Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-19
BY, MARGARET b. DOWNING.

and he and Mrs. ingalls, have settled
into a comfortable circle of friends and
relatives. Several Washingtonians jour-
neyed to Cleveland last month to at
tend the wedding Of Miss Anne Taft
ingalls,. the Assistant Secretarys sister,
and Mr.. Rupert Warburton of London.
Mr.. Warburton is a member of the we'll
known family of Philadelphia, but he
has made a distinguished success of
finance in the British capital and has
taken his bride to a handsome home in
Belgravia. For many years the ingalls,
and Taft families have been closely
affiliated by ties of kinship and friend
ship and with the most illustriouS
member of the TaftS in residence. Mr..
and Mrs. David ingalls, have found the
social stage we'll set for their enjoy
ment. Mrs. ingalls, was Miss Louise
Hardness daughter of the Standard
Oil financier. The home Of these new
corners will be in keeping with their
well established conservative taste and
their hospitable inclinations. When the
Assistant Secretary OF AeronauticS was
in the Ohio Legislature he was called
the flying legislator because he COM
muted several times a week from Co.
lumbuS to his home on the lake front
of Cleveland. In those days owning
a private flying ship was rather unusual.
Mr.. ingalls, is as enthusiastic an aide
as the Secretary of the Navy could
wish to carry to success and compile
ton the five-year naval program agreed
upon during the last session Of Congress,
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Mary Garden, who, now is on tour
with the Chicago Civic Opera, Is so
associated in the public mind with that
Lake City that everywhere she travels
in this country or abroad she is
accepted as its adopted daughter But
the diva warmly denies that and ASSERT
that nothing would ever make her re-
nounce her allegiance to the lovely
Scotch city Of Aberdeen. where, say the
critics. the purest English in the world
Is spoken Miss Garden has acknowl-
edged that she at one time considered
taking out papers and becoming a
daughter of the city which has taken
her to its heart and laid the foundation
of her substantial fortune. But before
carving these intentions into effect she
invariably visited her natal home and
there experienced a. change OF heart.
Aberdeen she calls the city OF her soul:
When she wants colorful experience and
a shading of adventure she occupies
her villa at Monte Carlo and gives good
counsel and sometimes financial sue.
cor to victims of the gaming table. But
Chicago is her inspiration and pro1es-
sional home and nothing more dellgntS
this SOnPStreSS IMAM IOI It's pdPCAS W
aflude to her as Our Mary. =
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Lord Melchett. formerly Sir Alfred
Mond, whose name Is so well known IN
international finance in every part OF
the world. visits New York so often
that his coming attracts only mild at
tention. But on his visit in Midsummer
he proposes to see other parts OF. the
states, especially the cities where Ia
nous collections of pictures may be ao-
mired. The son of that DR.. Luowlg
Mond whose gift of the famous Mono
collection of canvaSes to the British ma
ton was so eulogiZed a quarter OF
century ago, Lord Melchett was reared
in the atmosphere of art, and his CHIEF
diversion is to look at pictures. Ac5
cording to British estimate no one Will
hold a higher place than he when the
first 80 years of the twentieth century
are recorded as to industrial progress.
and he is one of those who firmly be-
lieyed in the epigram ITO electricity
will 90 the nineteenth century, but to
chemistry the twentieth" He is known
as "Ikey' to thousands through his
stupendous efforts in behalf OF the Iu-
sion of the Imperial Chemical INDUS
tries and the Chase Securities Corpora
ton of New York City. An art con-
noisseur his praise Of an unknown ar
IlSC is MS lame anu lOLIoliC, aim a.S
makes it a point to see all the exhibits
Of young painters. 2,
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Mrs. Rebecca A. D. Wendell Swope
and Miss Ellen Wendell have, since
the recent death of their sister, MISS
Georgiana G. B. Wendell, become JOINT
heiresses of one of the largest fortunes
in New York. built on. the increasing
value of it's real estate 1t Is estimated
ut he Tn ha chm n(lO 00O
Miss Ellen Wendell lives in solitary
state at the family mansion on the cor
ner of Fifth avenue and Thirty-ninth
street, and has retained every inch OF
the large back grounds, with massive
brick wall screening it from the alley
and with wide iron gate always Sc
curely locked. Tall Offices and business
houses surround the Wendell mansion
and keep out both air and sunshine, but
the venerable owner declines to part
with her home, although recently 1t Is
reported that $4,000 600 had been Of
fered for the so feet frontage on the
alley. Mrs. Swope has home in West
chester and comes to New York on &C.
casion to visit her sister. She attends
the theater and patronizes the opera,
but Miss Wendell has never set foot in
any place of amusement. AS their are
no direct heirs and the property is
absolutely in the maine of the last pos
SCISSORS, it will no doubt be devised to
charity. member OF younger
branch of the Wendell family, Miss
Emily Wendell, three years ago married
the Earl of Carnarvon, son of the IA
nous Psychologist who participated in
the finding of King Tut's Tomb and was
presumed to have died Of the curse at
tending his tampering with it. The
Countess of Carnarvon has, however,
little hope of receiving the fortune OF
her distant relatives. She brought
handsome dover to her husband, the
share given in the final disposal of the
Jacob Wendell fortune made in real
estate holdings before 1850.
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Commodore Elbridge T. Gerry's fine
mansion on Fifth avenue is the last
to join the number demolished in the
past 10 years-thoSe of the Astors. the
elder Cornelius VanderbiltS, the Phipps
Huntington and William A. Clark.
Commodore Gerry of the famous Yacht
Club had his home designed and built
by the celebrated Richard Hunt, whose
works have been venerated In New York
as an older generation did those OF
Christopher Wren in London, or, in
Washington, the homes built by William
Thornton, architect OF the United
States Capitol. The Metropolitan CLUB,
adjacent to the Gerry home, now re-
mains the only Hunt memorial in this
neighborhood. The parents of the for
mer Senator from Rhode Island, Mr..
Peter Goelet Gerry, had, however,
placed the mansion in the permanent
records of New York City's fashionable
life and their entertainments having all
the restraint and dignity Of an era
which has passed, will become part OF
its best Gotham tradition.
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