Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-02
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Sketches of Noted Personases in United States
and Foreign Lands, With Notes of
Special Interest Grouped

professional florists about Washing
ton. Mrs. Coolidge is a continual con
tributor to the flower booth, and her
offerings arrive regularly, irrespective
of whether she is in Washington or
away.
Mgr. Enrico Benedict and DR.. Car.
melo Scala, members of the staff of
the Vatican Library. who will spend
the next three months in Washington
studying the methods followed at the
Library Of Congress in cataloguing
its mammoth stock of books, manu-
scripS, maps and other treasures of
photography, are temporarily guests
OF Bishop Shahan, rector Of the Cath
Olic University OF America. Both
these scholars are friends of DR..
Henry Hyvernat, professor OF ORR
entail studies at the university, at
present in Paris finishing his work in
connection with the editing and pub.
fishing of the elder Pierpont Morgan's
Coptic and Assyrian gospels. In a
vital way DR.. Hyvernat has been a
factor in the determination of the
present Pontiff, Plus XII. to have the
Vatican Library catalcgued and ar.
ranged for the use of scholars Of the
world. When Plus XXI was merely
Mgr. Ratti, librarian of the vast Am
brosian collection OF books at the
Cathedral of Milan, DIR. Hyvernat,
then employed by the Archaeological
Institute of Paris, was constantly con.
sulting these books and complaining
of the obsolete system Of indexing.
Mgr. Ratti at once set the Ambrosian
Library on modern basis, as far as
his means permitted, and when he
became Cardinal Ratti Of Milan he
tS Il to
ascending the papal chair he was con-
stantly in touch with his old friend,
DIR. Hyvernat. During DIR. Hyver-
mats frequent visits to Rome in con-
nection with the Coptic gospels, the
Pontiff had many opportunities to OBJ.
tam f1rst-hand knowledge on Ameri-
can library methods. After a minute
examination of the Library of Con.
gress, the Vatican officials will matric-
ulate in the School Of Library Service
at Columbia University, New York
City.
The mayor of the worlds greatest
city, affectionately known to the pub.
lie of New York as Jimmie" Walker
could not reasonably hope to please
all elements OF the complex popula-
ton under his Jurisdiction. but that
ne failed to honor the birthplace of
Manhattan's founder, one Peter Minuit
OF Westphalia, has aroused the ire of
historical writer's. Mayor Walker and
MS party spent some happy days in
Germany. AT several points they
were not far from the now insignifi-
cant town of Lippenmuende, located
where the small River Lippe Joins
the Rhine. This is now the heart of
the Rhenish Westphalian coal dis.
trlct. The once rural scenery is
blackened by the smoke of factories
and the old farm lands have given place
to busy cities where workers in in.
dustrial plants live. When the Dutch.
man Peter Minuit Joined the depu-
ties OF the Rhine Co., all of whom
were merchants and traders. who
sought audience at Amsterdam with
the States General of Holland, the
area was poor and sparsely popu-
lated. The object was to secure q
charter for the regions in North
america which the discoveries of
Heinrich Hudson had revealed to the
world. Minuit sailed with the first
adVenturers sent by the newly incor.
porated Dutch West India Co. and
received as his portion of land what
is now the city Of New York. His
immediate descendants gave the farm
grant a decided urban aspect early in
the seventeenth century. It was from
the thriving city Of Lippenmuende, a
member OF the Hanseatic League
that Chariemagne directed his mill.
tary operations against the Saxons.
Mayor Walker evidently considered
this too obscure a point in the tire.
mendous history Of his city in its
later development to give it his atten.
ton.