The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-19
MAY BE BROUGHT HITLER.
A Relic of "a Historic Manor May
Come to America.

From the New York Tri5une)
! brief paragraph ia the London de-
( spatches of last week said that wealthy
! American. whose name was not given,
| was negotiating for the purchase OF a
/ venerable relic IN the shape Of the gates
! of CarshaIton Park. Surrey. England.
/ There are several more or less remark
I able things about CaTshaltOn. none OF
I which are likely 10 have proved an in
/ ducement TO any American Samson Of
! finance 10 carry CT the gates thereof and
set them % in his own land. The name
/ OF the anc.snt manor IS q beautiful exam
/ pie of paraooxical orth0epy, the pro-
/ nUnciatiOn being as If il we're spelled
I Cayshort0A. The manor itself is famous
/! for its walnut trees, and used to be ia
nous fer its trout fishing, which com
bination OF natural advantages three c n
turtles ago elected classical joke from
/ the pen Of the learned antiquarian Fuller.
And 1t vas there that the courtiy Sir
Francis Carew pronounced Cairy-an-
/ other orthoepicaI paradox when he en-
{ tertained Queen Eliza beth wrought what
was considered IN those days q marvel
! of horticultural skill By keeping the fruit
on q cherry tree from ripening until a
/ month after its time, making 1t wait or
the imperial PLEASURE CT Her Grace
The only association Of the place which
might have tempted an American to
SDEHu LlOECL BU a 1871 E IElaC VI II II AilS
fact that West Horley. which had formed
part OF the manor OF CarShaltcn. after
remaining for many centuries in Ene
possession OF the Carew family, passed,
through Sir Nicholas Throckmortou, 10
his nephew, Carew Raleigh. the son Of
Sir Walter Raleigh, whom his wife Eliz-
abeth bore to him in the Tower OF Lon
F. don. It was this sen OF the great Raj
eigh whom James I would not receive at
I court saying that he appeared like his
fathers ghost But even this remote
connection of these gates with the ad
venturer whom some regard as the ear
lest pioneer OF American enterprise is
illusOry- The east gates of the park.
of which the inhabitants of that neigh
! borhoCd are so proud that they are said
10 be getting up subscription TO keep
them from being sold cut of England,
did not exist in the days OF Raleigh. or
OF his son. or Of his sons son.
Toward the end of the seventeen cen
fury Carshalton was sold to rich Lon
don merchant Of the name Of ScaWen.
who bequeathed it 20 his son Thomas.
The latter had magnificent ideas. and en-
gagged Leoni, q famous Italian architect
OF that period, TO buils him a new manor
house. The elaborate park gates of Car
shalton, with their ford ironwork, once
gilded or bronZed, and the leaden statues
OF Diana ana Actaeon surrounding the
two ends 0 fthe structure. date from
about The year 1870. They were, in fact,
all that ever realized of Leoni's grandi-
ose designs. The work was arrested by
the death OF Thu mas Scawen, and has
/ never been recommended Leoni had TO
/ content himself with publishing his Car
/ shaiton plans in an edition of Alberis
( standard work On architecture. which he
/ himself-issued in 1742.
{ u. Of he al
! of and lodged somewhere in tbs country
the acquisition may enrich America in
! an artistic sense but will have little. if
/ any, historical or antiquarian value.