Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-03
NOBLEMEN IN AMERICA.
Their Strange VicissitudeS in the
Land Of the Free.
Scions of Illustrfous Houses Who Have Ex-
changed the Sword for the Brush-A
Royal Tooth Fuller Riding-Ma
tiers Of Ancient Lineage.

Few people know how many scions of no.
bility are earning their daily bread in this
Repu bic, says the New York Herald.
Among the artists in New York who are
well-known members of the arisuocracy Of
Europe are German Barons. Who has not
admired those clever caricatures and those
sweet wounen's faces by G. de Grimma
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
the whole of the Franco-Prussan war, and
received the Iron Cross from the hands Of
King William for personal bravery at the
battle of st. Privat. The Baron came to
this country few years ago, and is now
the proprietor of the Illustrated Associated
Correspondence and of the Etelka Fashion
Album.
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 Won Pal
eske! Once an officer in one of Prussia's
crack regiments of the guard-the CUR
assiers-the Baron preferred the brush to
the sword, and although only two years in
this country, is beginning to make a name
iects.
Among the journalists we find French
nobleman, belonging to a family of the Ven
dee which has not yet abandoned the ira
ditions Of its ancesto and still clings
Loyalty to the fortunes of the Bourbons.
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
heraldic album.
Another knight of the pen is Count Will
lam Bernstorff, a son Of the late Count
Bernstorf, for many years German Ana
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 five years ago.
In the latter part of the fifties a German
Prince, Karl Ludwig, of Wurtemberg, was
obliged to leave Germany very suddenly, on
account of a duel with a cousin of his,
through which he incurred the bitter dis
pleasure of his uncle, the present King of
Wurtemberg. Tie Prince came to this
country, and dropping his title, called him.
self only by his Christian name, taking the
second one as surname. After going
through the great civil war he established
himself as dentist at New Orleans, where
DR.. Ludwig is well known. He has married
an American, and his grown-up son is his
partner in the business.
A prominent Englshman who is fighting
against hard odds in this country is Sir
Francis Osborne, fourteenth Baronet of his
line. Sir Francis had the misfortune of in
heriting the title from his uncle, who died
without issue, while the estates, being I'M
entailed, reverted to his aunt, the dowager
Lady Osborne With comparatively small
capital Sir Francis emigrated to Florida five
years ago. Like many others, he was
swindled out of what capital he had by a
South Floridian real estate agency, the in
yestment he had made proving utterly
worthless. He is now eking out poor liv-
ing at small town called Acton, on the
South Florida railway, working as a COM
mon labOrer in a saw mill at the rate of one
dollar day. Sir Francis is nearly related
to the Duke and Duchess of st. Adams,
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 a
hand-to-hand battle with fate amid great
privatiOns, is the brother of the RI Hon.
Sir Henry Drummond Wolf, E. C. B., her
Brittanic Majesty's Minister Plenipotenti-
airy at the court of Teheran. Mr.. Wolff.
whose mother was 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 of
drygoods 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 dashIng Prusslan cavalry
officer. Won Dassel-Vellerson belong ed to
one of Germauy's crackest cavalry req
ments and is a nephew of the director of
the celebrated Government horse breeding
establishment at Trakheden, in East Prus-
STA.
The head riding-master at Dickers Acad.
envy on Flfty-seventh street is the Baron
Won Vietinghof. The Baron comes of an
Old Russian family and has been in this
country several years. BE is a cookbook
ing man of about thirty years of age, tai.
year to a charming American lady.
Al Durlsnd's Riding Academy is Captain
Won Bachonce, a Captain of the Olga ORA
goons, of the Kingdom of Wurtemberg.
Now the Captain passes most of his time in
trainin horses for the saddle. Whoever has
been at Cohen's Riding School on Seventh
avenue and Central Park, Will remem-
Der the figure of an old riding master
Count Mensdorf is a member of an old
Mecklenburg family, and has been in this
country very long time. Another riding
master of noble birth is the young Baron
Won Neltheir, who is employed at the Sew
enty fifth street academy, TIE Baron is
scion OF noble Hanoverian family, and was
forseveral years al artillery officer in Han
over.
Who does not know the iovial figure and
hearty laugh Of Baron Won Graberg, the
malt king, the quondam officer of the I'm
perial Artillery of the Guards Baron Won
Graberg is married n an ay,ar;.a, laSr