The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-11-15
Upton MARRIAGE. RUM0R.
LOOKING FOR IRISH SEAT
Syndicate of Americans to Expert
nent With Tobacco Grow
ing in Wexford.
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Especial 10 The Times Dispatcll)
DUBLIN, Nov. 14-lnformation that
Sir Thomas Upton sought an Irish 8coun-
try seat, to-day started lot OF gossip
In respect of the baronet's supposed
matrimonial intentions, and there was
much setting of caps in Wicklow and
Meath society. 1t was announced Sir
Thomas Intended to take UP his residence
in one or the other of those counties, the
first being celebrated for its scenery,
the second for its hunting country. All
the bellies in those parts of Ireland
doubtless began to wonder how Lady
Upton" would look on their cards, and
whether they ever could learn really to
like Sir Thomas's brand Of tea. Gossip
said the famous yachtsman thought Of
settling, ashore with the loveliest chatc-
flaine he could find. a counter current
Of small talk hinged on Glasgow we'd
ding Of his early youth the wiseacrcs said
kept him Off the eligible list. When he
was n poor student. with no idea he ever
would become an international character,
he took to wife n Scotch lasse OF honest
but Individually poor parentage.
So successfuf was Professor Edwards
OF Kentucky University this year In
teaching Captain tombstone to raise to.
bacco In Meath by American methods
that little syndicate has been formed
for a similar experiment In Wexford, and
the Captain next season Will essay five
acres instead OF one. IT Is expected the
Blue Grass professor will be Invited to
make another visit to Ireland. More
over few thoughtful men have put
their heads together, and when Professor
Edwards comes again he will find
nourishng commercial academy in Dub
lin of the sort he recommended.
Most Of the American money already
invested in Ireland belongs to men who
H. hnrnr otf apt.
ed them as a field for enterprise. 1t is
hoped that Douglas Hyde and Thomas
Concannon, his colleague In the Gaelic
movement, who are soon to visit Amer
lea, will stimulate an interest in the In
8dustrlal revival that will cause Irish
Americans to send over their spare d0l-
lars.
Lady Limerick deeply regrets, owing
I to i'll health, having had to abandon her
projected American tour for the present
She is a most brilliant pianist and one
Of the few pupils Of Padcrewski. She
had intended, in company with her sis
ter, Miss Burke Irwin, an accomplished
vlolinist, and a few other wc!l-knOwn
amateurs. to give concert tour OF the
United States with the object of raising
sufficient funds to establish and cndow:
an Irish College of Music for Irish tai
cnt.
So unostcntatiously arc Lady Carews
kindly actions performed that few per-
sons are aware of what she for years
has been doing for poor young women
living on and near Lord Carew's extern
sive estates In the South Of Ireland.
g.earnng after her marriage. in 1855,
that domestic service was the career
chosen by many Of them. Lady Carcw
offered TO take few girls into her
household There they were trained by
her servants in the branches of domestic
work for which they showed the most
aptitude. Lady Carew sees to 1t that each
servant receives n suitable outfit ON leav-
ing her in quest Of new place.