Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-25
Tales of Well Known Folk
| In Social and Official Life
Credit Given Representative Davis OF Tennessee
for Inauguratng Movement to Mark
Unknown Soldier Grave In Arlington.

/ nipulator "of the SAIL" Mr.. Adams
agrees, is practically extinct. An
abundance Of sea-faring men may be
had who know yachts and are handy In
| any part Of commercial fleet, but out
side of the fisherman of Gloucester and
up and down the Canadian coast there
are few available for the. purpose of
challengers which Is sailing race
Capt. George Monsell Of the Enterprise
and Capt. John Muir of the whirlwind
have drawn heavily on their neighbor-
ing fishermen in Greenport, Conn,
while Capt. Gus Olsen of the Yankee
has engaged Scandinavian crew after
securing the waters of Cape Cod for
men who know how to handle q flap
ping pinnaker or muzzle O maynard
ballooner. Capt. John Christensen who
commands the fourth defender, the
weetamore. has signed ON Dutch sailors
from the North Sea with q few Danes
and Morse. But as Mr. Adams sadly
points out none Of these has time to
take the intensive training given foot
ball players or poloists In International
matches.
The late Louis Lombard was deeply
appreciated In Washington and his
ideas about selective and special
audiences to hear new productions were
sympathetically received. So the news
Trevano on that lovely Swiss lake.
Lugano, where so much international
history has been written, has saddened
his friends. Mr.. Lombard was a native
of Lyons, chief silk city of the world.
but that famous industry never created
any enthusiasm and when he was less
than 10 he went to Paris and began
the study Of music. He took high
honors in later years at the Conserva-
tory. Then the New World beckoned
and for the nonce he turned his back
and entered the law. He became
naturalized and during the period that
he practiced law with fair success,
business brought him to Washington,
where he met and married Alice Maud
Allen, daughter Of former Representa-
tive Thomas Stinson Allen Of st. Louis.
Mrs. Allen was the sister Of william
Jennings Bryan. But music called and
when Mr.. Lombard was chosen direc-
tor Of that department Of the Column
bian Exposition In Chicago he accepted
and returned to his first love perma-
nently He founded the Conservatory
of Music in Utica and wrote his name
in large letters in the musical develop
ment of the early 1900s. For four
years Mr.. and Mrs. Lombard lived
in washington and were prominent
social votaries. The Trevano estate.
where Mr.. and Mrs. Lombard made
their home for more than 10 years and
where he erected the sumptuous little
theater where the foremost musicians
of the world were entertained, was
recently sold to q pleasure resort
corporation.
X
Former Senator Frederic Moseley
Sackett, Ambassador to Germany, and
Mrs. Sackett will be guests on June
9 Of the burgomaster Of Augsburg and
the members of his council when the
ecclesiastical authorities hold the
quadri-centenary Of Luthers confess
sion of faith called historically Con
fesio Augstana" The splendid cere-
monies will be staged in the venerable
church of st. Johannes, where the re-
former made his declaration. and as the
event falls on Whit Monday, legal
holiday, the old city of Bavaria will
shelter phenomenal assemblage. Am
bassador and Mrs. Sackett, who have
not been able to accept any invitations
outside Of Berlin, owing to their preoc-
cupation in establishing the embassy,
will remain three or four days In Augs-
burg and may motor down to
Montecattini for o few weeks at that
spa before 1t becomes too crowded for