Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-18
BY SALLIE V. II. PICKETT.

BY SALLIE V. II. PICKETT.
Yorktown and its environS has stolen
much of Washington's prestige in great
ness for the several days of the pro-
gram carried on to celebrate the ami
versary of the surrender of CORVALLIS,
and it speaks we'll for the greatness
of mankind that a CORVALLIS himself
is there to help celebrate what was his
ancestors defeat. The President and
the First Lady Of the Land, the Presi-
dents cabinet and their ladies. diplo-
mats, Senators and Representatives,
and other folk who tend to make the
Capital of the United States the most
important in the world are all there to
tread the dusty streets of Yorktown and
visit the Accordingly interesting other
places to which the elaborate program
spreads.
AS yorktown is inadequate physically
to accommodate all those who would
attend the Sesquicentennial the Cham
berlain at Old Point Comfort has be-
come the meeting place OF the great
est of the great. Lord CornWalis the
Fifth. and gentle Lady CornWallls. the
former a direct descendant Of the great
soldier of Revolutionary days, are
there. and will break bread with the
descendants of men and women ON
the other side" Marquis de Grasse,
descendant of the Count de Grasse, ad-
miral of the French fleet, who led the
large body of French troops at the
memorable surrender, Is there-as the
guest of the United States Government
and meets there Miss Amelie de Pau
Fowler of Baltimore, who Is the great
granddaughter Of Admiral de Grasse.
The French embassy is almost bodily
at the Chamberlain. as is the German
embassy staff, and the Marshal OF
France Petain ard his aide, Gen. Count
de Chambrun, received specially warm
welcome from Gen. Pershing, our World
War general. Maj. Won Steuben, guest
of the United States Department OF
State. is at the Chamberlain and with
him is Frau Won Steuben, with the Am
bassador of Germany and Frau Won
Prittwitz und Gaffron and the embassy
staff to attend him.
Scarcely ever before have four women
u,bo stood as mistress Of the White
House been present in body OF peo-
ple. but with Mrs. Hoover accompany
ING the President; Mrs. Preston, one
time Frances Folsom Cleveland, bride
of the White House; Mrs. William How
ard Taft and Mrs. Woodrow wilson
there, the group will yet be incomplete
unless Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt arrives,
making the fifth, and it is thought be-
vond a doubt that with her son, Col.
Theodore Roosevelt, in this country, she
will Join the group. This feature OF the
Sesouicentennial alone is remarkable.
And while these and hundreds OF
other famous and interesting persons
are meeting in the Old Dominion, other
famous folk are on. their way eseross the
ocean, and travelling on the same ship
with Premier Pierre, Laval on the
steamship lie de France is handsome
Romanov, who is coming over to be
feted and petted by American host
esses. This person is H. l.. H Dmitri,
Grand Duke of Russia, who will get his
first look at America. Tragedy is writ
ten all over him, but undoubtedly he
will be entertained here, there and
everywhere.
What week society has just passed
through! It could scarcely be believed
b that so many important persons resi-