El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-12

DHAhU TUX thENCa Is On MS
way to fight the Kaiser and Incl
- dentally TO forget all about the
marriage that made him famous. His fam
by, the much-harried, trouble-ridden
lie Roy-StuyvesantFrench combination.
breathes easily fo- the first time IN many
a sad day. Young M French, oddly
enough. has Joined the Tanks, and as he
has to 20 through the usual training, he Is
now IN southern Pennsylvania. learning
how to Treat En- Rough"
Judging from Mr.. French's own accounts
Of his romance Of the early Summer, life
during those hectic ten days swan in
sea Of champagne-th is, II life can
swim At all events, champagne figured
largely in his romance, and one may be
pardOned, perhaps, for assuming that had
there been less champagne there might
have been less romance for Mrs. French.
But at the training camp in Pennsylvania
there viii be neither the wine that bub-
bles nor the romance that corrodes the
soul" to quote from the hero's own words.
Edward Tuck French's dossier, as fled
With his army application, must have made
delightfully."- interesting reading to the re-
Eruiting officer. He was born twenty-five
years ago in Newport, Rhode Island. His
father, Amos Tuck French, was an only
son OF the late Francis Ormonde French,
. wealthy New York cotton broker, and
Of Ellen Tuck French, daughter Of Amos
Tuck, a sturdy New Hampshire mill
owner.
His mother was Pauline stuyTesant lie
Roy, daughter Of the late StUyTesant Le
Roy, Of New York and Newport, a million
ARE many times over and direct descend
Ent Of Peter StuyTesant, OF blessed mem
pry.
His nearest living relatives, besides his
hastily but legally welded wife and his
parents, who were divorced two years ago,
are three brothers, two sisters and his
cunt. Mrs Elsie French Vanderbilt
HIS father, by the way, is living IN Paris
with his second wife, who was Miss Matte
Besclman, sister Of Governor Beeckman,
Of Rhode Island.
In the interesting human document in
which Mr.. French describes his marriage
and how he came to join the tanks, he
makes several scathing comments on the
Newport IN which he grew up. No young
man Of the smartest colony in America IS
better qualified than he to discuss its fall
angs. He grew to manhood IN the sWtftest
corner OF the colony. To be sure, ne was
not born to this particular corner for the
Trenches and lie Roys are the bluest Of
blue-blOOded stock, with great wealth,
high degree Of culture and an assured and
dignided background and social position
Grandmother lie Roy-born Stuyvesant
WAS one Of the great ladies Of New York
society at a time when the Fanderbilts
we're struggling to obtain a mere fOothold
on the outside edge. Grandmother French
held q similar position, not only in this
country, but in England, where her Oldest
daughter married Lord Cheylesmore, a
prominent land owner and statesman
Naturally, therefore, young Mr. French
was born to wear the purple robes OF this
aristocratic lineage. but, alasi they fitted
him very badly. Unfortunately, BY the
time little Eddie French reached his tenth
birthday, Newport was on its way to the
very dogs. The period when Mrs. William
Astor, Mrs. August Belmont, mother OF
August. o. H. P and Perry; Mrs. lie Roy
and Mrs. French, queened it over the beau
tiful resort, was past. All the dignity and
gracious charm Of the days when the place
was really the queen city had been swal-
lowed I'D by the circus methods Of the Circus
Set. the set that swan In on the prosperity
waves Of 1904-1909, when steel and copper
uagnates we're made, divorced and re-mar-
ried over night.
These multi-nillionaires, having changed
their brogans for fine Russia leather
their overaIls for smart white hannels
and their old wives for new ones, hOcked
into Newport during these years until