The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-18
Well-Known English Philanthro-
pist on His Way to
America.
By LA MARouIsE DE FoNTENoy.


ID is an Old couplct. which serves
to remind me that the family OF
Sir William purdic Trcloar. the dis
tinguished passenger just about TO
reach these shores on the Celtic. halls
from Cornwall. that county in the ak
ireinc southwest Of England, Of which
passengers from Southampton 10 Amer
lean ports get last glimpse az they
emerge from the English Channel into
the great waters of the Atlantic. Sir
William owes his baronetcy to the fact
that he was Lord Mayor OF London
from November. 1906. to the same month
in 1907. But he has many more claims
to honorable mention than the wearing
of new title. He Is extremely pop
uiar. and Is philanthropist. whose
goodness OF heart Is especially shown
crippled children. He is the founder
OF the noble institution at Alton, in
hampshire. known as the Lord Mayor
II eloar Cripples' Home and College,
have cured nearly 500 crippIcs.
Although his trip over here is os-
tensibly for business purposes, lie in
tends to devote every nom ent ne can
spare to the investigation OF children's
hospitals in order to ascertain whether
he can gather any new ideas in Amerl-
ca that VIII tend TO improve thu insti-
tuition that bears his name. His firm
Trcloar Son, carpet and cocoanut
mating manufacturers. VI Ludsatc
Hill, is well known. Having ALREADY
served as Lord Mayor he is referred
the Chair. AS Alderman of the Ward
of harrington Without. he was de-
scribed. being very tall, as the biggest
alderman of the biggest ward in the
city" When he received his chain of
office as sheriff, he remarked. Il am
the Alderman OF Fleet Street, the nome
OF the newspaper, and also of smith
field. the great meat market. l may
thus fairly say that ! represent both
mind and matter" In addition to his
business pf carpet manufacturing, ne
is n director of Cooks tourist agency,
and as such made all the arrangements
for the. trip of the German Emperor
to the Holy Land He Is justice OF
the peace for the counties of Kent,
Surrey and London. lie is a wldower:
and as he is in his seventeen year.
and has no children, his baronetcy
presumably will become extinct on his
death. Besides his baronetcy. he has
Orders of st. Olaf of Norway, the Dan
nebrog of Denmark. the Red Eagle of
Germany, St Sava of Servia. the Ris-
ing sun of Japan, and Danilo /. OF
Montenegro He is a member Of half
a-dozen London clubs; the Carlton.
Junior Carlton, Savage, Press. White
friars and Authors. Ills qualifications
for the last named club consist prin-
cipally of two volumes that he has
written and published. The first is
entitled "Ludgate Hin, Past and Pres
emit" Il subject on which he is eXcep-
tionally. we'll posted, his place of bust
ness being situated on that thorough
fare, which he has been instrumental
in improving. The other work. prince
OF Palms" is no doubt inspired by that
branch of his business In which the
more than his title of baronet and his
foreign orders. I think he Is best
pleased with the sobriquct often ap
piled to him OF the Cripples' Alder
man."
The Hohenzollerns have long men,
cries. and Princess Sophia of Prussia,
sister of the Kaiser. and married to the
ton. She cannot forgive the treat
ment which her husband and her sons
received ut the hands of the military
junta which for two years terrorized
Greece and which drove them into exile,
depriving them of all their military
honors. The other members of the
royal family have become more or less
rcconciled with the members of the en-
junta. who have submitted to the
crown. but Crown Princess Sophia re-
fuses to hold any intercourse with them
On the occasion OF the great f.stiv-
tiles at Athens the other day. she left
the capital. in order to stay with her
fav;rite brother. Emperor William. al
Corfu. The Greeks consider that Ger
many has always been their enemy
and that their defeat in 1897 was due
to the fact that German officers in
active service led the Turks against
them. They therefore resent the pro-
nounced intimacy of the crown princess
with her brother. the Kaiser, and do
not hesitate to reproach her in the
papers for 1t. This is complete right
about-face from their attitude little
over two years ago. when the crown
prince and his wife were living abroad.
eNilcs 10 all intcnts and purposes and
having left Greece on the demand Of
The so-called Military League. that
acted through the Cabinet and Cham
Der. This league. starting out with
the Drofesscd intention of purifying
Greek political life, degenerated into n
tyrannical oligarchy, which became so
intolerable that the very people who
were loudest in their insistencc on the
removal of the members of the royal
family from responsible positions IN
the army were most clamorous for the
return of the crown prince, who. ac-
companied by his brothers, returned in
triumph. amid the acclamations of all
classes of the population, who had
found out that their treatment of the
royal family had recoiled upon .ntm-
selves For not only was Greco. boy
cotted by the money markets and by
foreign courts, but even by the tour
lists who had been accustomed to bring
so much money into the country.
Consequently, the crown prince was
restored to the commandership in chief
of the army, and applied to it, as far
as possible. that military discipline
which he had learned at Berlin and
which was so distastsful TO the Greek
officers and soldiers.
During all the turmoil of the mill