The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-15
Especially Designed for Those
Who Commit Suicide After
Losing at Monte Carlo.
ny LA MAR0UIsE DE FONTENOY.

N lSITORS from this country to
" Monte Carlo--I mean those who
frequent the public gambling
tables there from which the Prince OF
Monaco, now sotourning In the United
States. derives his great wealth-will
agement OF tho Casino has Just
equipped the latter with a most up-to-
date mortuary. where bodies can be
preserved indefinitely. Tho directors
have taken the pains to make this
public, as II with tho view to Impress
players with the conviction that every
provision is being made for their peace
or mind In life. and for their comfort
after death. The mortuary Is espe-
cially destined for those who have been
led by their losses mt the tables to
either blow out their brains or to take
poison. Suicides of this kind arc very
numerous at Monte Carlo. Hitherto
1t has been the practice to bury them
as hurriedly as possible. without TAX
Ing proper means for their idcntifca-
ton. From henceforth their remains
will be preserved until their relatives
and friends have been communicated
with, and their wishes obtained with
regard to the disposition OF the body
Lord de Frcyne, whose death was
enormously reported last week on both
sides of tho Atlantic. and who is now
enjoying the questionable satisfaction
Of reading In British and foreign news
papers his own obituaries, Is head OF
the very old Irish family to which Field
Marshal Sir John French. C. C. B., be-
longs. He is one of tho Conservative
members of the House of Lords. his
peerage, created rs recently as 1851,
being. not an Irish dignity, but one OF
the United Kingdom. His eldest son
and heir, prematurely proclaimed as
having succeeded to his honors, has
spent number OF years in America.
He has been very badly off. and is
doomed to remain SO. For his father
has no less than twelve other children
by his second marriage, who have all
been favored Mt the expense of their
eldest half-brother until now. and to
make provision for whom Lord dc
Freyne Is alternating everything in his
power from the family property. In
deed, Arthur French will succeed to
nothing but the peerage and to the
heavily encountered entailed estates in
County Roscommon, which have be-
longed to his ancestors since the reign
of James I.
1t was financial difficulties which
forced Arthur French to resign his
commission as lieutenant In the Royal
Fusilier Regiment. Three years after
States. and In 1905 enlisted In New
York in Company A, of the Eighth
Regiment OF Infantry, leaving his wife
behind him in England. He had en-
deavored in vain to find there some
means OF livelihood. But having been
educated only for tho army, and being
moreover fond of soldering. he found
1t impossible to secure any civilian en-
ployment OF a remuncrative character.
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fortune in America. Here he found
civilian employment quite as difficult
to obtain, and was thinking OF going
back to England and enlisting In the
army as a private soldier, as the only
calling for which he was fitted, when
some one suggested to him that he
would be better off If he joined the
United States Army.
After enlistinE in the latter he ex-
planned that the pay was considerably
higher in the American service than
in that of the English army; that
moreover he was brought while In tho
ranks into contact with n class OF men
who, taking them as whole. were
superior in education and intelligence
to the men Of whom the rank and file
OF the English regiments of the line
nro composed, and that. moreover. the
private in the American army enjoys
a far greater sense of personal indie
pendence. and is enabled to retain much
more self-respect than Is the case with
soldiers in most European armies.
Lord de Freyne's eldest son and heir
Is by no means the only foreigner of
birth who has served in the ranks of
the United States Army. There are
quite a number OF them. and among
the first names that occur to me at this
are those OF Sir Bryan Leigh
ton, the rich Shropshire baronct, and
the Hon. Lyulph Ogilvy (brother OF tho
late Earl Of Airlie). both OF whom went
through the Spanish War under the
Stars and Stripes.
At one time Lord de Freyne's an
were very rich indeed. Thus,
John French. of French Park. which
Dungar Castle-still the
mansion-was known through
out Ireland as "Tierna More" which
means "the great landowner" and
when he died at an advanced age in
1894, his wake. which cost many thou