Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-18
Tales of We'll Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Secretary Stimson and Associates of Pan-Ameri-
can Union Indorse Dominican Republic Claim
Relating to Great Discoverer"
BY MARGARET ID. DOWNING.

BY MARGARET b. DOWNING.
The Secretary of State, Mr.. Henry L.
Stimson, chairman of the governing
board of the Pan-American Union
the vice chairman being the Mexican
Ambassador, the dean OF the corps
and the associate members have to all
tntents and purposes officially endorsed
the claim of the Dominican Republic
that the bones of the great discoverer
rest under the high altar in the Ca
thedral of Santo Domingo. For this
reason and because this ancient city
was the first founded in the New
World and the seat of authority dele
gated to Columbus by Ferdinand ana
Isabella, the mammoth light house,
which is to be the memorial erected
by pan-America to his memory, was
placed in its harbor. This mighty
pharos, which is to be the most mag
nificent. most powerful and significant
In all the world, has reached the stage
that the 10 architects chosen by the in
ternational jury which sat in Madrid
last Summer will be associated in all
nounced this Summer from Rio de
Janeiro. The inception of this ambi-
tious tribute from the republics of
North and South America was noted at
the Pan-American Congress held in
Santiago de Chile in 1928. When bids
were invited in the international compe-
tition, ASS architects sent plans and As
countries were represented. The jury In
Madrid selected 10 worthy designs ana
these contributions will be selected for
their several parts this coming July,
after the prize winners are announced.
The winner of the best plan will re-
ceive $4,000, while the second, third
and fourth drawings will command
$500, 5000 and $4,000, respectively,
while the other six will receive 81 600
each. Spanish historians have not
acknowledged this claim of Santo Do
mingo about the discoveries body never
having been removed, but impartial
judges have been impressed by the evil
dence submitted by the Dominican
authorities. In Seville Cathedral, under
o splendid canopy upheld by knights
OF CASTLE, Leon, Aragon and Navarro,
visitors are shown what is claimed is the
last resting place of Columbus.
Kathryna Hoffman Ray, the 5-year-
old cousin of Mrs. Saxham r. Drury,
who was Mabel Gerry of New York
City, sister of the former Senator from
Rhode Island, Peter Goelet Gerry, is
the happiest small girl in Gotham.
Mrs. Drury has sent her as a combined
birthday gift and Easter greeting
charming doll house, an exact minia-
ture of her famous mansion in Berkeley
Square. 1t Is announced on silver
tablet as "Kathryna's House in Drury
Lane, London the family of Rev
Saxham Drury having given that name
to the famous theatrical thoroughfare
The doll house, exquisitely fashioned, is
of Georgian architecture with 1000
pieces of furniture of the same period
and in this is included a dainty set of
royal Worcester china and tiny table
silver with the usual hallmark giving
distinction. Mrs. Drury received her
inspiration for this beautiful gift from
Queen Mary's doll house exhibited in
this country and she secured the same
genius to perform the delicate work.
Mrs Teller is the way in which the
wife of the new dean of the diplomatic
corps has her visiting cards engraved,
and in this manner she is issuing
invitations to the at homes which she
Is giving to the foreign contingent and
to official and residential society. The
Ambassador has only Mr.. Teller on his
personal cards and stationery, and, like
other diplomats, when he visits or writes
in the official sense, he is the Am
baSSador from Mexico and minus any
other designation. 1t is obvious that
the State Department would welcome
a greater uniformity of address in the
exalted foreign circle, but quite pune
tiliously the designations preferred by the
owners of the names Is followed in get
ting up the diplomatic list" and in
dispatching invitations to official func-
tions. In other capitals the usual form
OF address is used as in Rome, where all
are Signors, signoras or signorinas,
unless some title of nobility embellishes
the cf l1n iF11o let ", DO
all are monsieur, madame or made
moiselle, and so through the list of
seats of government when foreign en-
voys are resident. Turkish, Egyptian
and Persian diplomats use mister by
preference, since hey and pasha are so
often incorrectly placed, while the
Japanese and Chinese prefer that no
prefix whatever should be placed before
their names. 1t always amused the
genial WI Ting Fang when he was
called mister" and hts son. now Serv-
ing as envoy from his country has
bridged the gulf by using the academic
title Of doctor" Havana, where more
English Is now heard than the tongue
OF the hidalgos, has adopted mister and
mistress entirely in its corps. and the
Cuban diplomats in Washington are
known IN the same way.
xhG hate Col. James. 0lennon, who
was for eight years In command at
Waiter Reed Hospital, will be remem-
bered for long time hence by the fine
paintings he made all through the
grounds In behalf Of the invalid veter-
ans. Always an ardent lover of flowers,
Col. Glennon interested many horti-
cultural societies in making donations
70 the grounds so that each of those
invalids who were able to dig might
have o. patch Of his own in which to
cultivate what most appealed. Col
Glennon entertained the American
Rose Society during its quadrennial
meetings in Washington and the lovely
sunken rose garden is the evidence of
how its members appreciated having
the opportunity to restore the injured
overseas men to health and hopeful
turn of mind In addition TO the Japa-
nese cherry trees which doomed pro-
fusely this season, the grounds of
Walter Reed have been beautiful for
weeks with the borders of vari-colored
azaleas. These, too, are japanese, and
those which make a semi-circle around
the Administration Building are partic-
ularly vivid and are of the popular
Hinodegari variety, a cherry pink with
waXy, deep green leaves. These were