New-York tribune., 1907-11-16
ELEGY And AUCTION.
Stoke Manor at the Mart, and No
Purchaser Found
From The London Telegraph.


Stoke Poges Church and Churchyard, which
stand within the domain, alone lent special in
teTcst to the submission at the Mart yesterday
of Stoke Park and its o2S acres. II was stated
in the room that three or four thousand AmeTl-
visit Stoke Poges every year. But none or
them came back yesterday 10 buy the manor,
with history which, at least began with Will
lam the Conqueror, or to acquire right 10 SIT
on Penn chairs in the faculty pow. or private
chapel, in Stoke Poges Church, which, with IFS
private entrance through the c!OlsteTS, goes WIN
the lordship of the property. 1t might have been
thought almost worth while TO secure the whole
property for the sake of The remaining wing Of
the oldtime manor house. which is not 10 be con-
fused with the more stately modern and palatial
mansion half a mile distant, and until lately the
home of Mr. Wilberforce Bryant This old
manor house is probably unique in historical in
cdent. 1t there that the great Coke enter
taiEed Queen Elizabeth. 1t was there that his
successor kept Charles l a prisoner FOR feW
weeks 1t was there, also that Sir Rober-
Gayer refused entrance TO William III. as a per-
son of no consequence. Again, the long associa-
ton of the Penn family with Stoke Poges ard
the immediate locality was Of itself calculated
to evoke transatlantic concern in the future Of
the manor.
But no American millionaire appeared to carry
It off Indeed it only small company
which gathered Al the Mart, although Mr.. Bam-
ford (Nessrs Curtis and Henson) gave a sum
mary of the story Of Stoke Park, which was of
itself almost a liberal education. Stoke PogeS
il appears got named in this way: Amicia de
stokes the last of her race married one Robert
de Poges. What was simpler, therefore, than TO
call the place Stoke Poges? SO IT has been
"Elegy" and Wolfe's remark that he would
rather be the author of that poem than take
Quebec, of course came in for mention. So also
did Landseers association with the old manor
house, and the beauties of the grounds of the
present mansion with their separate garden Tor
each season of the year. The mansion its',f
was spoken of n miniature palace. and the
deer park, which forms portion of the original
Windsor Forest, the Oldest in England.
Nothing was pinchbeck. Even the deer
almost came to regard as blue blooded.
There was it stated. fight among them
the other day. and II involved, so 1t
serted, the death of eighteen pointer. The
German Emperor had even asked the late Mr..
WiIberforce Wilberforce to supply him with
amples of the famous herd at Stoke Park
In the end. as was perhaps inevitable. the
poetry and the history rather put aside for
the consideration Of the value Of Stoke Park
building land. This brought about by
offer of so 900 for the estate. or the auc-
tioneer rema rked less than { 100 an acre. to say
nothing of the timber. Thcreupon the occupant
of the rostrum descanted upon tho valu" ~
building land at Gerrard's Cross. Beaconsfeid
and other favorite districts in the locality which
can scarcely boast the train service OF Slough.
BY sums Of 500 bids ran up TO G 10000. and
then a halt was cried. At 100000 or &130.OO0
Mr.. Bamford maintained, there would he fort
une for anv cne who acquired the estate with
view to future building operations. In the
suit the property was declared unSold. apd for
the moment. at rate, there is no purchaser
ready as the conditions of sale prescribed 10
take the red deer at 6 : a head and the faow
at 20s, with the fawns thrown In for nothing