East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-08-28
LIFE FAST
GOIHG IN FNGI AND
BECAUSEOF THE WAR
CASTLES. MANOR HOUSES AND
MANSIONS ARE BEING PUT
UP FOR SALE.
Traditional English Country Gentle
man Is Qultting-Fox Hunt Is Tor
saken and the DeyOtee Is Either at
the Front or Else Trying to Cut
Down Expenses.
BY WILBUR S. FORREST

BY WILBUR S FORRESI.
LONDON, Aug 17-(By mail)-
This is the open season for castles,
manor houses and mansions in Eng
land
The traditional English country
gentleman IS quitting He's hanging
out signs which say: For Sale or
For Rent"
Country life in England. for which /
England is famous, is one Of the real
victims of war. The country gentle-
man has forsaken the fox hunt, the
shooting and fishing, coaching and
golf He's either off to the battle
field or he's cutting down expenses
and hundreds of him are quitting for
good.
II an American millionaire. out
cunning for something in castles or
manors. should visit the real estate
agents in England today he would
find the British castle and manor
market overstocked with a still heav-
ier supply of mansions and smaller
varieties of aristocratic strongholds.
He would find them abuting the
Thames near London stretched along
the shores Of the historic Avon and
dotted here and there from the vicin-
ity Of the beautiful Midway in Kent to
the Severn on the English west coast,
He would find them in North Eng
land Scotland and Wales and could
have his choice from among twenty
types Of architecture historic and
modern. He could rent them or buy
them with a dozen to thirty bedrooms
and with dozen to thousands ol
acres to be used for recreation or
sports.
If this American millinire doubted
that the business of being an English
country gentleman is getting unpop-
ular he could motor two hours from
London and find a great Georgian
mansion with 1900 acres that abounds
( in choice hunting and fishing. The
acres and the mansion are for sale
/ or for rent. He could take a train
! to Berwick on Tweed in Berwickshire
and find an historic old castle with
/ its 46lS acres stretched along the
Whitadder with its fishing its hunt
ing. its three packs of hounds. its Is
hole golf course, deer parks and
drives. for sale, bag and baggage, ol
for rent or if this did not suit. ht
could return to London, re-enter hi
motor and spin for an hour to thu
north of the metropolis where n
would find a magnificent Elizabeth
an mansion, of IS bed and dressinI
rooms salons. halls. spacious dininl
and drawing rooms, with its ESQ
acres divided into a wilderness o
strawberries and lawns, old cedar av
enues. terraced walks and timbere(
parks, its lodges stables and garage
for sale at a bargain. He coulC
travel to the Midlands near Birming
ham and Sheffield and find three o.
the best bargains in manor houses il
England. He could take his choice
of a magnificent. Tudor manoi
house in Worcestershire with its lux
ury of reception rooms fifteen bed
rooms. and all other things that gen
orally go with English manor houses
or a great manoral estate not fal
away of 1000 acres, advertised as
having the tbest fishing in England,
or another historic manor in the
same neighborhood with its eighteer
bedrooms. reception rooms, billiards
hunting and golf, all surrounded by
$50 acres that must be sold, tc
I someone
i trip into South Downs, one houl
from London. would find a stately
mansion of the old Sussex Yoemar
style with its adjoining lodges. cot
tages, timbers, parks covering SOC
acres.
/ Another short jaunt from London
would find another great ElizabethGn
mansion advertised for sale cheap as
follows. Twenty bed and dressing
rooms. stabhng. garages, all other ap-
purtenances with shooting lands OF
$500 acres, a deer park Of zoo acres
for sale at a bargain.
Two great English country estates
will go under the auctioneer's ham
mer in September. They've been on
the market for months and falling
of purchases will be cut into farms.
/ one is in the center of the Black
moor Vale near Sherborne Its great
manor contains a wealth of luxurious
fittings. The estate is $500 acres that
will be converted to agriculture,
The great residential agricultural
sporting estate known as Etisted Hall
Essex. near Braintree, of 1895 acres
is the other.
These are only a few of the For
Sale, or For Rent signs in the
/ British Isles today,
The war has played havoc with the
( British country gentleman
/ Washington Professor Passes Away.
I SEATTLE. Wash, Aug 2S.-Pro'
fessor Frank f. johnson. Al years old
/ for the last is years instructor in
civil engineering at the University OF
I W. ;..rrt,r afoa harc q fau hours