Evening star., 1948-02-15
By Jessie Font Evons


ton delegates en- route to New York
City's big bank week. with its rMd-
winter meeting of the trust divi-
sion Of the American Bankers As
sociation, It's 44th annual dinner
of the New York Chapter Of
the American Institute of Banking,
and the Reserve City Bankers din
ner in connection with the ABA's
trust division meeting-made the
Pennsylvania Railroads Senator
practically a bankers special.
AS the train sped through the
snow-covered landscape with its
frozen rivers and ponds, I glimpsed
or visited with Francis G. Addison,
jr., president of the Security Saw
ings g. Commercial; Mrs. Daniel
Bell, wife of the president of the
American Security & Trust, en- route
to join her husband, who already
was in New York; Bruce Baird,
president of the National Savings
& Trust Co., and David Bornet, vice
president: G. Elmer Flather and A..
Scott Offutt, officials of the Union
Trust Co.; George M. Fisher. vice
president and treasurer of the
Washington Loan & Trust Co.; Will
liam T. Van Doren, president of
Liberty National I. j. Roberts, vice
president of Riggs, and Fred Lutes,
president of Suburban National. My
husband. Joshua Evans, jr., as vice
president, and Aubrey o. Dooley. as
its trust officer, were representing
the Hamilton Bank.
with us at lunch in the diner
grill was Mrs. Paul Shorb on her
way to Baltimore to pick up and
drive (she hoped car she had
been obliged to leave in a garage
several weeks ago. My husband and
I also had a chat with DR.. Stephen
Patchek, returning to his White
Plains home from a Georgetown
visit with his popular daughter and
son-in-law, the william Ftzgeralds,
and their young son.
Conspicuous on the long, crowded
train was the unusual number of
service personnel in a ratio Of men
to officers that reminded us Of the
very early stages Of World War II.
Galoshes Worn Everywhere.
The air is briskly crisp here and
colder than in Washington. but far
more bracing and exhilarating
Everywhere we see gay young peo-
pie in groups off for week ends far
ther north, all encumbered with
skis, skates and snowshoes. Under
foot, despite the constant effort to
clear the streets from light, continu-
ing snow f1urries, is a deep, grimy
slush and slime. New Workers, one
and ALL matter of -factly meet this
situation with galoshes. Galoshes
are worn in the smartest hotels,
theaters and restaurants by women
elegant In mink, just as they are
worn by the people riding the sub
ways and the Seventh avenue buses.
How to check them is a problem
getting no solution at the enter
tainment palaces.
At the Ziegfeld Theater showing
"Brigadoon" and the Shubert show
ing High Buttoned Shoes" direc-
tives stipulated Check rooms to
left or right. No galoshes can be
accommodated" At "Brigadoon," !"
just as If we were at our National
Theater at home, whom should we
discover but the William B. Will
lards, accompanied by their daugh-
ter, here for a week end from col
lege In Boston, and a school chum.
Mr.. Willard is vice president of the
National Savings g. Trust. In an
aisle seat was William Bowie, pres
ident of the Prince Georges Bank
& Trust
Here at the Waldorf-Astoria, the
testimonial dinner given by the
National Association of Postal
Supervisors, Branch 100, of New
York, to Jesse M. Donaldson, our
Postmaster General, is high lighting
the story of his rise from letter car
rier to cabinet post, with post Office
men as numerous as bankers. At
the Plaza we saw the Jouett
Shouses where they, like ourselves,
were dinner guests. They were in
New York for the Boxer show, al
though Mrs. Shouse is not exhibit
ing from their Wolf Trap Farm
kennels.
New York Ever Fascinating.
Even in the slush and snow, Times
Hall lectures on perennials and
other garden flowers are drawing
capacity audiences. Heavy snow
falls, it seems, are boon to garden
ers who do not mulch their beds,
for the snow returns nitrogen to the
soil.
Everywhere the kaleidoscope fas-
cination of New York remains and
there are appeals to every taste.
One of the interesting human-1n-
terest exhibits is that arranged by