The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-13
YANKEE BRITISHLORD
ALBERT FAIRFAX, WILL BE LOYAL IN
 DUAL POSITION.
Claim Made to Edward VII. Hight to Title
 Long Ignored, Is Now Presented Fer Action by the King.

New York. (special to /the Chicago Rec ord- Herald )-AIhert Kirby Fairfax the American peer who has asked King Sa- ward to formally enroll him as Baron Fair fax of Cameron. thinks he will have no diff fieuIty in being good American and a good British subject at the same timex The Far faxes have been good Americans for six gen srations and during their residence inl this country have ignored their rght 70 ssn- ish title until recently. The family has lived mostly in Virginia and Maryiands out the present Fairfax Is e man Of business in Wall street.
 time a British peer and an AmericAn eie- izen. Lord Fairfax said;
 By birth am just as loyal an American as there is in the United states: py inner itance I am equally loyal as an Enghshman Moreover. I find little in the two positions that Is incompatible
 Few Points of Difference.
 There really lsn't enough difference pe- tween the customs of England and those Of this country to make it hard for man 70 be loyal to both. It is lar easier. asure you, for one man to bo . British Lord and at the same time an American cttiSen than 1t would be for the same man to he an American citizen and a duke or count from any other country.
 '.EnRlishmen and Americans accomplish the same results by different methods. Their business men have different ways of going at things, nut Dotn AFFlfO 8L tHt edfh9 place at about the same time. Moreover. if when in Ather country man tries to adopt himself to the ways of that country I think he can accomplish reasonably as much in either. In my position as London repre- sentative of an American bushes house. found 1t necessary to do business with one hand as my American connections would have tt done and with the other in 6 way to please my English customers.
 'sThe women of the two countries, though different in many ways, are equally lova- ble and delightful Tn their own way they are similar to the men of the two coun- tries: they reach the same goal by different routes.
 If there is the one disadvantaEe in my dual position of having to be more or less on my guard at all times that may not offend my friends of either country there are also many disadvantages.
 At Home in Each City.
 'Tt Is not with the feelings of a stranger that 70 about in either New York or London. feel that am at home in either place. when in New York am more than loyal to New York. and when I in Lon don the game feeling of loyalty for that city comes over me. l can have my house in both cities an6 feel that 1t Is home. belong to clubs there and clubs here. and when I go into the smoking room 1t is not as a stranger, an occasional visitor or guest but as one who actually belongs thors
 'I am often asked if 1t Is possible to be loyal to America and at the same time he member of the British peerage. and each time answer that 1t is. I know that the patriotism of my boyhood is Just as strong to-day as ever it was. If 1t were not I think should never have taken to myself the title to which I was born. do know that I waited until I was old enough to think the whole matter out before I made up my mind"
 Lord Fairfax is ST years old. but he looks much younger He was born in Maryland. It was not until a year ago that he finally to be in fact as well as in name Lord Fairfax of Cameron. His decision was the result of two years residence in London where he had gone in the capacity of English representative of a New York banking house. and upon his return to this last November he came as British lord.