Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-03

who hated her, said. "ln the hereafter.
IL Lady Holland goes to heaven, pray
may go to hell"
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.
Among those who were frequently to
be found at Holland House at this per-
| iod We're. Wherefore, the philanthro.
| pist. Prince Talleyrand. Lord Mel.
bourne Lord John Russell, Byron Nc.
| Eauiey Tom Moore, Lord King tht
bish0p-hater, Theodore Hook Lord
Lansdowne, Garrick, Rogers the poet
and the Duke and Duchess D'Aumale.
He was succeeded in possession OF Hol.
land House by his son. the fourth and
last earl, who died In 1859. His widow
sold the reversion OF the property to
the Earl Of leicester and In the Ilches-
ter family, 1t Is likely to remain.
The mystery OF the house was dur
Ing the time OF the great" Lady Hol-
land. Among its inmates was a young
lady always introduced as Miss Marie
Fox. She was supposed to be very
close relation and was treated by Lord
and Lady Holland as their daughter
lin fact, she was their adopted daugh-
ter. She was a very beautiful girl
and quite the belle of London. The
young and immensely wealthy Marquis
of Butte proposed for her hand, but
Lady Holland absolutely refused to tell
him anything of her parentage and alb
ruptly broke of the match when he
insisted on knowing. Lady Holland
proved 10 be the one woman who
could keep q secret, for her wards
parentage has never been revealed.
London society for years was on the
tiptoe OF excitement regarding the mys-
terry. ard 1t only died out after the
young lady became a royal highness
through her marriage to Prince LEIGH
tenstein OF minor state In Germany.
TRADITIONAL GHOST.
or course, there is the traditional
ghost at Holland House but he only
haunts one room, known as the Gilt
room. which was the old ballroom, The
ghost Is said to appear at midnight
and walk from one end OF the room
10 the other. holding his head IN his
hand, The ghost Is said TO be that
of the first Earl OF Holland who was
beheaded by Cromwell.
Holland House is a huge palace mel
lowed by age. 1t Is built OF brick
with stucco and stone dressings, and
In shupe resembles the letter Oh" Ii
has a tower and mass of turrets,
parapets, gables and mulloned VIM
dows. New sections and decorations
have been added from time to time.
The late Lord leicester built a ball
room TO It, costing 100000,
The many sumptuous apartments of
the house are filed with treasures IN
the way of pictures, vases, china. glass
and other ware. tapestries antiquities
~ al "a
surrounded by terraced gardens for a
full half mile IN every direction. There
is the Italian garden. the japanese
garden. the old English garden, tina
semi-troplcal garden and the modern
garden. The rose-Walk is a solid mile
OF roses Of all colors and sizes. There
ore arbors planted and named after
great statesmen or poets or writer's.
There Is a beautiful garden stairway
of rustic beauty built by lingo Jones
and a poets floral corner dedicated to
Rogers,
The house Is approached on each side
by driveway half a mile long shelf
rcd by oaks There are mile or two
OF lawns and then come fields and
woods. Behind the house and well
away from II are the stables, kitchen
gardens and paddocks for horses, cows
aud sheep.
outside the great walls Of the estate
are closely built streets and terraces
and crosccnts erected on land from time
10 time chopped of the estate.
statue OF the third Lord Holland OF
the second creation which formerly
stood well within the grounds. is now
IN one ~ the principal streets, gag
ing silently at the continual procession
Of omnibuses aud cabs. And yet with
ali this land cut of and sold for build
ing purposes. there are miles OF gard
ems. fields and woodland within the
walls which thus make Holland House
the only country estate" within the
city OF London.
MAYNARD EVANS.