Evening journal., 1916-02-01
Will ASK AID here
FOR THE irish Babies
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! whose name was withheld.
1T is said that at least $4,000 must
be raised within the next few months
if the welfare work among the little
! children of Ireland is not TO be
brought to standstill It is in the
hope that substantial part OF that
amount will be contributed by friends
of ireland in Wilmington and other
American cities that Lord and Lady
Aberdeen have planned their tour.
The family name of the Marquis of
Aberdeen is John Campbell Gordon.
He is the first Marquis and the sew
enth Earl of Aberdeen. He is a Bt.,
TX. 7. O9O6); P. c. (Gt. Br. 1886, I.
19O5); G. c. NJ. G., ds95); G. c. v. o.
| d91D; and M. A., Hon. Ii. D. and
ID. C. l.. From 1905 to 1915 he was
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland now Of
Aberdeensh and President Of its Ter
ritorial Force Association. He is a
d. L. for Co. of the city of Aberdeen,
honorary colonel of the First Highland
Brigade r. r. A. Terri, is lieutenant
of the Royal Company of Archers and
, Lord Rector of st. Andrews Univer-
, sity. In addition he once was Cover
nor-General Of Canada. is now Lord
High Commissioner to the General As
sembly of the Church of Scotland.
He is a son of tie fifth Earl of
n Aberdeen. a brother of the Sixth earl,
/ and a son Of the Premier of Great
! Britain of 1925. The marquis was
! born on August 3. lS47. In 1870 he
succeeded to the title as seventh Earl
of Aberdeen. It was not until last
year that he was created marquis.
He was married in 1877.
Lady Aberdeen. prior to marriage,
was the Hon. Isabel Maria Maori
banks, daughter of the first Baron
Tweedmouth. She is a charming,
warm-hearted and charitably-disposed
,, woman.
The seats, or homes, Of the Aber-
deems are Haddo House, Aberdeen;
House of Crorhar. Farland. Aboyne,
IAberdeensh and Coldstream Ranch,
Vernon British Columbia.
The surviving children of Lord and
r Lady Aberdeen are as follows;
The Earl of Haddo, heir to the Mar
, quesate. He was born in 1879 and in
: 1906 married Mary Florence, widow OF
e E. S. Cockayne and daughter OF the
late Joseph Clixby. Their homes are
!. the House of Schivas, Ellon, A0er
= deensh, and Cambridge Square, Hyde
= Park W.. London.
= Lady Marjorie Adeline. now Lady
Pentland born in 1880 and married in
: 1904 to Captain Rt. Hon. John Sinclair
/. now first Baron Pentland.
EnrGnrl
I. ond heir, recently captain in the sec
ond Volunteer Battalion, Gordor
Highlanders. and more recently tenn
n porary lieutenant, Serv. Battalion. h'
4 was born in 1888, and in 1907 married
" Cecile Elizabeth, daughter OF Georg'
I Drummond, OF Penshurst (Hon
Lady Dudley Gordon). They live Il
Kent
The Marquis OF Aberdeen is grea
" admirer Of America and Americans
Ie and has a host Of friends IN I'M
in conntrv and Canada. That is equal
f true OF Lady Aberdeen. That tn
,r MARQUIS is an exceeding interestin
J. and tactful talker is shown by HI
If recent utterances with respect TO IN
r European war and the relations Q
Great Britain and this country. II
said, in part:
Fundamentally. Americans an
Britishers are blood relations, an
n what is more, they are friends. Tha
10 very precious fact should never b
~ forgotten here or in England. and
70 am glad to find that it very rarel
,e is. From time to time side issue
~ have clouded our fundamental friend
10 shin in the ewes OF the casual oh
r,anranrafg have hpo
,s Isolated and of a superficial charao
n ter. For our common good the
~ should not now be permitted to as
sure any more serious proportions;
IN, Colonel Harvey draws distinctlc
~ between the people and the administr'
oo ton of the United States. On this pon
a. may have no opinion. of course, VIII
IN. I am receiving the cordial courteses
nv the country. | am telling you mere
M what / know TO be true in England an
M. have found TO be true here. Let me r
,c. peat: fundamentally, there is nothlI
ON but friendship between the two people
or even il there is little grumbling {
on both sides Temporary dissensions,
if trihc Of hot head,dness or an all of i
of difference are usual and human occu
ge- rences between brothers. They are ri
IS pies on The surface.
RI "Traveling through the States fro
re- coast to coast. have met among a
lu- classes with the most comforting r
ny sponsc to the friendship We Britishe
90 bear YOU. ! noticed this with particlil
satisfaction among the Nestonel
lu- whom we had been led to look upon
tn rather pro German. II was a very graf
ill fving experience for one who believes
ci- firmly as do that the interests
at America and Great Britain are bound {
he gether Naturally ] cannot 90 into d
as tails in few spoken words, but ! b
ct. YOU TO trust that my belief on this poi
in is based on sold argument.
op- at cannot give you a definition
what is meant nowadays by u
freedom of the seas But | can a
:. sure you most solemnly that not
man in Great Britain. high or 10
has the least wish to encroach on q
rights OF neutrals. Our navalism
no kin TO militarism. ! know the tV
,O0l have been likened by some among z
American people, All I can ask nc
100 is that they postpone their judgme
- until all the facts are clearly u
100 ravelled out Of the great tanele.
t39 81 will not assert that in some j
~ stances we have not erred. but whe
i30 ever in the past we have made mi
takes. we have not been slow to ma
due amends. The case OF the al
hama during the Civil War. prov