Evening star., 1928-10-14
Tales of Well known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Shifting of White House Functions to Eare,
Date This Year Seen as Eliminat
of Little Season."

cites of guests in their beautiful home
at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Is
land-musical friends of their sons, po-
litical and financial magnates and art
lists and writer's without number. The
home at Cold Spring Harbor shows
how deeply early memories have impress
sed this successful naturalized citizen,
for it is like hundreds of the high
cabled stone houses to be seen in Mann
helm, Germany. Mr. Kahn's birth
place. The house is nearly one hum
dred feet long and sits sQuarely before
an inner cove and. with its high-pitched
roof pierced with many windows SO
strongly resembles those in eastern
Germany. where traditionally a stork
sits placidly on the tall chimneys. that
only this feature is missing from the
typical picture But the grounds are en-
tirely in conformity with the section of
Long Island and range from the formal
sunken garden to the wild wooded
spaces where the natural fora has not
been disturbed One Of the glOries
Of the place is the spacious music hall,
where concerts are given by visitors
which attract the entire COUNTRYSIDE.
II The water side of the Kahn house
resembles the ancient stone dwell
ing of Mannheim. the entrance to the
estate is reminiscent of the caStled
Rhine. After entering stately gates
long avenue of clipped ewes leads to the
porte cochere. Back of the rose garden
and the pools is a vineyard on the short
stout oaken poles which adorn the
vines have been taken from the old
paintings near Bingen.
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Mr.. Wesley Frost. who was recently
appointed as consul general Of this coun-
try in the, Dominion of Canada to sue
ceed Mr.. Albert J. Halstead, who has
been assigned to London, is we'll known
in Washington. where he prepared for
his successful career. He is Familiarity
called the consul of submarine reports
in that, being stationed during the most
active part of underSeas warfare at
Cork, he made the final reports on no
less than 81 attacks by the German
boats on the sovereignty of this Repub-
lie and its rights as neutral nation to
sail the seas undisturbed. Mr.. Frost's
name was. known all over the world
through his untiring efforts in behalf
of the victims and relatives of the sur
vivors of the LuSitania tragedy. He
likewise reported the attacks on the
California. the Imric, the Arabic and
the Hesperian, the details of which were
v1tally interesting in this country Mr.
Frost was born in Oberlin. Ohio. and
studied at the college of that town. He
came to Washington soon after and
took course in the George Washington
University. He married here Miss Mary
Priscilla Clapp, daughter of former
Senator Moses Clapp Of Minnesota
There are three daughters who have
lived in many parts of the Dominion
Of Canada and of Europe with their
parents. For time Mr.. Frost hovered
on literary career, and was for year
the literary secretary of Representative
Theodore E. Burton, then in the Senate
He served as assistant In the Bureau of
Statistics to the late o. P. Austin before
entering the foreign service in 1909.
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Lord Auckland. who has passed
year with his family in Canada, where
he has large agricultural interests, is
very we'll known to denizens of Florida
as the Hon. Frederick Eden and he
one time spent much of bis time at + ort
Lauderdale and in Palm Beach. 1t was
in 1917 that he succeeded his father
and acquired a handsome fortune as
well as much valuable property in the
English .midlands. DUNG a period of
invalidism he crossed the Atlantic to
marry Miss Susan Hartridge of Jack
sonville, to whom he had been engaged
before he Joined his regiment az the
beginning of the World War. He is the
sixth baronet of Auckland and a lead
ing authority on agriculture. He was
once associated with Lord Rodney and
the British ranchers in Alberta, and
owned land in the vicinity of that of
the Prince of Wales. From his last
visit I'd Canada, he brought a pair of
gray wolves, which he proposes to tame
and keep in special incloSure on his
stock farm. He has long peen con-
vinced that in country utterly lacking
wild wolf hunting in packs here. as
in England, individual animals may be
domesticated. The experiment will be
followed with vivid interest from
Canada. where wolves are a menace to
stocks and even to barnyards in the
long cold Winters.
X ~
Mr. Myron T. Herrick has at last sue
ceeded in divorcing his private home
roy11 the rho onnc1leru af the TTYNifol Cfofn