Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-14
CAME NEAR A THRONE
Notable Incident in Life of the
Dunmore Family.
LONDON TALE OF LATE LORD
Lively Contest in Designs for Proposed
Council Hall.
A GOVERNMENT BY CONFERENCE
Comment Over Work of the Various
World Congresses-King Edwards
Shopping Trips-Dramatics.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Inc late LOrQ DunnlOre s prominence as
a Christian Scientist and the adventurous
travels of his earlier days SO filed the no.
tees of his life that no room was found
for the fact that at one time his family
came near a throne. His great grand
father. the fourth earl who was governor
of Virginia when Great Britain lost her
American colonies. and commemorated the
event by christening a son Virginius and
daughter Virginia. had daughter Augusta.
She married in 1913 the Duke Of Sussex,
son of George III. They were married in
Rome-with some idea. 1t was said, of
evading the royal marriage act which was
then a new thing. but. Of course that was
no escape from the act. They were mar
ried few months later at st. Georges S,
the marriage could not be recognized. The
duke, SO the story goes, was great at first
on refusing to surrender. But he was
deeply in debt. He was most unfortunate
prince, for as sure as he was appointed to
rangerships of parks and such-like offices
the office was doomed to be deprived of its
salary. Therein lay the undoing Of this
marriage. Gossip said that the prince re-
gent offered to get his debts paid II he
would repudiate the marriage. That may
be malice, but repudiated 1t certainly was.
There were two children. who grew up
as Colonel and Mademoiselle d Este. Now
by the royal marriage act. they were barred
from succession to the British crown. But
the lawyers held that they were not barred
at all from succession to the throne of Han
over. The Duke Of Sussex was next broth
er to the luke of Cumberland and IT,
therefore. the latter's line had failed Col.
q Este, the fourth OF Lord Dunmores
grandson. would have stood in the direct
succession. At any rate, the Dunmore fam
lily were very near to 1t. But the marriage
was bitter affair to them, and was made
hrrf 1o o.
Sussex took to wife another earrs daugh-
ter, Lady Cecilia. daughter Of Lord Arran
who had by her first marriage acquired
the modest name of Buggin
And although that second marriage Of
the duke was no more recognized than the
Hrst, Yet Lady Cecilia was made Duchess
OF Inverness. over which. as Greville said.
she and the duke are. or affect to be. en-
was a title which no one took seriously.
and the wits called her ladyship Duchess
of Nevertheless" But, even, so, the title
was more than the daughter of the Dun
mores had. and they did not like the COM
par1son. However. one may doubt wheth-
er the Duchess Of Inverness was very
happy. 1t was well enough to come to a
great ball at Lansdowne House. as Greville
saw ner: tucked under the dukes arm and
smiling. but hardly so we'll to be "depos-
tied half way up the room among a cluster
or people while the duke went on alone
TO pay his respects to the young Queen
Victoria.
Many Designs for Proposed Hall.
Huge boxes filed with designs for the
London county council new hall. which is to
cost millions and rival anything now built
In London. were Wednesday taken to the
present abode of the council. Hundreds of
designs have been submitted, as the enter
prise was of competitive nature and open
to the architects of the whole world. This
lie ho1f $hN
signing of municipal buildings being ofre red
for international competition. According to
the conditions the competition was open to
any architect. The designs now submitted
VIII pc considered by Mr.. Norman Shaw
and Mr.. Riley, the councils architect. and
from them no less than ten and no more
than fifteen Of the best designs are to be
selected The authors OF these designs will
be entitled to compete In the final stage with
the eight eminent architects whom the coun-
ell has already invited to compete Each of
the competitors in the final stage will re-
ce1ve fee of 200 guineas. and the success
fui architect will be given the work Of car
ry1ng out his design and be remunerated
with the usual per cent Qess " per cent
for the councils architecD on the total
cost. which Is not expected to exceed 81 500 =
600. but probably will. as all such build
ings do.
Some notifications of the scheme have
been made by the new council, chiefly by
way OF relieving 1T of going on with the
building should 1t so decide. It is expected
that the number of submitted
for The Hague Palace of Peace will be ex-
coded in the present competition London
alone must be contributing at least fifty.
most of the responsible Scottish architects
are compe ting and / hear that there is a
big contribution from the north of England
business has been exceptionally dull this
year among architects. and most of the
younger men have plunged for the com
petition, which, If he Is not already a ma de-
n. nj
and give him fame of the widest sort
1t means a considerable stake even apart
from that Of the competitors brain and time
for the drawings have to be one sixteenth Of
an inch to the foot, entailing an enormous
amount of work and in most cases a num-
Der of assistants. AS usual In all compett-
tons, the majority have been working I'D
to the last moment. There was one set Of
designs which Just managed to get into the
doors before the hour, and many arrived
in the last hour Several of the offices have
been working all night since Sunday. The
new building is to be placed on the river at
Westminster bridge, on the opposite side to
the parliament buildings, but to the east
of the bridge
New Governmental idea.
Some years ago government by tour.
nalism'' was proposed a means of add
ing to the worlds happiness. Government
by conference" seems to be the latter day
experiment. The peace conference at The
Hague. the socialist congress at Stuttgart,
the Esperanto congress at Cambridge, and
the Zionist congress at The Hague have all
tried to contribute their mite toward the
worlds progress. Probably the Esperanto
congress was the most successful of them
all. The Hague conference is dragging its
slow length along without much progress
being visible while the socialist congress
served chiefly to show up the dissensions
among its members. In the old days the
"Partei Tag of the German socialist party
use to be models of what popular assem-
blies should be. But that was when Its des-
tinies were In the hands of the triumvirate
Bebel, Liebknecht and Singer, who exact
ed perfect discipline from their forces
Liebknecht is dead, and now a younger
school, of the more "pushfur kind, has
come into being, which chafes at the auto
cratic control of Herr Hebel.
The national congresses of the German
socialist party have usually been in pleas
ing contrast to the international variety
which has just broken up in such con-
fusion at Stuttgart One of the chief points
of weakness of such gatherings is the aues-
ton of language When Frenchmen, Ger
mans. Englishmen, Italians and Spaniards
are all trying to talk at once the result Is
a good imita ton Of the tower of RabeI