Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
BY MARGARET b. DOWNING.

EACEAQChI IlEAueIb
10 the reckoning of his friends, has II
close cronies to the few listed as sucf
for the retiring chief magistrate, ant
washington awaits with keen anticipa
ton the making of their acquaintance
Many are. of course. already well known
rs for instance. the Ambassador TO BruS
sels. Mr.. Hugh Gibson, who made &
special journey from Belgium to bt
present at the Inauguration. DR.. Vernon
Kellogg, who holds lofty place In thu
esteem Of President Hoover, is familiar
to Washington and so, too, is his wife
that Charlotte Kellogg, who writes sc
charmingly under her own name ane
who is just as close to Mrs. Hoover a.
her husband is to the Chief Executive
But Washington does not know Mr.
Thomas T. c. Gregory. who is a Cali.
fornia friend OF years standing, triec
and true in every respect during the
Belgian relief work and the food ad-
miniStration service. Washington viii
welcome cordially the visits of thai
brilliant young financier. Lewis L
Strauss of Richmond, Va. now a men,
Der of the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb
g. Co. in New York City. Mr.. Strauss
came to washington in the war days
looking for q job and. no one being
available. he became office boy for Mr.
Hoover In the Food Administration and
he proved an uncommonly good one and
soon was invited up higher.
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Mai Edward and Lady Alexandra
Metcalf of London have passed the
greater part of January and all of Feb
ruary and early March in this coun-
try very quietly as to social obliga-
tionS, although much in demand In
fashionable sporting circles. Lady
Alexandra Is the youngest daughter of
the late Mary Letter and her husband,
the Marques Of Curzon, and Maj. Met
calf, once eQuerry of the Prince Of
Wales, Is an accomplished poloist. He
came to New York at the invitation Of
Mr.. Winston Guest to participate in
the Winter practice games on Long
Island and at Palm Beach. With MIR.
Guest. Maj. and Lady Alexandra Met
calf visited Palm Beach and Fort Lau-
derdale, and were much in demand in
the British colony there. They then
crossed the continent to see the polo
games at Burlingame, Calf, which were
especially numerous and dashing dur
ing February. This Is the first visit
which the youngest OF the three daugh-
tiers of the Marques of CurZon has
made to her mothers native land. But
she did not, like her sister Cynthia. wife
Of Sir Oswald Moseley, come to Wash
ington. Mai. Metcalf is in the Indian
service, but at present has leave Of alb
sence Of two years. There is small
daughter, Olivia, who is under the care
stepmother Of Lady Alexandra in whose
home she resides during her London So
1ourn.
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No decision of President Hoover in
the formation Of his Cabinet has caused
more genuine pleasure to thousands of
washingtonians than is that of retain
ing Mr.. James j. Davis as Secretary of
Labor. Mr. and Mrs Davis have gained
q strong hold on the affections Of
washingtonians of every class and
their I'VE children, three of whom have
been born here since 1921, are regarded
with pride and affection. Secretary
Davis in completing two terms OF eight
years Joins somewhat limited class in
the history of cabinet officials, as does
the Secretary of the Treasury, also, and
they are the sole survivors of the orig
inal Harding Cabinet. President Hoover
came closest in having served the same
length Of term until his nomination last
June, seven and a half years, which is
u Hulk HCIIOQ III CdOAllCOi POob. AAA
the Wilson terms there were three who
began with that Executive in 1913 and
remained until he left Office in 1921.
These were the Postmaster General,
Mr.. Albert Sidney Burleson; the Secre-
tary of the Navy, Mr.. JoSephus Daniels.
and the Secretary Of Labor, MI William
B. Wilson. -
The venerable James wilson Of Iowa
served longer than any member OF the
presidential councillors in all history.
He entered President McKinley'S cabi-
net in 1897 as Secretary Of Agriculture
and he remained until President Taft
yielded ONCE in 1918. 16 years. or four
full terms. The next record for long
evity Is held by william Writ Of Mary
land, who became Attorney General
when James Monroe took office in 1877:
He remained under the two terms OF
that President and was retained for an
other four years by John Quincy
Adams. 1t Is into this third term
cabinet official list the Secretary Of the
Treasury and the Secretary of Labor,
both citizens Of the Keystone State, now
enter. %
Mrs. John Wood Stewart, 30 well
known throughout the country for her
labors In various useful ways. the
Neediework Guild, the National Plant
Flower and Fruit Guild, and for en-
couraging all manners of gardeners and
tree lovers. has recently been decorated
by the French government with the
Cross OF the Legion. OF Honor for her
war efforts in sewing classes and gen.
eral work for the sick and wounded.
Mrs. Stewart is the founder of the
Needlework Guild, society which be-
gan with few earnest philanthropists
sewing for poor mothers and their chill
dren. It has now membership OF
nearly million and the president Is
Mrs Thomas j. Preston. better remem-
bered by the public as Mrs. Grover
Cleveland. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt
has acted as national president and IL
at p esent head OF the Oyster Bay sec
tior Mrs. Stewart was in France in Au-
GU 1914 and, unable to get home. COM
fo tbly. she organized sewing classes
a. the had done some 10 years previous
u In New York City, and she remained
at the work until her own country en-
tered the war, when she returned to
New York and did yeoman service with
the Red Cross.
President Hoover'S inauguration or
that of any other Chief Magistrate Of
the United States, in the opinion of
resident Canadians, is a tame affair
compared to the coiorful method by
which the neighbor to the North in
ducts her Governor General. He is met
on landing at Quebec by the dignitaries
of the government in full regalia and
when he reaches the station at Ottawa
ne is drawn TO Rideau Hall in a gor-
geously bedecked sleigh with six horses,
II it is Winter, and by a six-horse coach
manned by Positions. If the weather is
mild. In the vast audience, where sew
eral thousand people may be comfortably
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