New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 22, 1916, Page 14

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, JUNE 1918. tos by American Press Assoclation. Countoss of Suffol. 2—Mrs. Lewis — Duchess of Marl- 4 —Countess of Granard, 5 Willizm B. Leeds. 6.— Countses of Ancacter, 7.—Lady Beat- ty. Dchess of Roxburghe. ANY, very many extremely wealthy American beauties have permanently expatri- ated themselves by marry- noblemen and making in England. Now these res are forced to part with hird of their incomes on the war For this is the British income nce the war has brought on the in jal crisis Many of them found that America was too crude and too rude for them. [They wanted to live in ancient castles and manor houses and have obsequi- bus, highly trained servants to wait apon them. They wanted many things they thought they could find in Europe and not in America. They have found it quite expensive. pursuit of pleasure was in gen- their highest aim. They threw Ives- into it with their whole nd whole incomes. The Amer- in fashionable English "society > long been noted as forming the most brilliant and most ex- nt element. me have paid even more than war toxes. In many cases cruel death has Len husbands, children or relatives marriage. of enjoying the pleasures luxurious society e living amid scenes of mourn- 1 gloom. Their homes have in tish es ax sl T aral 2ad many cases been turned into hospitals. The young men of their acquaintances have perished on the battle front by scores, for the war has fallen most se- verely on the class which these Amer- ican expatriates have joined. Had they stayed at home in Ameri- ca they would have found their in- comes lightly taxed. They would have had family and friends not decimated by slaughter. The income tax is graduated, in- creasing with the size of the income, a principle already established. Under the new budget it is increased to such a point that incomes above $100,000 a vear will pay 34% per cent, or more than one-third of the total amount. Further Increase to Come. Great as was this increase in taxa- tion, Englishmen must not suppose it was the last increase that would be required before the war was over. Americans and all foreigners living in England are subject to the in- come tax if they maintain permanent residences there, whether they are British subjects or not. It has been roughly estimated that these Americans will contribute about a billion dollars to the British war chest under the new income tax. A few of the principal American pay- ers of British income tax, with the amounts they will pay, approximated, are as follows: William Waldorf Astor, $1,250,000. The Duchess of Marlborough, daugh- ter of Willlam K. Vanderbilt of New York, $150,000. The Duchess of Roxburghe, daughter cinnati, $100,000. Emperor ofr Japan Member of Fam Ruled That Country For Seventy-five Generations Photo by Ameritan Press Association. ilyf 'fhat Has Emperor and Empress of Japan and Young Girls Who Grew the Sacred Rice Served at Feast. HrEar:"r‘w;hrnnemwm ceremonies King the formal accession Of an emperor to the throne of Japan to be appreciated must be grasped in their entirety. It is not merely that of a mikado, direct human deséénfant of an unbroken line of seventy-five, generations of rulers stretching: back, to theimists of history and beyond, but something to the Jap anese mind {nfinitely greater, for in|that, —which lies back of record and tradi- tion even, the eye of faith sees the dazzling, mighty sun goddess, Amage- |rasu O-Mikami, placing the descend- ant of her son on the throne in the land of Yamato. From him, Jimmu Tenno, thus divinely decreed to rule, | the believing eye sees the line of mika- | dos come down the ages to the secular days of the present. But mere than the th thrilled mind sees the the far mystic realm of eternal golden | people of Yamato, sprung, too, from mastering the mountains and fringing the seas of the Island Empire of the Rising Sun. And from that natal day of the sun begotten race the Japanese beholds the first generation pass from ithe working world to the world in- ‘visible, each soul becoming one of the | sreat ghostly company of the gods. From generation to generation it pro- ceeds down twenty-five centuries to thls very day. Side by side along the of the late Eugene Zimmerman of Cin- | centuries he sees a living god upon the Mrs. William B. Leeds, $300,000. Lady Beatty, wife of Admiral Beat- ty, $200,000. The Countess of Granard, daughter of Ogden Mills of New