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_THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1992 How a Nickel’ Converted the ‘Cowboy Baron. Refused a Little Salvation Army Lassie Price of a Paper, Became Her Convert, And Now Fermer Cowboy and Bowery **‘Down-and-Outer’’ Is the ‘‘Reverend Sir Genille Cave-Browne-Cave’’ and Fiance of a Titled English Girl rs’ beneh' converted. Imprecation he replied Something bad happened. The a nickel would buy him another Baron forsook his companions of the and he'd rather have that saloon and became attached to the and was piv arr, “ad the look of a “down-and-outer,"’ the ‘im By Charles Ackerman Starr fea atc ans ontop’? the ee Copyright, 1922 (New ¥: World) ~— With a mi by Prevs Publishing Company that ONDER if there will be 4.),,, a little Salvation Army than her religion. Army hall. Word went up and down lassie at the wedding The girl turned to go, hesitated, and the Bowery that the Cowboy Baron of Rev. Sir Genille ‘NOM quietly turned and asked had “got religion.” In a short timo he : De you think your mother would gave up his Job with the movies and Cave - Browne - Cave, ike to see you hero?" became janitor for one of the Ralva- twelfth Baron of Stan- | She turned again to the door, but tion Army h salary $3.50 per ford, to Miss Mary ™ te ea ‘lt week. A ve Joined the Army. "i ie Ee d like to talk to you about There always is a certain amou Pigott, daughter of Sir Digby PiR- my mother of suspicion as to the wuotives stu ott of Sheringham, Norfolk, Eng- — The vationist thought sho saw a Ar In bis eye. Ho never dented it Ning from her pocket a card she gagement has just been made wnded it to the inan and told him to With all due regard for the socinl “come up to the hall to-night and we punctiliousness of the litled English, will talk about your mother.’ fis galvation ‘sisi should be maid of pera jroulda’t be there, but honor at least, for without her there De was, and the next night and thc Would “have been no romancé—no SXF ANG At last Wea one of thobe ut en- land, the announcement of whoxe wedding His baronetcy came by the accident Ut | of birth and the death of an elder ‘ us EL aa / (jf brother; his title as ‘'Reverend” came Y 7 | { j Sir Genille / Cave - Brown: ministry The ; WY } / Cave 1n his ’ : } y Salvation Anny Uniform as the direct result of the of the American Sulvationist. steps by which it was acquired might be described as, first, convert: Janitor in a Salvation Army ball, leader of meetings, envoy, finolly preacher by ordination of the Congregatlonalists of New Jersey. Little is known her s to the bride to-be, but the cowboy Baronet 1s known from the Atlantic to the Pacl- flo, as well as over a considerable portion of the remainder of the globe, of for his has been one long career adventure. The first t Baron was when he str Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, then the soclety hostelry of Cuiorado. The Baron was somewhat startling in his entry, for he was accoutrel in somn- brero, bardanna about his neck, flan- nel shirt with no tle other than the kerehtef, bis trousers encased in massy “haps” and below these nigh boots, spurred. Over an arm he carried a rauch decorated saddle and bridle, which le deposited upon the desk t 4 the great bewilderment of tho hotel ‘ — The clerk started to gasp something ' y ‘ yy = isa anes ale eatin about another hotel down the stree! , 4 : on : - SSE Sy wre but in the mean time the Baron had q : : ay SS OL written a florid “G. Cove-Brown- UP, Cave” upon the register. The next moment he drew from somewhere un- e the writer met d into the - derneath the ‘chaps’ a roll of bills fl ' ” ‘ ¥ matrimonial market, but could tind N described by a bystander as “big #3 BEE i Fy 5 atrimonial mark nut could find no Nye, and other prominent folk. An enough to choke a boss," and tossed it ‘ y { : 3 , C Rie Cecil Mission) mate with enough cash to lift tho orchestra, of which the ‘Baron was to the clerk with the ponchalant re- sy 5 fry) " : Chapel, snort §. But he was welcomed by leader, also furnished part of the pro- ark: 3 ’ Re x eo Inglish society, became a Vice