The Washington times., 1906-04-29
AMERICAN CASH RESTORES
FINE OLD ENGLISH ESTATES
Famous Country Places Renovated by Yankee Mstesses
London at Last to Have Police
Telephones.

LONDON, April 2S.-American dollars
have again been the means Of restoring
the magnificent English country man
sions. Wolterton Park. near Norwich, a
fine house built in the reign of George
/, which has been absolutely empty for
fft5- years, is now looking just as il did
when the great Walpole, the ancestor
of Lord Oxford. lived there. Lady Or
ford. who was Louise Corbin, daughter
OF the New York railroad king, has
spared no expense in the restoration
The fine pictures which have been
stored for many years now hang revar-
nished on the walls. The magnificent
tapestries once more adorn the hall. and
all the reception rooms and bedrooms
have been redecorated-
Lord and Lady Orford spent the Eas-
ter holidays there with their daughter,
Lady Dorothy Walpole, who is just six
teen and growing very like her good
looking mother. There was a time a
year ago when Lady Oxford suffered
from nervous trouble which made her
shu1 society. but she has completely re-
covered.
The other fine house restored by
laU.erican wealth is Nuneham, the seat
OF Che late Sir William Harcourt. Mrs.
out the great improvements which will
be completed before midsummer. She is
putting in new bathrooms and extra
rooms for the children and installing the
electric light. of which the late Sir
William had an old-fashioned horror.
Course" Removed From Anglesey Castle
The curse as many of the Welsh
people called il, has been removed from
the home of the Anglesey family
The late eccentric marquis, who start
led the world with his reckless extrava-
s1nce. transformed the beautiful old
chapel at his Welsh castle into a thea
ter, and il was in this sacred building
that he danced in jeweled tights and
tiaras.
The superstitious Welsh folk have al
ways insisted that this desecration was
the cause of the marquis many misfor-
tunes and early death.
Now. the new young marquis, who was
twenty-one last week, has removed the
stage. the footlights, and the trappings.
restored stained glass and placed a
beautiful altar where the stage once
stood-and so the curse is removed az
last.
The new marquis has not vet been able
TO get his property in order and has de-
Cided to celebrate in the old-fashioned
country manner his coming OF age q
year hence.
Helen. Lady Abinger (nee MCGrud-
err. the first American peeress." has
scored great triumph. Ever since
the death in 1903 OF her son. the late
Lord Abinger, who dropped dead in g
Paris restaurant, she has been fighting
for the possession Of Inverlocky castle
the beautiful Scotch estate left her by
her son, and to which she has always
been devoted.
The new Lord Abinger, a cousin OF
the last peer, was not on speaking
terms with the family that he sue
ceeded. The quarrel was chiefly owing
10 religious differences, the present
peer being married TO Roman Cath
Ollie. The present peers brother. the
Hon r. ScarIett, who is heir TO the
title. has at last fought Helen, Lady
Abinger. in the law courts at Edin.
burgh, and the American peeress has
emerged triumphant
The court has held that as the Iatt
peer desired that InverlOcky should b,
held in trust for his mother until the
whole debt on the property was wiped
out, this desire should be carried out
This means that Helen. Lady Abinger
will be able to reside at Inverlocky FOL
another eighteen years.
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