Evening star., 1927-11-20
BY MARGARET b. DOWNING.

take particular pride IN the game iaWS
of their Commonwealth and the whole
hearted way in which the citizens
unite in keeping these ordinances,
e-b0ht 10 years age '.a conservation
experts forecast the utter annihilation
of several varieties of deer, of many
kinds of pheasant and other edible
birds. including the ring-necked pleas
ant and the pinnated ruffled and sharp
tailed grouse. Immediately there was
spirited campaign to protect the
game by law rather than by the usual
appeal to the better feelings of the
public. The law passed in 1922 makes
it unlawful to hunt many named kinds
of birds and all kinds of deer during
the odd numbered years. This law
was stringently enforced for three
periods, 1928, 1925. 1927. ard shows
that deer has become abundant and is
in prime condition. whilst the birds
are so numerous that they almost Ge-
mand killing. since many seek asylum
from adjoining States which do not
protect them after October /. Mime
sofa has its enthusiastic hunters and
they regard it as a privation that they
may hunt in their State only every
other year, but the law is observed
universally and the Secretary of State.
fervently during the numerous cam
paigns on it's behalf. has observed that
many other States are following Min
neSota's example. The Central Ohio
Anglers Club, alarmed at the inroads
made in the fishing grounds about
Lake Erie, recently waited on the gov
ernor and asked his aid in making a
law which will curtail activity for
several years to come. in order that
the waters may be restocked.
Mrs. Henry White recently enriched
the New York Historical Society with
a series of enlarged colored photo
graphs of the celebrities of her youth,
taken in fancy costumes at the juve.
nile balls of their period. During the
past Summer it was a pastime at
Newport to have such photographs
cast on the screen, with Il resulting
guessing contest as to the identity
of the bepowdered and befrilled bellies
and beauX. Mrs. Elisha Dyer had
several such entertainments in her
villa, and Mrs. White had intended
to entertain her friends in similar
way in Lenox, but the death of her
husband prevented. This collection
from Mrs. White includes many
valuable historic pictures. some da-
guerrotypes of the early days of the
Vanderbilt family, their first homes
and groups of the children and grand
children of the old commodore, who
founded the fortune. Mrs. William
Jaw has presented many photographs
of the beginnings of the family from
which the first Chief Justice came.
The New York Historical Society has
been making an effort to obtain pic.
lures of the many famous homes OF
its distinguished citizens which have
been demolished in the path of prog
ress and a special room has been set
aside to exhibit these in the chrono.
logical order. All will be indeXed
and there will be neat pamphlets of
descriptive matter accompanying the
cuts.
Mr.. Ogden Mills recently arrived in
New York from England, accompanied
by his daughter Beatrice, the Count
ess of Granard, and her children, and
they will spend the next month on the
Mills estate in the Westchester HIS
Mr.. Mills, who recently celebrated MS
list birthday anniversary. still is IN
active life, and when in New York is
to be found daily at his office in Broad
street. But he does not relish the big
he is apt to find relief in southern Cali
fornia or in Florida. A native OF
Sacramento, Calf, this captain OF in
dustry, though he has become citizen
of the world, is an annual visitor TO
the Pacific Coast and retains his mem
bership in many San Francisco and
Santa Barbara clubs. Mr.. Mills has
a marvellous residence in Paris, which
he gave, it will be remembered, to the
Government during the World War TO
be the headquarters of Gen. Pershlng
when the A. z. F. established offices
in the French capital. Several months
each Spring Mr.. Mills occupies this
house and for the remainder or the
time it is at the disposal of his daugn-
ters when they wish to visit Paris on
shopping or social pleasure bent.
Representative Ogden Livingston Mliis
and Mrs. Mills made the mansion their
home during their visit last Summer.
The elder Ogden Mills has made more
than so round trips across the ocean
and he appears good for number OF
others. He has no intention of going
on the retired list, his visits to Paris
and also to California being pleasantly
tnterspersed with business matters
pertaining to steamships, railroads and
other corporations with which he Is
connected.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen II. p. Pell
recently returned to their New YORK
City home, after series OF house par.
ties at their villa adjacent to old Fort
Ticonderoga. Fortified with old cuts
and the sage advice OF schoiars Oh
Revolutionary history, Mr. Pell has
recently restored the west barracks
of the fort and has created Place
d'Armes as it was called during the
French occupation all along the front
age of Lake Champlain, from the first
ruined brick wall at the north to the
last yestige OF barracks south. The
messrooms in the different barracks
buildings have been restored and ire
uuertly offered a fine place for eve
ming entertainments for the guests
and the villagers. Mr.. Stephen Pell is
the great-grandson of William Ferris
Pell, who, in 1918, purchased the en-
tire military reservation OF Fort II
conderoga from the United States Gov
ernment. 1t had not been military
harrison since 1881 and the hard
dressed War Department in President
Monroe's day was glad of the cash
maid for what seemed useless to hold
any longer for martial purposes. The
present owner has sold some OF the
1and and has presented several acres
together with the eommandant's man.
sion, to the State of New York. But
the historical group of blockhouses,
Qualifications and barracks. Mr. and
Mrs. Pell intend to restore to their
original aspect before presenting them
to the commonwealth. Their Sum
mer home is a spacious villa on an
eminence overlooking the lake and
the fort where the buildings of the
first occupants, the French, were
erected in the late seventeenth
century.
Queen Mary of Britain recently
caused o f1utter in court circles by de
elining to appoint maid of honor to
attend her and aid her entertainment
When the consort Of King George as
sumed her high rank five maids were
in attendance, each presumed to have
Gonna Snpcial ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN aid