The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 28, 1904, Page 12

THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. n London and quiet- of fashionable the ms whispers are to be g in this and that enstrangement of Marl- can woman life apart fre > of each, idering the s ought i—and while so- explains in its g [ as been seen alone, some- time restaurants, ¥ £ has on more r been noted ir his s re and the the cause of apart of the f money is ent sale of 4 valuable pictures thaz Blenheim shows of art at hammer This, with s of unfinished House without the pr i e has, of course, set g over Duke’s “‘sac- s Only a millions know this The wise say the beginning was in &an z scene in one of the small grawing-rooms v Blenheim last March, wk Mrs. Belmont, mother of the Duche braved the lion in his de &and E to him what would be required of him if he expected to find financial favor at the hands of the Vanderbilt family. There had been some trouble before this time, many rather i extravagances, and the led with more or less gar- of the unhappiness of the Nothing was ever elated regarding the result of Mre. Belmont to Blen- "e that time gossip has blic in dribs and drabs accurate account of the asonable public property. will talk despite even the edvantages of working for v as the Marlboroughs. * nont, it is said, freely taxed the young Duke with his shortcomings and placed before him the only condi- tions, stated to him seven years before, on which the Vanderbiit dollar would appear, for despite the fact that Willie K. Vanderbilt and his first wife long ego decided to go their separate ways, there is yet a tacit understanding as 1o just what shall be done for young Marlborough. His veins, used to the virus of bachelor life, inherited from the first Duke of Marlborough and the seven generations of wild Marlboroughs that jay between, a dire failure in politics and anything but a heroic figure in the Boer war, the old life of the operas and the vaudeville halls won back the young Duke and he was once more leading the life of his bachelor days. There may not have been anything #0 very terrible in this, but it was not pleasing to Mrs. Belmont, nor was it Ecene Servants financial LBOROUGH IN HER. w SOMWN bringing )piness to the young can wife, who spent most of her ne in the great halls of the The $3,000,000 of a 1 ment that tke Duchess brought her husband was almost frittered away in a manner to the world of titles. was not enough money to keep e he considered neces tain the dignity of his posit There 1 the to mai i ti If report be true, the young Duke s told piainly that he would be ex- cted to do something; he must make a mark for himself in the world, main- tain, to outsiders at least, a simula- tion of the affection and respect he once was believed to h for his young wife—then money would not be lacking, in reason. But he was given to understand that the Vanderbilt dollar was an honest and a hard-earned coin, and it was not to be wasted on foolish extravagances that would bring only misery to the American girl wife. The Duke, it is said, made promis but seemingly he did not fulfiil them. Probably he thought Vanderblit pere would put up more millions rather than face the scandal of an open breach But the Duke had not figured either on the pluck of his wife or the possibility of a mother-in-law. This vieit of Mrs. Belmont followed the first sign of trouble, when the press dispatches told of the Marlboroughs being in Paris together, but living in separate hotels. A good deal of noto- riety came of this, but the trouble was patched up, at least for the sake of ap- pearances. The young Duchess hon- estly loving her husband, wishing him to do something of which she might be proud, spurred him on to enter politics. Then the Duke made his famous as- sault in the House of Lords—something that amused England for many a day. He made himself more or less eilly by a series of dull speeches and nale plati- tudes. The people smiled sympatheti- cally and passed little or no comment on his effort to be noticed. The Duke was bright enough to know that he had made himself absurd, and he blamed his wife for luring him into a position where he was a laughing stock. Then he was appointed paymaster general of the army and made himself very much disliked. He aspired to the vice royalty of Ireland, but the mas- terly campaign of the young Duchess was not sufficient to overcome the dif- ficulties in the way and he had to be content with the - portfolio of Under Becretary of the Colonies. He made no mark here and the House of Com- mes began to open up its batteries on im. It was at this time that sturdy John Burns, in a speech on the Chinese la- bor bill, noticing the Duke in the gal- lery. suddenly deserted the plain trend of his argument to cleverly lead up to the remark, aimed at Marlborough, NWANT # KNOw % T % vy HERE THE DUKE of MARLB o oL \come 6 i ([ ( [ 2 N\ that drove him furlous with anger, from the House: “In Africa,” he said, “the natives wed women that they may be supported in idleness by them, but far worse is the practice of impecunious British peers, who marry rich Americans solely for their wealth!” With the outbreak of the Boer war the Duke felt that opportunity had come to distinguish himself and he went to the front, but he returned un- scathed and unhonored. Yet the plucky little American girl had faith in him. To her, at least, he was a hero, and for her gake W. K. Vanderbilt hon- ored the family hero, by the giff of the wherewithal to build