Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-03
ILLUSTRlOUS GRAVES.

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needle of Cleopatra. and its erection will be il
recognition OF the many illustrious dead o
England sleeping in the densely populated
"Godsacre." The names Of many OF the deaf
will be inscribed on the pillar beginning, o
course, with the two children Of George Ill
whose tombs adjoin the cemetery church.
Isuppose it was the royal dust that mad
Kensal Green fashionable, and it is interesting
to wonder what price it was that induced Hi
| Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex and He
| Royal Highness the Princess Sophia, to con
| sent to have their bones placed so lar awal
from their regal kindred. The rulers of Eng
land and their children and blood relations ar,
nearly always inferred at Windsor Of West
| minister, and the only royal tomb can think o.
in cemetery is that OF little Prince Alex
ander OF Wales, son of the present heir TO tn,
throne. who is buried near the Princes coun
| try seat at Sandringham.
| However, Kensal Green is now thickly sowr
| with noble and ilustrous ashes. and IL the
example be followed in other cemeteries, there
will, by degrees, cease to be family buryinf
vaults attached to rural mansions of the great
in Britain, and Gilbert's major generals viii
cease to lament dishonoring ancestral dust &C
| quired by purchase.
An End to the Century VaIhalla.
1t was the recent temporary funeral of Mr.
| Abraham Lincoln, son of the United States
Minister here, which seems to have awakened
England to the fact that London possessed a
few acres of ground almost as rich in graves OF
the great as Westminster Abbey. sit is an en-.
tirely fin de Steele ValhaIIa," remarked one OF
| the American mourners, and for once the new
slang expression was entirely appropriate.
I kensal Green is absolutely a resting place for
hundreds of the illustrious men and women OF
England who had their being in the middle and
| end OF the nineteenth century
Scattered all over the cemetery are the tombs
| and monuments of the soldiers who saved Eng.
lands Indian Empire at the time of the mutlny.
10 the right to the left, elaborate erections in
granite and marble recall recent judges of the
courts, presidents of the learned societies. mag
mates of the city and finance. composers, singers,
cooks-Soyer sleeps at Kensal-naval captains,
| dukes, earls. bishops, ministers of state,
painters. authors editors, all famousin our own
time. all remembered as though 1t were yester-
day that they left US.
A Spot Well Worth Visiting.
Americans visiting London have already dis.
covered that Kensal, Green is worth two or
three visits. Only last Sunday 1 noticed a
countrywoman from Ohio sketching the tomb
of Mulready, the artist ofparticular envelope
fame. The pillars of the catacombs in which
young Lincoln's remains were placed have
been photographed by scores of amateur cam.
eras, and in the sketch book Of a lady from
Boston, staying at one of the hotels here, fire.
quented by Americans. l came across page
with drawing of the tombs of the son and
daughter of George I'LL, just as they stand on
either side of one of the broad paths of Kensal
Of the entrance to the catacombs. Beneath the
sketch was written: Deaths Equality"
Strange to think that the grandson of Amer
icas President and the children of Americas
last monarch-the King whose tyranny created
Presidents-shoulds sleep SO close togetherl
NGuides are attached to Kensal Green Gene
terry, and under the direction of these men,
visitors are taken to see the graves of Countess
Poulett, stepmother of Viscount Hinton. Earl
Pouletts disowned heir, now playing an organ
in the streets of London for daily food and
lodging. Near Lady Pouett's beautiful monu-
ment is the vault of the Marquis of Hastings,
last of his race, ruined by horse racing, and
dead, aged e. Close to the Marquis are num-
Der of graves of well-known sportsmen among
the aristocracy, and well sandwiched in among
the aristocratic graves is the burial lot of the
Whiteley family, who own a drygoods place
similar to that John Wanamaker in Philadel-
phia.
Other Tombs of Interest.
The tomb of the Marohioness of Thomona is
always pointed out by the guides. Above the
urn are two kneeling angels exactly alike and
below is the carved announcement that her
IadyshIp died while giving life to twins. The
tombs of Soyer, the cook of the first Lady Dixie,
who was cremated--the urn holding her ashes
Is uuTlcu-auu luOso Ol alpy, lOunuer OIL q re.
ligious sect, and of Holloway and Epps. in
ventors Of pills and cocoa, are always pointed
out, and very costly erections they are So is
that of Ducrow. the man who founded the enter
tainment in which our own American Barnum
excels. Tietiens the great operatIc soprano,
sleeps beneath red granite cross and Motley
the American historian, has his last resting
place adjoining that of the barons of Kingsale,
most ancient of the nobility for their title
dates from the reign of Stephen, Good old
Irish barons, thesei The present holder of the
title Is the thirty-first baron. His family name
is De Courcy. and he has the right to wear his
hat in the presence of the sovereign.
And so he ought, for his ancestors were great
mobiles and feudal chiefs when the forebears of
England's Queen were nothing better than
German freeUooters. 1t is the proud boast of
this Irish noble that nobody can be more tnan
his peer or equal. And yet his poverty is so
great that he. like his father and grandfather
before him. have had to live in cheap Conti-
mental cities in order to make both ends meet,
All the broad lands of the family have long ago
disappeared. Near cousins of Lord Kingsaie,
and OF the same surname. are the De Courcys
of Philadelphia.
Vincent Wallace and Balfe. the COMPOSERS.
Cruikshank, the artist. Lover and Hood, the
poets. Lady Ely, the Queens favorite, Mrs
Fitzgeorge, wife of the Duke of Cambridge
'Macready the actor. are among the many other
show graves of the guides; and some day the
historian of the last half of the nineteenth CEN
turg will come to Kensal Green to Jog his
memory and as he wanders among the noble
columns and granite plinths. he will realize
how rich IN greatness was the Victorian era to
Englishmen.
From Cemetery to Ballroom.
But, to change the subject from the. grave to
the gay, it is worthy of note that Lenten re-
strictions are having no effect on the society
craze for dancing 1t is not the ordinary waltz
to which it is devoting its time, but to that in.
tricate series of evolutions which are tech.
nically known as "fancy" Dances But high
kicking is not the rage at present, at all events.
1t is the successful measure which was made
so popular by Lefty Lynde and Sylvia Grey
These young ladies have their hands full in
itlating society beauties in the nrt and mystery
of this solo dancing. In fact this has now be.
at one of which. given this week by
Lady Emily Cherry, her pretty daughter Gladys
danced the graceful long.skirt dance.
1t WILDE matter of great interest to anglo
phobists to know that the correct thing in the
way OF mems spring over coatsis a very long aud
loose Single-breasted garment, which resembles
the ulster that was at one time SO popular; but
it is made without a belt, hood or cape, which
are the appurtenances to that garment. The
law of fashion, which no self.
respe citing dude would dare to contravene,
saws that material must be Melton or shower.
proof cloth. and its color drab or u snuff mix
ture. The coat as you Will Imagine, somewhat
resembles the Newmarket. but 1t has no pre-
tension of fitting tightly to the figure. Per-
haps the quaintest thing about it is the fact
that the lapels are very smalh and, as a would-be
witty young man remarked "Your tailor ought
to send microscope when he sent your coat
If you want to see your lapels." These coats
have quite supplanted the short. little covert
that were much affected by sports
men, or those who affected the "rapid' men,