Presi- gramme. This was in 1911 : ‘ : eg Cecil, N.J. dent of Sir Baden-Powell's Boy Four years passed in the Salvation Scouts and an officer in other philan- Army service, during which time he thropies, such as the Is’ Nursing achieyed the training school and be- Corps came an officer. In this time he made He resigned the county ma no appearance in public print, being attached to bh title t h len away in obscure por hold- not wish to assume its responsib ing meetings, telling of his co sion It is « hat a couple ¢ and» bidding others orga! 4 ured « commission In the Mysore quicker on the draw ‘than the men Stretton Halt ony doy re kK a 1 qe es *ey 1 field military police, sold his with whom he matched wits. inarry them Ile balked, never hav Then came the call to preach at “Take care of that, son; T may need some of It before I leave town.” With a laugh be tapped the “chap” where his pocket ought to be und produced a jingle which betokened a Store of gcid in addition to bis “roll."* “Room with a ‘bawth,'** he de t manded, and got also the name of 4 3 clothing shop. When next he ap 4 peared in public it was dinner time i 4 Cave whena cowpuncher riding the range in the West and he had to introduce himself to Te ion a woos dened fe pine, death of Sir Myles necessitated ing done anything of the sort, ‘Tell. Cecil, N. J., a hamlet so small that the clerk, for he was rigged out In hes of the Far th ge re wee fact er lent, gud te Sir Gentle, Hattse ng of it, he chuckled as sald it it not ! 1 ner shown upon th ¢ | e of faphio Yenver fashion < o wa eal 4 Genille, Baron jater developed thi he fellow dsmaps The ; 7 | Se eta ray. coat es t man of his apparént ‘education and MY wounded In this service. of Stanford and Master of Stretton Peles tres arte Hie: Ruan Pas wt I i ea: eo al i et pear trousers, patent leather 8 refinement who becor ; sealous . From ‘this lip werlt<into bir game) SA) Whidh Cried With 1t-@ IScel hen the Savon remembered that for Ick of ia conerecaton toramtonee worker; there have been many of hunting with a comrade, making it a Magistracy, he really tried to 2M there were many rieh » women ir preacher ie ‘ ve ile. 5 ee : vome \ a preacher. ille, or rather - business. There were plenty of tigers back’’ to his aristocratic birthright. ~~ America and that there was much spats, standing collar and vivid te, @ come und g ecar and with it all a cane Stihe Pu we vtec al ; 5 Me now the Rev, Genille Cave-Browne- The newspaper men had no trouble ths Apny. They a m und ot dungcrous animals for tho Sir Myles had indeed left him @ jai of title hunting. Well, to nave Cave, preanized a Sunday Mk 4 chances to mk 1 Watch. killing of which the Government paid 0ble title, dating back to the Norman 1 Pre Sunday 1 and in learning that he was foreman of ¥ ent paid s the ancestral acres, ho would offer gradually inv-rested th | the Circle-Bur-B Tanch in South at they do not trade on t n bount In one year he killed !pvasion by Willlam the Conqueror, jimseif immot it t Himripovanels be ta Xt Haid eal + : 1o its diseredit, So the Baron, when twenty-nine tigers. It'was profitable, the family being of French origin. 1 ablovendaite: whatine ante: Une insta oe ee Mae western Colorado, in the city on 1 p able, iiam’ z 7 f ‘ moniul altar over th So he eume the trust caine , : 1e made known that ited to for tho bounty was’ $20 a head for Willam’s Bret grant was of the North cdl e8 gained control of the little business with the English Con t eG @ heag for od South Cay. ff Yorkshi: to New York in propert nd t busin hh the Basten ote ain to become an officer, was sent to likers, half that for leopards and 29d South Caves of Yorkshire and the “giving resid ” va urned out the pastor. sul bao ied bd Pine wae ee the care of a Captain in tersey City panthe nd form chectah $5, Be- @stingulshing title “de Cave’ was aking residence at No, 321: Jolin He came to New York to secure tions, and Sally learned that he wi { sind fingily tor ae - ete tho eklag Rohl often tee goo, added. ‘The Arst stronghold of the 1°" Aventie, Richmond Mil, Queens. funds to build a rival chapel, bt 4a ne son of a Baron a rough lin wasTeaving. frown 