Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
Tales Of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Mrs. Hoover, First Lady, Appears Freely in
Public Without Official Guards and
Manages Own Automobile


feathered tribes that select the Federal
Territory for nesting purposes. In the
deep woods part of the area which still
survive in the hospital grounds, Capt,
Carberry placed all the allurements
then known for the warblers. He took
unusual precautions against the bird
enemies-catS, hawks. bad boys-and
every variety of predatory creature, with
the result that the Carberry estate DUR
ing Spring, Summer and early Autumn
resounded with melody Many OF the
birds remain and it was noted that the
glorious oriole once SO abundant about
WASHINGTON remained in the hospital
grounds long after they had fled against
the advance of Washington's urban
limits.
Mr.. Henry Baldwin Ward, president
of the Izaak Walton League OF America,
will nc doubt get sympathetic ear
from President Hoover in the crusade
he has started against the pollution
of water which not only is destroying
fish but proving serious to human life.
Mr.. Ward fired the opening gun in
his battle for pure water in lengthy
handled article in Amer
lean Game, and he recites the efforts
made by various States-New York, IL
linois and many of the States OF the
Middle West-to protect their waters
from waste and from extraneous drain
ing. It will be remembered that former
President Coolidge showed the keenest
interest in the national conference of
Outdoor Recreation The Executive
took up it's aims and provisions with
his cabinet, and the Secretary of Com
merce, now the President, concerned
himself Immediately and, in fact, had
done this in q private way before the
presidential sanction urged more ac-
tive measures. Mr.. Ward calls at
tention to the fact that the Izaak Wal
ton League has $500 local chapters
established from Maine to California
and between the Canadian and the
Mexican borders, and that its hundreds
of thousands of members are linked
in a strong union both as to energy
and funds, locally and nationally, to
secure the proper legislation to prevent
further pollution of all water, fishing
streams especially.
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Mr.. Richard T. Crane holds forth
alone in the mellow brick mansion
which he built IS years ago in the
Lincoln Park section of Chicago when
fortune had smiled most beneficently.
In this former exclusive region of the
Lake City the Crane domicile is the
sole reminder of its olden prestige, for
at the other end of the park the Harold
F. Mccormick mansion stands, grim
and tenantless, and since both Mr.
Mccormick and his wife, the singer,
Gamma walska. have declared their
preference for another abode, the for
sale" sign has at last appeared. Miss
Florence Crane, who made her debut
last Winter is SO devoted to her home
that unless her affection WaneS, Mr.
Crane will ignore Office buildings and
skyscraperS and continue to reside
there during the Winter. The older
daughter, Frances Crane, who married
M. Jan Masaryk some months ago. is
just as much attached to the home,
where her courtship and marriage to
the son of the intrepid President of
Czechoslovakia was staged. Directly
across the broad Lake Shore Drive
where the Cranes live is mammoth
apartment house, which covers the site
of the hospitable Franklin MacVeagh
mansion, where 50 many Washingto-
mans have been entertainer.
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King Georges vacation home, Craig
we'll House at Gognor, is just beyond
the picturesque village of Aldwick, on
the south coast of West Sessex and in
the vicinity of England's most famed
seaside resorts, Brighton, Portsmouth,
Littlehampton and Bournemouth. The
mansion, which is owned by Sir Arthur
de Clos, is a substantial three-storied
house facing the channel about 200
yards distant, and the front is almost
wholly covered by windows, to give full
benefit of the southern and western
sun. Very plain and unadorned is the
lawn which leads to the porticoed en-
trance. and indeed so simple and
limited as to room appears this abode
of Britain's King that those retreats
in which former President and Mrs.
Coolidge and President and Mrs
Hoover recently found rest and recre-
alton are palatial in comparison. There
are many larger and more imposing
mansions which could have been Sc
lected for the invalid King, but Craig
well Hall answered all requirements
of quiet, secluSion and simplicity which
would prove more restful. A broad
tagged walk bordered by dwarf Japa-
nose naples and low growing barberry
make a gay streak of color against the
emerald well trimmed grass, and at the
end of the enclosure, a glory of flower
ing ounce has proven of interest to
the distinguished invalid.
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Rev. W. Herbert Burk, rector Of the
National Washington Memorial Church,
in the confines of the Valley Forge
Memorial Park, owned by the State of
PENNSYLVANIA, and the commissioners
and architects appointed by the Legis-
lature are engaged in what current
chroniclers describe as the first bat
tie of this famous section. Rev. Mr..
Burk Sternly opposes the Transforming
OF the sacred ground on which Gen.
Washington's ragged soldiers were en-
camped during the rigorous Winter of
1777-78 into an amusement park, and
leads a cohort Of more thoughtful cit
liens, who would like to see the farm
made into a valhalla surrounding the
$4,000, 900 memorial church which will
be designed after the illustrious West
minister Abbey of London, and besides
honoring Washington and the brave
soldiers of his Army will furnish a
place of burial for all of this Republics
mighty dead. Bishop Thomas j. Gar
land, Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania,
under whose jurisdiction the Rev. Mr..
Burk is, does not support the rector,
and accords the State the privilege to
conduct Valley Forge Memorial Park
in any way which pleases the ma
jority of its citizens. The Bishop FORE
sees hostility to the idea of making a
national monument like Westminster
Abbey any place except in the Capital
OF the United States, and as he is about
to erect a fine new cathedral at Rox-
borough, the entire body of Episco-
palians favor having only a chapel at
Valley Forge to fit into the plans of
the park commissioners and not vast
and expensive national shrine.