Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-10-28

Something very wonderful may
come of an idea born Sunday af-
ternoon at Triple Trouble Farm,
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
w. Lowe, where members of the
committee, and those participating
in the dedication of the Dierssen
Wild Fowl Sanctuary, were enter
tanned at buffet supper.
The idea started while Mr..
Dierssen and Norman Jefferson
Coolidge were talking about Mr..
Coolidge's trip to France where he
participated in discussions held at
Fontainebleau, which it is hoped
will result in an international or
ganization for the protection of
wild life under UNESCO.
"Come hear this perfectly mar
velous plan," called Mr.. Dierssen
to the SENTINEL editor. "You know
this is United Nations Day as we'll
as Wild Life Conservation Day
here in the county-listen to this"
And so we were drawn into
group which included, besides the
first mentioned, Ernest A. Vaughn,
director, Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice; Irving c. Root, Superintend-
ent National Capital Park Serv-
ice; Malcolm King, Field Super
intendent; James Berrier, presi-
dent of Rockville Izaak Walton
League, with others drifting over
from time to time.
Here is the idea which had it's
incipiency in Mr.. Dierssen's fer
tile mind-"Just one year from to-
day." said Mr.. D., "let's have an
other celebration at the Sanctuary
and invite representatives of the
various countries in the United
Nations to come out from Wash
ington and release a pair of birds
native to their country = and we
will give each of them a pair of
our mallard ducks for release in
their country"
There is a whole year to work
on the project-so something may
come of it-anyway we all agreed
on the celebration.
The Montgomery County His
torical Society really had a gay
meeting last Thursday evening at
Sandy Spring. Miss Margaret Ell
gar Miller made an amusing story
of her trip by plane from Bermuda
with a bust of her great-grand-
father Hallowell packed in a
beautiful big box, and two pet
white kittens in basket"
While on a visit to Bermuda in
1922, Miss Miller, dining at the
home of William Cox, nonagena-
rian, described by her as a "gruff
old man." timidly remarked to him
that it was "uncanny how much
that bust resembles my great
grandfather Hallowell." at is your
great-grandfather," he said. 1t
seems that the two went to school
together in Alexandria and had be-
come great friends. And so, at the
death of Mr.. Cox she fell heir to
great-grandfather and decided to
bring him home.
Papers read by Jack Bentley
and Osbourne Stabler about fox
hunters of yesterday and today
were most interesting - but Jack
brought down the house with an
impromptu account of a hunt in
which he once participated in Della
ware.
1t seems that some cousins had
described him as a renowned rider
and hunter and there he was in
Dupont country in borrowed hunt
ing clothes, much too small, riding
a strange horse which treated him
so roughly that his riding brooches
were split. He declares that the
only thing they saw to run was
rabbit, but says they didn't recog-
nize it as rabbit = you should
hear that story-the rabbit, eight
dogs, 20 hunters-and everyone
millionaire but Jack.
There was some serious bust
ness, too, but you may read about
that in newsstory elsewhere in
the paper.
The SENTINEL wants to pay
tribute to Mrs. Emma King, care
taker for 81 years at the Gathers
burg Game Preserve; her son,
Malcolm, who is doing an out
standing conservation job for the
state; and to the Rockville Izaak