of former
Senator Charles B. Farwell, who is
th> mayor of Rayinia. is in charge of
the war against the mosquitoes. And
for one and a half miles along shore
che fight is waged day and night with
peisons and sprays.
Capt. and Mrs. Kenneth G.. Castle.
man spent nearly all of June here
renewing old ties Of friendship, after
returning from q residence Of three
years in Rome, where Capt. Castle
man was naval attache to the en-
bassy. He recently was appointed
chief of staft under Rear Admiral
Mark Bristol, commander Of hte
Asiatic feet, and has left for the
Pacific Coast. Mrs. Castleman was