Evening star., 1929-04-21
BIZ MARGARET B. DOWNING.

occupy his beautiful villa at San
Sebastian If the time arrives when he
can safely leave his post here. With
an extra session in progress and tariff
reviewing among the major tasks, diplo-
mats will pass a busy Summer, and
nothing at present seems as unlm-
portant as where to locate the vaca-
tion quarters. The dean of the corps,
Sir Esme Howard, announced that he
scarcely hoped again for such prolonged
rest as was possible last Summer, when
preparations for the presidential CAM
paign engrossed political attention, and
the incumbent of the White House was
out of the race and gone into the re-
tirement of fishing. 1t seems to be
among the innovations of the present
Clay that business at the Capital is i'm
portant enough to keep Ambassadors
and Ministers at their posts even
through the heat of Summer. But in
the instance of the Spanish Ambassador
he has been one of King Alfonso's
main supports in the matter of enter
tanning the numerous distinguished
citizens of Uncle Sam who visit the
Summer court city, San Sebastian, and
this year the numbers will be consider
ably augmented through visits to the
two eXpositionS at Seville and BARGE
Iona. The Son-in-laW of the Marquis
de Satrustigui. one of the great ship
owners of SPAIN the ambassador is as
sociated with that dignitary socially
and in business ventures, and their adj
joining palatial homes in San Sebastian
are the scenes Of brilliant hospitality.
Mr.. Edwin Vernon Morgan, Ambas-
sador from this republic to Brazil, is in
point of continuous residence abroad
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major divisions as Minister Plenitenti-
ary and as Ambassador. Mr.. Morgan
has entered on his eighteenth year as
Ambassador at Rio. and no one of that
rank in the State Department personnel
can claim even half that number OF
years in such an exalted post. Were 1t
not that : papal nuncio, Mgr. Luigi
Gasparri, nephew of the secretary OF
state, Cardinal Pietro GaSparri, is in
residence, MIR. Morgan would be dean
of the corps, but traditional courtesy
Yields that honor to the Pope'S repre-
sentative who is always in holy orders.
Besides his brilliant career in Rio, Mr..
Morgan has the historic distinction of
being the last Minister sent by this
country to KGsrea before the latter's alb
sorption by The Japanese Empire in
1905. He waA in Seoul from 1908, and
when Korea lost its sovereignty he
was transferred to Havana, which had
recently gained it. The Ambassador at
Rio spent several years at the State
Department ann was an accepted squire
of danes in the remote years when the
daughters of Secretary John Hay were
the toast of the hour. Mr.. Morgan has
never married~-has never been even
connected with a matrimonial rumor-
but, as his friends point out, he is only
in his siXty-forirth year and bachelors
more advanced in years are falling VIC
tins to Cupid Ia many capitals.
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Nine Debuchi, wife of the Japanese
Ambassador, and her 15-year-old
daughter. Takaka, have won the same
afIcctionate regard as that held by
Nrne. MatSudaira and little SetSu, who
Just year ago were sauntering under the
Japanese cherry blossoms and greeting
with accustomed courtesy all whom they
encountered. Day had barely dawned
several times during the profusion of
cherry blooms around the Tidal Basin
when the Ambassador and Nine. De-
buchi. with the tall athletic son, Katsu,
and the slender, graceful young daugh-
ter would, despite the heavy dew, walk
directly under the trees and inhale the
delicate perfume. There are many
dainty legends and many verses which
guages, recites for her friends, embrac-
ing also the words of the ritual used
when the petals are sfowered on the
statue of Buddha. washington is
gradually imbibing this spirit OF the
Oriental cherry blooming time, and 1t
has been astonishing to note how many
devout admirers visited the basin pc
tween 6 and o'clock in the morning
to enjoy the vision in quiet ana SOIL
tude rather than when the crowded
automobiles began to pass. The cherry
blossoms on Hams Point do not appeal
to the members of the japanese en1-
hassv because in their owir land the
cherry groves always are planted against
a background of evergreen trees ana
have more seclusion than those arranged
In groups of seven or nine on the east
and west driveways leading to and from
the point.
The National Society of Colonial
Danes, which last Spring became the
owner of Bellevue, the lordly yellow
mansion in @ street on the outer edge
Of Georgetown, has, in pursuance OF one
of its main purposes, ito restore ana
preserve buildings connected with the
early history of the country" begun
reproduction of an authentic eighteenth
century mansion which stood for lao
wears at "a Wall street, New York. The
president general of the Colonial Danes
reluctantly determined on this plan
after spending much time vainly en-
deavoring to find genuine, well pre-
served mansion on Manhattan Island
which had been built during the recog--
nized Colonial period. Failing to md
such. she engaged Mr.. Richard H. Dana,
jr, to design the proposed New YORK
hAa r4 oftor tho residence which
figured in social history in 1735. Wall
street was Gothams Fifth avenue for
a full century, and this home, presum-
ably built by one of the Verplanck
family, stood Immediately opposite the
Bank of New York, and next door lived
William Burnett, royal governor of the
colony and an immense favorite Of
William III. A chapter of history which
will be preserved, though not to the
liking of the Colonial Danes, is that
Gen. Knyphausen, commander Of the
Hessian armies in the War of Indepen-
dence, lived in great state at 81 Wall
street, and he remained in his COM
Portable dwelling as long as 1t was safe
for HesSianS to remain in that vicinity.
Robert and Peter Bruce. who laid the
first pavement in Wall street, lived
there for many years, and until its
demolition in 1905 this mansion is
written prominently in the history OF
the great city But the duplicate will
be built at 215-2l7 East Seventy-firSt
street. an environment more in harmony
with the society's requirements than
the worlds most famous financial
center.
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Mr.. Frank A. Vanderlip, it will be
remembered, purchased about year
ago the old village Of Sparta, adjacent
to Scarsborough-on-tr Hudson, be-
cause he desired peace AMI seclusion in
his fine country estate and because the
village named for the heroic Greek state
was filed with undesirable citizens.
A-. yanosrlip Is we'll known in WASH
faotnr, u,tere he Came In his early