Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-17

dent general, FORMER State regent,
chapter regent and as chairman of
various committees.
There is, perhaps, no more interested
spectator at the sessions than Col.
Walter Scott, who Is attending his
twelfth D. A. R. Congress. Col. Scott is
one of the early arrivals in the hall and
occupies a prominent seat In one of
the front boxes. He is on the advisory
board of the society, and has done much
to aid the society in patriotic endeavors.
Col. Scott and his attractive daughter,
Mrs. Russell w. Magma, chairman of
the finance committee of Constitution
Hall, who is affectionately called the
gold digger of the D. A. r." gave the
box known as the Presidents box in
Constitution Hall, and there are numer-
Gus chairs about the spacious audi
torium that the society has CO.. Scott
to thank for. Col. Scott Is member
of a score of patriotic organizations.
He is past royal chief of the Scottish
Clans, the largest body of American
Scotchmen. He is president OF the
Stevens Society and the Walter Scott
School for Crippled Children In New
York. He is the possessor OF the Legion
Leopold of Belgium and the Silver Star
of Austria.
Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, presi-
dent general of the D. A. r., praised the
newspapers covering" the congress at
the close of the afternoon session yes
terday. She told of receiving the
original of the cartoon by Clifford K.
Bergman, which appeared in The
Evening Star, and stated that this
would be added to the already large
and cherished collection of cartoons APP
pearing in the press.
This afternoon Mrs. Deneen, wife OF
Senator Charles S. Deneen, Will receive
the Illinois delegation In her home, 1871
Twenty-third street.
Mrs. Augustine Jacqueline Todd, West
Virginia State librarian, gave tea yes
terday afternoon for the West Virginia
delegation. Assisting Mrs. Todd were
Mrs. william H. Vaught. State regent;
Mrs. Guy Despard Gof, Mrs. Frank
Bowman, Mrs. Robert Reed ana MRS.
cary Hogg. At the tea table were Mrs.
Edith Gardner, Miss Susan Gregg Glib
son, vice regent of Packhorse Ford
Chapter, and Miss Eleanor Sweeney OF
Wheeling president of the West Vir-
GINA c. A. r.
One of the busiest groups OF pages is
the press group, headed by Miss Mar
garet Mckee of Pennsylvania, with Mrs.
Blance A. Ehrhart of Pennsylvania as
sistant chief Serving with them are
Mrs. Edna Bliss Silva of Rhode Island,
Mrs. Mary Steck Johnson, Pennsylvania;
Mrs. Aldine Mudd of Washington, d. C.;
Mrs Florence S. Sparfleld of New York
and the Misses Mary L. Carl, Pennsyl-
vania; Charlie Griggs Of Washington,
D. c.; Elsie Hartman, Virginia, and
Elizabeth Bottomley, Maryland.
An outstanding figure in the Texas
delegation is Mrs. E. j. Fellowes, curator
of the San Antonio de Bexar Chapter
Of San Antonio, Tex. Mrs. Fellowes will
be 80 years of age next month, but is
more keenly alive to every interest than
most of half her years. Mrs. Fellowes'
father, George wilkins Kendall, in 1887
founded the New Orleans Picayune, for
years one of the leading newspapers of
the South. In 1541 he was member OF
the Santa Fe expedition and following
the Mexican War, during which he
served as aide to Gen. North, he served
as a member of the expedition which
surveyed the boundary between Texas
and Mexico.
The Kansas delegation to the D. A.
r. Congress, % in number, had their
luncheon and State meeting yesterday
in woodward & Lothrop'S tea room.