The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1905, Page 50

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With the Girl He Loves Rather Than ——— UT OFF BY FATHER (€ |Son of Marquis de Castro | of Naples Makes a Pretty | Turin Dressmaker His Wife R ey | Special Dispétch to The Call ‘ LONDON, Dec. 16.—Investigations of | romantic stories that are told in London | | Police Courts generally result in strength- ening one’s respect for the judgment of | the palmist who declared all men to be liars. But, happily, there are exceptions. By personal inquiry it has been ascer- tained that the tale of a young Italian nobleman’s heroic sacrifice for love, which slipped out somehow in the course of an application the other day for a summons assault, is not only true, but far more interesting than was indicated by the brief outline of it given in the court. Occupying with his wife a mean room for | in one of London's “has been” streets, his | worldly possessions reduced to a single sult of clothes and a few copper coins, is now living Ermenegald! Rossa di Cas- | tro, eldest son and heir of the Marquis di Castro of Naples, head of one of the most ancient and aristocratic | in the Italian peergge. But for the fact that he refuses to be separated from the woman of his choice | he might exchange the squalor of a cheap ( London lodging-house for the splendor of his father's palace, whose multitudinous | windo overlook the eternal blue of the Bay of Naples. But with an arm around his wife’'s waist and the lovelight gleam- ing in their eyes, he assured the corre- spondent in voluble Italian (which one of countrymen interpreted) that he would ver retugn to his ancestral halls while his father lives, unless the Marquis would to receive his wife also. And » Marquis has declared He will never do. His wife is pretty enough to grace even {a palace. But her parents are plebefan | folk, and before her marriage she earned | her living as a dressmaker, and the proud | old Marquis is no believer in the modern | doctrine that | True hearts are more than coronets, | And simple faith than Norman blood. Ermenegaldi is only 23 years old, tall and good-looking, with an air of distine- tion which is all the more marked by con- | trast with the shabby suit of clothes ‘ which is all that remains of his once ex- | tensive wardrobe. After passing through | college he entered the army and obtained a commission In a cavalry regiment. Two years ago at Turin, where his regiment j was then stationed, he met the pretty dréssmaker and fell desperately in love { with her. i SCENE WITH HIS FATHER. “I told my father,” he said, “and we had a terrible scene. All my arguments and pleading were in vain. My father is a n | 2n aristocrat of the old school and he is | no longer young, and it is hard, perhaps, | for age to sympathize with the passions | of youth. A foolish fancy, he called my { love and told me I must and should cone | quer it. For me that was impossible. | And for the young lady, who loved me as I loved her, it was also impossible. We tried it and failed. We were miserable unless we could be'together. At last we could stand It no longer and deolded that Great Riches Without Her | families | ! | the best years of our lives should not be spent apart. 1 went to my father again and told him there was only one woman in the world I could be happy with, and my mind wes made up to marry her at| all costs. “My father has always the grand man- ner, but his rage was something fearful. He told me if I married so much beneath | me—think of the angel I loved being be-| neath me!—he would stop every farthing | of my allowance, and as long as he lived| I should never receive another farthing| from him. Of course he could not keep| me from inheriting the estates after his death, but I do not forget that he is my | father, and I hope that he may live many | vears yet.” The young nobleman left his father’s| roof without his father's blessing and re-| signed his commission in the army, de- termined to sacrifice everything for his| sweetheart. But then the course of true love encountered another dbstacle. A(‘i cording to Italian law a son under 5 years of age cannot marry without the father's consent. To estape this the couple fled to Paris, only to discover that French law imposed similar shackles on Cupid. They learned that things were made easfer for lovers in England and crossed the channel. Immediately after their ar-| rival in London they were married at the | church of St. Peter in Clerkenwell, the church of the Italian colony. That was four months ago. Ermenegaldi sent a copy of the marriage certificate to his father. The Marquis acknowledged it by promptly cutting oft “his son's allow- ance. HARD FIGHT WITH POVERTY. | Emerson once sald that the chief | value of a college education is to teach ! a man how little 1t is worth. Ermene- | galdi speedily discovered the truth of this when he began to hustle for a liv- ing. He was a man wtihout a trade and his accomplishments counted for nothing. The few hundred dollars that he had brought with him were soon ex- hausted, for his early training had not included lessons in economy. Then re- course was had to the pawnshop. When nearly everything he possessed had been pledged he humbled his pride and | wrote a pathetic appeal to his father in his beautiful palace. This was the answer he got from :the old Marquis: “My Dear Son: You shall have the run (as of yore) of my palace and my | horses and carriages. All that I have is yours, and I shall be only too pleased to clasp you in my arms once more if you return. But you must return alone. Until my dying day I refuse to recognize the woman you have so fool- ishly married below your station.” Poverty