The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-20
ARMY
LASSIE CONVERTS
BRITISH BAR0NET
Sir Cave Browne Cave, Who
Served in India, Expert Rough
Rider in Wild West Show,
Actor and Bohemian, Now
Janitor of Salvation Army
Hall in Brooklyn, and Will
Enter Training College to Be-
come an Officer
Especial from United Press.)


New York, April 2O-F'rom British
Baronet to expert rough rider with a
wild west show. and then to janitor
of a SalvationI Army hall in Brooklyn
has been the remarkable experience Of
Sir GENTLE Cave-Brown-C Cave, who, to-
day, announced his resignation as
vfce-president Of the British Boy
Scouts organization in order to apply
for admission to the Salvation Army
training college. The baronet wishes
to become an officer in the Salvation
Army and expects, although he is we'll
over the age limit, to be accepted for
that work. At the Salvation Army
hall, GENTLE said, today, that he hop
ed when he was accepted for Saliva
ton Army work that he would be sent
either back to his old home in Eng
land or in India. where he saw service
with the colors
AS evidence of his right to his title,
Sir Gentle, today, exhibited his birth
certificate, photographs and other
documents. all Of which indicated that
he was what he represented himself
to be. He also referred to Colonel
William H. Cox, editor in chief of the
War Cry, who has investigated the
case and says their new recruit is ac-
tually the 18th Baronet Cave-Browne-
Cave
The baronet was born on September
8, 1869, educated at st. Helen's College,
Southsea and served in India, Bur-
NAH and in the Boxer uprising as an
officer in the British army. He re-
signed his commission some 10 years
ago and since then attained fame as
a big game hunter and rough rider.
For three years prior to last summer
he travelled with a wild west show
and was one of it's most active riders.
Last summer he was in England and
decided to come to this country to
England but the death of King Ed
ward caused a change in his plans.
He then secured a position as a
picture actor at $40 day. Mean
while he was negotiating with a mar
riage. broker who planned to MARRY
heiress whose identity he does not dis
close. To bring about the wedding it
had been agreed that the parents of
the girl would settle half a million
dollars on the baronet. Negotiations,
however, were quickly broken off
when Cave-Browne-Cave Joined the
Salvation Army on September 27, last
At the Salvation Army hall, in
Brooklyn, today, the baronet talked
at length about himself and his plans
He asserted that he had not joined
the Salvation Army because he was
destitute or in need Of assistance, but
simply because he had become con-
verified at one of it's meetings.
''It is quite a contrast to the $40 a
day I was earning when 1 joined the
army to the $3.50 a week which I now
get for taking care of this hail." he
said with a smile, "but l am perfect
ly content. AS I have to buy my
meals and clothes out of my wages.
being supplied with only place to
sleep here I am not able to save very
much. have applied for an officers
commission in the Salvation Army
and. as am AZ years old, six years
beyond the age limit, I have had to
wait until my application is APPROX
ed by the high officials Of the organi-
cation.
ST am Sir Cave-Browne-Cave, 18th
baronet Of that name and I have
plenty of proof of the legitimacy Of
my title but I am no longer the heavy
drinking, FOSTERING fellow 1 once was.
became converted through the in
strumentality of the army and am now
perfectly happy and content My
conversation was sudden. One night
last September I was drinking in a
saloon when a Salvation Army lassie
touched me on the shoulder and asked
me il I was a Christian. When I told
her no she handed me card and in
yited me to attend her meetings.
81 had always refused to go to
church as / had no desire to listen to
someone who I believed was a bigger
hypocrite than I was myself but for
some reason I went to the meeting.
went livery night after that and on
the sixth night, while sitting in my
own room, I was converted. I then
publicly declared my belief in religion
and offered myself for the army work.
I abandoned my old companions and
took this job as janitor at one-third
a. week what I used to earn a day.
One marvellous thing is that I have
lost my taste for alcohol and tobacco.
While I drank and smoked heavily,
today the very smell Of either drink
or tobacco makes me ill. I have never
been so happy as I am now although