The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-30
Automobile Romance.


Automobile Romance.
"A genuine automobile romance Is Just
now providing the subject for gossip the
parties concerned being a renowned
Champion chauffeur and pretty d.
vorcee. 81 hos formerly wore a Countess
coronet.
a wedding was very quietly soleinnzed
at a West End church the other day be-
tween Mr.. Charles Jarrett, who Is al
ways conspicuous among the competitors
in all the great auto races, and the ex-
Countess of Rosslyn. The lady is the
ex-wifc Of James Erslsine," Lord Ross
Ign, who Is SO well known on the Amerl-
can stage. 3Ft
The secret OF the match was SO well
kent that even at Mr.. Jarrott's Office no
one knew OF his marriage until he made
a very brief call there in a touring auto
mobile. accompanied by his bride and
anni6unced that he was off on his honey
NOON 80 The romance which eliminated
+ in this Interesting union commenced IN
October last. when Lady Rosslyn bought
an automobile. 3l
Later the car developed faults, and II
was Mr.. Jarrett, who not only provided
Lady Rosslyn with a clever chauffeur. but
personally saw that the machine was put
into thorough working order again. 8f
This led to a warm friendship between
fine cars fair owner and Mr.. Jarrett, and
the mutual admiration so ripened that a
few weeks ago they became engaged. z59s
Mr.. Charles Jarrett. who is barely
thirty. was formerly noted Cambridge
athlete, but for the last year or two has
devoted himself to automoblism, and now
shares with Mr.. S. +. Edge, the highest
honors of British auto racing
His browning exploit was the winning
OF tho great Belgian race. known as the
Circuit DIES Ardennes. 3Sy
In appearance he Is a typical athlete,
tall, clean shaver and sinewy.
His bride, before marrying the Earl Of,
Rosslyn, was Miss Violet Vyner, and is
remarka bly, beautiful.
IA To be Carpenter.
There seems 10 be in the noble Scottish
family of Aberdeen n discomfort with the
luxurious surroundings of aristocratlc
life and yearnlng after strenuous oc-
It was a former Earl who forsook his
great estates and stately mansions to
ship before the mast; who rose step by
step till he earned a masters certificate,
and finally, In the year 1870. was washed
overheard from an American schooner,
/ aboard which he was acting as mate.
II now appears that tho lion. Dudley
Gordon. second son of the present Earl,
has elected carpenters career as a
prenara ton for life's battle. which pro-
fesslon Is perhaps safer, but not SO en-
citing, as his uncle's The young Journey
man, who is twenty. is employed In the
iolnery department Of an Aberdeen firm,
and the Earl and Countess recently en-
tertained ut Iaddon House their SONG
fellow workmen,
Tho foreman joiner, in thanking his
hosts. smoke of the Hon, Dudey's work Mt
the ioinery, and said that they always
found him willing and anxious to perform
every task assigned to him, and not
afraid of hard work, lie was Of an eX-
cecdIngly genial and affable disposition,
and was indeed, one OF themselves. F
N Miniature Painter,
The famous American minlaturlst. Mrs.
C,oudert better known MS Amal!p kussner,
is in, London, and has taken up her
quarters Mt the Carlton Hotel, where she
Is engaged on beautiful miniature Of
Lady Feo stuart oio " t.1's''s'' soc'p'S >
loveliest members
she will afterward paint miniature OF
Mrs, George Keppel, who is not such
heauty as Lady Fec, but most fascinat-
Ing woman. Mrs Keppel is one of ahe
members of the KINGS set.
Automobile War. A
Tho nolicc campaign against automo-
billsm continues to rage in tho rural dis
tricts, and to excite polemlcal newspaper
discussion. The llsl OF Automobiles
whose q xcessive speed on the high roads
has p recently got them into difficulties with
includes s9me rb q 1n the hes.
ssnn,. RI IA. free to exceed the legal speed
limit which he often does. Els Majesty
has, t,aa.'i indeed. been held up more than once
BY the rural police, but always ~, on being
ia 'r,nrnarvon, who was one of the
first Ia own an automobile In England,
fined Tie other day, as was also sc az
Prime Minister i3alfopr is an old Of
rena ar and another member of the Coy
d h ossya us@ss ssssa"y
~ IN, dav by heated dispute with n
s sne e,nr police Ice sergeant whose chief oeeu
IA ian his Iordshlp SAID. was laying
traps for auomoo'''s's'