had entered the door, but love did not fly out of the window. Er- menegaldi declared he would do “any- thing” for a living before he would leave his wife. The only “anything” his unskilled hand could find to do was lathering customers on busy nights in the barber’s shop on the ground floor. | The barber was an Italian. If he had possessed the business instinct of the | average American he would have ad- vertised the fact that the son and heir of the Marquis di Castro was perform- ing nightly with the shaving brush, and the increase of patronage would have made the young nobleman’s ser- vices worth a good salary. But he didn’t do it and the amateur latherer was able to earn only a small pittance —not nearly enough for two young lovers with healthy appetites to live | upon. | Then his wife had recourse to her former trade and purchased a sewing machine on the installment plan. She alst neglected to advertise the fact that she was the wife of an Italian no- bleman, and the little odd jobs she got did not suffice to enable her to keep up her payments on the machine. The sewing machine company sent a man to remove it. It is alleged that he laid rough hands on the pretty bride. That led to an application for a sum- mons for assault, and through that London obtained its first inkling of the pretty and pathetic romance. Perhaps when he hears what folks hexe think of lington it, and what they are saying of him, the stern old Marquis may relent. Any- how, it has given the young nobleman an advertisement that mdy go far to- ward helping him get a good job. S SR Artistic and Useful. Strangers to a city are ever at a loss to “know their way around” until a certain length of residence has given familiarity with streets and points of interest. Tourists coming to San Fran- cisco may be easily relieved of annoy- ance in that direction by procuring at any book store one of the most com- plete and artistic maps ever produced of this city and county, which has been designed and published by Aug. Cheva- lier, 331 Kearny street. The map is complete in detail, showing the topog- raphy of the town and the elevation of the principal buildings, drawn in mini- ature. These features are cleverly in- troduced without in any way marring the map's clearness or completgness. —_———— PRINCESS BIANCA COLONNA TO WED AFTER CHRISTMAS Elaborate Preparations Being Made for Ceremony to Occur Late in Month. PARIS, Dec. 16.—It was at Mrs. Mil- Drake’s reception this week that Paris society learned the definite arrangements for the wedding of Prin- cess Bianca Stigliano-Colonna and Count Jules de Bonvouloir, It is the specialty of her salon, as the guests remarked, that things happen there. This was the first appearance of the engaged couple together at a social function. The Princess looked young aund very pretty, and her rela- tions with her fiance impressed every one with the idea of a true love match. The presence and affable cordiality of the Marquise de Castellane, Count Boni's formidable mother, was taken as a sign that the Bonvouloirs would be caught to the heart of the best circles. The Princess made no secret of her in- tense enjoyment of her daily shopping expeditions with Mrs. Mackay and |the Count, buying jewels and objects of art and selecting furniture, which Mrs. Mackay gives on a truly princely scale to her grandchildren. Society says Mrs. Mackay is giving an immense sum of money down to the young couple, besides a trousseau the costliest that the Rue de la Paix af- fords. The Princess insists upon so many dresses in rose pink, her fa- vorite color, that the modistes are in despair at the task of designing Some twenty robes with sufficient difference in one color scheme. It is agreed that the wedding robe is to be of childish simplicity and not even very costly, a modest confection for some few hun- dred dollars. Even the priceless lace for which agents are hunting overs Eu- rope will not' appear at the ceremony. In other respects the wedding is to be one of the most striking celebrations within the memory of Paris. No trust is to be placed in the rumor that the Colonnas, for some unknown reason, have turned against the mar- riage; the Prince and Princess are very happy and are combining with Mrs. Mackay in giving all possible eclat to all the ceremonies. They.are bringing a great crowd of notable Roman aristo. crats for the wedding, clvil on Decem- ber 26, religious the following day, and the occasion is to be celebrated by a triple alliance of American, French and Ttallan aristocracy in sumptuous fetes. —_———— Over 61,000,000 In Germany. BERLIN, Dec. 16—The quinquennial census of the German Empire, taken vesterday, is expected to reveal that the population exceeds 61,000,000, against 56,345,000 In 1900. Since 1834 the population will have exactly, doubled. It is believed that this hith- erto continuous increase has reached its climax, as the birth rate is slowly, but surely, receding. Dr. Ebers, the | eminent statistician, does not think hat any one living will see the popu. of Germany 70,000,000, very | NOTED SOLDIER HAS RETIRED {General William Butler of ‘ the British Army Is Noj| Longer on the Active List —_— HIS EXCELLENT RECORD Disregard of His Advice in the Boer Trouble Costs England a Terrible Price Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDO! Dec. 16.