York, $100,000. Viscountess Maidstone, daughter of Anthony Drexel, $100,000. Curzons to Pay $200,000. The Ladies Curzon, granddaughters of Levi Z. Leiter, $200,000. The Countess of Craven, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Martin, $200,000. Viscountess Deerhurst, daughter of John W. Bonynge, $50,000. Countess of Suffolk, daughter of Levi Z. Leiter, $100,000. Lady Naylor Leyland, formerly | Jennie Chamberlain, $50,000. Countess of Ancaster, formerly Eloise Breese, $75,000. Miss | Miss | in spirit, one in heart, until now, 000,000 strong, they are hailing the im- perial advent of Yoshihito, great brother linked to them all through the flesh of the world and the aura of the gods. When the Japanese shouts “Banzai” and holds his lighted lantern aloft, wishing the new mikado 10,000 years of glory, it is not mere loyalt it is love expressed in the magic terms of the race that has come from the loins of the Goddess of the Sun. Natural and easy as it all seems to the hum- blest or the proudest Japanese, it is to us the modern miracle of a robust modern nation throbbing to a single heart beat from the prehistoric world of gods and heroes amid the primal forces and elemental beginning of the world. Godhood, chieftainship, broth- erhood, mystic soul union, combine in the investiture of Yoshihito in the eyes of all the children of Nippon. But the homelier glory, a more hu- manely touching thing, is the second phase of the accession to the throne. In the first—Sokui—the enthronement, it is the divine ruler; in the second— Daijosia—it is the great pastor, the supreme husbandman, who reverences the fruitful soil whence spring the rice and millet on which the millions live from year to year. He eats of the sacred rice, and offerings of products of shore and sea are there before him. Gold and silk, lacquer and embroidery, shining weapons, stately banners, gor- geous vestments and flashing uniforms glow and coruscate around the en- thronement, but all is plain and pie, primeval almost, in the Daijo—the blessing of the harvest, tasting of the rice—for which the millions toil a from which the millions gather m and brain to uphold the glory of Japan. Sixteen Heroes Missing Secretary Redfield is engaged in quest for sixteen modest heroes. They were part of the crew of the American steamship Kroonland of the Red Star line, which in October, 1912, went to the assistance of the burning steamship Volturno in the north At- lantic ocean. The crew rescued eighty-nine per- sons, in many instances at the risk of their own lives. For their gallant work congr voted its thanks and author- ized medals for the crew and a gold watch for Captain Paul H. Kreibohm. When it came time for the presenta- tion many of the men could not be lo- cated. One since has been found in a e | sult that a year late 1A a Title Is Quite Expensive Lady Cheylesmore, daughter of F. O, French of New York, $50,000. Lewis Harcourt, niece of the Pierpont Morgan, $100,000. These, of course, are only a few of the more conspicuous cases. There are upward of a hundred American women of great wealth who have married Englishmen of title. They do not all come in the class of those who must pay the maximum tax of one-third of their incomes, but all of them must pay very heavily. Practically none will pay less than 15 per cent, the rate that falls on those who have over $10,000 a year. Lady Beatty Wife of Admiral. The position of some of the Ameri- cans in England will doubtless excite general sympathy in this country. Lady Beatty, a beautiful and brilliant k] Chicago girl, is married to Admiral Sir David Beatty, the most distinguished figure in the British navy in the war. He has twice defeated the German fleet on the only two oc: ions when it ventured in force into the North sea. Lady Beatty has always spent her money most liberally in providing comforts and entertainments for the sailors in Admiral Beatty’s command. Now, while her husband is risking his life and winning battles for his coun- try, she is compelled to hand over to the British government one-third of her income. The Countess of Granard, who was Miss Beatrice Mills, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mills and grand- daughter of the late multimillionaire, D. O. Mills, *is one of the conspicuous contributors to the British war chest. Her husband has gone to the front with a regiment and has, perhaps been in action before now. Her cousin, the Hon. Mrs. John Hy: bert Ward, was also a granddaughtel and heiress of D. O. Mills. ' Mrs. Ward's husband is