The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-23
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SAD NEWS
Result Of British
Genealogical In
Quiry.
Few American Families Are
Declared Entitled to
"EXalted Rank"
Secretary Carew-Pole'S Proclamation
Causes CONSERVATION in the
Smart Set.
Special Dispatch to The Call.


NEW YORK. Sept 22.-Let those
who believe that they occupy an as
sured social position in this country
now take heed lest they fall into
oblivion. r. G.. Ponsonby Carew- Pole,
issuing a proclamation under a red
crown as secretary of the duly consti-
tuted committee of genealogical inquiry,
announces from London to the social
elect that there are only III American
families who possess qualifications that
entitle them to receive recognition of
exalted rank" in the British dominion
Without the brand of r. G. P. C.-P.
it viii avail nothing to claim member
ship in the late Ward McAllister's 400
or in the Newport loo. The mutterings
of a storm are heard among the cot
tage owners of the Rhode Island sum-
mer resort, for Mr.. Carew-Pole hardly
gives enough American family names
to supply one side of Bellevue avenue.
A list of the exalted" inscribed on
parchment paper, has been received by
the elect in America, and a document
signed by Mr.. Carew-PoIe runs in the
following fashion:
The entente cordiale between Great
Britain and the United States of Amer
ica being more ,5genouneod at the pres
ent time than ever before in history,
the committee appointed by the college
of heralds TO search the genealogical
records of the United Kingdom and the
continent of Europe has completed its
arduous task, and in conjunction with
various organizations throughout the
United States has completed the list of
names of families of historic and social
=
else of its prerogative doth present said
list in its entirety to Cornelius Wander
bilt of the Vanderbilt family of New
York, a family possessing qualifica-
tons that entitle its members to eX-
allied rank at any and all social and
semi-state functions within the con-
fines of the crown. The list of fami-
lies herewith submitted is absolute and
subject to no revision whatever, viz:
abbott. Aldige. Adams, Amory, APP
pleton, Anderson, Aspinwall, Alex
ander, Astor.
Ballard, Byrd, Bonaparte, Bell,
Bruce, Breckenridge, Blair, Beekman,
Biddle. Bland, Built, Bienville, Biglow,
Burden.
"Cadwalader. Cation, Capdeville,
Cowles, Cabot. Castleman, Goldman,
Coolidge, Christy, Clay, Castellanos.
Cushing, Clark, Churchill, Carter,
Crittendon, Carroll.
Dana, cambridge, De Forest,
Denegre, Dudley, Delafeld. Drayton.
De Koven, Dexter, Duke, De Puyster,
Drexel Duer, Dufour, Devereux.
"Endicott, Erskine, Elliott, Evarts,
Eddy.
Fish. Fairfax. Frelinghuysen. Fur
ness, Fitzhugh, Farrar.
"Gallatin, Gamble, Garrison, Girls
void, Gordon. Griscom, Goodloe,
Gerry, Goelet, Gibson.
Hartman, Higginson, Honore,
Hunnewell, Harlan, Houghtelling, Har-
rison.
Jerome, Johnston. Jackson. Jay.
Joyes.
"Kemper.
"Lathrop, LIE Moyne, Letcher, Lo-
gan, Longsworth, Langhorne, Lloyd.
Legendre, Lee, Lippincott, Locoul.
Lawrence, Livingstone, Lodge, Lesas-
sier. Lowell. Lathrop.
Mccormick, Mcdowell, Macveagh.
Mcclure, Muir, Minor, Murray, Mills,
Marshall, Minot, Mortimer, Motley,
Meredith, Mott, McTavish.
Nelson.
"Otis.
Page, Palmer. Polk. Preston. Pea
body, Pendleton, Patterson, Pinckney,
Pringle.
Quincy.
"Rhinelander, Rumsey, Roosevelt,
Revilo, Ruttledge, Randolph. Ronalds.
Remsen, Rogers.
"Stuyvesant. Speed, Snowden, Sem
pie, Schermerhorn, Schuyler, Sat-
terthwaite.
Townsend, Throgmorton, Thayer,
TunstaT. Tucker. Thurston, Todd
IVAN Ness, Van Rensselaer,, Wander
bilt.
williams, Wilmerding. Wadsworth,
Winthrop, Wickliffe, Washington,
Warrington, Waring. Wendell, Wool
sey, Whittier, Walter, Wolcott, Wins
tom"