Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
Hospitality is Lavished
On Party of u. S. Jurists
By Dignitaries Abroad
Visitors VIII Be Received at Paris by President Of
France and Ambassador Edge
Plans Reception.

fiftieth anniversary this year. Gold
medals will be presented to the winners
of the contest at Greenbrier.
Gov. Theodore Roosevelt will find a
reception on his arrival back in San
Juan quite to his liking Preparation
is being made for the grandest demon
stration ever held in the Porto Rican
capital. The little governor has sue
ceeded in winning the hearts OF his
subjects there and, too, the demonstra-
ton is supposed to show a strong OPP
position to the Unionist movement for
island independence.
Former Senator Pomerene Of Canton,
Ohio, has always been an arch favorite
in Washington, as has his charming and
socially finished wife, so a suggestion
that he may receive a call to the
lower House to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Representative Charles
A. Mooney, Democrat, or one OF the
other Cleveland vacancies is received
here with applause. Mrs. Pomerene's
social entertainments during the years
her husband was in the Senate yet re-
main delightful memories and they
were both prime favorites here.
Senator and Mrs. Vandenberg are
back in their home at Grand Rapids,
Mich, after an absence of 80 days
travel, so Of which were spent on the
Pacific Ocean. Mrs. Vandenberg con-
fesses to being a good sailor, but the
Senator, who Is a veritable landlubber,
says never again for him. They were
entertained by the United States AM
bassador in Japan and others well
know in official life in Washington, but
the Senator avoided all formal enter
tainment in Manila and elsewhere when
ever possible.
Where a few years ago Summer club
life about Washington was confined to
the Chevy Chase Club, Grasslands for
the ultra exclusive and Burning Tree
Club for the staid and dignified, and
a few other clubs, not one of which
boosted swimming pool they are each
splendidly equipped in this way now
and except for the wise discernment Of
the members and their guests, the
places convenient to Washington would
be seeting masses Of overheated hui
mainly every hour Of daylight. Many
of the larger property holders in the
vicinity of Washington who have pools
have left the special privilege Of bath
ing In their pools to a few Of their
more intimate friends during their own
absence at resorts in this country or
abroard.
A charming resident of Washington
Mrs. w. A. King, who makes her hame
at Alban Towers, has at her finger tips
an interesting bit of history Of the
South River Club in Maryland, which
throws a better and more interesting
light on the historic club than that
printed in this column last Sunday.
Our sketchy little story says the club
was built in 1742. For a fact 1t was
rebuilt in that year. It was founded
between 1860 and 1886, Mrs. Kings
five times removed great-grandfather,
william Burgess, being one OF the
founders. Burgess was one of the early
colonists around Annapolis and owned
thousands of acres of ground and his
body rests in All Hal,ows' Graveyard,
about nine miles from the Maryland
capital, where he was buried in 1886.
The original club was destroyed by fire,
its furniture and its records likewise
being burned. Not content with its
Boston Tea Party and other history
making incidents, the New England Hub
parties with those who claim the South
River Club as the Oldest in the country
and claims to have a club built in 1912.
The South River Club has no records
to produce, but only snatches Of history
to prove its grounds.