Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-21
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Modern American Manufa ctured Plate and Table
Silver Displacing Old, Ornate Varieties
Produced in Foreign Lands

| toothsome dainty until all declared that
! too much fish was worse than none
Archbishop Curley's mother is in her
eighty-ninth year. but she has not lost
the knack for frying tine sportive perch
! This holiday devoted to fishing is the
first which the busy head of the oldest
metropolitan see of the Catholic Church
in this Republic has enjoyed since he
was lad Of Is and departed from his
home to study for the priesthood in the
/ College of the Propaganda Eide in
Rome. Mr. John Mccormick. the sweet
singer of Erin and a boyhood friend of
the archbishop. was his frequent COM
panion on the fishing expeditions and
toward the end of the Summer lured
the prelate and his mother to the hand
some home which he owns on the east
coast of Ireland, where the salmon fish,
ing is renowned.
The Austrian Minister'S decision to
procure the building of legation for
his country was evidently the result Of
intolerable crowding in his present
quarters, formerly the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Josephus Daniels during the eight
years that the North Carolinian was
Secretary of the Navy in the Wilson
cabinet. The Minister from the Aus
TRAN republic, M. Edgar Frochnik, has
five children and the entire home would
not be at all spacious for his family,
but the chancelry and the consular
office were both located on the third
floor, and Nine. Prochnik, who was
Miss Gretchen James of Boston. had to
submit to the using of her stairway at
all hours of the day by all manner Of
strangers. The new home of Austria
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fine mansion on Connecticut avenue
over which the double black eagle of
Austro- Hungary used to float. This
mansion, long since demolished, was
once the social center of the diplomatic
corps, especially during the long regime
of the Baron and Baroness Hengelu-
muller. Baron Hengelmuller was Min
lister for fifteen years before he was
promoted to be an Ambassador. and he
purchased the property from Mrs. Au-
gusta Patten Glover, sister of Mrs.
Corbin and of Miss Mary Patten and
Mrs. Nellie Patten, and furnished 1t
superbly. Only two ambassadors re-
sided there-the purchaser and NJ. Con-
stantin Dumba, who fell under the dis
pleasure of President Wilson in 1915
and was sent home. The Austro-
Hungarian embassy was tsnantless
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some equipment was dispersed.
Mr.. Myron c. Taylor, who Is one OF
the executive directors of the United
States Steel Corporation. has taken a
month from the rush of affairs to
search in the London archives for init
mate and comprehensive data about his
stalwart ancestor. Capt. John Under
hill, who. like Miles Standish of song
and story. though more to the point of
tremendous historical Importance, was
the military leader of the Puritans
Capt. Standish filled similar role in
the annals of the Pilgrim Fathers. Mr..
Taylor, who has bookish turn despite
his prowess in finance and statistics
has gone through the records of Under
hills in Warwickshire, whence came the
stalwart John. who departed with the
Puritans in 1925. but he has found
tangled web. Underhill is common
name in the midlands, and there are
many bearers Of the name in London.
In the Garrick CLUB there is portrait
of Cave Underhill who came from
Warwick, which is Shakespeare's
county. and was an actor toward the
| end of the seventeenth century. But
Mr. Tavlor who descends on the diStaff