The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1905, Page 37

-~ PR DRt P o —— ks — Pages 37 to 46 | —f L Pages 37 —_— to 46 SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1905. CH GIRL AN ISLAND QUEEN|NEW TITLE ROYAL HONORS PAID 70 ENGLISH HEIRESS Lady Mary D ouglas Hamilton Reigns on Arran f—————— 5 £ HER_ DRANK AT TRUE MiGH LAND STHE . - WATCHED THE MARQUIS AND THE., ISLAND QUEEN, 1,000,000, T her. birth She i go: vigorous he temp! h decreed she be resent two d twe s ses and eight bar- to one exalted indi- of Scotland 2 the Palace of 7,000 acres would | 150,000, S w the only child of her £ t had been married rs before she was born. heir disappointment at, instead of the P and heir, the stork a girl. Her father er mone the less for t there was another who felt deeply and profoundly her for it, the man who has t she lost through the laws because she was & girl. of her birth he was plain Douglas Hamilton aristocratic hyphen) of y. When he was born he hardly stood a chance ng the Duke of Hamilton. His st ducal ancestor lived in the time romwell. He wag only a fourth of the reigning duke, and be- ween him and the latter’'s long string of titles several lives intervened. But De: the reaper, gathered them all in gradually, and soon after Lady Mary 1 the plain lieutenant was heir ive to the proudest peerage in FORTUNE DEEDED TO H . e did not take at all kindly 2 of being Succeeded by his st kinsman. He could not alien- but he found a grim s hating as much of t % the laws of entall 1g it on Lady Mary. , heirlooms, the famou k pearls, worth anywhe: 0,000, and mpel him to ant he bequeathed And thus it has come e is now the richest Great Britain, while -titled Duke d, and in home. are were once and ¥ Palace, the are rooms uously fur- ducal ma symp Duke and ties which his com- of age that the par- has left be- feeling on both furnished sign the legacy m ] that did not mar their brilliancy. {of Bute celebrated the majority of its | ¥ Marquis and Arran folk were |determined to give their lady para- | mo a still finer show. | Tn ere two balls and they were | both successes. The deco: ppropriat he the colors cognizance and of | tions were | Douglas, of Hamilton, other great houses whose biood runs in Lady Mary’'s veins were on every slde; huge antlered stags’' heads, with their forest of points, the biggest of all shot by the late Duke, a beast almost a mir- acle for size and beauty, were flanked by many which had fallen to the rifles | of the dowager duchess and Lady Mary | perself. If the decorations were unique the company was no less so. There were keepers in velveteen, fisherfolk from Lamlash and Ranza; hillmen from Glen Sannox and Glen Rosa; and lassies whose manners were as pretty as their fresh, sweet faces, but who evidently had never been so near the “quality” before In all thelr island lives, FOND OF OUTDOOR LIFE. The guests included representatives of the families most famed in Scotch history. Most active among the dancers was the young Marquis of Graham, heir to the Duke of Montrose and a baker's dozen of other titles and 115,000 broad acres. Very kindly, if inquisitive, eyes arms the | long since the neighboring island | Angus, Selkirk and divers | RICHEST HEIRESS IN GREAT BRITAIN, WHO REIGNS ON SMALL ISLE AS A QU N. . -+ watched every word that passed be- tween the handsome young marquis It is early yet and Lady Mary can aim high, but, | {and the island queen. i | friendly gossip has already linked their | names together, and undoubtedly the h would be immensely popular in otland. i | Brodick Castle, the family residence {on Arran and the center of the festivi- | | ties, though It lacks the impressive | stateliness of Hamilton Palace, is a | grand place and beautifully situated on | the wooded slopes of Goatfell, com- | manding a lovely view of sea and | mountain. In the days of Bruce it was ' captured from the English by that he- roic chieftaln. 1In 1844 it was restored by Lady Mary's grandfather, William, eleventh Duke of Hamilton, who mar- | ried Princess Mary of Baden. It is: to- |day a superb residence, and its roman- |tic and picturesque surroundings ap- peal strongly to the sporting instincts of its youthful owner. On the opposite side of the island is Dougarle, Lady | Mary's beautiful shooting box, where | the King spent a day when on a cruise | in the West Highlands four years ago. ston Park, in Suffolk, she has an- other magnificent residence with sta- bling accommodation for fifty horses. Lady Mary so far has been little seen in general society. She Is devoted to sport, and riding, hunting, shooting, fishing and other country pursuits con- stitute her chief amusements. She is a superb few women master of hounds