The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-18
ny La MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoY.

n IR JOHN ANDERSON has Just been
appointed permanent Under Sec
~ rotary OF State for the Colonies
in London. and thus becomes the real
chief OF that great department.. which
in the case OF the self governing de-
Tendencies. conveys to them the wishes
where the other colonies are concerned.
controls their destinies directly. He is
ESSENTIALLY a Chamberlain man, and was
first brought forward in the Colonial
Department when Joseph Chamberlain
was Secretary of State for the COL
full and resourceful assistant. He
owes his present appointment TO the
personal favor of King George and
Queen Mary, whom he accompanied on
the occasion OF their visit TO the
various colonies, as representative
of the Colonial Office. on board
the Ophir. shortly after the Access
sion OF King Edward to the throne.
and when they were still Duke and
Duchess OF Cornwall.
On that occasion he almost got left
behind in New Zealand. He had been
lunching with the premier Dick" sed-
don. fingered too long at the table. and
got down to the wharf just as tho
ophir was slowly gliding away AS
there, was no other means. Seldom. who
was a man OF gigantic stature and
herculean strength. seized Sir John
Anderson. who is quite small and slim
by the waist. and literally hurled him
on to the deck of the Ophir. whore
fortunately he was caught by some OF
the sailors.
King George and Queen Mary wer.
SO pleased with Sir John, that shortly
after their return home from their
colonial tour. he was promoted from
his $4,000 year clerkship at the Col
onial Department in London. to tho
$4,000 a year Governorship of the
Straits Settlements, with headquarters
at Singapore. and Knighthood OF the
Order of ST. Michael and ST. George
followed not long afterwards. Son of
that Dr.. John Anderson who occupied
the position OF superintendent of the
Gordon Mission at Aberdeen for num-
Der OF years. ne is eminently qualified
for his present post For at the
conferences OF colonial premiers held
in London In 1897 and again in 1902
he acted as secretary. and thus was
brought into intimate contact with the
leading colonial statesmen.
The Duke Of Camastra, who is play
ing so prominent role in Partisan So
ciety, and who has just been decorated
by the French government with the
cross Of the Legion of Honor, for the
generosity which he displayed in re-
lieving the destitute ct the time OF the
great Paris foundations. Is subject OF
King Victor Emmanuel, although he
makes his home on the banks of the
H..
inquiries which have been addressed to
me concerning his identity. He is the
only brother of the head of the great
Italian house OK LAMA. which, belong
ing to the feudal nobility of Northern
Italy in its origin, has been settled in
Sicily ever since the thirteenth CEN
tury. AS in the case OF so many OF
these historic Italian families. 1T IS
matrimonialy connected with the Unit
ed States, Don Giuseppe di LAMA, who
has no title. being married to Miss
Martina Potter Jones. of Cincinnati.
with whom he makes his home at
Florence.
The head Of the house is Don Pietro
LAMA. twelfth Prince of Trabia. in adj
dition to which he has some eight
other princely titles. th-ee ducal ones.
four marquisates. and about a SCORE OF
minor dignities. He lives at Palermo.
and his wife, Dona Giulia, is one OF the
Danes du Ralais of the Queen OF
italy.
Don Pietro's only brother is Don
Ottavio di LAMA, who In 1905. five days
after his marriage at Paris, received
from King Victor Emmanuel the right
to assume one of the dukedoms OF his
elder brother. namely, that Of Di
Camastra. The Duchess di Camastra IS
Frenchwoman. and sreat-erand-
daughter of the famous Marshal Ney
OF the Napoleonic era. at the begin
ming of the nineteenth century Sho
is q siater of the fourth Prince de la