Evening star., 1928-11-04
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Notes and Incidents and Personal Sketches
Relating to Prominent Personases of
Old and New World

The district of New York includes the
Federal Capital. and the consul gen.
eral, Mr.. RoZwadowSki, will be here on
business within the month, and will also
come socially to visit many old friends
| in Washington at the Polish legation
and in the State Department.
Mr.. Alexander C. Kirk, who is one
of the important bachelors of the
United States foreign service. is possibly
| the poSSessor of the finest Chinese COL
lection of vases. rugs bric-a-brac and
| screens In the city. and his spacious
home, once the Dumbarton Club OF
Georgetown, is the ideal place to display
| them. Mr.. Kirk passed several years
| IN China and he purchased discrimi-
| natingly of its artistic treasures. He
appears to have special weakness for
screens. Abundant room presents itself
for screens in the corridors and cham
bers of the old Dumbarton Club, known
to older WaShingtonians as the Cox
residence, and these add to the general
effect of the draping. rugs and rare
Oriental furnishings. But screens have
almost passed as an article of furniture
in other Washington homes. Some fu-
ture mistress of the White House, if
she has liking for these accessories,
will find many beautiful ones in the
storage rooms in the attic of the presi-
dental mansion. When the corridor OF
the White House served as State ban
quet hall there were variety of screens
set up for the occasion and there we're
many in other parts of the lower floor
used mainly as protection against
drafts In the remodeling in 1902, all
the screens we're discarded except one
or two small handsomely carved fire
screens which are used in the red and
green rooms. Mr. Kirk has some very
ancient embroideries which he bought
in the form of vestments made into
screens and they blend with the gen
eral coloring of his main drawing room
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Mr.. John Hay Paynes air yacht. the
Pegasus, is said to surpasS in elegance
of appointment and in size any of the
planes on Long Island which have been
constructed for pleasure alone. With
twin motored Sikorsky, the Pegasus is
amphibian and offers the last word in
comfort and space. Mr.. Whitney re-
estate of his father, the late Payne
WIlIlCys anu 1ldS bQlAu CldNO1 dJC
accommodations for his yacht. His
mother. formerly Helen Hay of this city,
lives at ManhaSset all the year, making
only brief visits to New York for the
opera and concert season and to the
splendid estate in Thomasville, Ca.
during the severe weather. Young Jock,
as he is called, graduated at oxford ana
is prominent in sports circles. having
won his laurels in polo and in cross
country riding. He will eventually fol-
low his father into the banking and
trust business, but he has not begun
his career in that direction yet. The
Pegasus was built under his watchful
eye and he intends to operate 1t himself
when he is more familiar with its man
agement. The cabin of the Pegasus Is
roony and furnished luXuriously III.
bronze leather and the sleeping quarters
compare favorably with all but the
largest sea-going yachts. The dining
equipment is also elaborate, and the
owner proposes to take his relatives ana
friends on two or three day trips along
the sound and into the country Of Con-
necticut and Massachusetts,, which is
particularly desirable in Autumn.
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Premier Mussolini's vivid description
of the glories of ancient Rome which he
hopes to make a reality in course or
time, may be realized in miniature for
the visitor to New York City by expend-
ing 10 cents on the Fifth avenue BUS
which turns in at the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art. Under the modest desig-
nation of the court of Wing K may be
admired a Roman garden and cortile
which inspires many landscape artists
and architects and which became so
crowded when first opened during the
past Summer that cards had to be
issued to the visitors Like the majority
of italian gardens, large portion is
tiled and in vivid red. creams and
blacks with a line of Pompeian pink
marking off the walks and circles from
the sward. Grayish walls rise to the
height of 10 feet and against them are
the Lombardy poplars that inevitably
decorate such Enclosures.
A peristyle, in which the columns
are deep red at the bottom and shading
to silvery pink at the top, surrounds the
walls and the poplars. Next are the
walks in mosaic effect and long white
marble pool surmounted by fountain,
a white marble youth holding a shell
On pedestals are grand old Romans o,
the republic. of the empire and of the
most famous of the Caesars. Mytho-
logical figures skirt the beds of fern
and ivy and small edgings of box cir
Gle the green, making it less than $50
feet in length and about 80 feet wide,
a glorius suggestion for those who wish
to make a genuine Italian garden an6
not feeble makeshift for one.
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Levi p Morton and Charles Sumner
are both recalled as the Cd Shoreham
Hotel, which stood on the site of the
Sumner House, is being demolished. So
much history was written within the
walls of this old mansion and that in
dependently of its later annals as a
hostelry that it would require an i'm
pressive bronze tablet to record them
all. Sumner was rated as host in his
day and to his residence came the
brains and social concourse of the Ma
ton in the years Immediately follow
ing the Civil War. John Lothrop Mot
ley, the historian, was Summers friend
in Boston and often his guest IN the
house on the corner of Fifteenth and H