The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-11
COWES FESTIVITIES
MARRIED BY TRAGEDY
NY lA lIAItQ Use DE FONTENoY.

NY IA ,isAHauIsE DE FONTENoY.
n E.ARLY every year the rcstivitiea
Uni of the regatta week at Cowes
IL are married by some. tragedy.
which this year has been FUR
nished by Lord Wallscourt's daughter,
the Hon. Mrs. William f. Harrington
Afflicted with slceplessness. and re-
iuctant TO resort 10 choral or any
g, .a,, drug taken internally. she was
means of inhaling few wins OF
extremely dangerous practice. for.
with Increasing drowsiness. one is apt
70 lose the VIII power to replace the
the bed. That Is just what happened
70 Mrs. Harrington. She was holding
The glass 10 her nostriis and innaiing
when she lost consciousness. inhaled
too much, and succurubed
she was the widow of young Squire
William Edmund harrington, VINO died
last year, after only a few. weeks or
marriage. Several months later his
WIDOW, just twenty -four years Of age.
gave posthumous birth to girl IN
stead of boy, and thus, for the !irst
time in near 600 years. broke a line
of direct male descent; for from lohn
land in 1873. until the death Of young
Squire William Edmund harrington
last year. the manors OF Leyland and
&of Warden Hall, in Lancashire. had
oGoCSliieu gbIOltf lO SOII
out twenty-six generations. When
Mrs. Harrington gave birth TO a girl
instead OF a boy last fall the estates
went to Colonel harrington of Wtgan,
the head of a younger branch OF the
family.
The farinstons, although untitled.
are extremely proud OF their blue
blood, as they have every right to be.
Ranking nigh among TIE COUNTY fami,
every sense of the word to the aris-
tocracy OF England. One Of them was
killed at the battle of Crecy. Another.
Sir Henry Harrington. was one OF
appropriation of the inconsistencies and
& of the property OF the religious orders.
Stir another fought for King Charles
against: Oliver Crom well; In iaet, tnelr
mails Of English history, and always
with two small tsn's.
The way that the use of these double
initial consonants arose is Sthat m
solden times-that is TO say in the
carry, days of printlngz-the capital +
and the capital l. were made BY means =
Of Duplicating small effs and smal !
ellis. But. Of course. the adoptlon OF
the present capital II and of the pres,
{superhuous the useEof the double let
ter. Many old families, such as, for
instance, the trenches OF cast. zig
french the ffolkes and the I =. = !.
lII.Hh
former spelling of their name. some,
instead of using two small cons ma nts,
are satisfied with nothing else man n
two capitals. and lin the English army
list there will be found two or three
English officers, who write their name
as Lloyd. which is, to say tho least,
an atfectation.
Almost at the same hour that Mrs.
Harrington twho was fprior to her mar
Briage the Hon. Margaret Nake) met
With her death through schloroform az
$Cowes, her cousin, Miss Eleanor q axe.
met with o. still more tragic tate III
hellames which burned tot he round
Menlough Castle, her ancestral Ss home
in Galway. She was an Invalid. an 9
was therefore unable to save herself
of the inmates OF the castle, who maj
aged to climb down from. the win
Sdows@by the Ivy with which the 4 en- tire
grand old &stronghold5 was SthiclSl " COW Gov,
\ Lady. Blake neutrality-suspicious. both$.o g !
them, were absent from home \ q t.Gt g
time. being en- gagged in visiting y upiin;
and. indeed, Miss Blake was qullto
wants, two OF whom We're ~ SeWlse
burned To death.
TN castle itself. fanked by towers
at either end, and most picturesaueiy
a few miles from Galway, was com,
spletely Quilted all the treasures and
sSletrlooms Which5it contained being
siost-in fact, nothing but the outer
walls remain, Menlongh Castle had
been the home of the Blakes ever since
the rel gn Of Queen Elizabeth, having
come to them in5 the middle OF The
thpo fart hs ~
nat OF his 1line, the baronetcy having
been hy singIam l,s lap 20
81 c,aiWaV in Gil, and again insl63O,
s P5ei blake, the son Of siriSV alentine
Blake, the third paronet, was ,patentee
seha Ina ana his son Francis surren-
sde e Ills patent Ngights In Carolina to
M A,pha 4 Biakes Of Galway have been
identified for hnnareds q y; years With TN
WIN 81 Hsporting and social life; 30
the a1aEs eten sht rs susg sae
~ N, III A is a most popula ar name
aMonE me ssPsela aSa fhmaag
" ~ !. = ind ar the circumstances
s there Z Wlil'b uaanv pNapl or this side