The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-11-21
YOUR COAT or ARMS.
"AgRALo PAINTER" MATTHEWS WILL
AsLp YOU GEr lT.

American "lsarke's eoeTago@ he WIN Ea~
roll Your ArmoriAl hearings II You
Have Not ANY. He WIN Find One For
xoa--Soane Arms and crcsss.
By invitation Of John Matthews,
record agent genealogiSt and herald
painter, !" all Americans who are proud
of their ancestry or who wish TO have
their posterity become proud of them
may join i'll the first serious attempt in
America to establish a real recorded
aristocracy.
The invitation TO become enrolled i'll
Matthews American Armoury and
Blue Book" has been received by all
tine families whose names appear in the
social registers of New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago,
Troy, Salt Lake and other cities where
wealth and culture concentrate. The
plan has the Endorsement of such distin-
guished personages as Richard Watson
Glider, poet and editor; T. Cholmeley-
Jones of Philadelphia, who is Mr.. Gill
der's brother-in law, and Halsey G.
Ives, the director of the st. Louis Muse
um of Fine Arts
1t was no idle fancy that led Mr..
Matthews to undertake the giant task OF
getting out an American Burke Peer
age, " SO to speak. 1t was his firm convic-
ton that Americans were crying for
such work and were ready to pay we'll
for it. He says it is only necessary to
read the society" papers to be con-
WINGED of the demand among Americans
for q recorded place in the human race
He intends that all American families
of European descent, bearing arms,
shall be registered in his book, without
paying fees to the heralds' college. All
they will have to pay is $l5 subscrip-
ton fee to his book.
All who subscribe, Mr. Matthews
says, will be given a place in the book
for an engraving Of their armorial bear
ings, together with particulars of the
heads of each family, their issue and
the marriage of the latter. Those who
have no armorial bearings need not be
downcast, for Mr. Matthews says he
will give them place in the book for
their pedigrees, leaving a blank for the
armorial bearings in case they are dis
covered later, SO they can be printed in
the second edition.
Mr. Matthews realizes there are many
Americans who feel sure the blood OF
their members is as blue as can be, but
who never have had time to establish
the fact. 1t is there Mr.. Matthews comes
in strong as record agent, genealo
gist and herald painter. % He will fine
your lost ancestors, if you have any, ano
all their heraldic appurtenances at these
rates:
General search as to family (among print
ed records). ........,....-.. 90
Ditto as to coat of arms. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. II
Painting of coat of arms full blazoned)...: Il
Painting ditto. arranged with helmet and
mantling. 2
Painting ditto. larger and more elaborate
IN design. .................... ...-Da'.'. o
Dies for stationery-arms, crest and motto L
Seals or signet rings engraved with arms
crest and motto. Observation-Disclosures.
In this connection it is interesting t.
recall that in one volume OF American
heraldry recently published appear thu
names and the arms or crests OF as many
families as there are in Burke's LANDED
Gentry This disposition on the part O
Americans to establish ancestral line
and assume armorial bearings and crest
is encouraged by genealogical and his
torical societies in nearly every city
and individual families have spent for
tunes on genealogical searches and elab
crate family histories.
The arms of the family of William
c. Whitney are to be found whereve
the family's personal possessions are
It consists of gold and red cross on
blue shield The crest is bull S head
the horns tipped with red.
President Mckinley has coat o
arms-a stag on red shield, indicat
ing his Scotch descent. The crest is
knights helmet and an arm holding
laurel wreath, showing his ancestor
were crusaders His family motto i
''Not too much.
William Jennings Bryan also has
coat of arms 1t is f.: cy red and whit
shield. The crest is a nights helmet
Over it is the head of patriarchal oil
man, who is probably one of the ancien
DruidS.
Richard Croker's coat. of arms show
three ravens on a shield, with the mot
to, God feeds them. .
Asa Bird Gardiner, district attorne
elect, wears his coat of arms on his cut
buttons 1t is shield upon which Their
are two birds and Maltese cross.
Theodore Roosevelt aims little high
er. He has three roses on a silver shield
and above are three ostrich plnmes. Th
crest of three plumes is generally SUI
posed to belong exclusively to the Prime
of Wales New York World.
Butted by q Bull.
A Pasadena (Cal.) electric car and
bull had a meeting at the outskirts c
Los Angeles recently. 1t was on tn
last trip in from Pasadena to Los AL
peles that Motorman Nav saw the bul