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Morgan, are registered as active mem
hers and their small sons are on the
waiting list. Three John D. Rocketel-
lers are in the club and MIR. Ogden L.
Mills, Undersecretary OF the treasury,
is a charter member. His small son
also has been entered. The elder
James Stillman and the Junior are
there and there is James Stillman
Rockefeller and William A. R1ckefel-
Ter among the juniors of distinguished
families. Mr.. Vincent Aston was a
charter member and he has registered
his young Step-brother. John Jacob
Astor, on the waiting list. About six
months ago, this Broad Street organ
izAtion was formed to relieve the con-
gestion of the Midcity Bankers Club,
which had crowded out the older circle.
Mr. Charles Evans Hughes is among the
directors and other men we'll known IN
the Capital who have sponsored this
new social and business venture are
Mr.. Otto H. Kahn, Mr.. John w. Davis
and Mr.. Thomas W. Lamont. The
former Undersecretary of State, Mr..
Frank L. Polk, is president, and on the
board of governors is Mr.. Ogden L.
Mills, Mr. Richard Whitney and Mr..
The ambassadors and ENJOYS of the
Republic in foreign lands make great
feast on the day of Thanksgiving. When
Mr.. Houghton returned to his post in
London he had shipped, to be served at
the banquet which he had announced
for Thursday evening to follow bril-
liant afternoon reception, several bar
reis of the toothsome oysters of the
Chesapeake Bay and many we'll packed
crates of Cape Cod cranherries. Tur-
keys are to be obtained in the London
market and the delicate sole and truffies
which, with the other edibleS yielded
a feast for Lucullus. Mr.. Herrick always
orders his favorite American products
early in October and he imports for the
delectation of the numerous American
colony established on the Seine, turkeys,
caporS, oysters, many toothsome frierS
and green corn especially cultivated in
southern lighthouses, so that homeSick
American citizens partake of the food
they would enjoy in their own bailiwick.
Mr.. Hammond in Madrid and the
charge in Rome have provided home
food for their annual reception and an
other genial host who has made tradi-
ton by his Thanksgiving reception and
banquets, the component parts OF
which have come from many States. is
Calf, minister to the Netherlands.
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Mai. Georges Thenault, military at
tache of the French Embassy, is the
first of the resident experts on aero
nautics to be presented by his govern
ment with private and personal plane.
This is a 120-horsepower Morane-Salm-
son, and while primarily designed to
assist Mai. Thenault in his experiments,
it may also be used for pleasure pur-
poses. and to take friends on journeys
made in haste. Boiling Field officials
and the Army service fields have Of
fered the major the hospitality of their
quarters and no doubt an acceptable
part of next Springs social program
will consist of flights in this French
plane Also without doubt the British
will follow this lead and send one CT
their army machines to Air Commander
Hetherington and the Italian govern
ment undoubtedly will fall into line.
So to private railroad cars, autos and
yachts a new activity is soon TO be
catalogued in Washington. Maj. Then
ault is the historian of the Lafayette
Escadrille and until the entrance of
this country into the World War he
was its commander Nine. Thenault
was Miss Sara Spencer of Chicago arA
is for the moment the only daughter OF
Uncle Sam In the French diplomatic
group in Washington.
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M. Katsujii Ambassador from Japan,
like his predecessor, is a devoted Pc
destrian, and like him he prefers a
good. fast tramp before breakfast to the
usual sauntering walk in the afternoon,
although whenever possible he takes
both. It seems written in the stars that
he and President Coolidge will often
meet. although for some time past the
Chief Magistrate has been compelled
to renounce his early morning walk, ex-