Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Mr. Charles S. Dewey, Poland's Financial Adj
wiser, Credited With Inaugurating Wholesale
Observance of Yuletide in Warsaw

! neighbors and all the world, declaring
that all denizenS of the AustralaSian
Continent must keep aloof from the
wars and quarrels which have stained
the history of the older world.
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Rhode Islands Governor, Norman
Stanley Case, recently added to his
honorS by being admitted to the IA
nous Wamapoag Indian tribe, and this
on the occasion when the fine new
Mount Hope Suspension Bridge was
opened, the seventh largest of the
world, which connects the several por-
tons OF Rhode Island proper with the
Providence Plantations of Roger Will
liams. This bridge will greatly lessen
the distance to Newport and beyond to
the fishing grounds of Maine and to
That States splendid forests of pine
Historical students are already busy 10
marx the passing of the old, slow ferry
used since colonial days to carry pas
Sengers, teams and freight across the
southern peninsula of Rhode Island On
the chugging ferry Travelled Washington
with the French commander, Rocham-
beau, when they were to confer at
Newport. Every celebrity of Revolu-
tionary days and after had to use this
ferry. as well as the pleasure seekers
who have Swamped its capacity since
the present, tablets will be placed on
both ends of the bridge and a suitable
memorial to the defunct ferry will be
erected later.
When Mrs. Andrew Carnegie returned
from Skibo Castle during the early part
Of November, she took possession Of her
handsome and extensive home on upper
Fifth avenue. This residence, erected
rSany years ago, now has the largest
grounds Of any domicile in that fash
ionable boulevard, and it has been an
annual feature for lordly real estate men
to offer exalted prices for the property,
always saying 1t was the best site re-
naming on Fifth avenue available for
an apartment house. Mrs. Carnegie'S
reply has been in substance that it
would continue to remain" at least
during her life. Mrs. Roswell Miller,
only daughter of the late steel magnate
and philanthropist, with her husband
and four daughters. lives on Long Island
and usually passes the Summers at
Skibo, that picturesque village where
the late laird" built his grim looking
castle. 1t frequently has been observed
that none of the late multi-millionaire's
dollars has been expended by his wife
and family In the social game to which
nearly all Gothamites of large means
care for the usual social activity and she
has Sternly refused to allow herself to
be exploited. She gives stately dinners
and has receptions and lectures In her
grand salon, but the guests are Sc
lected for other than merely fashionable
significance. She is deeply concerned
in projects of benevolence, in the adj
vancement of music and art education
in all its angles and leaders in these
spheres make up the majority of the
guests in the Carnegie home on Fifth
avenue and in Skibo Castle.
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Mr. and Mrs. Perry Belmont, who will
look In on the gayeties of the season
proper from their home in New Hamp-
shire, where it vii be remembered as
one of the. pioneers of the Austrian
mountains in competition with the pop
ular Swiss and Central Europe ranges.
They passed Summer after Summer in
the spectacular Carpathians and when
or on the Rhine they would show superb
views of the Danube with Schloss Agg-
stein perched squarely on a lofty peak,
absolutely impregnable except by air,
and the scenic effect Of the valley of
enchantment, as seen from the motor
road from Linz to Vienna. Mrs. Belmont
is devoted to music and she has pill
grimages to many shrines consecrated
to the makers of divine song. Naturally
she and Mr.. Belmont soon discovered
out those beauty spots along the Dan
ube which had inspired Wagner's grand
est symphony. From the Strudel, where
the rushing river makes terrific gasheS
in the rock with a resulting island so
weird and monstrous that even Wag-
ner's strains do not convey its mys-
terry, the master viewed the effect and
journeyed upward to Poechlarn, the
gaunt, dreadful ruined castle which
legend made the home of Ruediger of
Bechelaren, one of the heroes of the
'Nibelungen Lied" This past Summer
many from the Western World had come
to the same conclusion that travelling
by boat on the Danube, besides being a
novelty, was entirely repaying.
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The late William Kent, for some
years Representative in Congress from
San Francisco, left a series Of papers
which have been collected and published
as "reminiscences of outdoor Life"
and are being greatly enjoyed by his
friends here. The late member of Con-
gress and Mrs. Kent we're will known
and greatly liked in the official world
of their day. Mrs. Kent was the
daughter of the eminent professor of
Latin in Yale, DR.. Thomas A. Thatcher
and in her girlhood she was caught in
the vortex of the fad for antiques which
swept New Haven, and, in fact, all New
England. While serving in Congress
Representative Kent and his family
lived in that handsome old mansion
known as the Hay House, once the home
Of william Writ, which Is on the cor
ner of Twentieth and F streets. Mrs.
Kent may be deemed the pioneer Of all
those who remodeled in perfect har-
many the century-old domicileS which
are found in that vicinity and In
greater numbers in Georgetown. Mr..
Kent. it will be remembered, had in
herited that magnificent forest across
San Francisco Bay and around the pic
turesque peak, Tamaupalas, now known
to tens of thousands of tourists as the
Muir Woods. When Mr.. Kent made his
princely gift to the State and the affair
became public knowledge, former Presi-
dent Roosevelt, who had known and
admired him in Washington, wrote, ex-
postulating on the name, and volun-
teered what is considered as truly
| Rooseveltian advice, suggesting that he
call the tract Kent, and thus send down
his patronimic to poSterity. Mr.. Kent
also made a typical reply. He mailed
the exPresident a photograph Of his
five sons and two daughters, and wrote
beneath, IF these cannot send my name
down to posterity, no neck Of woods can
do It,"
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Viscount Aston has recently presented
| to the senior class at Eton an electrified
horse, mallet and balls, with which he
hopes these young men will become pro-
flcient polo players. Polo in Great
Britain, even more emphatically than
in this country. is relegated to the
opulent classes, and it does not enjoy
the popularity among the junior horse
men which the American-born peer be-
lieves it should Polo clubs are multi