The herald., 1894-04-14
THR END OF A TITLED SCAMP.

The recent death of the marquis o.
Ailesbury at the age OF 80 years, has
been seized upon to show the modern
British aristocrst's gradual decsdence /;
but we believe the average rich mans
son in England is no lower mentally or
morally than the one of 80 years ago.
Those who can recall the visit of the
marquis of Waterford to New York, in
the second quarter OF this century, GER
taiRly can have no very exalted ideas
OF virtue among the British peerage !;
yet he contrasted fsvorsbly with the
hslf-imbecile young earl OF Mount Cas-
who came to Gotham few years later.
The father OF the deceased marquis of
AilesbuTy was one OF the sturdy old pill.
lars alike OF the church and the turf in
England. he owned the famous Saver
make forest in which were oaks that had
been planted before Cromwells time;
and there was just enough Druid blood
in him to mske him revere those trees
quite as much as he did the memory of
the ancestors who planted them. He
was staunch supporter OF the turf and
ran horses for nearly 20 years before be
achieved any success. His first notable
victory was in 1858 when he won the
Chesterfield stakes at GoodwoOd ui,n
his fine filly Oantine. In 1850 he "as-
tonished the natives" by winning the
Great Metropolitan at EPSON with his
fine S.yeAr.old st. Adams, with whom
he afterwards won tine greaE.St. Leger at
Doncaster. In 1866 he brought out q
iull brother to him called Savernake,
deemed by his trainer to be a better
horse than the elder brother, but be
could get no better than second place in
the 1000 guineas, Derby or st. Legsr, all
three OF which were won by "the big
brown bullock" Lord Lyon. The old
marquis died in 1873.
His son became a "plunger" of the
worst sort aH coon as he came into his
fathers possessions. and, although he
won both the Chesterfield and Woodcote
stakes with that grand flly Csntiniere,
and the Goodwood cup with Aventuriere,
all within two years, he was already in
trouble with the money-lenders. Some
10 years ago he married q variety hall
singer known as "Dolly Tester" who
provided him with a family Of three
children at the very outset. His con-
slant companions were turf sharpers.
blacklegs and prze-fghters, SO the
future of that young man needed nc
prophetic eye or hand to depict it.
His father had been q man whose
motto was, always first, ii with
honor" but the son was never animated
By any such ethics. Some five years
ago he was the center figure of tur
conspiracy in which his horse. an odds
on favorite, was pulled in race by that
consummate little rascal CHARLES Wood
who rode him. Wood was warned Off
at once, and the young Marquis OF Allies
bury was the guillotine's next victim
In England this ruling is far more sever
than in America, where we merely ba
men from running horses and exclud
them from betting rooms. There
''wsrued off, man is debarred also from
visiting the rscecourse as a spectator
aud it applies to every track in tn
realm.
Savernake forest WAS estimated t
have about ESQ 600 worth of timber oil
it and the young peer tried to sell it 70
the benefit Of his creditors. 1t is sup
posed that he was to get q eiice OF it, tt
enable him TO emigrste TO Australia O
South Africa, but although the heir
lin offered G65, 900 for the place, tn
concert-hall singer, Dolly Tester, re-
fused to aign the desd of conveyance, a
the estates are entailed. This mean
nothing else TO the marquis bat poverty
misery and death, the last of Whicl
came a few days ago.
Nearly thirty-hve years ago an sp
prentice at journalism in San Frsncisc
(who is now an elderly man living in thi
city) wrote q racing sketch entitled 9Th
Blsckleg Peer" for one OF ths New Yor
sporting journals, in which it appeared
as ssrisl story. In that story Huber
Longreaeh seducss French girl of hig
family named Leonie d'Archambsull
who subsequently resolves on reveng
aftev being discarded by her bstrsye
Disguised as q man. she eollides Wit
MN at the portals of the Grsnd Opel
and a challenge ensues. They met
jlst before dawn, on the snow in fore
u,t,ide the city, and the blackleg pet
- shot by the woman, who reach
nsvre by daylight and sails for Tah