House and Garden 
AMERICAN HOUNDS AT THE CHEVY CHASE CLUB 
races, and other contests which are given on the 
private track of the club. 
A bit of the history of Chevy Chase is well worth 
noting, for its past appealed to the club who took 
its name, as much as its charming surroundings. 
Chevy Chase has had a recognized place in the annals 
of history for more than one hundred and fifty years 
past and the name Chevy Chase was granted as a 
patent to one of the early settlers of Maryland, the 
title later passing into the hands of the first Post¬ 
master General of the United States, Abraham 
Bradley, who took up his residence in the old manor- 
house, now the Chevy Chase Club house, in the year 
1800, when the seat of government was removed from 
Philadelphia to Washington. It remained in the 
possession of some member of this distinguished 
family for nearly the entire century. The name 
Chevy Chase commemorates the battle of Cheviat 
Chays, in which an ancestor of George Washington 
played a distinguished part. When the British 
entered Washington in 1814, the entire records of 
the Post Office Department, together with a number 
of important documents and papers from the other 
Departments and the White House, were transferred 
to Chevy Chase and here several members of the 
Cabinet took refuge. The figures “ 1741 ” cut in the 
side of one of the old-time chimneys give the date 
when the house was completed, over 160 years ago. 
The design of these massive chimneys, which permit 
the use of broad open fireplaces, shows that the build¬ 
ing is indeed venerable. 
The Chevy Chase Club, which has been in existence 
since 1893, now has a membership of fully 500. 
While it includes many of the prominent families 
who reside permanently in Washington, names on its 
rolls also include those of distinguished statesmen, 
diplomats and army and navy officers who may make 
the Capital City their home temporarily. One of 
the permanent Washingtonians instrumental in form¬ 
ing the cluh is Thomas Nelson Page who has also 
served it as president. Another active member of 
this class is Mr. Alexander Britton, a prominent local 
attorney. 
Needless to say the Roosevelt family are mem¬ 
bers, and before her marriage Mrs. Nicholas Long- 
worth was frequently seen on the tennis courts. 
Speaker Cannon of the House of Representatives is a 
golf enthusiast and a frequent visitor at the course 
as is Justice McKenna of the Supreme Court, 
Justice Harlan and former Attorney General Knox. 
Active in the Chevy Chase Hunt are Mr. S. S. How¬ 
land, also Mr. Craig Wadsworth, both of whom have 
stables which rank among the best in the country. 
These gentlemen who are officers of the famous Gen¬ 
esee Valley Hunt Club in New York State, have done 
much to give the Chevy Chase Hunt its prestige. 
