The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-23
BY La MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoY.

BY LA MARaUIsE DE EoNTENoi.
~ ARON MAYER DIES PLANCHES.
" who spent so many years at
D Washington as Italian ambassa-
dor, and who at the time of his
recall this last spring was dean of
the diplomatic corps In the United
States was subjected, with the baron.
ess. to a very unpleasant mobbing the
other day and to great deal OF In
dignity, at Constantinopls. where he
Victor Emmanuel The ambassador, IN
full, uniform. with his wife, who We're
attended by their native cavass, or
riage, and hailed public cab to drive
them to Pera. The hackman declined
the fare and got into a discussion with
the cavass, which degenerated into a
full-ledged fight between the two.
The ambassador went to the assist
man over the head with his cane,
whereupon the fellow turned upon him,
and was only kept at arms length by
the ambassador drawing his court
sword The CANVASS also drew the scim-
tar with which he was armed, and
owing to the threatening attitude OF
the crowd. who sided with the cabman.
and who We're lavishing abuse and in
sulting epithets upon the ambassador
y,
some army officers, happened upon tho
scene coming to the rescue of the
envoy and OF his wife. secured an
other cab for them and escorted them
out Of the crowd The Sublime Porte,
Immediately on learning of the affair,
offered the most profound apologies to
Baron Mayor DIES Planches, has thrown
into prison the cabman and has also
arrested the three or four policemen
who witnessed the whole affair, and
Y1Ny nat ,ttyvV 40 ~
tect the ambassador and ambassadress.
but by their Indifference may be said
to have actually encouraged the mob.
Lord Kitchener has at length found
a home, to which he will transfer
the numerous treasures OF one kind
and another which he has accumulated
he has purchased Broome Hall, in
Kent, near Canterbury, which was the
ihome of the Oxendens until the pres
ont baronet, Sir Percy Dixwell Oxen
through financial difficulties which
The mansion. standing. in nobly tim
bered park of some 500 acres Is of the
|Jacobean style of architecture, and
was built in 1895 and 1886 by Sir Basil
Especially the wainscoting, the panel
ing, the galleries and the great stair
cases are particularly fine. and the
house. which has changed but little
during the last 200 years, Is still full
of fine pictures and old furniture and
bric-a brac, Broome Park came into
the OXenden family through the mar
Iriage OF Sir Henry OSenden. at the
close of the seventeenth century t
the daughter and he1ress OF the las1
OF the DiNwell owners of the place
and from that time forth until The
bankruptcy of the present holder o.
the ONenden baronetcy, there have al
ways been OXendens at Broome Park
Lord Kitchener has long been look
ing for home of his own. where h,
could house all his belongings. tn,
gifts, the purchases and the curio.
accumulated, first in Palestine and IL
Asia Minor, then in Egypt and TIL,
soudan. where he spent near twent,
years sojourn in India and his tri,
through China and Japan. He vii
there also DO able TO indulge in tina
| love for gardening which Is one of hi
while in Egypt to purchase one OF tn
smaller islands on the Nile River. an,
to transform 1t into a perfect horticul
tural gem, His acquisition OF the, plac
| Indicates that he does not look 70
any service abroad. either military, o
India or Of Australia, But on tn
other hand speculation Is now rife q
I to who is destined to become tn
chatelaine OF Broome Hall,
Lord Avonmose's death in a privat
hospital Mt Dublin serves TO- fecn
1.-THE romantic circumstances Of his pa
rents marriage, the legality OF Whic
was contested until the House of Lord'
as the supreme tribunal, decided In II
] favor. His father was the fourth VIE
lcount Ayonmore. who as Captain tn
Hon William YelYerton, Of the Row