—Having attained his sixty-seventh birthday, which marks the age limit in the British jarmy, Lieutenant General Sir William, Butler, K. C. B, has retired from the active list and the empire loses there- by the services of one of its most fear- lessly honest and capable soldiers. There are not a few who are glad to | see him go, for he is a sworn foe to red-tapism, old-fogyism and the take-things-easy system which ave re- sponsible for so much incompetence in | the British army. In his distinguishea career of forty- seven years thoroughness has always | been a characteristic of Butler. His |last service was a scathing exposure of the South African war stores scan- dals, by which the country was | swindled out of millions of dollars. | He shocked the easy-chair occupants |of the War Office and violated all the traditions of the service by writing | the report in such a style that it ac- | tually made interesting reading. The Government did its best to shelve it by starting a cumbersome and pro- | tracted inquiry into the matter, but| the Liberal party can be depended on, | now that it is in power, to see to it that it is not dropped. Butler himself is a stanch Liberal | and it is not improbable that he may | obtain®a seat in Parliament at the next general election. Unmuzzled and free from the military shackles, he would be a power there. Like many brilliant British soldiers, he | was born in Ireland. He entered Sand- hurst, the Government military college, in 1856, and two years later was gazetted to a resiment. Those were the days when commissions were obtained by pur- chase, and as he had not the means to| buy one, promotion came to him slowly. He saw some service in Canada, where his militaty talents and map-sketching | attracted the attention of Colonel (now Viscount) Wolseley, who appointed him to a military survey party. HIS ABRUPT TELEGRAM, After twelve years' service he was at the age of thirty-one only a senior sub- altern, wnile many other men with far less abflity, but blesséd with much longer purses and backed by aristocratic infiu- ence,! were far ahead of him. Repeatea applications to be put on special service | met With no response because he lacked the necessary “pull” and his career seemed almost closed. But in 1870 he saw his chance and went for it. Colonel Wolseley was then or- ganizing the Red River expedition. With characteristic disregard for red tape, But. | ler sent this cable to the future com. ' mander-in-chief : | “‘Colonel Wolseley, Winnipeg expedition, ! please remember me. Butler, §9th Regt. " | No reply came apd the War Office, proving equally deaf to his importuni- lflqhgmmdmoom sailed for Canada at his own expense. There he personally interviewed Colonel Wolseley. The latter was greatly impressed by the spirit of the young officer, but shook his head at the suggestion of an appointment, declar- ing that every post had been _filled. The pertinacious and audaclous Butler, however, insisted that there was one berth yet unfilled, and that was that of intelligence officer, who would let | him know what was afoot in Minne- | sota and along the flank of his ad- vance. It was a good shot and the post was created for him. During the advance he met Colonel Wolseley in a forest by preconcerted | plan and supplied him with most val- | uable information. This was the foun- | dation of his career, -for the command- er of the expedition, destined to be a great military figure, never again left Butler out of any active service with! which he himself was connected. But- | ler's services in Ashanti received spe- cial recognition in Sir Garnet Wolse- ley's dispatches. He distinguished himself in South Africa during the Zulu war and did magnificent work in | the Egyptlan war in 1832 and in the later Soudan campaign. SHELVED IN THE BOER WAR. The story of what at the time was prac- tically his military martyrdom in South Africa is well known. He not only fore- saw the fighting strength of the Boers, but mistrusted the capitalists of South Africa and all their ways and works. His warning to the Government prior to the war made him the target of the most malignant attacks by the imperialist party, and led to his recall under cir- cumstances hardly short of public dis- honor. Had his warning been heeded there wouid either have been no war, or a war much more brief and much less costly, because it would have been en- tered upon with knowledge of what sort of a job the army .ad to tackle. Yet, owing to the obtuseness of the Government and its advisers, the British empire was deprived of the advantages of the unique knowledge and experience of Sir William Butler at a time when his services would have been of priceless value in the field. He left his windica- tion to time and did ‘not have long to wait for it. Butler has written several books. “The Great Lone Land” a delightful work published as far back as 1572, showed him to possess in a rare degree the art of lit- erary expression. He has to his credit three first-rate military biogaphies—the lives of General Gordon, Sir Charles Na- pier and Sir George Collay. He married in 1877 Miss Elizabeth Thompson, whose | “Roll Call” and other military pictures | have made her almost as famous as is her | husband. —e GERMAN EMPEROR AT OUTS WITH PRUSSIAN PRINCE Latter Has Tronble With His Wite, Which Leads to Ml Feeli BERLIN, Dec. 16.—Prince Friedrich | Leopold of Prussia, the Kaiser's second ! cousin _and brother-in-law, has had Count Henckel von Donnersmack for two years as his chamberlain. He was appointed by the Kaiser and is giving the Kaiser every satisfaction, but is at daggers drawn with the Prince, with whom he is not even on speaking terms, and they communicate by letter. Skeledons in the cupboard at the Prince’s palace at Glienecke are nu- merous. It appears that the Prince has ! discovered a police detective called Francke doing duty as a scullion in his kitchen and at the same time watching the Prince. This has set the tongues of scandal a-wagging. The Prince has lately been in Man- churia, sent by his imperial relative. 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