New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-14

candidates with names Of children who can afford
10 wait fifteen. and even twenty years before OBJ
tanning membership prevents many desirable per-
sons of aturer age from Joining In the competition
for election. since the names taken up by the
ballotng committee in the order in which they
have been placed on the book of candidates
At the Atheneum the anomaly Of distinguished
persons having to wait near score OF years for
their turn in the ballot has been in measure OBJ
waited by the rule inaugurated some time ago. en-
towering the committee to elect annually not more
than nine persons ',of distinguished erlinence in
science literature and the arts for public ser
vices" irrespective OF their place on the list Of
waiting candidates and of the fact whether they
figure that list at all The committee is likewise
authorized n admit TO extraordinary membership
from time TO time princes Of the blood. cabinet
ministers. aTchbishops. bishops. speakers OF the
House Of Commons judges OF tho High Court for
eiEn ambassadors ard ministers Tlenipotentiary
who have been accredited for term OF not less
than ten years to the Court cf 1T. James
But these are rules which. while all very we'll FOR
the Athen@un. do not commend themselves to
other of the more up-to-date clubs and the move
rnent which they have inaugurated, and which is
being adopted 10y all the leading clubs in London.
is Limitation TO the effect that no member shall
propose a candidate under the age Of eighteen
years. and candidate shall be qualified for cleo
ton until after the age of twenty-one."
King Edward has been staying during the last
week at Rufford Abbey with Lord and Lady
country. where she spent number Of years wneu
her first husband. Horace Helyar. stationed
at Washington one of the secretaries of the
English Embassy. Lord SaviIle became owner OF
Rufford Abbey and Of income OF about slS0.OOO
a year on the death Of his uncle the last sur
viving grandson of a former Earl of Scarborough,
who had a large family OF natural children. to
whom he left in tail the succession Of the Rufford
Abbey estate. On the death OF the present Lord
Saville. who has children and who was created
a peer on succeeding TO his uncles property. the
latter will revert to the earldom Of Scarborough
Rufford Abbey. which originally Cistercian
abbey. converted into a noblemans country seat
at the time of the Reformation. is haunted by
several ghosts which alleged TO frequent pre-
cisely those state apartments which are reserved
for the of royalty, and which have been in
habited in turn by King James 1. King Charles /,
King Charles II, and now by the present King
The CHESTS. might be expected. are stated to
appear in the form of Cistercian monks and in the
churchyard Of Edwinstow may be seen the grave
Of who according TO the tombstone and to
the parish register died from fright after seeing
the Ruford ghost
The name OF SsviIle IS one that is not unknown
IN American history For It was a Sir George
Saville one Of the forebears OF the present owner
Of Rufford Abbey. who took so prominent part
in the House Of Commons in championing the rights
OF the American colonies prior to the outbreak OF
the War o. Independence which he would have
averted by of wise concessions. He also
champoned the cause of Catholic emancipation. for
which his town house wrecked by the Gordon
rioters and dying in 1Si without issue. beQueathed
his estates. including his favorite home. Rufford
Abbey the second son of his sister. Countess Of
Scarborough. That is how Rufford came into the
possession OF the Scarborough family.
MARQUISE DE FONTENoT.