in the kingdom. She Is an excellent shot, too, and has been known to humble the self-satisfaction of many a man who thought that to go deer-stalking with a girl must'needs mean rather poor sport and artificial “going.” These qualities endear her to the islanders of Arran, from whom she receives such homage and affection as'a queen might expect. The men love her for her fear- lessness, whether hunting or fishing off the rocky coast; the en for the kind heart which prompts her to gen- erous actions daily, horsewoman and one of the | CAINED BY ONSUELD Duchess Aids the Church Army | in London, | Complimented for Work © by Head of the Society. i | i Two American Peeresses in a ;. Social War in British Metropolis. ! | Special Cable to The Call. LONDON, Dec. 16.—To the many ! haugnty titles which Consuelo Van- derbilt acquired by her marriage to the Duke of Mariborough has just been | added a new one. 1t is one of which hould teel prouder than of all her she other dignitaries combined, for she has actually earned it.. The Rev. Wilson Carlile, head of the Church Army, in the course of a public speech, the other day, said that the American Duchess was “the 'best commercial traveler in London tfor the Church Army."” The Church Army is modeled on lines similar to those of the-Salvation Army, and has done more than any other or- | | ganization to relieve the established | church of the reproach that it neg- lects Lazafus in order to pander to | Dives. Last winter Mr. Carlile got | the Duchess of Marlborough to pre- sige over one of his charity bazaars. A titled dame of high degree always helps | draw the crowd, and the crowd brings | mones. / ‘fhe Duchess was not content with merely playing the role of an aristo- eratic magnet. - In her motor car, ac- | companied by Mr. Carlile, she made a tour of the various stations of the| Chureh Army and saw how its work was done. BShe was)particularly im- pressed by the evidence that in all its Gepartments the = governing: principle was that relief, wnether in the shape of a bed- or & meal, should always be Ipaui for by work in some form. There was no pauperizing about it. PROVES GOOD SALESWOMAN. | The Duchess expressed her approval of what she saw by presenting Mr. | | Carlile with a check for an amount | that tar exceeded his most sanguine expectations. But she .did not stop | there. She placed a motor car at the | aisposal of all her friends and ac- | quaintances whom she could induce | to visit the various centers of Church Army activity in the metropolis. She | constituted herself an agent for the | sale of the chief commercial products of the Church Army's derelicts—kindling wood. She besought orders for it wherever she went. iL soon became understood that the first essential thing o get into the good graces- of her Grace was to order a liberal supply of firewood from the Church Army. It was not iong be- fore the Duchess was selling more Kindling wood for the Church Army than anybody else in the country. ~As a token of gratitude she has been pre- sented with a desk made by out-of- work cabinetmakers who had found temporary shelter in one of the Church Army's homes. | *There is an interesting contest now going on between two American peer- esses as to which of them shall ad- vance her husband furthest in Lon- don’s municipal life and incidentally ac- quire thereby the largest measure of reflected glory. Lady Cheylesmore has | just had the satisfaction of seelng her | husband elected Lord Mayor of West- | minster for a second term, which makes | her a Lord Mayoress for another year. ‘About twelve months ago Lady Es- ! gex induced her husband to run for the London County Council, and he was | clected as a member for the borough Marylebone. Municipally a County Councilor counts for rather,more than a Mayor of any of its subservient dis- | tricts, but it is a position which con- fers no distinction on his wife. There- fore, Lady Essex wants to see her hus- | band a Lord Mayor, too. | Within the lest few weeks he has gone to work to make himself “solid,” | as Americans phrase it with the Marylebone constituency with a view to capturing the Mayoralty there at the next election. Among other things he is displaying keen interest in the Marylebone schools, and has promised to provide halls where the children can ! indulge in gymnastics and other kinds {of physical exercise. Marylebone will accept his gifts with a more or less show of gratitude, but there is small . {likelihood that the Maryleboners will ! ever elect him Mayor. In most of the London | democratic jdeas are in the ascend-: !ency and it is a fact that a plebeian) Istands a better chance of receiving the ' { highest civic dlgnity that their elec- ! { | of boroughs tors can bestow -than an Earl. Battersea has just elected a working tailor as its Mayor. A significant in- dication of the new order of things is ! furnished by the new Mayor of Isling- ton, who has just announced that here- | after he will dispense with that ancient | symbol of authority, the mace, and the | services of that most Imposing and use- | Tt of officials, the mace bearer. Eng- ‘lish civie life is becoming more ! and more a mere matter of business in which titles go for nothing and abil- i of these relics { ity alone counts. i egee i Princess Friend of Horses, BERLIN, Dec. 16.