New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-20

ane features soft brown hair and blue-gray eyes.
| Her paterna great-grandfather is the Earl OF
Perth who is nearly ninety years old. The
| principal estates Of the old peer are In Perth
| shire Scotland and the yearly revenue from them
Is something like f50cDO-s25o00 1t is her father s
interest In the property that the young woman Is
to Inherit. and the lawyers are now investigating
| the matter.
Miss Drummond was attending 20 her duties In
the ice-cream establishment when The Tribune re-
porter called at her mothers home. NO l6s Pros
| pect-ave.. Brooklyn. day last week. The FOR
mer Mrs. Drummond Is now Mrs Henry Masters,
the wife OF iron moulder. and her youngest
child is a brown-eyed little four-year-old girl.
II am sorry my daughter Mary Is not at home. :"
said Mrs. Masters. she asked the reporter IN ana
led the way TO the parlor She is at the Ice cream
rooms and she does not get home until o'clock at
night She works there Sundays too"
Mrs Masters Is extremely stout. She has rudy
complexion blue eyes dark brown hair and thor
oughy pleasant, kind expression. She was the
ladys maid OF her first husbands grandmother,
Lady Perth. and the young heir OF the heather
clad mist-covered Scottish oors fell in love with
her when he was only fifteen years old. Her name
was Eliza Harrison and she was five or six years
older than his young lordship.
THEY FLED TO AMERICA.
When the Earl learned Of his grandson's infatua-
ton he proba bly, made remarks that would have In
iured the sale of any work on etiquette or religion
II they had by any possible chance crept INTO IT,
The infantile Lothsro was ordered Off. post-haste
to the Woowich Naval Academy. but before he
could be taken there he and Eliza Harrison hed 10
America and were married.
Milford George dropped his title Of Lord Drum
mond and secured place to take charge OF the
summer home Of Theron Losee, AZ BrookhaVen'
Long Island. Losee was a well-to-do merchant Oh
South-st Brooklyn. The new experience OF daiy
work and privation hard one for the deli
bIo1-b horn hoy
of life began to fade away into the gray ana the
gIoom One day he met Percival G. Cllman a
lawyer of Huguenot. Long Island, VINO was huh'-
Ing on Mr.. Losee's property The young English
man saw him frequently. and finally told MIN the
story Of his life He requested Mr.. Cllman 10 write
N the Earl of Perth and tell him az the hard times
no WAS having and TO request a small monthly al
,owance A long time elapsed. and then the unfor-
giving old nobleman wrote back that II his grand
son would leave his wife a home In sunny rlorida
would be given him.
rba Young man promptly refused the proffer. and
after n while Mr.. Ullman secured for the young
man a position shipping clerk IN whoiesaie
clothing house.
Miss Mary Harriet Drummond was born when
her father vas only seventeen years OF age ana
prettv crayon picture in Mrs. Masterss paror
shows the young father at twenty-one. with the
smiling baby face OF his four-year-old daughter
held close against his cheek. After a while Mr.
Drummond began to drink and lost his place In the
clothing house. He drank heavily. and was often
in abject poverty At one time he was ticket
chopper ON the elevated road at South Ferry. He
made his Will. and left to his only living child
Mary Drummond Chere was a son who died In In
fancy) his right and share In his ancestral estates
In TO last January Miss Drummond was studying
to be n trained nurse in the Babies Hospital. No.
2s3 Hicks-st., Brooklyn She did well there, but
decided that the work OF caring for tiny babies
was more suited to older and more experienced
woman and she left the institution and accepted
position In the Ice cream and soda-water estao-
ishment where she Ia now.
''The lawyer Is doing all no can for my daughters
rights" said her mother. But II will be six
months or more before she can possibly get any
money" 49,,
and the majority of the estates?'
THE next heir Is Perth Alan. Q cousin. ] think.
Of the present old Earl. The Earl Is a hard man.
But / do hope my daughter will get her rights.
She deserves them. She works hard and Is good
girl
The reporter rose TO go. and the mother Of Lady
Mary Harriet Geraldine Drummond went back to
her Mondays washing. which the visit Of the re-
porter had Interrupted
The home is plain and unpretentious but II
shelters the nciress and direct descendant Of one
what brilliant visions OF wealth and spendor and
young breadwinner. with the patric.an blood Of the
Old World nobility coursng redly through her
veins? She is living romance. young and inno-
cent. and she II calmly awaiting the climax that Is
to tnge her life with splendor or darken 1t with de-
feat.