New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-26
KING PETERS PET APE
Other MonarChS Have Enjoyed
CompanionShip of Four.
Handed FaVOriteS.

\ downright, 1912, by the Brentwood Company
King Peter Of Servia's pronounced fond
| ness for q highly trained and clever pet
] monkey Is furnishing the comic sheets IN
4 Austria and the Balkan countries with
| plentiful field for cancature. Perhaps he
| .hould not be quite so cruelty derided. for
he is a sorely disappointed and unhappy
\ man. and in that very state OF mind which
1 often leads to eCcentricities.
His daughter is now married 70 Prince
lean Constantlnovitch, Of Russia, and
makes her home at ST Petersburg His
relations with his two sons, both studying
IN Paris. are strained mainly because he
persists in retaining among his encourage
the actual assassins of King Alexander and
his wife Draga. Shorn besides Of MANI
friendships he has turned TO animals for
affection. The monkey I'm question passes
most OF its life in Peters private study.
IN its companionship the King finds solace
for the loneliness of his troubled old age.
This Partially Of Peter has many prece-
dents Holy Writ, TO begin with, tells us
that king Solomon the Wise" had many
such pets, which formed part OF the cargo
brought to him every three years by his
"ships Of Tarshish" and were considered
worthy Of enumeration in the same lists
as gold, silver and ivory.
The great Emperor Charles V, who. IN
,be sixteenth century, was the virtual mas
,e- Of Continental Europe, had large
monkey Of such abnormal intelligence that
II could give the monarch quite good
game nj chess! on one occasion, indeed
Is recorded that It managed TO check
ate his majesty whereupon the Emperor,
censed at accepting defeat from so
ignobe a hand. promptly and soundly boxed
his ears. This remarkable yarn goes on to
state that the next time similar game
took place the wise quadruman, before de-
claring mate" took the precaution Of SELF
ing from q nearby sofa a large cushion TO
guard its ears with.
Frederick the Great, when a youth, was
very fond Of monkeys, and kept quite a
family of them about him, naming them,
I ON their airs and graces, after the pom
pous officials of his fathers household. one
day particular favorlte could not be found
in his rooms and Frederick, thinking 1t
bad escaped into the antechamber, went
u the door and called out, Herr Geheim-
nth! Herr Geheimrath!" whereupon hu-
man "Geheimrath" (Privy CouncilloD hap
m cried Frederick It's all the same"
Lord Charles Beresford's Trades.
To what extent British peers are now
embarking in business projects in order to
make up for Lloyd Georges heavy drain
upon their resourCes-heretOfore derived
mainly from land-is shown by the will Of
the late Marquis Of Waterford, probate OF
which has Just been granted TO the cx-
ecutor. his uncle, Lord Charles Beresford
From this document II appears that Lord
Waterford, who was head OF the Beresford
family and who was drowned at his coun-
try seat, Curraghmore having fallen into
a deep stream from a rustic bridge I'm the
dark. carried on a woollen manufacturing
business at Kilmacthomas. mineral
water business at Dungarvan and a brew
ers and masters trade at Dublin, each
Of which concerns is exceedingly profitable
and Welded him a very handsome revenue.
This is shown by the fact that the prop
erty on which death duties have been col
lected by the treasury from his heir
amounts 70 considerably more than
100000.
The admiral. who Is so well known in
Jhe United States, may be said to he in
charge of nearly all the family fortunes.
for besides being administrator of the es-
tate Of his granddaughter, the present Mar
outs Of Waterford, who is a boy at school,
and will not attain his majority for some
seven or eight years, he is also guardian
of the young son Of his soldier brother, the
late Colonel Lord William Beresford, by
his American wife, who was previously
twice married, first TO the late Louis Ham
ersley. OF New York, and then 10 the late
Duke Of Marlborough.
The property Of this young Anglo-Ameri-
can nephew. who makes his home with the
widowed Warehouses of Waterford and her
children. at Curra gilmore. is quite large
Finally the admiral is executor Of the fort
une amounting TO several millions Of dol
lars. left ny his Americanized brother, the
late Lord Delayal Beresford, who spent the
last twenty-five years OF his life on a
ranch IN New Mexico, where he managed to
make cattle raising pay. II may be re-
membered that the admiral had some diff
fculty in disproving a claim TO the prop
erty made by a quadroon woman. who in
sisted that she was Lady Delaval Beres-
ford. but was unable to establish her status
in the eye Of the law
MARQUIsE DE FONTENOY.