The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-01
KING EDWARD PUTS
HOUSE IN ORDER
Ruler of England Has Entirely
Reorganized the Royal
Household.
ADOPTS BUSINESS METHOD.
CEIVES ONLY SMALL PAY
SLAUGHTER OF GROUSE BY THE
ARISTOcRATS.
(By Richard Abercorn.)

now set his house in order" That is
to say he has completed the reorgani-
cation of his household. which was a
very necessary process when he came
to the throne. Since then he has had
the expenses reduced by large sum,
pruned the personnel of many useless
and set the whole thing
on business footing.
The reforms have been carried out
by Lord Farquhar, who has held the
position of Master of the Household
from the beginning of King Edwards
reign. and is now retiring because the
task he was appointed to carry out is
finished With his unerring instinct
for the right man for the job, King
Edward selected Lord Farquhar as the
Hercules who was to cleanse the Au-
gean stables and the selection has
proved the right one. Lord Farquhar
has shown real genius in making the
Kings House hold an efficient and
economical machine.
Lord Farauhar came to the task with
a business training for he had been a
banker. He is a lifelong friend OF
King Edward, and the two have Deen
neighbors in Norfolk for many years,
Lord Faruuhar's place, Castle Rising,
being a few miles from Sandrlngnam
$50
The knowledge that the Lord Mayor
of Dublin receives $1,000, the pay or
an infantry captain, during his year OF
office was impaired to the house OF
commons in reply to an Interrogation
This stipend dates from the time of
Charles H., but no one seems to know
why it was ever paid to the Loro
Mayor of Dublin. The present Lord
Mayor is Joseph Nannetti, Nj. f., who
is compositor and never was mill
tary man.
War Minister Haldane has explain
ed to the Commons that Mr.. Nannetu
is not counted as an efficient officer
in the army list. He draws his cap
tain's nav as an absolute sinecure.
Analogous with his phantom capt.
fancy is the ex officio appointment OF
the Lord Mayor of Cork as admiral OF
the Port of Queenstown. His naval
duties are confined to the picturesque
annual ceremony of throwing silver
dart into the sea to define the limits
of his command.
Great slaughter of grouse, as usual
in the month of August has been done
by aristocratic sportsmen on the
moors of Scotland and in the North OF
England. In the big battues that are
organized for the grouse shooting sea-
son record numbers of brace nave
been shot by the shooting experts
If there were a worlds champion
ship in grouse shooting Lord Walslng-
ham would be the proud holder His
record in a single-handed shoot is l.
O7O birds shot in fifteen hours. On
another occasion he fired LOO cart
ridges and accounted for S42 birds.
Lord walsingham has fine game
preserve at Merton Hall, in Norfolk,
which is the traditional scene of the
Babes in the Wood nursery tale,
and the ghosts of the children are said
to haunt the neighborhood.
Baronets. although the lowest rank
of the British nobility, are VIGOROUSLY
the proudest and most snobbish. A
delightful instance of this pride of title
has been given by Sir Spencer Pock-
Ilington Maryon-Wilson, Bart, who
strongly objects to being addressed IN
correspondence as Dear Sir" and in
| sists that he should be addressed as
"Sir Baronet.'
He has carried his protest so far rs
| to have printed notice which he SENDS
with their letters returned to all who
write to him as Dear Sir" This pre-
cious document reads as follows:
| There is a strong feeling among
baronets that the expression Dear Sir,
which is constantly used in commenc
| ing letter nowadays by and TO upper
servants. clerks in small offices and
many other persons who are much be
low the social status of a baronet, is
not only incorrect and incongruous
but is also very discourteous when useo
to members of this Ancient and Heredl
tary Degree. I will therefore ask you
4
tiers TO me Sir Baronet' instead Of
Dear Sir. ("
Beyond being the eleventh holder o.
the baronetcy which was created IL
I166O. Sir Spencer Maryon-Wilson j:
quite undistinguished But he has jus
sprung into fame through the publica
ltion of his exquisitely snobbish protes
Iagainst Dear Sir"
The atmosphere of shabby clothes
land labor hats" seems TO have crep
Into the house of lords. For years ant
Years past no member of the uppe
house has dreamed of appearing in tn
lobby in anything but silk hat. ant
1.-THE majority of the peers have Away
worn either frock coat. however anti
lquated. or black morning coat
To the horror of the cloakroom at
ltendants the Earl of Mayo marched Il
the other day wearing a straw hat an
blue serge suit
The attendants. who are even NOR
!. tcorSorvariya than the Tory peerS then