The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 7, 1904, Page 17

1 Pages 17 to 20 | Pages 17 to 20 ——d > SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY: 7,* 1904. GWENDOLEN MAXWELL, AS THE WIFE OF THE DUKE OF NORFOLK WILL BE ENGLAND'S RICHEST DUCHESS Besides the Highest Posxtlon in Britain’s Society She Will Become Mistress of the Kingdom’s Greatest of Ancient Castles. 6.—It was all right Mariborough, and Feb. e of LONDON American girl, redited him with had done that —! But ble to set down on paper he chorus of com- m that such a deed aps the wise warning in proposed to n of y Duke he con, as the gossips said he erwise 1f of the m, ‘the no- ung, and you could g, and being e most care- ne whole peer- announcement of er Duke of o his young endolen Con- much un- sh soclety of the Ro- xwell was in which s first wife, years afterward. Her ce’s first cousin, and Herries, came of a as old as that of and connected with of the Premi rest, even means that ss of Marl- e way for the ke, who out- cedence every- Embassadors, g and not hereditary. mistress of certainly the s in all Great hat is probably the most aeval fortress now stand- d pile, which was built , still bears family who seat for nearly 350 years. into the Howard fam- present Duke of Nor- fifteenth of his line—is the gh some additions have of the ancient part The great Norman keep, theer height of 150 feet, not now withstand the s In centuries past, es- have touched at many in- d in the twelfth and six- fes, but the old w; years yet. In 1781 a around the the buy, he was a child his Duchess, even took hi gee if the sacred sk form the miracle that irine had fatled story goes that as they were approach peasants celeb: ng the place a party of ing the cure of one of their number passed the Duchess on their way back from the shrine chant- g: “He hath filled the hungry with »od things and the rich he hath sent p.” The Duchess turned her companions and said: d is our answer, for we are the ch. There will be no miracle for us.” The boy was the only child of the Duke, and unless the new Duchess pro- vides an the title and vast es- will pass to Lord Edmund Tal- nger brother of the present heir ke We shall probably see a marked hange the solemn, stuffy dignity f St es square, of which the most notable re is Norfolk House, the great town residence of the Duke. The jon been practically closed ever since death of the first Duchess, sixteen years ago, and has yme to look somewhat gloomy and it is to take on new expected to be- most brilljant social Its proprietor stage ation, the most bril- tion of our time, just stors for some hundreds of ears before him had arranged for all previous coronations—a hereditary right with the Norfolks. With such nee and such social rank the depended upon to make g retirement from soci- some entertainments that are be, memorable. Norfolk House is almost as historic as Arundel Castle. It was in this house that the chief au- thor of the American Revolution, George III, was born, in 1738, his par- ents having been turned out of St James Palace by George II. Many a page of history has been made within its walls, GREAT FAMILY HISTORIES. The histories of the two great Ro- man Catholic families which are about pecially at the great battle of Flodden Field, which the second Duke of Nor- folk won, and in which the second Lord Herries was killed, while fighting un- der Norfolk. The first Duke died fight- ing for Richard III at Bosworth;’ the third was beheaded by Henry VIII; the fourth was beheaded at the Tower of London for communication with Mary, Queen of Scots; and his eldest son died a prisoner in the Tower in 1595. The present Duke, who celebrated his fifty n birthday a fortnight ago, would have kept up the warlike tradi- tions of his family if he could have had a chance. He was Postmaster Gen- eral of England when war was de- clared in the T!ans\:nl and in spite of the protests of his friends, and lack of enthusiasm on the part of the War Office, there was nothing to do but that he must resign and go to the front to :hm\ hi Dukes are not the firing line, and olk courage and sin- -sev 1gh the N cerit was undoubted, his Grace was persuaded after a time to return home. 1 suppose there isn’t in all England more comfortable, easy-going and unostentatious peer than the present repre ative of all the Nor- folk glories. His habit of going about in a sack coat and slouch hat, with his long, black whiskers flying, has led to many an amusing mistake on the part of folk THE DUKE IS CARELESS. There are stories "of tourists who have encountered him roaming about ds of Arundel Castle and have small tips for small cour- tesies extended, and there is a well 4 account of his being from the door of an in- stitution for the poor on one occasion when it had been