Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-24

| anu HAS NAte MARY NlEIldTuSOn FTdtt
and had achieved success in banking
and manufacturing and as the editor
of Thrift, a magazine published by
a finance and trading corporation with
which he was AFFILIATED. Mr.. Pratt was
for years the chairman of the National
Budget Commission of New YORK and
he spent his leisure years devising prac-
tiCal means by which properly organ
lied budget system could control the
vast activities of the Federal Govern
ment. Mrs. Pratt was Ruth Sears
Baker before her marriage. which took
place in 1903, and at the time her hus-
band was doing splendid work for the
Red Cross and for the systemaJizing
of the governmental expenses, she was
chairman of the Liberty Loan commits
sion in the second Federal district and
she gave untiring aid to her husband
in his duties as chairman of the Pratt
Institute of Brooklyn. Mr.. Pratt died
five years ago.
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Whether the we'll known millionaires,
Edward S. Hardness and Arthur Curtiss
James, should be ranked in the leisure
class or the idle rich is question
greatly agitating certain commentators
on public events in London. AS the
word work" usually is interpreted none
of these fortunate mortals has known
it's full meaning and yet few citizens OF
the republic are so absorbed in various
activities. Mr. Hardness, though nomi-
nally head of a powerful chain OF rail-
roads. spends little time in his of1ices.
He studies educational problems and,
as trustee Of the Metropolitan Museum.
visits art galleries all over the world
and has bought discriminatory many
fine canvases. Mr.. James is merchant
prince of Gotham who leaves his inter-
ests in the hands of agents. giving his
lime to aviation, to landscape gardening.
to replenishing the New York Geological
Park, of which he is trustee. and TO
furnishing specimens for the New York
Museum of Natural History.
X X X X
Miss Anna Spencer Morrow, on whom
the eyes of the world now center as the
fiancee of the flying colonel, according
to friends who know her, viii not nVs
IN the gieat mansion in EngleWood,
which her father has been building pc
tween times as it were during the pasl
three wears. It is true she has visited
the edifice more frequently than any
member of the family and she was her
fathers companion during his last In
spectton when the woodwork was be-
ing placed In the library. Mr.. Morrow
had already a fine roomy home in New
York, but he always felt oppressed In
the great city and the Englewood house
was TO him the supreme expression OF
his mature years--the home he had
always dreamed of and toward which
all his ambitions focused. He had. Ike
the Ambassador to Cuba, Mr.. Noble
Judah. begun to build before he had
accepted the mission abroad and nat
urally he could not suspend actual OPP
erationS until the point OF interior dec
Grating had been reached. Col. Lind
bergh's fiencee has been her fathers
special envoy and has made several
visits to friends and relatives about
Englewood, all in the interest OF ex-
pressing her fathers personal views to
those in charge. That she and the hero
of the air sometimes met on these &C.
casions was to be expected. But neither
she nor Col. Lindbergh are OF what Is
called the splurging type and the Engle-
wood mansion, to be completed and oc-
cupied this Spring, is the kind which
highly successful man at the end OF
phenomenally successful career could
hope to inhabit. and not young couple
ON the threshold of life.
X X X
Mr.. Philip d. Hoyt. traffic officer and
assistant police commissioner and a
member of one of Gotham's most ver-
satile families, is, according to some
authorities, the man who does the most
valuable work in the big city. He Is
Young for the post for less than 10
wears ago he was still at Princeton. He
graduated with high honors in 1915, and
It was in 1922 that he entered the police
department of his native city. He had
gained much experience in the field as
q reporter on a New York newspaper
and he had tabulated year after year
the stupendous increase of automobiles
used in New York City. For insance,
in 1912 there were but $4,000 cars reg
istered in the entire city. On January
of this year there were $4,000 and
odd motor cars and Forty-second street
was not one inch wider. Mr.. Hoyt
agrees that, looking on the situation
during rush hours. any one would be
convinced the unjamming of the
traffic would be impossible, and to pre-
vent the jams still more impossible.
But he and some experts are working
on city planning commission-an idea
which has proved practical in large
cities like London and Paris.
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Miss Mary Spotswood Harrison
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Gus
tbs Harrison, jr, of Villa Nova, Pa.
was among the prominent buds OF
Philadelphia who rebelled from the
conventional tea, or evening reception
mode Of presenting candidates for social
honors. Miss Harrison had, indeed, de-
clined to have her parents name a date
| for her debut and had settled back into
looker-on, when the idea was pre-
sented Of making her bow at the famous
hunt ball given every January by the
riding circles of Philadelphia suburbs
From her girlhood she had been an &C.
complished equestrienne and had taker
all kinds Of prizes for the Juniors al
local horse shows, also figuring in the
lists in Paris Country Club during the
years she was completing her educa.
ton. She Is the first debutantc OF hunt
!