4 with other. profit, from the sale of feudal Baron was known ag Castle ponght Publicity of hile desire Tor: stead was sent to Esmond, Va., and fave. Years after the then Baron "ch wife—and got it, plent two years later y ported to have toward th 00 1 a $1 1 though not a wife. He bold recent death of his brother heir to ried a Saxon lady, by name n= found a bride among his flock there. the estate and title. The story © train chool A v re during tht riod he Iitled my he Gower Ragen” Hay led fay teed from public 1 esting tiger which had been ter, Browne, and the family name came Rowigned SHE} De Ne Sora) io aes Was not ver however, as in The next time I saw him he w ; ree - agboy ¥ te th r ©, and $100 was the 9 be Cave-Browne. Two or three reg, would be offered to any : tho eave wit er of reported living in a Bowery lodging house, cm farts of ip tities econd i ba re a year had passed centuries Inter a Baronet decided that under geventy, regurdiess of locks, At iages in wl he was supposed ployed as ticket taker for a moving wap bub tourtecr t le his companion died, and an added Cave would be more eu- with divorcees barred. Coldly he de- mayO’? Agured. = Tn one case his picture house not far away, and eee oe Be diy E808. 8 Cave, lonely in the solitude of the phonle and strictly proper, 80 the clared that he wanted a woman with ;."y0 and daughter’ were reported spending most of his spare time in } le ancestral Stretton 1 tropics, vestimed his wanderings: litle became Cave-Browne-Cave, “tin or “brass,” enough to lift the {9 bave been killed in an accident some one of the ‘dead houses" of the of tershire, to n his own He had seen just a bit of America Stretton Hall, Leicestershire, is one mortgages, In return for which the he grand passion, however, seeme to classic thoroughfare. A great talker, Pay Bate hele on « during lis sca life and decided that of the ancient castles of England, the title of “Lady would be given, with ve Waited until he now has found he was popular in these third-rail re cages as » At ar ¢ he this was the land to give him fresh oldest portion dating to the twelfth presentation at Court and entree to * Mate of his own social rank sorts, for he always drew a crowd ave up the sea had bea prin- sensation: When he arrived the century. It was a castle then, for it English society, When the war came Sir Genille at ports of the wor ) one ship Soapish War was on and he enlisted must be defended from other barone But somehow match-making mam- Went to his native land to give such « raise Gome ana a ‘ scout under Gen. Miles, Then and !n the innumerable wars, petty mas and ambitious spinsters did not S¢rvien as he might render. He was ant af ai sap a Dite t to cowpunching. He went and otherwise, which the land experl- jump at his offer. Perhaps it was too old for the fighting re but tn VOBuER: ¢ iit as be had everything else he enced, {t was a stronghold which too bald in slatement. When none the homeland he ministered to the cnltuted tn the } hand to, to make tt his bust- never surrendered. appeared to exchange gold for nobil- recruits and to the invalided unsel- Though his stories were often lurid, none doubted them, for he had a way of making good by some feat of skill to back them up and another Tt was in one of these plac that fre Salvation Army lassie comes into UREN OME v ne nd what be did not learn about Underground passages for the pur- ity {t became necessary for the Baron fishly, it ts said. In 1920 he was or- the story. She came to sell cuples of ny Gaile v #8 H {ho longhorns and about horses was pose of escape led in various dir to seek a job. The movie ticket- dalned a clergyman of the Church of the War Cry, the Ary weekly paper wae Baga t ' th knowing. He wandered, as tions, some half a mile long. Through taking offered and he grasped it, The England and ich has since le- Bhe sold » few coi before she do pll cowboys, and had ridden the one of them King Charles made hiy lodging house offered no social life bored. The London despatches do? | proached the dai er Baron, who nev und-up in Kansas, Oklahoma, the escape from Cromwell's men at the for one of