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The Washington times., 1921-08-28

OF his own.
II would require several
volumes to catalogue all
the high officials in the
Kings household, to
specify the strange and anti
quated offices and to enumer.
ate the ordinary servants,
coachmen, cooks, gardeners
and workmen who live Ut His Maj
esty's expense.
The Kings state banquets are
served on solid gold service, worth
S1,O00.000 II he could sell IL 1t
would relieve him OF all his many troubles.
There are four hundred and twenty per-
sons of high social position in the royal
household all requiring a STAFF of trained
servants to wait on them. At the head OF
them are fourteen particularly lofty
grandees, including the Lord Chamberlain
The Lord Steward and the Comptroller Of
the Household. These change office with
each political administration.
Among the numerous curious offices are
the Lord High Almoner, who gives away
he Kings aims, the Gentleman Usher Of
the Sword of State, the Master OF the
Kings Music, the Coroner OF the Kings
Household, the Gentleman Of the Cellars,
the Bargemaster the Keeper OF the Swans,
the Showers of the State Apartments the
Secretary Of the Private Secretary's Onice,
the Poet Laureate, the Keeper Of the
Jewel House, the Gentleman Usher - the
Back Stairs, the Keeper Of the Kings
Archives and many otherc.
Al Kfvn par 10 mt tn
state, ceremony that takes place ordi-
narily every year, the expense Is enor-
nous. The King, wearing field mar
shal's uniform with royal robes over Il,
proceeds from Buckingham to the Houses
Of Parliament In q state coach drawn by
eight white horses. This coach is fairy
tale construction OF deliberately carved
wood, partly gilded and partly painted
scarlet The horses are not driven with
whip, but by positions mounted on them,
and they proceed at q walking pace.
His Majesty Is accompanied by several
of his equerries, high military Officers In
uniform, OF whom he has thirty He Is ga.
corted by a squadron Of Life Guards, giant
soldiers. mounted on black horses and
wearing a uniform of scarlet and gold
coats, steel breastplates, steel helmets
with towering plumes, white leather
breeches and JACK coots reaching up to
the thighs.
The expense Is equally great when there
Is court" or formal evening reception
an Buckingham Palace. The Lord Cham
herain, in respondent uniform with
tcore Of deputy ohamberlains, Is the chief
fuuctionary at these indoor affairs.
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Robes, Carried by a Royal rage,
One of Scores Of Similar Little
Boys Who Must Be Maintained by
His Majesty.
already mentioned. In addition there are
six semistate coaches and a score of pri-
vate carriages.
Three or four motor cars would serve
the King much better for all his Journey
ings to and fro, but although he possesses
many OF them he only uses them On very
private occasions when he wishes to hurry
away without being seen by anybody. u
he goes to such a comparatively unimpor-
tant affair as the opening 90 a new school
he must ride in semi-state coach, because
the British public wants to see him dis
, PLAYING an interest in education. If he
goes to call on a sick friend he will ride
IN very stately private carriage, with SER
wants in scarlet livery, because even then
the public must have a view of the King
displaying natural human sympathy.
In the royal palaces there are luxurious
stables for 200 horses. Al important eff
cisl. called the Superintendent Of re
Royal News" has charge of them, an up-
der him there is an army Of coacnmen2
tOOlDltl anu StdDleHltn
II may be added that the Queen hGs
numerous household of her own wnicr
must be supported on the Kings aliow.
snce. ~The chief woman officer OF her
household, "The Mistress of the Robes,
must be appointed anew with each admir-
istTation.
When the King goes to Scotland he ts,
a fresh set of high household officers. -
there his bodyguard is furnished by 'Tle
Royal Company of Archers" and not by tn
"Gentlemen-at-Arms"a and the "Yeome1l %
the Guard" as in England. These archers
are noblemen who carry immense bows
and arrows for the Kings protection. ThaJ
wear picturesque medieval archer's cos
tune, which is finished off with a IA,
green velvet cap ornamented with silver
goose's wing. Each one carries a culver
iul of arrows siung by belt across TIE
shoulder
When the King goes into Scotland he
finds himself blessed with a new set OF
chaplains a These are all Presbyter!ans,
for His Majesty is supposed to change
from an Episcopalian to a Presbyterian %
soon as he crosses the Scotch border AZ
least he is officially the head of the Pres
byterian church, although in strict privacy
he is allowed by the Scotch to remain an
Episcopalian.
This is but a superficial glance at the
endless offices and ceremonies which
make life difficult for the King Of England
end impossible 10 support on his old T.
come,
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oudHo, " D0eh0ateTt,
Company Of . Hundred
Superannuatsd Warriors,
Who Stand on Guard at
he Royal Palace in Medi-
rval Uniform, Are Incapable of Perform
ing Any Service, but Use Up the
Kings Income.
e LONDON Aug. 81.
THE King of England the only first.
class monarch left in Europe, is
hard-up.
