The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-30
YOUR COAT OF ARMS.
"HERALo PAINTER" MATTHEWS WILL
HELP YOU GET IT.
American "Burke's Peerage"-He Will En-
roll Your Armorial Bearings-If You
Eave Not Any, He VIII Find One For
You-Some Arms and Crests.

roll Your Armorial Bearings-I You
Have Not Any, He VIII Find One For
You-some Arms and Crests.
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 in the first serious attempt in
America to establish real recorded
aristocracy.
The invitation to become enrolled in
Matthews American Armoury and
Blue Book has been received by all
the 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; Il. Cholmeley-
Jones of Philadelphia, who is Mr.. Gil
ders brother in law, and Halsey &.
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's Peer
age. " so to speak. 1t was his firm convic-
ton that Americans were crying for
such a work and were ready to pay well
for it, He says it is only necessary to
read the society" papers to be con-
yinced of the demand among Americans
for 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 SIS subscrip-
tion 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 blank for the
arnorial bearings in case they are dis
covered later, so they can be printed III
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 q" de Will mo
your lost ancestors, if you have any, and
all their heraldic appurtenances at these
. rates:
General search as to family tamong print
ed records). ................. .'.'..''..'''S 20.
Ditto as to coat OF arms. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
! Painting OF coat of arms full blazoned)...
Painting ditto arranged with helmet ana
mantling ..................'.'' ,'''.,' =
: Painting ditto. larger and more elaborate
o IN design. ................... ....'...,' o
! Dies for stationery ARMS. crest and motto
Seals or signet rings engraved with arms
crest and motto. ................s.....'.
In this connection it is interesting T.
: recall that in one volume OF American
heraldry recently published appear tn
names and the arms or crests OF as man
!, families as there are in Burke " Lande'
Gentry +" This disposition on the part O
IS 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 fol
tunes OH genealogical searches and eiat
i. crate family histories
The arms Of the family OF Williai
y G. whitney are to be found whereas
- the family's personal possessions arr
=, 1t consists of a gold and red cross ON
- blue shield. The crest is a bull s heat
the horns tipped with red.
20 President Mckinley has coat
:, arms-a stag on a red shield, indlca
~ ing his Scotch descent. The crest is
=. knights helmet and an arm holding
80 laurel wreath, showing his ancesto
were crusaders. His family motto
- "Not too much. y
10 William Jennings Bryan also has
!: coat Of arms 1t is fancy red and viii
=, shield. The crest is a knights helme
:" Over it is the head of q patriarchal O
man, who is probably one OF the ancie
or Druids.
ei Richard Croker's coat of arms sho'
y. three ravens OH a shield, with the me
to, God feeds them. +"
Asa Bird Gardiner, district attorn
elect, wears his coat OF arms on MS CT
buttons 1t is shield upon which the
are two birds and Maltese cross.
lu- Theodore Roosevelt aims little mig
er. He has three roses on silver shlei
", and above are three ostrich plumes
TT. crest of three plumes is generally su
Try posed to belong exclusively to the Prin
In. of Wales. New York World.
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