The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-02
MANY "sIRs" ARE FAKES

Practical .okcrs Cause Navy to
Receive With Honors lmita
| ton Royal .Abyssinian.
~ La MARouIsE DE roNTENOY.
~ INC EDWARD has at length taken
the only steps within his power
| IN to check the unwarranted as
sumption of baronetcies, OF
which there are probably couple of
| hundred or so that are bogus. Quite
a number OF these uSurpations have
even found their way into the stand
| that has been necessary in the past
has been for man to ASSUME the title
of baronet, and If he had plenty of
money was hospitable and liberal in
his expenditure and possessed any
breeding whatsoever the majority of
people with whom he was brought into
contact would humor him In the mat
ter. and accord him the title which he
had usurped. Some of these bogus
baronets have even gone TO the length
Of publishing paid advertisements in
the newspapers to the effect that
| from that time forth they would style
themselves in all legal papers and doc
uments Sir" So-and-so. b. virtue of
their alleged descent from some for
mer baronet In the second and third
generations the title would be conced-
ed 10 their heirs as matter OF course.
without any recollection of the fact
would thus find its way into the works
The bona-aae barActs have fire.
Guentiy protested against this. and
mission was appointed to Investigate
and report upon the matter. on the
strength Of this report and inquiries
the King has now issued royal war
rant directing that an official roll of
the order of baronets shall be pre-
pared and kept at the Home Depart
ment, and that no person whose name
Is not mentioned on this roll shall be
received as baronet. or shall be ad-
dressed or mentioned by that title in
any civil or military commission. let
ters patent or any other official docu-
ment. True. no penalty is provided
for those, who unlawfully assume the
title of baronet. But the very fact
that the government, for the first time.
Is establishing a complete list OF every
one lawfully entitled TO a baronetcy.
and that only those whose claims are
entirely clear are to figure on that list
will inlet the stigma Of fraud on
all those who arc not included in the
roll of what the late Lord Beaconsneld
contemptuously described in one of
his novels as the peerage of the mid.
die classes
Ono on the Navy.
viii be heard of the extraordinary
hoax practiced upon Admiral Sir VIII
nam May commanding the home feet,
ana upon the rear-admirals and on-
cers OF MS STAFF, when they We're
called upon the other day to receive
Win royal honors, on board his flag
snip the DreadnouSht. lying off Port
land, Prince Makalin and suite. of
h;bysstnia,, for the ring leader of the
hoax Is the son of disnitary high
IN the service of the crown. and it is
from motives of consideration for this
parsonage that the affair is being
liam May and his officers realize that
any further publicity in the matter.
such as would be inevitable in the
event of legal proceedings, would
merely tend to increase the ridicule to
which they are now being subjected.
me government was at first inclined
10 bring the jokers to very serious
account, and TO proceed against them
legally. which could readily have been
done, since the leader Of the band
mad sent telegram to Sir William
May and had affixed thereto the sig
nature OF one Of the lords OF the Ad-
Im1iraltN. announcing the arrival of
Prince. Makalin and suite at Weymouth
and directing him TO accord full hon
sinia.
wonderful stvIe bv ,s,a ~ ~ ~ m, ,hc most
Wardour Strnnt In In ~ -ti.a l OF
course, aware Of their idant NM iT rs, OF
prnceeded IN !, ~ c,, ,,,Hii aoentllS. IneN
rerminns whero th auui ,, railroad
vate car on the Waymn n,r il,reu prl-
arrival at the Weymnnth t"p;less. On
were received by a rmard ~ ns1 ta lheS
BY several of the members ~ ,foi ~ ailu
staff, taken off on hoarE ~
steam barge to his flagship, a and ms ms