Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-07

/ angry relatives and made also a speech
/ in the House Of Lords.
lie may not have a big bank account.
out ne has estates that are both extern
slye and historic, and when II comes TO
titles he is as well supplied as anv
| Young man Of his years on a fortune
hunting expedition could wish to be.
resides being duke, he IS, as Chimmie
faQuen might put it, "a two-times
earl a prince, a baron, and MARQUIS
an rolled into one. Yet when he writes
MS name on the hotel register he puts
IL plain Charles Spencer.
II he should write his full name and
all his titles. the inscription would read
like this. Charles Richard John Spen-
Ger Churchill, ninth duke Of Marlbor-
0ugh, marquis OF Blandford, earl Of
/ sunderland, earl of MARLBOROUGH. Baron
Spencer, Baron Churchill of Sandridge.
| prince OF Mindelheim in Swabia. and
| prince Of the Holy Roman Empire.
Acquaintances and friends who are
/ not on intimate terms with him address
/ him as your grace" When his man
| hawkins speaks to him he says your
/ lordship.' Just what his duchess will
/ call him is not known. Although she
has such a variety to select from it may
| be 'ducky' for the first few months.
His father, who died two years ago.
was both brilliant man and a profigate
/ rake. He wrote magazine articles that
attracted widespread interest and fig
ured about as extensively in British di-
vorce courts as any peer Of England
\ ever has in modern times.
]
SOME DUCAL ANECDOTES.
The present duke gives promise of
\ being a much more moral man than his
father was and of making a better hus-
\ band. At college, they say, he lived
/ quite as fast as any of the rich set, and
1 that is saying quite enough. There
! was, too, a story told about him when
he was taking his trip through the
. South a few weeks ago.
1t was IN Kentucky that he made his
first acquaintance with American
whisky, q very appropriate place for
forming such an acquaintance, by the
\ way Colonel TOdhunter, a Blue Grass
/ aristOcrat, managed the introduction.
\ After the colonel had seen his grace fill
/ his glass as full, empty it as often and
| still walk as straight as he, Colonel Tod
/ hunter, himself, the colonel remarked:
'IIe carries well for a kid"
/ Such adventures. however, are tame,
/ very tame. beside some that his illus
trious father engaged in.
/ There IS no denying that the young
\ dukes future prospects looks rosy in
/ deed. With o charming young bride
who brings her millions to replenish his
shattered fortunes he may well expect
happiness.
A PALACE OF PALACES.
When the duke and his new duchess
I return 70 England after their honey
moon trip on the Continent, where, by
/ the way. they are to be entertained by
the German Emperor, they will go to
/ Blenheim Palace in OXfOTdshire.
The young Duke affects not to think
much of this old palace. He IS reported
be have slid shat he never saw "a build
/ ing so large. so hOmely, so irregular or
50 little imposing No doubt the
Young Duchess will find it impossible
enough. even if she has lived IN five
story Fifth avenue mansion and mar
/ be palace. Probably no American girl
Of her age has ever been called upon to
assume the reins Of domestic rule over
/ such @ home
Bleuheim has been for over 200 years
a monument 10 perpetuate the glory
of the house of Marlborough. IL was q
/ eil. from Queen Anne 10 the first Duke
] of Marlborough. and was a reward to
that gallant old fighter for some Of his
| successes against the forces Of Louis
| XIV. Il has cost up to the present day
many fortunes besides the $1,5O0000
which was originally expended, and
/ never has there been money enough in
the Marlborough purse TO keep it up.
Tie Vanderbilt millions will soon rem
edy that, however.
The palace itself is located in a park
of 1000 acres and stands on the site of
he Old castle OF Woodstock, about
which Scott wrote thac charming novel
| whose title is the same as the name of
| the present town of Woodstock. 1t
I was in Woodstock castle that fair Rosa
| mccd had her bower and received her
royal lover. There are many rOmances
of a similar character told about the
modern building.
OF the $50 rooms in the palace there
are eight which the new Duchess will
| probably have all TO herself These are
| located I'm a tower which makes The
southeast corner of the huge pile. They
/ are the rooms which the DuchesseS Of
| Marlborough have occupied for 200
years past.
There are a bOudOir, private dining
room. a parlor, small planTOcm and
/ three lOungiug rooms opening one into
\ another. These last three were fitted
\ I'D BIZ Duchess Lily as Moorish, Indian
/ and japanese rooms.
Above the apartments for the use Of
The Duchess. way up in the turret, are
! rooms for the use of her maids and
| other personal servants. There are
many curious hooks and corners in this
par, of the house and probably secret
I doors and all that sort of thing, for
there have been some eccentric Ouch
/ esses at Blenheim as we'll as Dukes.
The top of this tower is singularly
ornamenred w;th piles Of cannon balls,
| wfth q ccrCn5- on each. The walls are
ten fee. thick. and YOU can imagine
what comfortable window seats there
must be. Out Of these windows Con-
suel0 can lock upon as pleasing q land
/ sclDe as there is anywhere in all Eng
land.
Blenheim is Just the place in which
70 entertain disagreeable people a
hostess could have a party Of forty
maiden auuts or other relatives whose
society she was not particularly fond Of
and let them live with her for months