Evening star., 1928-10-07
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Researchers Tracing Old Time Records for Data
on President Coolidge's Ancestry Sketches
and Personal Notes

tanned a number of friends in Nurem-
burg, where an excellent troupe pre-
sented the lighter side of Wagner, like
THE Maestersingers," the scene of
| which Is laid in this fascinating old
city. Mr.. and Mrs. Parker Gilbert were
in Nuremburg for part of September
and nearly all of the embassy staff from
Berlin journeyed to the quiet town for
the al freSco opera. The United States
Ambassador toaBerlin and Mrs. Schur-
man are expected on this side about the
middle of October, their first visit in
two years.
Mrs. Chauncey Depew's decision to
spend the Winter in Washington will
result in the addition of another
charming woman, formerly the hostess
of senatorial home, to the coterie
already in residence. Although the
widows OF many classes of public men
find pleasure in the scenes Of their for
msr activities, those of the national
legislators far outnumber the widows of
juriStS, cabinet officers or lesser officials.
mrs Robert Love Taylor and Mrs. Ollie
N. James have permanent Winter quar-
ters in Washington, though they pass
the Summer usually In their Tennessee
and Kentucky homes. MS. Frank B.
Willis of Ohio will come to Washington
for at least part of the Winter and
Mrs. Woodbridge N. Ferris of Michigan
has re-engaged her former apartments
at the Washington Hotel for the later
Winter. MIS-. Andricus A. Jones of New
and spent the greater part of the last
Winter in the city. Mrs. James r.
Mann of Chicago has lived in Washing
ton continuously since the death of her
husband, ore of the leaders of the
House, and Mrs. Maurice D. Criim-
packer of oregon is permanent deni-
zen of the Capital. Many former Sen
ators and Members pass the Winter in
Washington and enjoy being spectators
of the game of politics as much as they
did the active role. James w. Wads-
worth, jr., former Senator from New
York, is one of these. Mrs. Wadsworth
spent all her girlhood and childhood in
Washington and it seems more like
home than the splendid establishment
maintained at Genesee, N. Y.
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Sir William Clark, new high COM
missioner for Canada, and Lady Clark,
have arrived in Ottowa. They have a
brief tour o. the United States in mind
after dispatching all their official obli-
acquaintance In the literary world of
New York and many personal friends in
Washington. She belongs to a distin-
guished Irish family, her mother being
the daughter of the Earl of Inchiquin.
She is the grandniece of the beloved
Catholic poet, Aubrey de We're. The
son of Sir Aubrey de We're and his wife,
who was Mary Spring Rice, aunt of the
late British Ambassador, Sir Arthur
Cecil Spring Rice, the young poet fol-
lowed Manning and Newman in the OK
ford movement in entering the Roman
communion. He was deemed the fore
most Catholic poet of his era and his
fame was widely acclaimed in this coun-
try. Lady Clark knew her distinguished
kinSman as small child-who died
in 1902-and she has maintained cor
respondence with several American
critics whom she now hopes to meet.
The poet de We're never married and at
one time contemplated taking orders
IN the Catholic Church. He was of
fragile health. however, and this in
terefered with his desires. He was the
friend and associate of the great poets
of his era, Lard Tennyson and Longfel-
low, whom he visited in the late 1905
in Cambridge, Mass.
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Andrew Carnegie's name is honored
in so many notable ways at the Ma
tional Capitalize Carnegie Institution
at Sixteenth and P streets, the Car
negie Endowment for International
Peace on Lafayette Square and the
Carnegie Library of Howard Univer-
sity-that the change effected some
time ago in relation to the library on
Mount Vernon place and its aff1liated
branches to the Public Library of
Washington has much to commend it,
In particular does the name, the Pub
lie Library of Washington, make for
less confusion, and as it is entirely
maintained by the taxpayers of the
Capital, just as the schools are, it is
more correct as no funds from the
Carnegie estate are now received. A
board of we'll known citizens of the
District of Columbia, with Mr.. Theo-
dore w. Noyes as president, acts as
trustees for the library and its branch
eS. AS now an integral part of the
municipal scheme, the Department of
Agriculture provides those lovely blooms
which adorn the main reading room
and give such homelike, inviting as
pect to the entrance. The children's
room is pretty enough to attract the
least diligent, with flowers in season
Ola tIAOuSA CAIC year, dIlQ OH Special
occasions fragrant blooms from the hot
houses. Washiongtoniana has been re-
ceiving much attention from the author
tiles of the Public Library and it is
now possible to study the Federal Dis
trict from maps, old woodcuts and en-
cravings, as well as read every line of
print about President Washington's
name city from the time it passed from
the red men.
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A quartet of cabinet officers, the
SECRETARIES of War, Navy and of Com
merce and the Postmaster General are
receiving bitter complaints from dwell
erS in apartment houses because of the
noise made by passing airplanes. In
fact, scores of those who climbed high
In order to avoid the turmoil Of the
streets say that they have leaped from
the frying pan into the fire and that
their slumbers are broken and the day.
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