announced that the who didn't know him. Duke of Norfolk would be present to ribute certain prizes. The door- keeper told a _somewhat _disheveled man who had elbowed his way through the crowd to the door that he ought to know they did not distribute relief to the poor on a day like that. “I quite understand,” £aid the man, “but you do distribute prizes, and I have come down to distribute them for you.” On another occasion when the Duke was heading a distinguished party on a pligrimage to the Vatican he was mis- taken by a tourist on the platform for one of Cook’s men and commanded to look after her luggage. As she was much flustered and in need of assist- ance, the Duke politely carried her bag for her, to the vast delight of his titled escort, and it is doubtful if that tour- ist knows to this day why it was that her porter refused a tip. The new Duchess is one of the few women in England who will succeed to a title of her own, as the Scotch barony of Herries will descend to her after her father’s death. It is a proud old line and it is almost a pity that the title doubtless will be absorbed eventually in the long list of Norfolk titles. The Duke is already Earl of Arundel!, Earl of Surrey, two or three barons and half a dozen other things —————————— TARKINGTONS ARE KNOWN AS “DUK AND DUCHESS” Natives of Capri Are Awe-Stricken at the Generosity of the Ameri- can Novelist. LONDON, Feb. 6—Mr. and Mrs. Booth Tarkington, who have been stay- ing at the Hotel Quisisana, Capri, for some little time, are now about to journey to Rome, where they will be ioned at the Palace Hotel. At C: i the American novelist and his wife were known as the “Grand Duke and Duchess” because they never question- ed the first prices that wereasked them for anything they wished to buy, no matter how exorbitant and outrageous were these first prices. The general custom in Capri is to ask ridiculously high prices and to come down grad- ually to a business basis. What still further impressed the people of Capri h the munificence of their “Grand e and Duchess” was that when at- ending a native wedding Mrs. Tark- gton, suddenly realizing that she had no present with her for the bride, un- clasped a pear] necklace from her neck and presented it to the bride. This thrifty lady was overwhelmed with joy at the American’s tribute, and it was not long before she was at the local jeweler's at Capri having the gift valued. To Mr. and Mrs, Tarkington's intense amusement it was priced by this authority at 10,000 francs. The bride is envied of all her friends while the giver and a few friends are enjoy- ing a joke, for, having left her jewelry in America, Mrs. Tarkington bought a few imitation things in England to wear until she' got back. The price she paid for the pearl necklace in London was just §$5. It was via Paris that Booth Tarking- ton went to Capri, and one day when strolling through the Paris streets the novelist was accosted by an old beggar who asked for alms. Mr. Tarkington looked at the man for a moment, then dropped a louis into his hands. The beggar was thunderstruck at the re- ceipt of so much money and, while the donor looked on amused, kept passing it from one hand to another to make sure it was real. Then Tarkington in execrable French tried to explain, and finally taking hold of the bewildered old man. dragged him off to a neighbor- ing florist's, where he decorated him with choice orchids. All this time the beggar had been absolutely speech- less, but finding himself garlanded with costly flowers, he became affright- ed, gazing alternately at Tarkington, the glittering gold in his hand and at his floral decorations, and clutching the florist by the arm he whispered, “Tell me, is he crazy or am I?” Jean Gerardy, the famous ’cellist, is the latest notable addition to Edna May’s long list of fervent admirers. I hear that the impressionable young mu- sicilan has given to the fair American actress a rare old violoncello of beau- 1l quelity and tone, which cost him $2000, and has also paid for six months’ ‘cello lessons for her, being fondly convinced that she has other and great- er musical gifts than her voice. Jewels from an Indian Prince and some valu- able ermines from another titled per- sonage were among her other Christ- mas gifts from this lucky Syracuse girl's circle. My Brussels correspondent writes that the Prince of Looz Corservarcin has just been arrested in Brussels for swindling operations in Paris. Re- tired tradespeople and upper servants with good savings were his principal victims, he having succeeded in wring- ng from them about $150,000, as nearly the police can estimate. The Prince’'s title and his luxurious style of living, as well as the promise of generous old age pensions from a fortune of the Humbert kind, were the balt that lured