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New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Present Holder Of the Ancient 7 tile
Refusedto Choose a'Rich Bride
to oRestore the Estate

gan to break badly, its men stood
among the foremost in Scotland in
ability and service, and the new
marques is collateral descendant
of that Black Douglas who stood
shoulder to shoulder with Robert
Bruce in the great days of chivalry.
The Prizefghting Marquis
1t is one of the ironic weaknesses
of mankind to bestow Immortality
upon the picturesque rather than
the important, and so most people
only remember the family through
the fact that a former Marquis of
Queensberry drew up the boxing
rules that bear his name; but it's
greatness rests upon a surer founda-
ton than that.
One of it's men was Justice Cen
eral of Scotland: his son was Lord
High Commissioner under William
Ill; others of the line-all mighty
warriors-rose to new honors and
heights in the days of James l of
England; royalty frequently was en-
tertained at the castle of Drumlan-
rig, and when in 1907 the question
arose of bringing about a union of
the English and Scottish parlia
ments it was an ancestor of~the
latest marquis who helped bring it
about.
AS for the other side of the pict-
ure, who is it that doesn't remember
"Old G." and the escapades which
ruined the family? Or the misfort-
unes which at last carried the name
of Queensberry into the bankruptcy
court?
Defeated Harry Hotspur
Now that Irene Richards, former
chorus girl, is Marchioness of
Queensberry, it may be interesting
to recall again that Douglas, ances-
tor of her@husband, who fell at the
Battle of Otterburn in 1888, but
checked Harry Hotspur in fulhllment
of the boast that for once Hctspur
should enjoy himself on Scottish soil
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15

dren can adopt the title of father
or mother without coming into col
lison with the law.
This appeal throws much inter-
esting light upon the present plight
of the nobility. 1t points out that
the Herald's Office has been abol-
ished-an institution which was a
sort of board for protecting the
family rights Of the nobility. 1t
kept their pedigrees straight and it
also invented coats of arms for
newly ennobled families. Now
these noblemen see various dangers
arising for them under the new
regime. They express the fear that
the poverty of the unlanded nobility
will tempt them to adopt persons
and thus confer their titles upon
them for a consideration.
"There has already been some ad-
vertising in the newspapers of noble
titles" they allege, "in exchange
for money, and in future this will
become destroying reality"
They predict that secondary lines
Of nobility will be established by
children who take the title of their
noble mother.
The appeal therefore calls for
practical measures for keeping the
noble sheep separated from semi
noble goats. A protective associa-
tion must be formed to undertake
the work of separation. The idea
is that it shall keep a sort Of pedi-
gree registry of the really noble
families, those having documentary
or other indisputable proofs of no.
bility. Signers of the appeal pur-
pose. that the new association shall
fight out under the civil code the
exclusive rights of the nobility to
their titles; that it shall investigate
family lineages and supply genea-
ogical information, that it shall
draw up family trees and certify
to them, and work out and supply
family coats Of arms with appro-
pirate emblazonment. Moreover,
they warn their noble confreres
that the present moment must be
utilized, for the dissolution of the
Herald's Office has set free the spe-
cial talent that can handle these
heraldic problems. Only now can
the specialists be found; hence,
come down with your subscription.
May Swamp Old Nobility
To show that the evils appre-
hended by these noblemen are no
figment of the brain, it need only
be said that the Prussian govern
ment, on Novembe, 3, 1919, issued
an ordinance making it permissible
for the illegitimate children of
noble fathers or mothers to assume
their titles, and also legalizing the
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Famous Scottish Family T las Played
a Part in British History T
for Centuries

her hair "like Sleeps head or wear
one of their trolloping sacks"
When she gave a masquerade it
was her practice to dismiss at
midnight all who were not in her
special favor, and to invite the rest
to supper. But, apparently, these
had no great reason for rejoicing,
for a half of apple puff and con-
servative portions of wine and water
were all she served.
But because of her ready tongue
and keen intellect she retained the
friendship of many men of letters,
Congreve, James Thomson, Pope and
Prior being numbered among her
friends. She knew Pitt and Horace
Walpole, and both frequently ex-
pressed their admiration of her tai
ents.
1t is interesting 10 note that the
marriage of the young viscount and
the Gaiety girl was contracted over
the earnest protest of the young
mans relatives, who hoped he might
make a brilliant match and recoup
the family fortunes, but the demo
cratic youth refused to sacrifice him.
self and his fancee to the extrava.
gance of "Old O." and others who
had wrecked the estate.
''Old O."
AS to cold O." volumes have beer
written. As a youth he Joined with
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15

