The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-03-12
VlCiSSiTUOES OF MANY sclOa5 or
INDUSTRIOUS HOUSES.

VciSSlTUoEs OF MANY sclos5 or
lLLUsTRlOUS HOUSES.
Princes nukcs Marquisos. Earls. Baroness
aud barons Who Have Become Artists
Journalists, Dentists. Riding Teachers
. and Day Labo,er-.
Tho day when noblemen and the ari,tocracv
IN general can be called the droues Of society
IS fast disappearing. Like everybody else,
advancing civilization forces them TO work
for their living If they do not want to bs
pushed 10 tho wall.
Few people know how many scions OF no.
bAity arc earning their daily bread in thi,
republic Hundreds come over every year
English lords and baronets. German counts
and barons, French and Italian princes and
Russians Of high degree Driven out Of
their own countries for political or financial
reasons. AMI either afraid or ashamed to work
in country where their f0rofathors welded
the sword and the lance thoy come over to
accept the shelter Of these hospitablo shores
and join in Americas gigantic hunt for the
mighty dollar In the course OF ono's ram
bles one meets many Of these Some have
adopted a mercantile pursuit, some are art
st-. some journalists. Some succeed in their
irht for life, others sink 70 the lowest scale
on the ladder of-society and some disappear
never u De heard OF again.
ARIsTOCRAIIC ARTISTS.
Among the artists in New York who are
well known members OF the aristOcracy Of
Europe are two German harons. one Of whom
IS remarked by everybody here Who has
not admired those clever caricatures and
those sweet womens faces drawn by c. de
brunmi Baron dc Grimm coqes df ono OF
the oldest families oft...... 4Gs served (or !
several years in t......... lOGlrn,sm fHfR
regiment of the Gu4ercd.. o05,.t throuob |
the whole o' the FrancJ' = "a var s-a re
ceivei the iion Cross from tho hands OF King
William for personal bravery at the battle of |
So. irirat Although "a thorough soldier. he |
was slil more passionate artist and e.
changed The sword FOR the painters easel !
The baron came n this country few years /
a-o aai Is now the proprietor OF the Illus /
tratod Associated Correspondence and OF the /
Eiel.a Fashion Album
And who has not noticed on upper Broad /
wag tall. military looking man with the /
enormous mu.'acAe and fun beard which dis /
tuguIsh tla Baron Bernhard Won Paleskei /
Once an oalc.r in one OF prus,ias crack rcgi |
ments oi the guards. the Curasslcis. the /
baron preferred lhe brush o. the sword. and /
although only two years m tnis country Is /
beginning % make namc for himself as u /
painter Of maritime subjects The baron I
comes oi an oll family ot i0miaoranla and is /
Wlloner
Am0ug the journalists wo lni q French /
uol.lmal. belonging % "a family Of tho Ven. /
dee, which ils Dot set abandoned the tla. F..
difIons of its ancestors and stlll clngs Loyalty /
to tho fortune of tho BOurbous Count Val. |
court Vermont. who has becn some time I
.u this country Was 90 ole time connected /
with the Courri.r d., Inis-Un.s and i, at |
present engaged ia compiling a hcraldc |
album
Another KNIGHT OF the pen is Count Wll |
lam Bern-ior.r, "a son of the lato Count ycrn. |
-t0rif. for many years German Ambassador /
al tue court of 81. james. and great grand /
CON of The celebrated Andrew Peter Fern
-lorl. the Danish primo minister in ,nc latter /
end cd Ia-t century Tho count .s m oihcar
~ ths Imperial German sivicclih IIuaaI
regiment lls was 900 alt.ro sryico for ten +
Years oll clne 20 this country about five
ygars a.5.
DISTINGUISHED TOOTH STOPPER
In tho Latter part OF tho hftes a German /
prince. Kari Ludwig, Cf Wurtemberg, was /
obliged % leave Germany very suddenly on
account of duel with cousin Ct bis, through /
which he incurred TIE bitter displeasure Of
his uncle. the present king of Wurtemberg
Tns prilce came % this country, and drop
ping ls ttc, called himself only b. his
Christian name taking the second one as IA
surname Af-cr going through the great
civil war De established himself as a dentist
at New Orleans. where Dr. Ludwig is vel
known lie BIAS married an American, and
hi- grown up son is his partner In the busi
u.-
4 prominent lugltnman, who Is fighting
against hard OH, in this country, is Sir
Francis Osborne fourteenth baronet OF his
Ine Sir Francis had the misfortune Of in
h.ritug tho t.tle from his uncle, who died 9
without issue. while the estates, being unen-
uiied. ieycrlol 20 bis aunt the dowager
raIr Osborne With a comparatively small
capital s.r Francis cmI-rated 90 Florida five
years oro. Like many others, Lo was swim
cl ont OF what capital be had b. south
ri0rliu real estate agency, the investment
bee bad made proving utterly worthless. He
Is moss oAm- ont a poor living al small
.onu called Acton on the South Florida rail
wav. working Us "A common aborlr la a saw
mil II tho rate of 81 a day Sir Francis Is
nearly related o. The Duke and Duchess Of st.
Albans and has rich relatives living in New
York.
Another prominent Engli.hman who after
bs.ng financially shpwre-Sed ia the old
country made bis way across the water 10
fhs Unifei States aud is fighting a hand 10
hand battle with fate amid great priyau0ns,
/, the brother of tho Right lion. Sir Henry
Drumu0ud Wolff, * C. b., her Britannia
maia.tys minister pisuipotentary at Tie
court of Toheran Mr Wolf, whose mother
v1sad adauelierol the great Earlof Clarendon,
is m present in jacksonville, Fla, acting as
porter iu "a wholesale grocery store. Al
though an oxford man, be has at various
times hlled the post OF dry goods clerk, biA
collector AMI bartender
CASHIER or MUSEUM
Going up the Bowory, shortly after passing
Grand street one srrlges al "a museum oi wax
nlures. and seeing the somewhat pale cashier
sitting al the entrance no one would Imagine
that le had 40 ono tuna been a dashing frus'
sian cavalry officer Won Dassel-Nellersen
BELONGED 10 ouoof Germany scIacaeat cavalry
regiments, and is a nephew OF the director oi
the celebrated government horse breeding
establishment OF Trakhenen. IN East Prussia
and himself comes Of an old Frussian family.
The New York riding academies can boast
Of a fair snare OF German noblemen. Mostly
cavalry officers, all good horsemen, they pre-
forred 20 stick 70 their old work rather than
enter profession they knew nothing about
Prominent among these Is the head riding
master at Dlcl.els well known academy op
Filty-seventh street.-The Baron Won ietins-
hog Tic baron comes ot an OLD russian
FAMILY and has been - this country seNefaI