Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-31
LoRD DRUMMoND our oFASon.
The Failure of HIS EMPLOYERS Throws His
Highness on the Street

The Failure OF HIS Employers Throws His
Highness on the street
The story of George Essex Montifex.
by courtesy Lord Drummond and heir
TO the Earldom of Perth and Melfort in
the peeTage of Scotland, was published
quite recently. He is the grandson of
the present Earl of Perth and Melfort.
who is also Lord Drummond of Cargin
Lord Drummond of Stobhan and Mont
fex, ViscOunt Melfort and Forth, and Lord
Drummond OF RickertOun, Castlemaine
and Galstoun In the peerage of Scotland;
hereditary Thane of Lennox and heredi-
tary Steward of Monteith and Strathearn:
Duke de Melfort, Comte de Lussan and
Baron de Valrose in France. This gen.
tleman will be ~ years old on June %
His first son died In infancy; his second
married In 1855 Mary, niece of the Esrl
of Essex. To them one son was born,
George Essex Montifex. The father died
in 1861 and the mother at Lima in 1868.
He was born in September, 1856
While still in his teens he fell in love
with and secretly married his step grand
mothers maid, young woman some
what older than himself HIS grand
father was very angry and the newly
married couple fed to America, taking
steerage passage to this city Since reach
ing these shores he has worked as porter
in a warehouse, seaman on a sailing YES
sci and clerk in a South street shipping
house. The firm failed while he was in
its employ, and, unable to find employ
ment in the city, Lord Drummond and
his wife and child moved over to the
south shore of Long Island, then not so
popular as now, where, with little hut
Tor habitatiOn, he succeeded in eking out
a precarious living by shooting and sell
ing game.
1t was here, two or three years ago,
that George Drummond, as he is called,
met the senior member of the firm of
Carhart, Whitford & Co., the great whole
sale clothing firm which made an assign
ment last week. Admitting the pluck of
the young man, Mr.. Carhart gave him
place in his store, and he has since earn
ed comfortable living In the packing
department of that establishment. He
had completed arrangements to sail for
Europe last week, partly in the interest
of the firm, and had intended to pay
visit to his old home and try to bring
about reconciliation with his grand
parents, who on several occasions have
tried to persuade him to leave his wife
and return to them. He says he felt that
time must have softened their hearts,
and confdentially expected, when he
presented himself in person before the
old people and pleaded for the wife who
had been true to him during many years
of trial, that they would relent and bid
him send for her. He was to have sailed
by one of last Saturdays steamers, but
last week the crash came very uneXpect-
eddy to the firm, and, instead of going to
Europe on Saturday, he was discharged,
in company with rs other employees of
the broken firm.
Lord Drummond was found in the
packing cellar of Carhart, Whitford &
Co., fast asleep in chair behind pile
of huge packing boxes. The really hand
not seem natural to it, and he slept as if
tired out with night of worry.
Eyes; I am out of work again." he said,
after cordial greeting. Il have been
down town to-day to look for something
to do, but the prospects are not encouT-
aging. We were not very well prepared
for the blow, must confess, and [ must
find something pretty soon. I am will
ing to do almost any kind of work, and
to take very little remuneration. I adapt
myself very easy to circumstances"
"Aren't you beginning to get discouraged
after so many rebufs !" inquired the re-
porter.
81 am discouraged but not dishearten-
ed. After knocking about for SO many
years 1 think I will be able to make my
way somehow through this trouble"
IF you would desert your family I sup
pose you could go home and be for
given?"
sob, yes; they would undoubtedly be
glad 20 see me under the circumstances"
"Aren't you sometimes tempted to do
so?"
"Neverp Indignantly 81 have no
thought of DESERVING them"