the victin to ruin. In 1890, when still in the divorce court, his Highness made the acquaintance of a Mrs. Bloomfield, a rich American widow, whose fortune he coveted, and he became engaged to her. Her American shrewdness, how- ever, enabled her to discover the state of affairs and she declined “a crown with the paint worn off” and a dam- aged reputation. At Ghent the Prince picked up at one of the clubs a young American, the son of a retired Chicago merchant who had died In Paris in 1588, leaving his better half a handsome fortune. The Prince made thé acquaintance of the lady throuagh her son and laid siege to her hand and money bags; but she, too, escaped him. He then went to Nice, where he pretended he was about to marry the widow of Prince Troubet- skoi-Demidoff. To keep nis creditors quiet be had to invent various pre- texts to account for the postponement of the wedding. His matrimonial ad- ventures are for the time cut short, as he is now sgfely under lock and k in St. Giles prison, Brussels. The United States Minister to Bel- gium and Mrs. Lawrence Townsend were among the special guests invited Sir Constantine Phipps, the Eng- lish. Minister to Belgium, to the fare- well dinner given to the Papal Nuncio, Monsignor Granito del Belmonte. At this Brussels dinner the various Min- isters of different countriés were all present with their wives. Madame Go- mez Brandao was also present with her sister, Mrs. Barton, and considerable interest centered around the former lady, as Sir Constantine Phipps seized the occasion to present her as his flancee. She is the widow of a resident of Rio Janeiro, where Sir Constantine was formerly British Minister, and is doubtless well known to Americans who have stayed there. She is young and very charming, with lovely fair hair. She has one little boy. AMERICANS IN EUROPE. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Stone of Cam- bridge, Mass., spent a few weeks at Wiltcher's Hotel, Brussels, whither they went from Paris expressly to visit Councilor Ehrlich of Chicago, Mrs. Ehrlich and their son Carl, who is studying at Cambridge. Mrs. Stone, who has been some little time in Eu- rope for the education of her younger daughters, Margot and Amy, id looking very well, and the two young girls, who have just turned their hair up, have won all hearts with their frank American manners and charming danc- ing. Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred H. Munro of Providence have been staying in Lon- don and have now gone to Oxford, where Professor Munro, who is profes- sor of European History at Brown Uni- versity, Providence, is spending some time in study. Professor Munro is mapping out his homeward journey to America by way of Egypt, Indla, Bur- mah, Ceylon, China, the Philippines, Japan and the Hawalian Islands. Jack Gage Stark of Kansas City is in Paris llving in the Latin quarter in the midst of American and French artists. Mr. Stark is now engaged in making a series of drawings of the old castles of France, treating them in an excellent anf decorative manner. He has also marked literary ambitions, and for the purpose of collecting ma- terial for a group of “Cow Puncher” stories which he is now about to write, he worked as a cowboy last summer both in Old and New Mexico, at the same time making color sketches which are to be reproduced in connection with the book of stories. When on the At- lantic last September Stark renewed his acquaintance with Mr. and Mrs. Booth Tarkington, who were crossing to England by the same steamer. Gustav von Schlegell of Minneapolis, who is working hard at his studio in the Latin quarter of Paris, has been producing such ‘good work that the master artists of France are predict- ing for him a brilliant future. Some of these paintings are to be exhibited in the spring. Mr. Schlegell is still study- ing under Delecluse. Before going to Paris he studied art in Munich, having started out from the United States with his friend, Cushman R. Parker of Wor- cester, Mass., who has lately heen call- ed to New York to decorate several large hotels. Mrs. Robert Welles and Miss Evelyn Hustad of Pittsburg have arrived in London and are staying at the Savoy | | } —p The Young Woman Whose Marriage to' Duke of Norfolk Places Her in Front of Aristocratic Set — o Work in Subways Deadly. PARIS, Feb. 6.