Arizona republican., 1901-06-16
SViscount Mountmorres, who Inherited only a Good Name, is Britain's Poorest Peer Tried to Delay the Spanish American War SC


 America has had shining examples of peers who were poor, But they were too shining They shone as if they were gllded. There were always es- tates somewhere in the family or mat rimonial possibilities that were good enough for loan. They would not be in the running if it came to a contest for prize to be awarded to the poorest British peer.
 That prize would go to William Geof- frey Bouchard de Montmorency, sixth Viscount Mountmorres, and inheritor of title that goes back to 1851. He in herited a good name. too, but that's all. Not an acre of land or penny of property went with the title, and so ever since the noble viscount left school he has worked for living, and worked hard, too. Luck has thrown him down many time. but he always has bobbed up serenely from below, managed to pay his bills and have a first-rate time without going in much for champagne when beer was to be had. He is far better specimen of manhood than some of the impoverished British nobility who have married American heiresses, and there is no reason to suppose that he could not have had one for the ask ing. Instead, he married an English girl who had no more money than he and they've lived happily ever after.
 HARD LUCK FROM AWAY BACK.
 The early Viscounts Mountmorres used to be rich. as peers go. but their estates were confiscated two or three generatio back, and, to cap the eli max of disaster, the pr sent lords father the fifth viscount. was mur- dered in cold blood In September. 1880, the first noble victim of the agrarian troubles in Ireland, Queen Victoria kept a watchful eye on the interests of the family, and granted to the widow suite of apartments at Hampton Court. that vast and beautiful palace built by Cardinal Wo!sey and presented perforce to the much married Henry VIII. 1t ceased to be royal palace in the time of George II, and since then 800 of its 1000 rooms have been given up to high and mighty 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- gether to give the young vscount good education, and he did really well at Oxford. He was a good horseman, too, and was one of the Balliol college eight. After the wanderjahre 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 to London just at the time Lady Colin Campbell was starting The Realm. a political society paper. The viscount became it's business manager on a salary which he thought war ranted him in marrying an uncommon ly pretty actress. Bessie Taylor Rowe.
 ODD BUSINESS VENTURES.
 After the manner of ninety or 100 po- )tical society journals The Realm went to pieces and left its noble busi- ness manager on his beam ends. Hard luck was on his trail just then, for he to go into business as a gen. eral merchant. opening expensive premises down in the city and estab- fishing branch in Paris. The bust ness collapsed and left him in bad financial hole and he had to earn a liv- Ing for while as agent for a Paris establishment.
 But ''viscount" looks so pretty on company prospectuses that Lord succumbed innoceutly enough to the temptation of going into the guinea pig business. He became chairman of a company about which he 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 other companies. Anyway, his lordship tired of the company-pro- noting business and stepped back into newspaper work WORK SUITED HIM. 1
 It was just then that the earl of Rossiyn, having got through his hand iome fortune in fairly record time, and 'elng adJudged bankrupt. found him. 'elf In fit condition to start a weekly l 'nown as Scottish Life. Mountmorres vent into the venture, and he and ! Sss.yn became great pals, as two | ,eers in distress and of about the same 1 'ge naturally would be. But Scottish | >lfe eboed away, the early of Rosslyn | ailed on to the war in South Africa. md his noble co-laborer got a job as $ | assistant editor of the excellent illus | rated weekly Black and White. Two honths ago particularly bright | anonymous article in that journal at- racted the attention of the all-pervad- hg Harmsworth. who, discovering that ne writer was Lord Mountmorres. of cred to him better salary. So his ordship now is 'jobbing' for the hirty-nine periodicals. weeklies. dai- les and monthlies which Harmsworth ontros.
 Britains poorest peer is 29 today, and s hard-working a newspaper man as ou could find in Londons Fleet street r New York's Park row. He turns in opy on all sorts of subjects. srinds out natter to go around photographs and osses off an editorial article when eeded.
 HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE
 POMPOUS PREACHER.
 Getting interviews is one of his irong holds, however, and Fleet street elights to remember one occasion on mich he was sent to See a famous ergyman. The preacher wanted to now if the newspaper man wrote northand. His lordship said he didn't