Dead Douglas won the field that day.
and what schoolboy' but remembers
Victorious in Death


The tale has been perpetuated in
the Ballad of Chevy Chase" Out
numbering the Scotch three to one,
Hotspur, with his battle cry ga
Percy" fell on Douglas at dusk.
Froissart in his Chronicles relates
how Douglas rallied his forces, and
then, though mortally wounded, won
the day:
Douglas, the Chronicles relate.
being of great haste and high of
emprise, seying his men recule
back, to recover the place, and to
shove knyghtly valour; tooke his axe
in both his handles, and entered so
into the presse that he made him
self waye in such wyse that none
burst approche near hym and he was
so well armed that he bore well such
strokes as he received. Thus he
went ever forward like a hardie
Hector wylling alone to conquer the
felde and to discomfyte his enemies,
but at last he was encountered with
three spears all at once.
"The one strucke him IN the
shoulder, the other on the brest and
the stroke glinted down his belly,
anu the tnyrde strucke hymne on the
thye, and sore hurte with all three
strokes SO that he was borne per-
force to erthe, and after that he
could not be again released"
History does not agree fully with
Froissart in his details of the fight.
but according to the chronicles
Douglas, though dying, was by no
means Vanqulshed. SIR John st.
Clair, a cousin, riding up to the
fallen hero, asked how things were
with him.
Asked To Be Avenged
"Rycht WE'LL" was the undaunted
reply But thanked be God there
hath been but a few Of my ancestors
who have died in their beddes. Bot,
cosyn, I require you to thinke to
revenge me, for 1 reckon myself bot
dead, for my herte feinteth often
tymes. My Cosyn Walter and
you, | praye you rayse up again
my banner which lyeth on the
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
May Assume Titles

This provision means more than
appears on the surface. An appeal
was recently circulated, signed by
many noblemen, pointing out that
it sweeps away the legal basis of
nobility since anybody can assume. a
title with impunity; illegitimate chill
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Served in the War

Now, as to the new marquis and
the new marchioness. Unlike his
father, this young nobleman served
in the World War and made name
for bravery. He went to the front
early in 1915 as an officer of the
famous Highland regiment the
Black Watch, and remained there
until badly wounded and invalided.
Having been brought to this coun-
try as youth by his father, he had
received part of his education here,
near Boston, but relatives had OBJ
Jected to his remaining here and he
completed his studies at Harrow.
His expenses there and at the Royal
Military College of Sandhurst were
paid by these relatives, who con-
tended that his education should be
in keeping with that of a future
heir to the British peerage.
At Harrow and the military col
lege the young fellow was all his
relatives asked, but in choosing a
wife he was a great disappointment.
They had hoped, above all, that
ne would select a mate from a
wealthy family, as young man of
his good looks and social position
could easily do, but this was not in
keeping with his temperament or
the democratic spirit of the age.
He had lost his heart across the
footlights of the Gaiety Theater, and
it remained in the keeping of the
sprightly young woman who sang
and danced there.
So as soon as possible after re-
turning from The war hero, and
recovering from his wound, the mar
riage took place.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
Ey Arnold Prince

Sy Arnold Frlnce
IF 1T is within the scope Of
every boys dream in America
that he may one day be Presi-
dent of the United States, it
NAV also be said that every chorus
r;rl can look forward to the time
when she may rise to the nobility
snd rule the household of a great
family.
She that was Irene Richards. a
Caiety Theater girl, is now Mar
cnioness of Queensberry, and as such
not only entitled to move in the
sighest English society, but is the
holder of onA of the most famous
titles in the British Empire. On
her stationery she can have the
adouble tressure,' and she can, if
she choose, refer to Black Douglas
as an ancestor Of the family Lord
Sholto Douglas, her husbands uncle,
also married an actress, although,
the right of succession acting as a
check, she never rose to the heights
of marchioness.
A Caiety Girls Romance
The former favorite of the Gaiety
Theater won the title of marchioness
through having wed Francis Archi-
bald Kelhead, Viscount of Drum
lanrig, in 1917. AS the viscount was
the eldest son of the ninth Maruuess
Of Queensberry, he was naturally
next in line for the title, his young
and winsome bride becoming mar
chioness when her father-in-law
died at johannesburg, South Africa,
on August ? last.
The wedding of the onetime
Gaiety girl to the young viscount
was in itself pretty romance, but
not as interesting as the play of the
cards that brought her from behind
the footlights to the head of family
which, some have contended, once
held the very fate of the British
Empire in its hands.
For centuries, until the luck be-
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
TWO pictures of the meq0
4 Viscountess of Queens
berry, formerly q Gaiety girl

