The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-18
BY la MARaUIsE DIE FoNTENoY.

by La MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoY.
7 ORD PiRKiE. who arrives in New
/ olympic. which is the biggest
ship that has ever been launch
ed from the great Belfast shipbuild-
ing yards of Harland & Wolff, OF which
he is president was born on this side
OF the Atlantic. and is native OF
quebec, although his people come
p Isom Ma p1ns,Dal Ssns in conny
ate on this side OF the Atlantic is j.
Pierpont Morgan. who shares with
him the, controlling interest In the
Mercantile Shipping Trust. in Brit
ish. African Steam Navigation Company.
In the Elder Dempster Shipping Com
pany. and in the West India Mail Ser
vice. which gives them the virtual
the West Coast OF Africa, and be-
tween Great Britain and the West
Indies.
Lord Pirrie is great advocate OF.
United States. According to him. the
English shipbuilding Industry would
receive rec, an overwhelming and crush.
ee 0e GRADE onss sam America wese to a RaSp
material for the CONSTRUCTION Of ships
10 enter free OF duty" he declared on
one memorable occasion. we should
yards over there. and I have always
that possibility in view. though / do
not regard 1t as a probability"
Lord Pirrie formerly occupied very
important place in Unlonist councils
and his conversion to Liberalism
aroused so much bitterness In Con-
servative circles that when he was
nominated to Knighthood OF ST Pat
rick. some three or four years ago
all the other knights OF the order
with the exception of Lord Castletown,
declined to attend the chapter sum
moned at Dublin Castle by the Vic
eroy for the purpose OF investing him
with the dignity and the insignia OF
the order. The consequences was that
vested privately by the Viceroy with
out any chapter and without sponsor
ship. The viceroy. Lord Aberdeen.
affront by bestowing upon Lord
Pirrie the comptrollership of the
viceregal household, thus making him
the principal disnitary OF the court
Order Of the knights Of aa &. Pa al lex
held last week by King George at
Peid l0r fhe ord ef Investing ng
the Earl OF Shaftesbury with the
insignia.
LORD Pirrie makes his principal home
purchased from the estate OF the late
Whitaker Wright, the well known
promoter who. escaping to, New York
on the collapse Oh his schemes, was
arrested on landing. >taken back to
Bailey. and committed suicide by
swallowing a deadly poison in court,
while the presiding Judge was in the
act of pronouncing sentence
Whitaker Wright had set out to
construct for himself a home u1sur-
passed in splendor. and at the time of
900 on the place. The mansion is
built OF stone. in early English style,
with alf-timbered work; and in lay
ing out Of the grounds. which extend
over 5000 acres. Whitaker Wright had
aaeesording to his caprice; Among the
OF glass, under the biggest lake, where.
when seated at dinner one is able to
see fishes swimming above ones head
Young Arehduke Charles Francis.
nephew. Of the heir apparent (and in
age. destined to succeed him In course
OF time on the thrones OF Austria
and Hungary will make his home
with his future consort. after their
marriage, at the Chateau of Hetaendorf.
IN the suburbs of Vienna. its extern
Palace of schoenbrunn. His bride. as
already announced In these letters, is
the blonde Princess Zita Of Bourbon.
daughter OF the late ex-Duke Of
Parma. and niece Of that Archduch-
ess Maria Therese who is the step
mother Of Archduke Francis Ferdi-
his differences with the remainder Of
the imperial family on the subJe,t of
his Wifes position at court
The Chateau of Hetzendorf Is a most