Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Secretary Adams of Navy Deplores Increasing
Cost of Yacht Races-Defense of
America Cup Example Cited.

can kodak. All her books of adventure
are illustrated by her self and she has
besides presented volumes of wild beasts
in their habitat to various museums
and to high schools of Italy.
Former Senator and Mrs. Peter Goelet
Gerry recently moved into a handsome
and historic home in Providence, which
they purchased from the estate of the
late John Carter Brown Woods. This
fine old Colonial mansion has been built
on the foundations of one almost as old
as Providence plantations and the su-
premacy Of Roger Williams. Mr.. and
Mrs. Gerry in this act have severed all
ties with their former home in New
York City, and henceforth their Winter
donicile will be in Providence and their
Summer retreat at Warwick Neck, r. I.
Quite near the Gerry house is the his
toric home of Mrs. John Nicholas
Brown, Mrs. Gerrv's sister, on Benefit
street, and the principal seat of this
eminent family. This Colonial mansion,
built in the middle 1700s, is deemed one
of the most ornate and perfect in the
State, had stood close to the university
campus long before the name was
changed from Rhode Island College to
Brown University, and its doors are
never closed. The gardens are the glory
OF the city and are often the scene of
quiet scholastic gatherings when Mrs.
Brown and her son entertain the faculty
or in honor of some signal event In
Newport, the Brown mansion, on Com
monwealth avenue, is one of the i'm
portant points in social life. The
founder of this family and maker of its
colossal fortune was that Nicholas
Brown, who, in partnership with Thomas
P. Ives, established the cotton manu-
featuring firm of international fame.
This Nicholas took his degree from
Rhode Island College in ITO. AS he
prospered he began benefactions to his
alma mater. Each succeeding head of
the firm followed his example until in
about 1870, the name was changed to
honor the public-spirited donors.
Sir Edwin Lutyens, architect of the
new British embassy, Is now engaged
on the recently planned Roman Catholic
Cathedral in Liverpool This edifice is
to be one of the most ambitious at
tempts since the Reformation, and al
though Sir Edwins fame now rests
securely on his creation of the New
Delphi, this minister in Englands larg-
est port and first commercial city, will,
If results justify the ambition of the
architect, be the medium by which his
reputation will stand or fall. CathedralS
are built so rarely and they endure so
long that to be chosen as the designer
of one is the highest need of praise,
Sir Edwin and Lady Lutyens spent
some weeks in Washington in the
Spring and Lady Lutyens was par
ticularly interested in the Cosmos Club,
once the home of Mistress Dolly
Madison. It was the British legation
when Sir Bulwer Lytton was Minister.
Lady Lutyens was Lady Emily Lytton,
daughter of the first Earl Lytton, who
was the poet, orator and scholar,
familiar as owen Meredith before he
succeeded his uncle to the title and
Victoria. Sir Edward Lytton became
Viceroy of India after he left Washing
ton. 1t was his younger brother who
reached the pinnacle of fame in litera-
ture and drama and wrote that stirring
tale of "Rienzi," Last Days of Pompeii'
and those poem plays still popular,
"Richelieu" and Lady of Lyons"
In Rt. Rev. James De Wolf Perry,
presiding Bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United States,
the Lambeth Conference has acknowl
edged the priority Of the Colonial es-
tablishment of the mother church in
this country and at all future cere-
monies which calls forth universal at
tendance of the prelates, Bishop Perry
and his successors will rank seventh in
grade instead of thirteenth, the rank
hitherto assigned. Those prelates who
precede the genial suffragan of Rhode
Island are the Archbishop of Canter-
bury and of York, Of Armagh, Dublin,
Brechin and Wales. 1t is predicted that
the higher ecclesiastic title of arch
bishop will at the next Lambeth Con-
ference be conferred on the representa-
tive of the Episcopal hierarchy in the
former colonies of Britain. In fact,
the British press frequently alluded TO
the divine from Providence as His
Grace" applied to an archbishop, in
stead of His Lordship," the manner of
addressing a bishop. The primate of all
England. Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, Arch
bishop of Canterbury, has been par
tlcularly gracious to the American
visitors at the Lambeth Conference, and
after he had been oficially elevated
TO his new rank, rendered him a re-
ceptlon to which many of the promi-
nent members of the Anglo-American
colony in London were invited and at
which the Canadian colleagues Of
Bishop Perry paid him high honor.
The Ambassador to Rome, Mr.. John
Work Garrett and Mrs. Garrett, who
pesoSO TWO HlOIlbIlS IN Cnelr balGlmOre
home, sailed a few days ago for Naples,
but they will tarry for several weeks at
Capri before returning to the Italian
capital. Mrs. Garrett has taken over
the fortunes of the Musical Art Quar-
tet, a group of musicians ranked with
the famous Flonzaley Quartet, which
recently disbanded. She has secured
for the quartet the handsome home of
DR.. Axle Munthe, perched on the rocks
OF Capri almost at the identical spot
where the Emperor Tiberius had his
villa. Here in a natural amphitheater
these musicians will begin their con-
cert tour, afterward playing in Naples
and then going to Rome. The Ambas-
sador and Mrs. Garrett will at once
give series of soirees and dinners al
fresco at which the quartet will play,
and it is hoped by their patrons ac-
quire a vogue in the Fashionable world.
Rome, like other of the older capitals,
Is not emptied of its political and 90
cial great by the scorcfing weather
while the Parliament is in recess. The
King passed much time in the Quirinal
although the Queen and her daughters