New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-18
LORD P|RR|E, K. P.
! IberaI Peer Who Built the
OLYMPIC Coming Here.

--,v,t 1911. by the Brentwood Company
'-s p,-rie who liz expected to arrive in
-. york tomorrow on board the Olym-
- which is the biggest ship that has
~ bsen launched from the great Belfast
,,.huilding Yards Of Harland e Woln. az
.h,,b he is president. was born on this
~ N the Atlantic and is a native OF
o,.hsc although his people came from
80 ClanGeboye. In County Down. His
-.,cinal business associate on this side
= ,be Atlantic IS J. Pierpont Morgan. who
o,..-es with him the controlling interest in
- mercantile shipping trust" in the
,-.t.,sb- A frican Steam Navigation Com
-, IN the Elder-Dempster Shipping Com
- and in the West India mail service
fs,ob gives them the virtual command Of
- steamship trade with the West Coast
- AFRICA and between Great Britain and
~. West indies
lard Pirrie is a great advocate of the
.orcv OF protecticn-for the United States
according TO him. the English shipbuilding
,.5usrrv would receive an overwhelming
80 crushing blow Il Uncle Sam were 70
ason. free trade. 'If America allowed ma
.srsl for the construction OF ships to en-
- free Of duty" he declared On one men,
srsble occasion. eve should have TO estab-
',sh our shipbuilding yards over there, and
: have always that possibility in view.
..ough 40 not regard it as a probability"
LORD Pirrie formerly occupied a very i'm
,orant place in Cnionist councils. and
A. conversion 10 Liberalism aroused so
rpeh bitterness IN Conservative circles
,bat when he was nominated 10 the Knight
hood Of ST. Patrick, some three or four
Years ago. all the other knights OF the or
Ser with the exception of Lord Castle
,own. declined Co attend the chapter sum-
,,oned az Dublin Castle by the Niceroy
tor the purpose Of investing him with the
dignity and the insignia OF the order. The
consequence was that for the first time
vf+hir uvile memory a Knight OF St. Pat
-cs was invested privately by the Viceroy.
without any chapter and without sponsor
shin. The Viceroy. Lord Aberdeen. may
~ said 90 have retaliated for this affront
nv hestowing upon Lord Pirrie the con-
trollership of the viceregaI household. thus
making him the principal dignitary Of the
court OF Dublin Castle. AS such he took
a leading part in the chapter OF the Order
OF the knights Of st. Patrick held last
week by King George at Dublin FOR the
Purpose OF investing Field Marshal Lord
Kltchere- and the Earl Of shaftesbury with
the Insignia 5.Ea x III
Lord Pirrie makes HIS principal home at
Wiley Cour-, in Surrey. which he pur-
chased from the estate Of the late Whita-
ke- Wright. the we'll known promoter. who,
sscaIinE 20 New York on the collapse Of
his schemes. was arrested on landing
taken back 10 England. tried for fraud ct
the Old Bailey and committed suicide by
swallowing q deadly poison IN court while
the presiding judge was in the act of pro
zouucing sentence.
Whitaker Wright had set out 20 cons
st-uc- for himself home unsurpassed IN
splendor, and at the time Of his ruin had
spent more than 100000 on the place
The mansion IS built Of stone. in early
Enclsh style. with half timbered work,
ard 'n the laying out Of the grounds which
extend over three thousand acres, Whita-
ker Wright had had. hills removed and
l7ses formed according 20 HIS caprice.
Among the features is a large hail, con-
structed Of glass. under the biggest lake.
where. when seated n dinner, one IS able
- see fishes swimming above ones head.