Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-14

The Midsummer heat of the week
inst past drove all who could go to
cooler chimes, and those of society who
have had to remain III town are the
hard working officials carrying-on as
officials did during tie Summer of the
Great War. Washington today is not
unlike the National Capital during
that famous and tying Summer, with
cabinet officers sta: ing close to their
desks, their families, for the most
part. remaining with them, and lesser
officials staying "on the job" through
the heat. Palatial homes. during the
war, were offered the Government for
the housing and entertainment of
distinguished foreigners and their
suites. Today many of those same
houses are available not for Impor-
tant dignitarieS from other lanes, but
for the housing of new Federal agen-
cies and units. Tue home of the late
Thomas F. Walsh, where, under the
direction of the late Mrs. Walsh,
matrons and maids prominent in So
ciety of the Capital labored SO dill
gently for the benefit of the Belgian
refugees, will shortly accommodate a
unit of the Government. The house
where the late Vice President Marshall
entertained at the NV famous dinner
party for the late King Albert Of the
Belgians is one OF The few homes in
Washington which boasts pipe organ
of large proportions. During the life
Iot NHy l. =,
music during dinner every day, and
Mr.. Harry Wheaton Howard OF Wash
ington, now On trip around the
world, was the CroaniSt. Treasures
and souvenirs of the late Mr.. and
Mrs. Walsh have been removed by
their daughter, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh
Mclean, and the scene in drawing
room. library and dining room changes
again.
An organ cf similar dimensions,
though perhaps larger than that of
the Walsh home, Was installed in the
house built by the .ate Mrs. Franklin
MacVeagh as a birthday present to
the late Mr.. MacVeagh, then Secre-
tary of the Treasury The house is
now owned by the Mexican govern
ment and is the home OF the AM
basSador from that republic. The
home of Mrs w Duncan Mcklm,
built by the late T1r. McKim,. who was
q cultivated musician and an organist
of no small ability, also has pipe
organ. DR.. McKim Sid his first wife,
who before her marriage was Miss
Martha A. Moran, sister of. the late
Francois Berger Moran. planned the
house and entertained there frequent
ly and rarely without a program OF
music. DR.. McKim'S widow made a
name for herself as Leanora Jackson,
when she was a concerG violinist.
The house built by the owner of the
famous Camp Bird Mine" the late
Mr.. Walsh, also boosted a complete
theater. built at the top Of the house
for his son, the late Vinson Walsh,
who was killed in an automobile acct
dent while still youth. At his death
the theater, which was d hobby of
young Mr. Walsh, was locked and the
key destroyed. The only other Rouse
of which a theater was part was
that of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Edison
Bradley, which occupied the point on
Dupont Circle, now the site of an
apartment hotel It was in this latter
private theater that the famous Mary
Garden first sang in Washington
when Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley loaned
their house and theater for benefit.
The house, which Mr.. and MS. Brad
ley remodeled and added to, was
originally built by william M. Gait,
which'he later sold to Gardner Hub
bard. Alexander Graham Bell and