—The Crown Prin- | cess of Germany has just accedeq to !the request of the German Soclety for ! the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals {to becéme its patroness. More than | this, she has been using her influence !to get that equine instrument of tor- ture, the bearing rein, abolished in the |,.°ygl stables. In her own it 18 never ! used and an edict has just gone forth from the Kaiser to that effect. His ex- ample, it is expected, will be generally adopted among aristocratic folk in the Fatherland PEOPLE OF SPAIN EAGER TO HAUVDE ALFONSO The people of Spain are very anzious to see King Alfonso married, as they believe he will then | give up the dare-devil tricks of which he is so fond and which have repeatedly endangered his i life. The young ruler keeps his subjects in constant alarm by his reckless ntotoring. RBelieve Chat W&rr:’ayfl Would Put End io Daredevil Uricks DED — s KING ALTONSO oONTHIS . MOUNTAINEERING— i & EXPEDITION— IN' THE— | ot ) PI1CO DE. EURORA «.w | — | | | NERRING. DANGEROUS SPORTS ONE OF THE D IN WHICH RULER INDULGES. | | — —— Special Cable to The Call. MADRID, Dec. 16.—Just before Spain’s impulsive boy King left Ma- drid on his recent tour in quest of a bride, he made one or two notable ad- ditions to the ratier extraordinary col- lection of souvenirs which he has spent the greater part of the past year assembling in one of his apartments in | The existence of this | the royal palace. unique collection has been mentioned before, but up to now no catalogue of its various items has ever been fur- nished. They consist entirely of non- descript mementoes of the frequent oc- casions on which Alfonso XIII has seen fit to endanger his royal existence, and it is now the Supreme desire of the Spanish people to keep the assemblage from getting much larger. In spite of his amazing pranks, his subjects are genuinely fond of their boy King. But, setting affection aside, it would be uncommonly inconvenient if | “Don Alfonso,” as the 19-year-old sov ereign is generally called, should hap- pen to come to grief in one of his periodical attempts to startle the mem- bers of his suite. Such a calamity would necessitate another period of re- gency, which the Spaniards particularly dread, and a lengthy one, the present heir apparent to the throne, the little Prince of the Asturias, being only 3 years old. That is why the people of Spain are so anxious to see the King happily married. They think that as a bene- diet and, subsequently, a father, will be inclined to take a graver view of his responsibilities and thus avoid risking his life any oftener than nec- essary. It would be a mistake, however, to set King Alfonso down for what the Spaniards call a “mala cabeza,” or “gid- dy-brain.” On the contrary, he is intel- ligent, cultured and good-hearted. But he is really more like a boy of 16 than one of nearly 20, and this is undoubt- edly due to the extraordinary amount of liberty he has always enjoyed, the early fears for his health having led those responsible for the King to think considerably more of his phy- sical than of his intellectual develop- ment. Recently while at San Sebastian, King Alfonso sallled forth, on foot, from his Villa Miramar, in order to open an exhibition of paintings and sculptures. Crossing with his retinue the principal street df the town, he happened to pass by a coffee house be- fore which there was piled a number of chalrs and tables, composed of metal. he | It suddenly occurred to the King to | leap over this heap of furniture, which | was pretty high, eight or ten of the pleces being placed one upon the other. Alfonso XIII made a running jump and passed over the whole lot, ex-| cepting the topmost table, which for- tunately fell to the ground, otherwise | his Majesty might have broken ais neck | or a leg. Probably moved by a feeling | of gratitude toward this table the King | bought it and had it sent home to en- rich his collection of souvenirs. It is almost superfluous to speak of | King Alfonso’s hair-raising excursions in his automobile, so much having al- | | ready been told about