ground, and Squyre Davye slayn;
but, sirs, show neither to friend nor
foe what case ye see me in, for
if myne enemyes knew it they wolde
rejoyce, and our frenedes be dis
comfted."
"A Douglass" the Cry
The banner was raised, as re-
quested by the dying leader, and
with cries of "a Douglas" carried
back into the thick of the fight. Hot
spur was overcome and Douglas
dead was the victor of the day.
This Douglas was the first Earl of
Queensberry. The second also was
man Of sterling qualities, and his
successor was promoted to marquis
and then duke, title which re-
mained in the family until the death
of "Old o." when, there being no
direct descendants, the Dukedom of
Queensberry went to the Duke of
Buccleuch, and the Marquisate of
Queensberry to Sir Charles Douglas.
who belonged to younger branch
of the family.
A Famous Marchioness
AS the newest Marchioness of
Queensberry has inherited at least
some of the social prerogatives en-
joyed by the f famous women who
married into the family, mention
may be made of one of the best
known of these, the wife of the third
duke.
A wit and beauty, she had her
share of the eccentricities which. in
later days at least, distinguished so
many members of the family. She
was foe of any fashion in wom>
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15

TO read at all, he conJured the
wraiths of past desires by placing
at his elbow the missives he had
received from women, and when hs
died it was said his body was cov.
cred with them.
Fortunes Never Recovered
The family fortunes never re-
covered from the ravages inflicted by
this fiercely evil little man. In fact,
as years passed both the finances
and the family reputation found
ever lower levels, although occa-
sionally with sporadic flashes of re-
vived prosperity. Lord Francis
Douglas, brother of the seventh mar
quis, was killed on July IA, 1865,
in that fatal effort to scale the
heights of the Matterhorn. In 1853
came that eighth Marquis of Queens
berry. who drew up the rules for
boxing, and after him in time the
ninth marquis, whose recent death
opened the doors of fashion to the
onetlme Gaiety girl.
Both che ninth marquis and the
new holder of the title have been
well known in the United States.
the former rather curiously. On the
occasion of his visit to America in
1911 the ninth marquis frankly an
nounced that his mission was to re-
coup the family fortunes. He was
credited at various times with say
ing that he was through with the
English" and that he 'hated' them
and their country. Part of this al
legged distaste was attributed to the
fact that he never became a men,
ber of the House of Lords
He was forty-three years old when
he started across the Atlantic, and
he had been through the bankruptcy
court after having run through an
inheritance Of about S1,330,000. He
had tried being gold miner and
sheep herder in Australia, had
known what it was to swing a pick
and had undertaken various fnan-
cial ventures in London, but was
unsatisfed by the results of these
endeavors.
"If | can find chance in business
or suitable position" he said when
starting out for the New World. Il
will make my home in the United
States and become an American citi-
zen."
His eldest son, the present incum-
bent, was then fifteen years old, and
another son, Lord Douglas of Har-
wick and Tibbers, thirteen.
The marquis tried various occupa-
tions in this country, worked for
time as newspaperman in Chicago,
but found nothing to his liking and
returned at last to England, from
where he went to South Africa.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
By William c. Dreher