—Vital statistics published lately concerning the Paris Metropolitan are not likely to encours age New Yorkers to seek jobs on Man- hattan’s new subway unless better conditions prevail there. The figures show that since the Metropolitan was established four years ago no less than 50 per cent of the employes dled, were killed or left on account of ba.d health. T -l' Hotel. Mrs. Welles and her step- daughter will go to Cannes, where they will be joined later in the season by Mr. Frederick Potter of St. TLouls, whose engagement to Miss Hustad was announced a short time previous to her departure for England. “Freddy” Vance of Chicago, who is in Paris studying art, has just taken the post of “Massier” at the Academie Colarossi at thel evening classes. Mr. Vance, who is an excellent draughts- man, is doing a considerable amount of sculpture, holding sfrong views that drawing must be improved by a knowl- edge of the other branch of art. Mr. A. W. Vorse of Philadelphia is in Paris and has taken the apartment of Mr. Lawton Parker, teacher. The book Mr. Vorse wrote on his return from his Arctic expedition is much appreciated in Paris, so that the author is receiving a warm wel- come wherever he goes. Blumenschein, the well known illus- trator, is in Paris for a short time. Later he intends going to Rome, both for a holiday and for study before re- turning to New York via England, i the famous JAPANESE LIKE CANDOR OF YANKEE DIPLOMATS Minister to England Declares the American Methdds Are Superior to Those of Europe. LONDON, Feb. 6.—Viscount Haya- shi, the Japanese Minister to the Court of St. James, who has been bearing the brunt of the diplomatic struggle in Europe between Japan and Russia, is a great admirer of Ameri- can diplomacy. Discussing it his Ex- cellency said: “American diplomacy is far superior to the medieval methods which still prevail with Buropean statesmen. It is frank and always to the point. The moment a controversy arises Americary/, statesmen make it clear what the American Government wants. The .Americans say frankly what they want and what they intend to have. “What is the result? They gener- ally get it. If they don’t those op- posed to them know the consequences. There is no beating about the bush. There is none of the delay, suspense and consequent loss of business which invariably attends any diplomatic at- tempt to settle disputes with Euro- pean nations.” e - Kaiser Fond of S BERLIN, Feb. 6.—Emperor Wu- liam is the best Shakespearean scholar in his court. He has an intimate knowledge not only of the original English, and of the splendid German translation, but of the acting edition - as well. Honors for All American Girls. BERLIN, Feb. 6.—Ina A. Milroy, who passed the most brilliant exam- ination in Berlin University, receiv- ing the degree of doctor of philoso- phy with double honors—a distinction galned by only one other woman—is from, Detroit, Mich. She is the first woman chemist to obtain a doctor’s degree in Germany. M'iss Milroy was a school teacher in Sedalia, Mo., in 1890-98, and then, after some further preparation at home, came to Berlin to study chem- istry. e e T Great Pictures Are Few. PARIS, Feb. 6.—The annual exhibi- tion of the Cercle Volney, otherwise known as the Cercle Artistique et Lit- eraire, opened this uek and as usual bmught out new works by such cele- brities . as Bouguereau, Bonnot, Tony Robert-Fleury, Henner, Humbert, Cor- mon, Lefebvre and Carolus Duran. Nothing remarkable or startling, how- ever, is to be seen. Perhaps the hit of the show is M. Carolus Duran’s study of “the nude woman a la Flamande.” — e —— Servia’s Monarch Snubbed. BELGRADE, Feb. §.—King Peter's subjects are not inclined to show him that respect which is due a sovereign. The other day he went with his daugh- ter, Princess Helene, to a charity ball in Kolaratz hall, which was atten®8:d only by junior subaltern officers. The royal visitors were not received by the managers of the-ball, and the King was a pathetic figure as he stood alone, apart and unnoticed. \ ILLICIT DIAMOND DEALERS HAVE THEIR OWN POLICE “Receivers of Stolen Jewels at Antwerp Employ Men to Shadow Officials Who May Raid Their Stores. LONDON, Feb. 6.—That not the po- lice alone keep a “rogues’ gallery” is shown by the amusing experience of a recent visitor to Antwerp, which city is now the chief market in Europe for stolen jewels. The visitor was taken to a house used as an office by illicit diamond buyers. In one room he saw a large collection of photographs, the first to catch his eye being that of Major Wil- llams of the United States Treasury Department at Paris. Inquiry revealed the fact that all ersons of an official character who were considered dangerous by the gang were honored by having their photo- graphs placed in the collection. Should the original of the photo- graph set foot in Antwerp he would be immediately shadowed by secret police employed by the recefvers of the stolen goods. —_—————————— Compel Women to Shave Their Faces. LONDON, Feb. 6.—The authorities of the St. Petersburg Home in Vienna, for old men and women, having de- cided that the faces of men and women should be periodically shaved, 3000 old women, despite their protests, have been despoiled of any beard or mustache they nossessed. "