Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-28
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Secretary Good of War Department to
Assist in Breaking Ground for Valley
Forge Military Academy

grandson nearly a dozen times removed
Of the associate of Revere, who aroused
| the farmers and had them ready to
fire that shot which echoed round the
world BritonS also admire LongfelloW,
notwithstanding the verdict of the new
school that he was no poet at all, but
merely a .rhymester, as all who read
personal papers of Thomas Bayard first
Ambassador sent to London, and his
successor will discover Walter Hines
Page sent to his book firm for an en-
larged and illustrated copy of the Cam
bridges poet works in order to answer
all the questions asked about Hiawatha
and the Tales of the Wayside Inn
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Sir Thomas Liptons loving cup of
sterling silver, surmounted by grace
fully poised figure of victory holding
the torch Of knowledge, has arrived in
this country and has been placed in
the custody Of the Brooklyn Sea Scout
committee The veteran yachtSman has
presented this trophy TO be awarded
each year to the sea scout craft of
Brooklyn which accomplishes the most
useful work for the community. Mr..
Frederick Trubee Dawson, Assistant
Secretary OF War for Aviation, and Mr.
Richard Newcombe, president of the
Queens Council in Greater New York,
have acted an Intermediates to obtain
from the War Department permission
for the Boy Scouts of the Queens
Council to use Camp Upton military
reservation which adjoins their camp
on the Wading River, New York Sir
Thomas Upton during several visits to
this section was impressed with the fine
work done by these Scouts in hiking
in nature study and in a knowledge
of woodcraft. Camp Upton and the
National Park Of the same name are
in Suffolk County and Wading River
pours into Long Island Sound at the
point where the Scout Boat Club has
been located. The new camp for the
boys will be called in honor of Mr.
Newcombe and the award of the Lip
ton trophy next Autumn will be made
by the Assistant Secretary of War Tor
Aviation, Mr.. Dawson.
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Mrs. Vincent Aston, Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt, jr, Mrs. Thornton Wilson
and Mrs. Otto F. Kahn compose
committee known as the American
Women's Art Association" which has
for its object loan exhibition at
Barcelona. The association will dis
play few examples of every period
of fine arts in this country, with a
special emphasis on the textile and
graphic division in which the daugh-
tiers of Uncle Sam have achieved dis
tinction. This Government, although
cooperating so heartily in the HIS
panic american Exposition which
opened the middle of April in Seville,
is not officially represented in BARGE
Iona. But Barcelona is one of the
great centers of Spanish population
and the industrial exposition there will
be visited by thousands who will not
see the more restricted one in Seville.
and a number of prominent women
from this country are cooperating with
Mrs. Astors committee in sending spe-
cial treasures for their benefit Mrs.
Aston has collected Spanish embroider-
les and illuminated leather for years,
and Mrs. Vanderbilt, so frequently en-
tertained at San Sebastian, has notable
canvases by the Spanish masters. Mrs.
Kahn and Mrs Wilson are AFFILIATED
with the splendid work in which the
Hspanio Museum and Library Asso-
citation Of New York City is engaged
and of which the former Spanish Am