them, but it may | be remarked that in continuing his | furfous “runs” the King has disregard- | ed the suplications of both his mother and the members of his Government. Proceeding from San Sebastian to Bilbao, in his automobile, Alfonso XIIT traveled at a speed of nearly sixty| | miles an hour. The - automoblle in which the Minister of Public Instruc- | tion, Senor Mellado, followed, had nec- | essarily to go at the same veloeity in order to keep up with his Majesty. At in the road, both | a certain _turning automobilés ran off the highway and fell into a ditch, where, striking against some trees, they were shat- | tered. The Minister came off with a broken | head and his secretary was hurt in | the legs, while the King had his right | wrist dislocated. .On that occasion the | young King’ collection of souvenirs | was augmented by a small strap which the sovereign had to wear on his in- jured wrist for some weeks. On another occasion the King was careering wildly along in his automo- | bile on the outskirts of San Sebastlan | when he accidentally ran down and killed a donkey. The woman who own< ed the donkey naturally asked for cash damages. King Alfonso drew out his purse and offered her a hundred peseta note (320), but the owner who had recognizeéd the King, refused the money, saying: “Excuse me, your Majesty, but I think that a donkey killed by a King is worth much more. It ls at least worth two hundred pesetas.” “Very well, take a hundred pesetas more,” he replied, smilingly, “but, at any rate, let me have something from this poor animal to remind me that theére are such dear donkeys in my kingdom.” Uttering these words he pulled out a knife and cut off one of the donkey's ears, and after putting this trophy into his pocket he con- tinued his' journey with more velocity than ever. The young monarch, however, is not | der to try for himself a -+ satisfled with the perils of automobil- ing. He seeks for others wherever he can meet with them. During last sum- mer King Alfonso invited to dine with him at the Royal Villa of La Granja (near ' Segovia) about fifty or sixty aristocratic automobilists, friends of his. After dinner the King showed his guests the magnificent gardens of the villa, and after walking with them through the splendid’ poplar avenues, full of statues and aristic fountains, b had the fancy of climbing up & high monument. He reached the top safely and stood among the sculptured figures, but when he wanted to descend he found it a dif- ficult matter, so that some of his guests had to come to his relief and haul him down like a parcel of goods, so as to prevent him from injuring his august limbs, or from adding his own figure for an indefinite period to the marble group. When Alfonso was low- ered from his elevated position, he t his trousers, and those identical tion of souvenirs. Another day, Alfonso, who has a pas- | slon for agricultural labors and has re- peatedly declared that he desires to be “the first agriculturist of S went to the Royal Park of the Parda in or- new reaping machine which had been sent to him from a firm in Barcelonia. When he found himself on the top of the ma- chine he became so enthusiastic with the excellent results obtained by his agricultural experiments that, not un- derstanding the mechanism of the ap- paratus, he allowed one of his feet to be caught by a wheel. If the per- sons present had not instantaneously managed to-stop the movement of the machinery, his Majesty would have had his foot completely crushed. More recently, King Alfonso, who is a first-class shot and very fond of hunting, was invited by thé ex-Conser- vative Minister, Marquis de Vadillo, to shoot quail on an estate of his called “Vega de Cidones,” in the province of Soria. The King accepted the invita- tion, and a lttle while after the hunt- ing had commenced saw some quail rise. Forgetting to assure himself that nobody was standing within range of his rifle, he fired. The charge grazed the head of a servant of the Marquis of Vadillo. The servant had been half- hidden among some plan From that shooting party Alfonso XIII brought home, as a remembrance destined for his collection, the branch of a tree in which his ckarge eventually had lodged. —_———————— Mrs. Frank Mackey Hunting. LONDON, Dec. 16.—Mrs. Frank Mackey is hunting energetically in Warwickshire and is the admiration of her acquaintances for her turnouts, her seat and her good hounds. She follows 50 fast on the heels of her friends shat they are rather anxious to let her get past, especially when doing a danger- ous jump. She is entertaining hunting friends all the time and does very little beyond hunting, riding and driving, her only social relaxation being bridge