The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-07
".JEAN CRAIG" REALLY
PRINCE D'ORLEANS
BY LA MAnQuIsE DE FON1ENOY.
fsTEAN oRIAC." who has been for

BY LA MAnQuIsE DE FON1ENOf.
tsrEAN oRIAC." who has been for
some time at FL Araish, on the
Atlantic seaboard OF Morocco,
| negotiating for the purchase OF
| a very large tract OF territory for tho
purpose of establishing there a big
ranch for furnishing cattle to the
/ French markets, and who has been
! incidentally doing some valuable ex-
! ploring work, is no other than Prince
I Jean d'Orleans, brotherin-law and
cousin OF Prince Ferdinand. Due de
Montpenser. The latter. after spend
| ing the greater part of the summer
/ his way to Cochin China, where he
! owns large rubber plantations. and
! where he. with three specially con-
structed automobiles, is about TO re,
| sumo his volunteer surveying for the
! projected railroad, destined to con-
meet Saigon. the capital of Frances
| great colonial empire in Asia. with
the rich and hitherto untapped market
| of the southern provinces of China.
the idea being that wherever an au-
1 tomobile can go a railroad can fol-
low. The Due de Montpensier was
| engaged In this survey work at the
time when he was summoned to Eu-
rope to participate as an officer OF
King Alfonso's navy in the spanish
war against the !nsurgent Moorish
tribes around MelilIa and now. having
recovered from the enteric fever which
he contracted at Meltlla. is taking up
his work. of survey and of expiora-
~ ~ NJ, ,l,t,, rl,t,,
and Tongking.
Prince Jean dorleans Is, married to
Princess Isabelle. sister OF the Due de
Montpensler. OF the Due d'Orleans and
of Queen Marie Ameiie OF Portugal
; He Is the only surviving son OF Rob
ert, Due de Charities, who, with his
elder brother the late Comte de Paris.
served on the staff OF General McClel-
Ian throughout the Civil War, and
who, under the name OF Robert Le-
fort" served as private In the War
of 1852 taking part in the battle oil
Solferino, and afterwards under the
same name lighting again as private
/, in the Franco-Gernan War OF 1870
of the Legion of Honor for Drawer,
on the field OF battle. He is a mem
Der of the Society of the Army OF
the Potomac and also of the Crane
: Army Of the Republic, and makes his
home at st. Firnin. near Chantilly
q His son Jean was brought up at Co
penha gen, under the care of his bril-
liantly clever sister. the late Princes:
: Waldemar OF Denmark, received hi:
military training there. and holds ];
commission of captain OF cavalry !,
f the Danish army His elder brother
the late Prince Henry of Orleans, wh'
died at Saigon, achieved some celeb
1 rity as an explorer of Central Asia ant
!, of Abyssinia. The Duke Of Orlean
!, has also done much useful work a
I an Arctic explorer; and geography
e oceanography and meteorology owe !,
: equipped expeditions into the pola
). 1 may add that the official designa
ton accorded by all the courts Q
! Of Montpensler and to their four sis
S tiers is that OF princes and Princesse
{; de France" The Due de Charities. ~
: SON. the Due de Guise, and his chill
Z dren., the Due de Chartres,s daughte
e Marguerite, married 10 old Marsha
q McMahon's only son and heir, anu, y
fact, all the other members Of tn
e Orleans line of Bourbon. are ofnclall
! styled 'Princes and Princesses dor
tn, leans"
Lord Decies who is now in Ney
York. to- represent the cavalry OF IN
!, English army at the National III rs
Show at Madison sqn va aS gar1eI n,
sars, has been aide-de-camp to Tn
late Lord Connemara, when Governo
II ~ Madras, and to the Duke of Con
nnnght, served in the Matabele wa
Of 1896, in the NBoer War four year
later, and won his Distinguished SCI
vice Order for conspicuous Sallantry
J. Ilha Somaliland campaign against th
Mad Mullah He is unmarried. ttl
. peerage to which he 'cceedea las
l. summer, was created at the peg. !.
. ming Of the Nineteenth century. IN "a
: yor of tho first Marquis OF Waterloru
it Iyoungcr brother. VINO was rtoteasa'
! .Archbishop of Tuan, ,,,,o
N il an.Irisl1 one and carries with
no seat in the House of Lords,
10, the Hon. Robert LePoer Berestor.
1t Who marricd Dolia O'SulliVan, OF q
Grange. Killarney, who had made
= ureut hit in "The Girl from iNas y
ii IJe .was special newspaper CORE
snortent during the South Africa
+ NJ had no money with which to SUI
u ,,npt . wife, and WAS sa2etted as
Ia nixr,,pt. with the result that W
% fair Della was forced to return
y iIn footlights Two years ago =!
I divorced him after some ratheTs So
lsationnl scenes AZ lis ,Notlo.n - ttV V1i
IS at Brighton, and WITHIN lu ~ az.
= after the decree had peen ina a,s,, ~ y
secured the hand, the heart ana !! q
rs fstie az young Charles EIuntington,swl
i, has y Nbeautiful country place know
II ms Astley Bank, Iii Lancashirei + q l-oi
don homo, known as the Clock htous
on chelsea E,mbankM mont and Y cql
err siderable fortune inherited from y
4 father, who was the head 81 q ven
G. nrrnt wallpaper syndicate. . 4.
Maxt to the Hon Robert ina the ~