Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-15
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Personal Sketches Special Notes and Events of
Unusual Interest Contained IN Review
of World Affairs

Mr.. Vincent Aston will soon begin
series of entertainments to mark
The 245th anniversary of the arrival
of the first Astor on American soil. II
was in August. 1883. that the immi-
grant John Jacob Aston arrived in
New York from Waldorf, a tiny village
in the faStncss of the Black Forest of
Wurtembure. Though of peasant
origin, this first AStor had a good edu
cation for the times and keen business
ability. which soon marked him for
pleferment in the fur trade. then reach
ing the height of power in the Far
Northwest under the protection Of the
new republic. He founded the -four
ishing seaport of Astoria, on the Ore
so Coast. city which long threat
cned the supremacy of Portland. The
tremendous success of the AStors in
the New World focused attention in
the Old World and was a factor in
the framing OF The celebrated epigram
of Lamartine tina. the sound Of his
tory is made ny the clank of wooden
shoes going up the stairs and the
rustic Of silk coming down. OF course,
only few of the descendants of the
first Astor will forcgather to celebrate
his setting foot on the New World 245
years ago. The family is sharply di-
vided into a New York or senior
branch of which the head is Mr.. VIM
cent Astor, and the family of Mr..
William Waldorf Aston. who renowned
his American citizenship. became Lord
Aston of Cliveden and whose son now
sits with the peers. But the Ameri-
can contingent will honor the memory
of the founder. and among the inter-
esting members will be Mrs, Theodore
Douglas Robinson. wife of the Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy. and Mrs
William Phillips. wife of the United
States Minister to Canada; John Jacob
Aston. posthumous seventh son of the
late John Jacob Aston, who persisted
on the Titanic; Lady Ribblesdale and
Princess Obolensky. the former the
mother and the latter the sister of the
head Of the family.
Nadeja de Braganza, daughter Of the
late Prince de Miguel de Braganza. a
pretender to the Portuguese and Bra
lillian thrones. and his wife-who was
Miss Anita Stewart-made her debut
July at the home of her maternal
grandfather Mr. William Rhinelander
Stewart, in Newport This was the
opening event of this kind and will be
one of the most important of the kind
during the season Besides the almost
endless connections of this pretty maid
with European royalty. and that she
counts her cousins on many thrones and
among the many pretenders TO thrones,
she has a distinguished ancestry on her
mothers side. The Stewards descend
from Robert Stewart. who fed his High
land home half century before the Revo-
luton. and who married into the eminent
Huguenot family of Lispenard. among
the very first TO seek asylum in the New
World after the revocation of the edict
of Nantes The Rhinelanders are also
of Huguenot descent and have counted
their generations in New York since
1896. The immigrant of this line was
Philip Jacob Rhinelsnder. who was born
in Oberwesel, just over the French from
tier from Alsace.
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Miss Mabel Bayard Thayer, daughter
of Mrs Bayard Thayer of Lancaster,
Mass. who will be married in the Au-
tumn TO Mr.. Richard Cults Storey. lr.,
is a member of the well known family
SO frequently represented in the social
and official world of Washington. She
is cousin to Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge.
grandson of the Senator and historian
from Massachusetts,. and Of the flancee |
of Mr. Elbridge Gerry Greene of the |
SAdbG ItpdI tElltilt. MI. SLolcy - the /
son of Mr. and Mrs Richard Cults |
Storey and grandson of Moorfield Storey
of Roxbury. who in 1870 married Miss
Gertrude Cults. grandniece of Dolly
Madison. Miss Cults was a belle of
Washington in the late i860s and bore
a striking resemblance to the sprightly
wife of the fourth President. OF liter
airy turn like many of his kindred, Mr.
Storey intends to follow the profession
of etters. Moorfield Storey an. emf
nent lawyer. also is a distinguished his
torian and essayist He was selected TO
write the life of the late Charles Summer
and of the late Senator Hoar of Massa-
cllusetts Though of advanced years
for he was born in l845-Mr. Storey re-
Gently published a series of essays on
the negro problem, which has been
keenly studied in every part of the
country Mr. Richard Cults Storey. his
son, also is in the law and given TO
writing He is a member of the Mas
sachusetts Historical Society and has
written many studies for its magazine,
some from original sources or the con-
stitutional convention, of which James
Madison was Official reporter
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Premier Mussolini. who is as versatile
as some of the grand old Italians of the
medieval ages. has begun crusade for
slogan which win nullify the effects
of two which have eaten large holes into
the tourist traffic of his country. The
most disastrous of these from the Ital
ian point Of view is See America First.
and has sent tens of thousands OF deni-