also at the front. Marlboroughs Now Estranged. The Duchess of Marlborough is in the peculiar position of paying a large tax because she married an English- man, from whom she is estranged. Nevertheless, there is every reasonm to believe that the duchess is satisfied to be a member of English society, al- though she can hardly enjoy the in- come tax, Lady Naylor Leyland, who was the beautiful Jennie Chamberlain of Cin- cinnati, enjoyed for many years the esteem and personal friendship of'the late King Edward. She has had the sorrow of losing in the war her son, Sir Albert Edward Naylor-Leyland, named after the king. But she must continue to pay her income tax to the war monster. | Mrs. Leeds Prefers Freedom. No one has enjoyed .the delights of European soclal life more thoroughly than the beautiful Mrs. Willlam B. Leeds, who inherited an enormous for- tune from her late husband, accumu- lated in Rock Island ventures and the “tin plate trust.” Mrs. Leeds has been sought in marriage by the most’At- tractive and eligible princes and no- blemen in Europe. Apparently she enjoyed the society of all of them, but she has obstinately preferred freedom and admirationata | the possession of a title. She has been aptly called “the merry widow.” She has “millions and modesty,” as one English admirer summed up her char- acter. Now the terrible war, with its crushing tax, has come to jar the se- renity of her socially ideal existence. Ausfitria Could Have dwge;l 707utright ”inveflr;tiorn Which Has Resulted In NTEREST in the war still holds at the Dardanelles, where both the naval and land forces of the allies are attempting to sain a notable success. Fleets are storming various ports, and at no time has the activity been more marked. Many interesting pictures of the British fighting forces have been ro- ceived in this country. The accom- panying one shows a Whitehead tor- pedo being lifted aboard cre of the battleships in the strait. The locomotive torpedo, by which every nation sets such store as a means both of attack and defense, might have been the exclusive property of Austria had that country been farsighted enough to hold that of which once she had complete control. The torpedo was the invention of an Austrian naval officer, Captain Luppis, who, prior to 1870, offered to his gov- ernment a self propelling torpedo in shape much like a boat, driven by steam or clockwork mechanism and di- rected from a base by guiding lines at- tached to a rudder. The bow of this miniature “torpedo launch” was filled with gunpowder, to be exploded by a pistol in the bow of the boat. But the Austrian government, while recognizing the value of Captain Lup- pis’ invention, expressed the opinion that the device would not be practical without a better form of motive power and a system by which the craft could be steered independent cf a base. Robert Whitehead, whose name most of the torpedoes of the world bear to- day, was then the manager of an en- gine factory at Fiume, and to him Cap- tain Luppis took his model. Mr. Whitehead, given the germ of the idea, then developed his first torpedo, with a practical working mechanism and steering device, all contained in a fish shaped hull. But still the Austrian government was unwilling to undertake the ex- penditures necessary for the develop- | ment of the torpedo, so Austria invited | other world powers to witness tests and participate in them, with the re- in 1869, the Brit- | ish admiralty sent a committee to the | factory at Fiume, which brought back | with it two of the weapons. After | many tests the British government | purchased the right to manufacture | torpedoes in England and the right to Photo by American Press Association. Raising a Torpedo on Board a British Warship at the Dardanelles. thereon, of which it was to be kept | advised, for the sum of $60,000 Of course during the forty which have elapsed there have been many important improvements upon torpedoes. Yet, in a general way, the principles of thesc “submarines with- out crews” have chonged little B These innovations include the gyro- scope apparatus, the invention of L. years surprisingly devised alcohol burner, which super= heats the compressed air in torpedoes still using this form of motive power, to give greater speed, and, conse- quently, a wider range of activity, Then there is also a compositign known as “motorite,” solid in form, and for this reason more easily han- dled than compressed air, which may be used to drive astorpedo engine. But of all these innovations perhaps tha