Prom The Tri5uns's European Bureau
BERLIN, July 20.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-12-24

northwest" contained the states of
Ohio. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan. Wis
consin and a part of Minnesota. The
Daughters of American Revolution
have marked Fort Massac with mon
ument to Clark.
Rebuilt again in 1904 by orders Of
President George Washington, the fort
was garrisoned with United States
troops until 1914. Within this period.
in June. 1905, annals Of the Illinois
Historical society show, aaron Burr
planned his southern expedition. Here
with Gen. James Wilkinson, Blenner-
hasset, Powers, Sebastian, and Spanish.
French and Creole women, he plotted
to dismember the American Union"
Here were laid the plans. which, II
successful, would have founded an
empire in the Southwest, of which the
ambitious and disappointed Burr
would have been ruler.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-12-24
What Some Ladies Did to bad Guy

repeated the performance at the next
empty apartment. When Mr.. Watts
finished with the seventh floor and de-
scended to the sixth, he looked like
a walking Christmas tree. Mrs. LII
lian Gurvivit and Mrs. M. L. Kahn,
tenants on that floor, were exchanging
morning tldbits. Mrs. Gurvivit, who
saw him first, screamed:
"Help! There's colored burglar"
"Shut up" admonished Mr.. Watts,
"or I'll kill you. I'm a bad guy
and"
He didn't finish. Mrs. Gurvivit had
yanked off her high-heeled slippers and
was beating a tattoo upon his head.
Mrs. Kahn was accompanying her with
a hatpIn and feather duster. They
continued to scream.
Doors popped open, and feminine re-
Inducements arrived armed with fat-
irons, hammers, flower pots. piano
stools, skillets, hammers. gold hsh
aauariums, vacuum cleaners, and other
utensils ornamental, but useful.
Some kind person telephoned the
town hall police and Detective Sergts.
Rohrhas and Gill arrived with a patrol
of bluecoats and coaxed away score
of embattled feminine tenants.
After excavating, they encountered
the once brisk person Of Mr.. Watts.
His eyes were hidden by two generous
bumps, three teeth were missing, he
had caulifiower ear and some dainty
foot had stepped on his nose.
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Why Motorist Is Resigned to Cork Legs

KANSAS CITY-Herman A. Ben
n nett, SO, grocery and notion store
proprietor at 1740 Lapeyrouse street,
whose legs were amputated at the
hips several weeks ago, bought $2,50o
automobile. Bennett, alone in the
machine, was returning home from
Donaldsonville and crossed the Missis-
ST !. pi from Algiers on the ferryboat A.
M. Halliday. When the boat was tied
I'D at the Canal street landing he
threw on power to run onto the wharf.
He had forgotten that he had slipped
the gears into reverse and the next
instant the car was speeding back
ward tearing through the boats guard
rail and plunging into 100 feet OF icy
water.
A full minute passed. Then there
came a shout as the watchers saw
BENEFITS head on the surface short
distance down stream from the ferry.
A mighty heave by Capt. Roberts sent
a life preserver within the struggling
mans reach, and to this he clung until
reached by a yawl manned by the
ferry crew.
Thoroughly chilled and exhausted.
but smiling. Bennett was assisted to
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-12-24
What's the Matter With Runyon for 1924?

board. positions which he will continue
to hold. In addition he will be called
upon to represent his party in thirty
assembly standing committees, nine
teen joint legislative committees. and
a number of special committees.
1t is little premature. perhaps, to
discuss candidate for the presidency
on the Democratic ticket in 1924, but
there can be no harm in calling atten-
tion to the availability of New Jer-
sey's favorite Democratic son.
He Is in position to build up for
himself fairly strong party machine.
By custom, If not by law, the minority
leader at Trenton is entitled to patron
age and perquisites in the nature Of
patronage. He designates certain
house retainers, is entitled to a special
Office and clerical assistance in his
work. He is favored of fortune. Ev-
erybody will watch the course OF the
Warren county statesman with interest
when he assemblies himself and or
ganizes for action In January.
New Jersey had candidate for the
nomination in 1912, in 1916, and again
in 1920.
What's the matter with Runyon in
1924?
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-12-24
Ohio River Threatens Fort Massacre"

e PRINGFIEN4D, ILL.-Changing Its
y course where first 1t touches Hi
nois, the Ohio river is threatening to
rob the commonwealth of one of its
most historic landmarks the site and
earthworks of Fort Massac, near Me-
tropolls In Massac county. State ar
chitect Edgar Martin has ordered an
1S-foot retainer wall. Twenty feet
above the reach Of spring freshets and
so feet above the low-water mark, the
remains Of Fort Massac are gradually
being undermined
Fort Massac is the second oldest for
tification In the state. 1t was success
sively occupied by Spanish. English
and Americans. Tradition has 1t that
De Soto, the Spaniard. first built it
in 1924. However, it did not get its
name a corruption of Fort Massacre"
until French occupation in ITO, when
the Indians by trickery succeeded In
slaughtering all its occupants.
Rebuilt in 1857, 1t remained French
The British lost 1t in 1777 to George
Rogers Clark, who entered the north
west" at this spot In his illinois cam
paign." The result of this victorious
campaign by Clark was to fix the west
ern boundary Of the United States at
the Mississippi instead Of the Allegha-
nies in the treaty with Great Britain
and to pave the way for the American
march across the continent. This
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-12-24

