The evening world., 1911-08-18

r~oy Snoloo D0uGlas. the hAro.iuok
Marquis Of oussnsberry, his athletic
fsure clad in pale green pa1amas with
4 lavender stripe, sat up In his bed in
the waldorf-Astora to-day ana told an
World reporter how . hoodoo
has kept after him ell his iifs.' sven
the making and losing Of three
fortunes. and how 81 last. with middle
age creeping upon him. he hopes to
break the speai. whSoh 10 one q the rsa-
sons why his lordship has come 70
America 30 look for . job
The Marquis arrived last nAUht on ehs
MausStania, ana he lost no ums to-day
about looking for that opening which he
expects win place HIM on his financial
feet % firmly that hs oan ssnd for the
Marchioness and his two sons to come
over here n BE- Amerioanissd. and in
chsnta1ly tell the British nobility to 70
hane. His frst visit after he left ths
hotel was 70 Wan street. and he said a.
he LETT that II the capitalists down there
could Withstand his arguments they
would be . hardy lot indeed.
100000 At BIRTH BECAUSE
OF OLDER BROTHER.
In the hrst plAoA" said the Marquis.
4 wAs born . younger son and II you.
n America. can ate what that
means you will understand tina, that
. hoodoo at the start. But II
didn't bother mo then and hasn't since
nothing bothers mo much. y'know-
I'm a happy-go-lucky sort. up to-day
and down Tomorrow. and let the other
fellow worry"
His lordship DOESN'T look like tho
kind Of man whose spirits are affected
much by fortunes knocks. He Is
forty-three. but appears younger. His
keen graz eyes look out from . rudy
hair. and he has a forearm hat any
ono Of the boxers. for whose bener.
his late father made the famous rules.
might envy.
'Plans?" ne said. "Oh. dear boy.
r've lots Of them-not much else, to tell
you the truth. although TN not en-
tirely broke. ~ you say. But. seri-
ously. the Job as you call IT. that Tn
here to look for. Ia as q mining en-
gineer. I want some of your capitalists
to look into a scheme I have to a
gold out Of Asiatic Russia. up near the
Sea OF Ohkotsk, just opposite Klondike.
ana II I succeed-well. I hesitate to
estimate on what we'll draw out.
IF I don't get tho backing here
shall look over Porcupins. Canada. and
then I'm probably 30 West prospecting.
At any rate. you see. I shall stay here
until I exhaust every opportunity. And
may add. I think-I somehow feel It In
my ~bones-that my luck has changed.
On my irst visit to your country fifteen
years x I was on . train that jumped
off Into your Hudson River and killed
thirty-nve people. 80 I think America
should make up for that on my second
visit.
ADVENTURES BEGAN WHEN HE
WAS STILL A BOY.
But TIL begin At the beginning for
you," he went on. Il went into the
navy whom I was thirteen as a mid
shipman, and later I was also In the
yeomanry-the Kings Own Scottish
Borderers. But my brother was the
heir to the title and I didn't care for
the service, so I determined to sec h
I could DO for myself.
IT went to Australia With David Car
aeg1s in the Coilgardie gold mining
rush-ths next big rush after Ballarat'
Carnegie and I landed With 30 shulings
between US. and we walked w miles
through the brush Rough country
that, I can tell: but we were early on
the ground and my claim was the
eighth tina was staked out. Poor Car
negie surveyed most OF Western Aus
traiia-his maps are still the standard
ones--but he was afterward murdered.
II made about Nifty thousand pounds
in Australia, and then I went back to
England. and the hoodoo began TO work
one suggested that I speculate In
y'know. SO one FRI
day l bought a big lot OF Northern
Pacific. or something like that. and
blest II Il didn't drop forty points the
next day. Putting It on a bit thick.
wasn't It?
But that's ono Of tho reasons why
stock gambling IN worse than any
other kind. In racing. for instance. you
always NOV the limit of you liability.
and In stocks you seldom DO.
mot long after that I began to work
OF this scheme to dig gold In Asiatic
Russia. went to Russia and I worked
with that Government for nearly Ave
sar until ] got a concession covering
a tract as big as all England and I
paid 1900 pounds for It. The Russian
Government was keen for II. / planned
to come over here. a X 100 Klondike
miners from your Pacific Coast up
there. pay EN- and feed en- and clothe
en- and turn out gold for all We were
worth.
But ! hadn't quito enough money. so
I had to look around. 1 went to Lord
Winchester. and he said he would form
q syndicate. He did, n It was my
deathknell. One OF the stipulations
was that ! should withdraw and he had
the power TO force me out. Well, Win
chester and his crowd sent four men
out there-four men, fancy, for a ter
ritory as big an England! They were
. drunken. goddess lot-pals OF his
and they did nothing. One OF EN- got
as far a. V~ladivostock with six Chi
ness women. and after he'd bought all
the champagne in the place he went
back 10 England.
RUSSIA OFFERED TO LEND