Sunday Washington globe., 1902-04-13

There is no peer Of England has lighter
heart nowadays than the hunchbacked
Duke of Newcastle. HIS only brother, Lord
Frances Hope, and heir presumptive to the
dukedom is free to marry according to his
social rank and future prospects. The
duke, it IS true is married, but no heir has
been born nor is likely to be born to him,
hence his brother, Lord Francis, in case Of
the dukes demise will succeed him in the
title and estates.
It has been a grievous thought to the
present duke that the wife of Lord Francis
would be duchess of Newcastle 1t will be
remembered that this prospective duchess
was formerly May Yohe a concert hall
singer and the heroine of several liaisons
with Chicago, New York and London
youths before she captured the affections Of
Lord Francis who became so infatuated
that he married her, thus transferring the
semi American prostitute into Lady Francis
Hope. He even succeeded in reconciling
his relatives to the inevitable and Lady
Hope was recognized by the ducal family of
the Newcastes.
1t has been our fortune to personally
know the Duke of Newcastle with whom
years ago we made a trip across the Atlantic
in the inclement month of January. The
duke was crossing to this side to spend the
winter in Florida with his brother Lord
Francis, who at the time was temporarily
settled in that state as the owner Of an
orange grove.
The Duke was then unmarried and il was
a settled fact in his mind that he never
would be. Notwithstanding his physical
deformity, New Yorks society women re-
sorted to everything but proposal direct for
his ducal hand for one of their numberl
The Duke resisted their fascinations and,
returning to England, actually married an
Englishwoman of his own class. They
have no children, and hence Lord Francis,
if he survives the Duke, will become the
head of the ducsl house Of Newcastle.
Mary Yohe. the fortunate demi-rep who be-
came Lady Hope, and who might become
duchess of Newcastle, eloped, It will be re-
called, with Captain Strong, son Of the late
ex-Mayor Strong of New York City The
Captain was forced to resign his commits
sion in the army because Of the scandal
created by the couple in a San Francisco
hotel, and subsequently they both took
passage to Japan on one of the Oriental
line of steamers
This was Lord Hopes opportunity and
urged by his brother and relatives he insti.
tuted proceedings for absolute divorce in
England, which, Of course, we're success
full
The former Lady Hope and her paramour
have been cutting quite a swath in the
society Of the Orient A Manila newspaper
just to hand gives this chapter in a recent
escapade of the frail Yohe woman, who, it
will be perceived, is no more loyal to
Strong than she was to Hope and her other
numerous lovers whom she has had by the
score in America and England
Here is the article
That interesting couple Captain Strong
and Lady Hope. whose escapades have Oc-
cupied so large place in the columns of the
press Of two continents, and who seem quite
unvexed by the criticisms heaped upon
them, still furnish occasional racy bits of
news from their retreat in the Orient.
Stories Of their doings Aoat back from
Yokohama and give evidence that they still
find satisfaction in swapping their fingers at
the conventions, unterrifed by the frowns
Of Mrs. Grundy.
American residents in that Japanese port
have recently found food for speculation
and gossip in the stories Of an awkward
contretemps that followed a gay little din
ner given to Lady Hope and her captive
captain on board the United States army
transport Warren. While she was lying at
Uraga awaiting repairs to her crushed-in
plates the quartermaster-captai made
trip to Yokohama in search of diversion,
and there Glanced to meet Captain Strong
and his fair companion. In exchange for
their hospitality he extended to them an
invitation to attend a dinner on board the
Warren
The dinner took place in the latter part of
November, and il lacked nothing that con-
tributed to the good spirits of the guests
and their host So convivial did they be.
come and so genial did their entertainer
prove himself to be that little urging was
required to induce them to remain on the
Warren for the night The cabin Of the
Quartermaster-captai was placed at the
disposal of Lady Hope.
When the second steward made the uu.
fortunate blunder of stumbling into the
room thus occupied there was a stormy
scene as soon as the fact became known to
Captain Strong and the quartermaster-
captain. The latter was for throwing the
steward into irons and the former proposed
to thrash him within an inch of his life
Il was a very unfortunate blunder for the
steward to make--one of those blunders so
easy for frail mortals to make and so hard
to explain.
AS a result the man was summarily dis
charged and he was left stranded in Uraga,
penniless, and presumably penitent. The
man told his shipmates that he had known
Lady Hope in San Francisco when she was
not Lady Hope at all, but only May Yohe
The GLOBE need not point out that the
invitation came from the woman to the
steward, who in all probability enjoyed her
charms long before Hope, Strong. ei al.
knew that there was such siren in exist
ence. The dazzling heights to which this
prostitute ascended as a member of the
British aristocracy is not after all neither
rare nor remarkable when either the gene.
aloRy Of a large section of the British no.
bility IS considered, especially the scandals
in the Newcastle family, one of whose
duchesses eloped with the Amsterdam
banker Hope, aud the careers of Belle Boil
ton iuow "A duchessl and other g,so1arr