Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-23
NOBLEMEN IN AMERICA,
Their Strange vfcissitudes in the
 Land of the Free.
scions of nlustrious Houses Who Have Ex. changed the Sword for tho Brush-A
 Royal Tooth-Puller-Riding- ters of Ancient Lineage.

Royal Tooth-Pullsr-Riding-A
 ters of Ancient Lineage.
 Few people know how many scions of no. plhty are earning their daily bread in this Republic, says the New York Herald. Among the artists in New York who are well-known members of the aristocracy of Europe are German Barons. Who has not admired those clever caricatures and those sweet women's faces by c. de Grimml Baron de Grimm comes of one of the oldest families of Saxony, and served for several years in the Imperial German First regi- ment of the Guards. He fought through tho whole of the Franco-P Prussian war, and received the Iron Cross from the hands of King William for personal bravery at the battle of St. Psivat. The Baron came to this country 8 few years ago, and Is now the proprietor of the Illustrated Associated Correspondence and of the Etelka Fashion Album. x..
 And who has not noticed on Upper Broad. way tall, mllitary-looking man with the enormous mustache and full beard which distinguish the Baron Bernhard von Pal eskea Once an officer in one of Prussia's crack regiments of the guard-the cuir- assiers-the Baron preferred the brush to the sword, and although only two years in this country, is beginning to make name for himself as painter of maritime sub jects.
 Among the journalists we find French nobleman, belonging to a family of the Ven- dee which has not yet abandoned the tra- ditions of it's ancestors and still clings Loyalty to the fortunes of the Bourhous. Count Valcourt Vermont, who has been for some time in this country, was at one time connected with the Courier des Etas Unis and IS at present engaged in compiling a heraldic album.
 Another knight of the pen is Count Will fam Bernstorff, @ son of the late Count Bernstorf, for many years German Am bassador at the court of St. James. The Count was an officer in the Imperial Ger man Sixteenth Hussar regiment. He was in active service for ten years and came to this country about i've years ago. In the latter part of the ffties a German Prince, Karl Ludwig, of Wurtemberg, was obliged to leave Germany very suddenly, on l account of Q duel with a cousin of his, l through which he incurred the bitter dis l pleasure of his uncle, the present King of Wurtemberg. The Prince came to this country, and dropping his title, called him. l self only by his Christian name, taking the l second one as surname. After going through tho great civil war he established l himself as dentist at New Orleans, where Dr. Ludwig is well known. He has married
 an American, and his grown-up son is bis 1 partner in the business.
 A prominent Englishman who is fghtin 2 l against hard odds in this country is Sir l Francis Osborne, fourtee nth Baronet of his 1 line. Sir Francis had the misfortune of in heriting the title from his uncle, who died | without issue, while the estates, being un-
 entailed, reverted to his aunt, the dowager 1 Lady Osborne. With a comparatively small tf0l os1 sl~ 1 years ago. Like many others, he was
 swindled out of what capital he had by a
 South Flordian real estate agency, the in. l vestment he had made proving utterly | worthless. He is now eking out a poor liv. | ing at small town called Acton, on the 1 South Florida railway, working as com. | mon laborer in a saw mill at the rate of one | dollar a day. Sir Francis is nearly related | to the Duke and Duchess of St. Albans
 and has rich relatives living in New York Another prominent Englishman who
 after being financially shipwrecked in the old country, made his way across the water to the United States, and is fighting 6
 hand-to-hand battle with fate amid great
 privations, is the brother Of the Rt. Hon Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, K. c. B., hel Brittanio Maiesty's Minister Plenipotenti ary at the court of Teheran. Mir. Wolff, whose mother was a daughter of the great Earl of Clarendon, IS at present in Jackson
 vile, Fla, acting as porter in a wholesale
 grocery store. Although an Oxford man
 he has at various times filled the post o1 dry-goods clerk, bill collector and bar
 tender
 Going up the Bowery, shortly after passing Grand street, one arrives at mu
 scum of wax figures, and seeing the some what pale cashier sitting at the entrance
 no one would imagine that he had at one
 time been 8 flashing Prusslan cavalry
 officer. Won Dassel-Vellerson belonged tt one of Germant's crackest cavalry regi ments and is a nephew of the director O. establishment at Trakheden, in East Prus
 sia.
 The head riding-master at Dickers Acad
 emy on Fifty-seventh street is the Barol
 von Vietinghoff. The Baron comes of al
 old Russian family and has been in thi country several years. He is a good-look ing man of about thirty years of age, tai ented and distingue, and was married las year to charming American lady. At Durland's Riding Academy is Captai, von Bachonce, @ Captain of the Olga Ora
 goons, of tho Kingdom of Wurtemberg
 Now the Captain passes most of his time il
 training horses for the saddle. Whoever ha
 been at Cohen's Riding School on Seventl
 avenue and Central Park, will remem } Der the figure of an old riding-master
 Count Mensdorff is 0 member of an olt
 Mecklenburg family, and has been in thi E country very long time. Another riding master of noble birth is the young Barol von Veltheim, who is employed at the Sev } enty-fifth street academy. The Baron Is , scion of noble Hanoverian family, and wa
 for several years an artillery officer in Han over.
 Who does not know the jovial figure an,
 hearty laugh of Baron von Graberg, th { malt king, the quondam officer of theqm perial Artillery of the Guards. Baron vo Graberg is married to an American lady
 and is becoming a regular thoroughgoip American.
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