The Washington herald., 1913-10-06
Court Gossip of Interesting
Events on Two Continents

1t was calculated to have cost 10000
but enormous as this sum Is, il was ex-
Ceeded when Mr.. II. l.. SatteTlee. an
American lawyer, led Miss Louisa Pier
pont Morgan. daughter of the late mil
lionaire banker, TO the altar at St.
Georges Church, New York. The guests
numbered 200. and for their regal enter
tainment Mr.. Morgan's house in Madison
Avenue was converted into a veritable
Aladdins palace. The flowers with
which the church was decorated cost
N2.50O Another $500 was paid for the
brides gown, and $4,000 for her trous-
seau, while the officiating clergyman re-
ceived a fee OF $1,000 II may be exag-
gerated. but according to society papers.
the entire cost OF the nuptials was little
less than $lOO,OoO.
The betrothal OF the Duchess OF Fife to
her relative. Prince Arthur of Con-
naught. As a reminder that her late faith
ers kinsman. Mr. Dun. who resides at
St Kilda. near Melbourne has SO far
not troubled to establish his right &c the
Fife earldOm. The honor is his II he
cares to claim it. but realizing that there
is no property attaching to the title, Mr..
Dun has no desire to be Earl OF Fife.
without adequate means to sustain the
dignity
Though large sums are. being con-
tributed TO the party funds by ambitious
individuals in the hope OF getting into
the nobility, a good many titles are
awaiting claimants On the death of the
seventh Earl of Midtown. in 1891. the
title became dormant, as no heir came
forward. save one, it is alleged, to be
found in the person of a brakeman on an
Indian railway. who married a native.
and, as rumOr alleges. has a dusky fami-
lV pnSGih1V n, IInr1ga Of .-da
may possess a dusky peer from India.
This possibility through another peer
age is likely to occur. Since the death.
thirty years ago, of the third Lord Gard
ner. the barOny has been dormant. but
il is eXtant. and the rightful possessor
is said to be a Gardner. whose mother
was native princess OF Delhi. and whose
grandmother was Begun Cthe wife of
a ruler. The latter was her husbands
cousin and a daughter of another native
princess by marriage TO a Gardner OF a
previous generation, whose parents were
Col. W. l.. Gardner, OF Gardner House.
and dusky but beautiful princess OF
Cambay.
The ancient barOny of the Lords Of
Scrope. who owned historic Bolton Castle.
in Yorkshire, where the ninth baron
had the Inflated Mary. Queen of Scots, in
his CuSADuN. nllsnl De successfully Claimed
by a descendant living in South Africa:
a Lord Willoughby of Parham is believed
to he in America, and there also are the
rightful owners OF two ancient baronet-
of Peyton, of Isleham Cam
bridgeshiTe). and Norwich. of Brampton
observation-disclosures families whose
sought new fortunes
across the Atlantic.
A Warwickshire squire, the late Mr..
Ferrers. of Baddesley Clinton.
was the descendent of the Ferrers, Earls
Of Derby. and in the opinion of experts
he could have established. to the salts
faction of the House OF Lords a right
TO the possession Of that earIdom. which
dates ffom 113S, and is older in creation
by more than three centuries than that
Of the9 Kings recent host at Knowsley
Hall.
All of these dormant hOnors are land
less. and their possession would confer
no pecuniary benefit. This. of course, is
the principal reason. why they are not
claimed. another being the great cost
Of prosecuting a claim. for the fees OF
peerage lawyers are heavy; so are those
Of pedigree hunters. FLANEUR.