The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-27

ViscOunt BTountmorres a Hard-work-
ing Newspaper Man.


were poor. But il ii came to a contests
for prize to be awarded to the poor
esl British peer. that prize would go to
william Godfrey Bouchard Gle Mont
mOrency, sixth Niscount MoUntmorres.
and inheritOr of a title that goes back
70 1b5l He inherited a good name.
too, but that's all. Not an acre of land
or a penny of property went with the
LbAe' ana SO ever since the noble Wis
count LETT school he has worked for
a living and worked hard, too Luck
has thrown him down many time but
he always hobs Ip serenely from be
low, managed to pay his bills and have
q ftrSt-Tate time without going to much
for champagne when beer was to be
had, he is Il far better specimen OF
manhood than some of the impOver-
lshed British nobility who have married
american heiresseS, and there is no
reason to suppose that he couLd not
have had one for the asking. Instead
ne married an English girl who had no
more money than he-and they've lived
happily ever after.
81 ne early .Niscounts AIOUntmorres
used TO be rich, as peers go but their
estates were confsCated two or three
ger era tons back, and the present lords
ratltfFs the fifth ViSCOunts was muir
tt9s7ed in cold blood in September, 1880
the hrst noble victim of 1.-The agrarian
troubles IN Ireland. Queen v ictoria
kept watchful eye on the interests of
OF the family, and granted TO the widow
a suite of apartments at Hampton
court, that vast and beautiful palace
putt by Cardinal Wolsey and present
co per1Orce TO the muCl1-married Hen
~ VII It ceased to be a, royal palace
ia the time of George II, and since then
500 of its 1,000 rooms have been given
up to high and nightly blue blOoded
ladies who have had hard luck and
whose declining years the royal family
has wished TO make easy
Money was scraped and pinched to-
getheT to give the young ViScOunt q
good education and he did really well
too, and was one of the Ballio college
eight After the wander ahre, without
which no young peer is thought to be
ready for the battle of life, and in
which he knocked about in the United
States, Egypt, Morocco and Spain. he
returned 10 London just at the. time
Lady Colin Campbell was starting the
Realm, a political. society paper. The
vfscOunt became SIS business manager
on a salary which he thought war
" pretty actress, Bessie Taylor Rowe.
After the manner of ninety out of 100
political society journals, the Realm
went to pieces and left its noble DuSi-
ness manager on his beam ends. Hard
luck was on his trail just then. for he
undertook to go into business as a gen
eral- merchant, Cps n -ng expensive prem
ises down in the city and establishing
a branch in Paris. The business coll
Iapsed and left him in a bad financial
hole, and ne had to earn a living for
while as agent for Paris dressmaking
establishment.
But "v3scount" looks so pretty on
company prospectuses that Lord
Noun tmOrreS succUmbed nnOCentIy
enough to the temptation of going into
the guinea pig business. He became
chairman of a company about which
ne knew nothing, and director in half a
dozen others. The company Of which
he was chairman went to smash
through no fault of the viscOunt, and
his hard luck seemed to shed a cloud
over some Of the ether Companies Any
way. his lordship tired of the company
promoting business and stepped back
into newspaper work
1t was just then that the Earl of
Rosslyn, having got through his hand
some fortune in fairly record time, and.
being adjudged a bankrupt, found him
self in fit condition to start a weekly
known as Scottish Life. MOuntmOTres
went into the venture, and he and
ROsslyn became great pals, as two
peers an distress and OF about the same
age naturally would be. But Scottish
Life ebibed away, the Earl Of Rosslyn
sailed off 20 the war in South Africa,
and his noble co-labOrer got a JOB as
assistant editor Of the excellent illus
trated weekly Black and White. Two
months ago a particularly bright anOny-
nous article in that Journal attracted
the attention or the aH-perVddIng
Harms worth, who, discovering that the
writer was Lord -AGountnOrres. offered
ITO him a 'better salary SO his lOrdship
now is -jobbing' for the thirty nine
periodicals, .Weeklies, dailies and
monthlies which Harmsworth controls.
Britain's poorest peer is % today, and
as hard working a newspaper man as
you could find in LOndOn's Fleet street,
or New orl's Park row. He turns in
copy on all sorts Of subjects, grinds
cut matter to go around photographs
and losses off an editorial article when
needed
Getting interviews is one of his strong
holds, however, and Fleet street de-
lights 70 remember one occasion on
which he was sent to see a Famous
clergyman The preacher wanted to
know If the newspaper man wrote
shorthand his lOrdship said he didn't.
Very WeH. said the clergyman,
You must take down in longhandi ex-
aotIy what say, and forthwith
launched himself Into one Of those fear
ful and stefeotyped Interviews which
the English jourRaiiSt occasionally
perpetrateS. II was The sort of thing
that tells how the newspaper man was
assigned TO his task. how he hailed, a
hansoms what he said to- the cab driver
and what hezthpught While ne was on
the way how he arrived at the house Of.
the iinterVieWee," what he said to the
butler what the butter said to him,
what pictures ne. noted on the walls
and how gracious was the impression
made upon him by the distinguished
gentleman whom he had come to see
proceeding thereafter to give his own
questions IN eEtenso, and Incidentally
the answers TO them.
This distinguished clergyman knew
Just how the thing ought TO be done,
and LETT out nothing-not even the cab
horse. The .yiscOunt graVely took it ala
down, and then went back to his office,
wrote a paragraph or two of introdUc-
tion,s explaining that the rest appeared
exactly as the clergyman had dictated
it. The editor happened to see the hu-
NOR OF the thing and let it go that way.
and the laugh has been on the famous
preacher ever since.
Years ago there was q great run in
England and America on special arti-
cles written by newspaper men in dis
guise as tranps. beggars, dry goods
clerks or what not. Lord AIollntmOrreS
reYeled in that sort of thing He spent
a week in a WhiteChaBel dOss house. as
the cheapest. kind OF BOwery lodging
house is called over here, made up as
a uewsboy and sold papers on the
streets, gOS arrested for selling papers
in another man s district and delighted
to ind himself in prison for this tech
nicaI offense. which enabled him to
turn out a lot more cOpyS got a Job al
stOlzer on a Channel steamer and did