Evening star., 1928-03-18
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Mr.. Rufus c. Dawes. Brother of Vice President.
Heads Board Formed to Direct Chicago.
Centennial Celebration
NJ MARGARET a. DOWNING


Mr.. Rufus Cutler Dawes. brother q
the Vice President and long his asSoci
IN financial and other enterprises IL
chicago, has been selected president a
the Worlds Fair board of management
an association banded together to MAKE
the Tooth birthday OF the lake metrop.
oils IN 1888 as outstanding a celebra-
Won as was the Columbian Exposition IL
lSss-1SsS. Five years do not appear te
Mr.. Dawes and his colleagues as much
time to prepare for this international
event, and already the LEADING citizens
ana citizeneSSeS have been divided into
groups and minute committees II has
oeen conceded by world travellers anc
eminent artists that the part OF Chicago
which lies between the mouth OF the
river and Southward 10 the shores OF
Lake Michigan strongly resembles the
archipelago formed by the Adriatic Sea
ana the north end OF Delmatia. MIR
Dawes has under consideration the plans
of some leading engineers and architects
To create such an archipelago as a site
tor the exposition and TO have ii another
Venice. set in one OF the worlds mighty
modern cities; and to use the environ
ment 10 erect buildings which will re-
Semble those on the AdriatiC. Above all.
the waters which flow over sandy shall
lows and thus receive Shimmering opa-
tine hueS will be covered with bright coll
ored sails and with the say boats aSSo-
eiated in the mind with the canals OF
Venice. Chicago clings 10 the hope of
having the Olympic games staged there
in 1888, and this alone would lift the
exposition into the realm OF interna-
tionsl Importance.
Mrs. Francis P. Garvan of New York
City has what is deemed TO be the most
complete collection now in existence of
early silver tankards made by the CO.
lon1al smiths. Mrs Garvan, who was
Miss Mabel Brady OF Albany. began to
show interest in old silver in her early
girlhood and Albany was an excellent
place To study originals. for the buffets
OK the old KnicEerbockers. who still
reside in the New York capital, are
filled With the best specimens. Mrs.
GaTvan has one of the most perfect
tsnkaros from John Murt, who was one
or BoSton's most skillful craftsmen and
who had thriving business from the
last decade o. the seventeenth until the
first quarter OF the eighteenth century.
Rarely. indeed, does the work of Philip
Coelet, who worked in New York City
from about l7ls TO 1871 and who died
there, fall into any hands save those
OF his descendants. but Mrs. Garvan has
one OF his sturdy hammered silver
mugs. One by Nicholas Roosevelt,
grandfather seven times removed of the
tWenty-hfth President. is to be admired
IN this group and another by the mas
ter Of Roosevelt. Jacobus van der
Speigel. under whom he studied Spei-
gel began his labors in silver while the
Dutch were in control OF Manhattan
Island. OF course Paul Revere is rep
resented. and Peter van Dyck. another
progenitor OF eminent folk on the is
land The earliest silversmiths of the
New World. Peter Quintar, French
artisan, and jeremiah Dummer OF Bos-
ton, who came from London in l645
and established q large business en-
ploye0 many apprentices. and died in
iTis, are well represented in the coll
lection
Mr. and Mrs Charles S. Dewey. the
former retained by the Polish govern
nent as q financial adiuster have been
given as home an exquisite little gem
Of the Renaissance. Sobariski Palace,
and both are enjoying the gay society
of warsaw. The Poles are said to be
the most hospitabge people In the world
and the former Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury and Mrs. Dewey have
discovered that q more lively pace can
be set even than that of Washington.
where A is alleged no one can either
work or rest because OF the incesSant
social demands. Mrs. Dewey Is a
charming hostess and has been giving
some fetes after the custom observed
here - that Is. luncheons for women
alone and afternoon card parties. MFR
Dewey has been elected TO membership
on the directing board OF the National
Bank Of Poland, and all the exclusive
clubs have been opened TO him. Both
he and Mrs. Dewey have joined some
Of the famous wolf hunts in the long
stretch adjoining the Russian border.
sport which is said 70 be one Of the
most enlivening and at the same time
the most dangerous In Eastern Europe
Miss Eilzette Dewey has not joined her
parents. having many engagements
which she wished to I'LL but she plans
20 sail for Europe In the late Spring
She has several times visited Washing
tCr since her father resigned his post
Under Mr.. Mellon. but she makes
Chicago her permanent home with her
paternsI grandmother. Mrs. Charles
- Dewey Of Lake Forest
what IL called the Old Guard in
sccsi New York City, the descendants
Of the worfhiee who settled in Man.
haitian in 1914. recently gave its i02nd
aniiai bali In the Waldorf Astoria. when
the aneient Knickerbockers were rep
resented by the younger generations.
many Of whom have but slight trace
81 the Dutch blood. In 1929 Gotham
already had assumed social airs. and
there we're good hotels xith spacious
ball rooms From that year regularly
the function Of the Old Guard has been
given in the best hosteIry at command
But the first ball WAS back in i73g.
when Philip GaEYe1S0n invited his
reignbors to frolic in the City Tavern
In honor Of the coming of age OF the
Prince of Wales. DIR. Hans Kierstede
and bis wife Mary who figure in the
annals as social leaders and CIVIC in
noVators. received the guests and the
other names read like q page from the
KnickerbOckeF Tales Through the
political upheaVaie Of the following
years, social JOYS were not considered
bif the descendants Of the FIRST settlers
met shoeTiy. and during the War of
Revolution secretly and proclaimed
their traditions. A. the recent feStigity
s' me Wsldorf~A2Doria. all the guests
we're CARRIED IN the stifiy starched man
ref ~ tne era they o0mnemorsted and
tns afeH vii! br duly inscribed on the
YecoEof Of this oldest social organic
ton On me Atlantic sesbosFd. Along
soo1t ne lsb Is90's ,hs Old Guard
tft11Eisec the idsa III flooring over thc
chairs of the oid New Yorf Thest4r
nlofe commonly kno2n sk the Eowery
enS one of their largest annual balls
vas given there
The Lieutenant DoYsFnCY of G5iisbeI
arc mis- osuShDT, Mrs. Frank Me.
KennS, we'll Known IN Washington sn1
IN New York. recsntiy arranged . COS.
tune ball ~ wi1ich 800 yesTs 0f nistor,
IN That region Wa depicted In ths
DSEssnt, E1ebec is perhaps The onI,
siiy on the North American continent
uta4l5E he F.r.sEfkaIa -,