NHICAGO-James Andrew Jackson
~ Watts stepped briskly from the
taxicab that had conveyed him to the
ornate entrance of the eight story
Edgewater apartments. 81 Eastwood
terrace, Tipped a couple Of dust notes
from the cuff Of his ochre fall topper,
and said to the polite If perplexed
chauffeur:
"rll return In a minute, sub. You
all may wait"
With which Mr. Watts slung his stick
In the crotch Of his left elbow, en-
tered, and assured the dashing young
Cerberus:
IT am James Andrew Jackson Watts
Of the wet wash and dry cleaners. l
have a client on the next floor"
Mr.. Watts climbed up to the eighth
noor. He rang the bell of the first
apartment. Nobody answered. Mr.
Watts produced a bunch Of keys and
entered. A few minutes later he
emerged with a sealskin coat. He
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-12-24

was being rehearsed she wrote frequently
to the Unknown than she ever had before. Her
need was greater.
The Big Mans professional Jealousy had out
his discretion and his business instinct. AS
the first night approached reckless of conse-
quences, he deliberately sliced and cut her part
except where 1t fed his own. The Leading Woman
said nothing. She knew it would be useless.
Quite at the last moment too, the Big Man
made a vital alteration in the principal scene of
the second act, delaying her entrance so that
he might have the stage to himself as long as
possible. 1t was an error of Judgment which
vanity did not excuse; and in the sense that
it MANNED the play and injured the actress, 1t
a crime.
The Leading Woman knew the play was a good
play, and that there way to save 1t. The
remedy lay with her. IT, instead of acquescing
in her belated appearance in the second act she
came in arranged in the authors script, the
Big Man would have no alternative but to go
with the action it had been written. Should
she do 1t? All she knew on the opening night
that she could pull the play of the fire If she
dared.
Before the first act any help of hers
seemed hopeless. 1t hung fire, received with
comparative silence. When the curtain fell she
had ten minutes in which to make up her mind
whether not to take the step she contemplated.
She stood the stage, looking at the house
through peephole in the proscenium.
Right in the center of the front row of stalls
the seated figure of man enchained her gaze
1t seemed If he returned it, for his eyes were
fixed on the precise spot from which she regarded
him. She went hot and then cold for she knew
beyond shadow of doubt do sense
such things that the man in front was he whom
she had called her Unknown for whom she had
kept her heart empty all the lean years of her
married life.
She went quickly back to her dressing room
Not only for the authors sake but for her own;
her mind made up to revert to the earlier
entrance and risk everything including the Big
Mans dspleasure. She going to act for the
Man in Front, to forget that she was the wife as
well as the victim and chattel of the Big Man
She dressed feverishy. Then she sent for the
stage-manager.
I'm going to take my original in the second
act" she told him. Its my responsibility of
course. I'm going to play my part the author
it. / shall speak my original lines and
those engaged in the scene will ignore the cuts
made yesterday. VIII you please tell them to
be prepared? The prompter as we'll"
Leading Woman a pable, weak creature. The
inexplicabe change in her left him so amazed
that he had no word to say She passed him on
her way to the stage, stood behind the center en-
trance for her and took it.
The Big Man gasped and forgot his part which
was nothing Beneath the artificial color his
face livid with rage. The house applauded
cover of the noise. he jerked out:
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the engine room of the ferry and was
fitted out with dry clothing by the
marveling crew.
II can't describe how / felt or just
what / did," said Bennett. remem-
Der realizing that I'd been under for
a long time and that I'd have to hold
my breath. I don't think l got ex-
cited-much. When felt the machine
settle right side up on the bottom L
opened the door and stepped out ex-
actly like l would in the street. For
once was glad that I have cork legs,
They brought me to the top like q
dash and helped me keep adoat until
1 got the life preserver."