Sunderland House, in the hope that it would furnish a common center in which the young peo- ple might find a mutual interest that would bring them back together. Young Churchill made his first mis- take in the purchase of the land in Curzon street, paying Lord Howe nearly three times what the site was worth. He planned the great pile himself and considerately hid from the world his architectural mon- strosity in an immense hoarding until the exterior was completed. When oAzr0 the the paling was removed London's po- lite society snickered and the lower half plainly jeered. It was the “sight” of London, and the longer the Britisn gazed at the great pile the more they were amused until “Blunderland House,” as it is now called, rivaled Punch as a laugh provoker in the Engliuh. “So like the Duke!” they said. The Duke deserted his task and the work lagged and almost stopped. They gave a great reception for charity in the Curzon-street house. The Duke was absent, but no ohe else in all of London’s smart set. They wanted to “i; the inside of the show and they did. Not a room was finished, even the Duchess' own boudoir was almost bare of furnishings and but half completed. Great spaces yawned in the walls where . priceless Boucher tapestries were to have hung and ‘carpetless floors eclioed to the tramping feet. Ornate electroliers made garish show In rooms planned for the mel- low light of stained glass windows, but where the sun poured in unchal- lenged through ordinary crystals. Then the annual party at Easter i < O é/fl/ a Wy Y S MET WIS MOTHER-IN-LAW. week gathered at stately old Blenheim with no hostess to bid them welcome. She had given up the fight and was willing to let the world know that life with this ninth Duke of Marlborough was not all roses. She spent last Easter with her father in Paris. “Blunderland House"” rears its ugly form in Mayfair, half completed, the ugliest structure in all England; a monument to this latest head of a noted family. The story is a strange sequel to the reports that filled the press of two continents when 1500 persons crowded into St. Thomas Church, New York, that day in November, 1895, when five dignitaries of the Episcopal church united in tying the knot that bound together a family renowned for its money with one noted for its military deeds of valor. Few of that great throng could see in the slightly built, blonde young Eng- lishman, whose clothes fitted so bad- ly, anything to win the love of Con- suelo Vanderbilt, but not one among them but believeq that he must see much to love in a delicate, fragile Yyoung woman who took his name and title, . LA_‘_EST PHOTOGR. APKH % THE She brought him a settlement of 3$3,- 000,000 to save or waste as he and on her were settled ten miilions more. If the spirit of the old Commedors attended that wedding he must have felt that the great fortune which he had established was ocoming to bad ends indeed, when s much money should go to enrich the family of no- torious John Churchill. The old Com- modore was & man of integrity and honesty, viewed in the light of these days of lax consciences, and while he Juggled with the stock market at times to increase his store, he never would have stooped to juggle with the finances and honor of a nation or to purchase one step in his advancement, at the sacrifice of a woman'’s name, as did John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough. John Churchill was miserably poor, with little chance of recognition at court. He had been educated by char- ity and was a seedy hanger-on on the outskirts of the notorious Court of James 1I, with no asset in the world, save a handsome face and figure and the selfish love of a beautiful sister, Ar- abella. Churchill, ever crafty, looking well to the main chance, saw in his sister’s beauty an opportunity for him- self and he contrived to bring her to the attention of the King. Arabella becarne the sultant of James, and from that day John Churchill knew what it was to bask in the sunshine of royal favor. It is strange that even the military achieve- ments of this man can overshadow the fact that his almost every step up- ward was due to his sister’s position; that the fortune, the opportunity he enjoyed, was reared on the founda- tion of her broken heart. John Churchill knew no duty save the duty of a sublime selfishness ana he hesitated at no act to advance him- self. He juggled the national flnances, and when advantage offered he un- hesitatingly bestrayed James II, his King and benefactor, to Willlam and Mary of Orange. This betrayal profit- ed him little, for it was not until weak, vacillating Queen Anne came to the throne that Churchill once more dominated the court. Although he had married early in life, he was a roue and a profiigate, who dispensed his favors like a mer. chant selling his wares. History says that one of his paramours, alone, gave him 000, an immense sum in those days. His wife, Sarah Jennings, a wo- man of obscure birth and a servant, possessed a rare sympathy for him, for schemer never had a better heln. mate than he, in the first Duchess of Marlborough. During his absence from court she ruled the Queen in his in- terest. A glance at his further history will show that the founder of the great house of Marlborough was not the S MARLBOROUG i most honorable man in the world, and the pages of history also reiate Vh.?t tha'- heads of the great house that fo u\'.\'c; him were not wanting in the irit the roysterer. 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