The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-18
In Other Ways She Is Being
Treated With Liberality
by British Crown.
Bf ia MARauIsE die FoNrENoY.

!
APTAIN Robert Falcon scotts
IL widow Is being treated with lib
crafty by the British crown
King George. besides bestowing upon
her the same rank and precedence as
IL her husband. the Inflated Antarctic
| explorer had lived to receive a knight
conmandership OF the Order of the
Bath, has arranged with Prime Min
lister Asquith to grant her for life a
pension equivalent to $4,000 year
When first the news was received
Of her husbands tragic death. i, was
announced that she would he treated
In the matter OF pension as if he ha
fallen In battle. On consideration.
however 1T was decided by the mon
arch and by his Prime Ministor that
this would he inadequate. So they ar
ranged that she should draw for life
not only his full nay OF $4,000 a year
as senior captain. but in addition there
to the annual allowance OF $1,000 which
he would have received In addition to
his full pay. while in command OF n
first class battleship or cruiser.
Besides this the King has placed at
the disposal OF Lady Scott for tho du-
ration of her life suite OF apartments
in the royal palace of Hampton Court
where she will enjoy the privilege OF
residing rent free without payment OF
taxes or municipal rates and with the
lighting. heating and maintaining in
repair furnished by the state free of
cost
Hampton Court is one of the most
beautiful OF royal palaces-so beauti-
ful. indeed, that when Cardinal Wolsev
built 1t for himself, Henry VIII be-
came envious thereof declaring that
1t was infinitely superior to any of his
regal abodes and did not rest until he
mad obtained possession thereof. II
stands near the Thames. in lovely gar
dens OF great extent, portion of which
is reserved for the exclusive use Of the
inmates of the palace. These include
the widow OF Field Marshal Lord Ma
pier. OF Magdala. Mrs. Creighton.
WIDOW OF the Bishop of London
and Field Marshal Lord and Lady VOL
seley
The only disadvantage Of these rova1
apartments In Hampton Court Palace
is the difficulty about servants who
nave an objection to staying on account
OF ghosts. The palace is asserted to he
haunted by one of Henry Wills con-
sorts. Queen Jane Seymour. and the
Corporation of the City of London is on
record as having, during the reign of
queen Mary. ordered $4,000 masses to
be said for the repose of her soul with
me object of laying her ghost. which
is wont. according to popular belief to
wander about tho corridor near tho
room where Queen Anne Boleyn
| caught her sitting on the Kings knee
Some twenty five years ago the in
mates OF the palace We're alarmed by
tho sound OF the whir OF a spInninp
wheel at night and in Difference To
their urgent entreaties. tho Govern
fnent Office of Works instituted an in
vesttgation. which resulted i'm the dis
coVery OF bricked up and until then
unsupported chamber, containing an
ancient spinning wheel, showing marks
OF recent use. Reference to the old
records OF the palace showed this room
10 nave formed one OF the priyate
apartments of Queen Jane Seymour
both the late Lady Eastlake and
MRS. Cavendish Boyle, who were resi-
ago. were wont to VOW that they had
seen white apparition believed To
have been that OF Queen Catherine
! Howard, near the Queens great stair
| case. and graphically described the
! CHASTITY look OF despair on her face and
the blood -curdlng sound of her
screams.
IT is all very we'll to scott at this
idea or Hampton Court Palace being
haunted. But servants do not give up
good places nor do titled ladies OF
limited means relinquish so great and
highly priced privilege as free apart
mcnts in royal palace. for the sake
OF mere fancy or imagination.
! Michael Wemyss. OF the Blues. came
J ioSe Nccn' Oh the OCCASION OIL MS tWcn
ty-hfth birthday into the possession of
the great fortune and ancestral estates
of his father the late Randolph Cor
don Erskine Wemyss. His inheritance
comprises Wemyss Castle in the Coun-
ty of Fife, which has been in the pos
session of the family for many cen
turtles, throughout near thirty genera
tons. But the young officer holds all
the property subject to strange con-
dition namely. he forfeits everything
IN the event OF his permitting his
mother. Lady Lillian Wemyss, to ever
cross the threshold of Wemyss Castle
! The introduction extends to her brother,
! the sixteenth Marquis of Winchester.
and to every member of the Paulet
family to which she belongs by birth
Lady Lillian divorced the late Randolph
Wemyss in 1898, bringing charges
against him which gave rise to the
most Intense bitterness on his part AS
soon as ever the decree had been made
absolute, he married the then thirty
year-old Lady Eva Wellesley, sister of
the present and third Earl Cowley
! The son sided with his father in the
conflict and the daughter with the
mother. In punishment for this he cut
his daughter off in his will with q pit
lance OF $500 a year
Wemyss Castle is a wonderful old
place, and has been the scene of many
stirring events in Scottish history. II
was built by Michael of Methii the
founder of the house. who entertained
King William the Lion there during
the latter half of the twelfth century