Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
Tales of Well known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Chief Justice Hughes Classed as Base Ball Fan,
Often Shows His Interest by Attending
League Games.

and to reap >some of the pecuniary re-
wards. The minister with the cordial
approval of President Renal recon-
mendS that from three to five women
should be elected to the city council
of STEAMBOAT or Constantinople and
that to them should be confided the
sanitary and hygienic reforms SO
needed in the ancient Capital of the
Sultans and that all over the land
they should have a voice in directing
education.
Representative Franklin Menges and
all the notables of York County in
Pennsylvania attended that historic
and significant ceremony of disband-
ing the Paradise Horse Thief Detect
ing Society,"" founded in 1847. which
occurred III Paradise during the clos
ing days of September. Horse thieves
having been entirely displaced by au-
tomobile purloiners, the farmers in that
rich agricultural region reluctantly de-
cided to disband their association,
founded by SO land owners during the
roaring forties and maintained until a
month ago by some $50 of their lineal
descendants and recruits from the
sporting world. 1t required SLIP to
join the society, and this initiation fee
was never changed during its 80 years
active existence. A system of fines
made up most of the annual dues,
since failure to pay IS cents a month
at each meeting, or to miss attending
the meetings especially the annual one
when the budget was balanced, meant
II cents being added to the original
sum- In its palmy days the Horse Thief
Detecting Society had more than 600
members but with the advent of pc
troll vehicles for farm and family use
the number on the disarmament eve
ming had dwindled to $50, while not
single instance of horse stealing had
occurred IN York County in 10 years
and in II years only two cases had
been called to the detecting agency's
attention.
Sir William Johnson is the patron
saint of Greenwich Village and the lat
est biography of this dashing hero of
the Mohawk Valley in Revolutionary
days is eagerly scanned for additional
facts about this picturesque section of
Gotham. Sir William Johnson inner
ited the fine estate of his uncle, Sir
Peter Warren a formidable figure of
Manhattan Island in the early l700s.
Sir Peter was a shipping merchant
lured to New York by the rich prizes
to be obtained during the prolonged
warfare which various European DOW
ers waged against each other as well
as for the opportunities of commerce.
He married Susanna de Lancey,
daughter of Stephen, then head of the
firm of Delaney & Co.. early finan-
cial nragnates. Eventually he be-
came partner of his father law
and having no children he passed the
shipping business to his nephew. For
services in fighting the Mohawks. Sir
Peter received 5000 acres in the Mo-
hawk Valley and he had already a long
strip of land in the shipping district
OF New York City This he called
Greenwich, but why, no one has yet
been able to explain, since the Warrens
were from Liverpool, and Greenwich is
near, London. The property had be-
longed to Augustus Jay and although
Lady Warren'S regime in the big brick
manslon-still standing-was brilliant
the place was called the Jay house. Sir
William Johnson eventually inherited
this property and Immediately pro-
claimed the name as Greenwich, for
the village had yet to grow.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Deering of
Chicago have sumptuous domain in
Miami, Fla, which is the center of
hospitality for Chicagoans, who are
looking for permanent habitation or
merely passing through the State.
During the past Summer Mr.. and Mrs.
Deerlng leased a spacious villa on the
hills just above Nuremberg and fol-
lowed similar program in regard to
their friends. Like may other music
loving Chicagoans, they were attracted
to Bavaria by the Wagner and Mozart
concert and opera festivals, and they
would naturally have preferred a
chateau nearer to Munich. But the
Bayarian capital during the season of
the Passion Play is too crowded for
comfort, and every available dwelling
had been rented a year in advance So
the behring's sought and found COM
fort in Nuremberg, and many natives
OF the Lake City found shelter in their
roomy quarters while they explored the
countryside for cottage which would
serve for few weeks Splendid motor
roads lead 70 Munich, and an early
start would bring the visitors to Ober-
ammergau by o'clock when the Pas
sion Play begins and TO Munich when
the opera was the attraction in ample
time for the rising curtain at In the
afternoon. Princess Viggo of Den
mark, formerly Miss Margaret Greene
OF New York City. entertained scores
OF New YORK friends who were crowded
out Of Munich in her villa adjacent to
the Deerings.
Mr.. Stewart Edward White has ut
tered piercing cry Of protest against
the policy of determination row con-
fronting the brown bear of Alaska. AS
Mr.. White says, who will care for the
scenery OF the far North If an occa-
sional brown bear does not suddenly
appear on the edge OF lake or stand
menacingly on rocks just above the
traveller. The picturesque writer OF
the Sunflower State accuses cattlemen
prospectors, every sort Of business in
Vader, Of campaign of destruction
and AYERS that even casual tourist;
may get rifles and take a shot at these
important denizens Of the frozen
North These bears, according to their
eloquent defender. are vegetarian with
few exceptions, and they never attack
unless clumsily wounded and their tor