his stamp, and the friendly not say where he is now serving, or anhandie country of Texas, Wyom- time of the Protectorate. Charles was ‘“taphouse'’ was bis sole aiternative, whether Miss Pigott or her father ine, Colorado, New Mexico and Ari- in Stretton Hall when trapped by a He always kept his dress suit in M8 has enough cash to lift those mort- a zona. Tt waa while.he was in Col- party of soldiers. In one of the first unk, however, in case something orado that he astonished Denver, and floor rooms there 1s a fireplace which turned up. Many fantastic tales have been told then was feted by soctal leaders, en- swings like a door, leading to an un- ‘This was his life when the Salvation of his doings here in America and tertained at clubs and otherwise show- derground passage which ends at the Army girl crossed his path. Passed ubroad, one of whieh is that he was ered with favors old mill, There is an extra millstone Several months in probation, with the with a Wild W how, Thib le nor ‘Then he dropped out of alght alto- there, and this is the exit. Through foal of an officership ever before him, true, He way an expert, however, ther. He had not been heard of at this the King made his way to safety, the Salvation recruit had established with horses, and gave several exhibl- 1e sincA the Denver trip in connec- When he came to bis throne again a his probity of purpose and religious tions here of his skill in “busting’? tion with hfs brother's death, So kKrant of land of conuiderable size and determination and he was entrusted broneos and with the lariat. In , when his father died in 1907, many honors paid for the salvation at with “a meeting.” He w then jani- Western rodeos he took several prizes ng bi heir to title and estate, the hands of the Caves. tor of the Army barracks at 4% by feats. the exectitors knew not Where to lo. Underneath a Jargo part of this Washington Stroet, Brooklyn, He had = Whether his forthcoming marriage cate bun, olher than be bad last been estate are veins of coal of great valup, Swept and scrubbed the floor eacl means that ho will settle down to the heard f in America. Adverts yielding large royalties, But, like all untis it shone like a holystones de prose lite of a co sntry curate, after nts at last located him in Arigc ihe other property to which the lat- passed out the hymn books, ushered years of unusually exciting experi e be was foreman of the est Baron succeeded, the coal lands the incomers, ejected unruly disiurb- ences, oc whether he will become the Har-C ranch. He hat been for a time were hegvily encumbered. Sir Genille ers, superintended the free “‘feeds’’ Squire of Stretion H h nces uf im Cochise County, i» authority for the statement that for the “down and outs and other tors Were, is not re 1 in the brief h \, bad at that time more the mines were mortgaged for $40,000 wike had been a soet of major domo despateh trom wad. But doubtless } cn than anywhere else and the entire property for $300,000. for the corps. Now ‘Mr, Cave'’ was he will never f the Salva- in ‘The new Baron stuck to the estate to take the platform, lead the sing- tion A girl of the ¥ who | It ia down on the border of Mext- for about awo years. He fairly tried ing, read from the Bible and give the aroused him from mental and spirit~ whore 4 change of residence was to ve up to the part of nobleman. big talk, ual torpor in front of the dive bar any | € 1 he had sl with as tough He grew tired of living without It was made an English evening, more than he will his sea, Jungle and $ Vom Oe He : 5 , lot of cattle-rustling, train-robbing money, and it was {mpossible for one with songs of his homeland, and cowpunching experiences. é — — = “Se . ' y desperad is ever defied law of his rank to actually work; besides among the special ‘guests’ of the But America lost a picturesque ) re Stretton Hall, Leicestershire, England order. Mut the Baron could ride there was no employment {nm England evening were Lady Duff-Gordon, character when the Sulvation Army j like ao Indian and wag just @ litte for which he was Atted. He tried the Josephine Day Nyo, sister of Bill * itm, i ‘ Fa : / ' 4 ‘