The large sums, amounting to about
100000 q year, appropriated by Parlia-
nent to keep up the Kings inconceivably
complicated and antiquated method of liv-
three years. The King has had to dip into
his private income, and there is a prospect
of continually growing deficit
The British Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Austen Chamberlain, has Just asked Par
lament for permission to raise 100000
by the sale Of part Of the Duchy of Lancas-
ter property to meet the current deficit in
the Kings expenses. The Duchy of Lancas-
ter Is an ancient estate administered by the
Government the income from which helps
to pay the Kings public expenses.
The King Is spending approximately
5000 900 more than his income. When His
Majesty travelled to Scotland recently the
chefs planned that he should have canta-
loupe, cold consomme, flet of sole, lamb
outlet with potatoes and peas, chicken en-
casserole with salad, fruit, ice cream aud
coffee. The Comptroller of the Household
decided to cut out the melon, consomme
and chicken for the sake of economy,
The Kings troubles arise entirely from
the increased cost of living. 1t must be
remembered that he has to supply many
and liquid refreshment. During the war
the King went about In khaki uniform, ate
only one course at his lunch and dinner,
with glass Of whiskey and water, took
part in no state ceremonies, never rode In
the state coach and generally lived in a
able to live we'll within his appropriation
and return 100000 to the Government.
But when the war was over the old life
o, court ceremony and splendor was re-
spmed, and them It was found the in.
creased cost of food, wages and other
things had hit the King hard. His Majesty
informed the Government that he would be
glad to live In a simpler way and keep
within his allowance, but the officials an
'swered that they could not consent to
eliminate one item Of ceremony.
The British public, British colonlsts,
American and foreign visitors to Eng
land-all these expect that the King
OF England will keep up his ancient state
and ceremonial for their entertainment.
And the Government feels that'it would in
lure the prestige of the British Empire IL
they allowed His Majesty to live simply for
The sake Of economy. The King was Ii.
formed coldly that ne must go on being
extravagant, no matter what happened.
In recent years the King has received
an annual appropriation OF S2,S50,000 a
year from Parliament. In addition he re-
ceives f250,0oo from the Duchy Of Lah'
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)ne Of The Ysomen of the Y
Guard, or ''Beefsaters,"
Company Of . Hundred
Superannuatsd Warriors,
Who Stand on Guard at
he Royal Palace in Medi-
eval Uniform, Are Incapa BILE of Perform
ing Any Service, but Use Up the
kings Income.
The New York herald., 1921-03-07
FRENCH MARKETS
GROW STRONGER
Rally Due to Definite Decisions
at London Conference and
Confidence in Harding.
SURE OF AMERICAN AID
Railroad, Oil, Bank and Mine
Securities Show Effect of
Optimism.
SURE OF AMERICAN AID
Speciu, Cable to TIE NEw YonR HERALD.
Copyright, 1921. oy THE New York HERALD

Special Cable to TIE NEw YonK HERALD.
Copyright, 1921, ov THE New York HERALD
New York Herald Bureau,
Paris, March 8.
After several hesitant sessions Paris
money and stock markets rallied consid-
erably following definite decisions taken
at the London conference and the belief
Of some financial authorities that the
Harding Administration. despite failure
to pledge anything in the Presidents in
augural address, still intends to come to
the aid OF France. The tone Of infiuen-
tial brokers is distinctly optimistic in
their declarations that even II Germany
pays the United States cannot ignore
the call from France for a helping hand
II international trade balances are to be
brought back to normal.
With this new optimism has come
strengthening in railroad, oil, bank and
mine securities. with Bakou Oils and
Bethune Coal breaking all records by
jumping 10 per cent. In two days. Bank
discount rates increased one-eighth dur
ing the week. but the rate to-day is still
4 per cent. Apparently money is avail
able for commercial purposes. although
the banks still are shaky over rumors
current fortnight ago that certain big
lndustrials in western France were fac
Ing bankruptcy. They are insisting UPON
gilt edged security before loosening the
purse strings. The outstanding feature
of the week was the decision OF De Beers
to reduce production on the strength Of
reports from all quarters that the mar
ket was flooded with both rough and cut
diamonds This naturally frightened the
gem issues. but the movement was not
transmitted to other departments.
The interest OF investors was fixed
upon the increase in capital stock Of
the thermal establishments at Vichy, a
total of 100000 francs to be issued
within the next fortnight. The abund
ance Of public money for such increases
aroused the attention Of the Govern
nent which Is pointing out the greater
patriotic necessity of putting any avail
able funds into Government defence
bonds rather than into private enter
prises at time when the nations treas
ury is facing the greatest crisis in its
history.
This new effort to attract the saw
ings of citizens, naturally, evoked dam
gerous rumors. some insisting that an
increase In the countrys paper issues
had been decided II the nation fails 70
respond to the maximum 10000. 900. 900
per year Whlch M. Loucner Dcl'eVeS pos
sible and IL the funding OF the allied
war debts Is not accomplished during
the spring.
The most formal denials that any great
er imitation Is intended arc daily forth
coming at the Ministry OF Finance banks,
where 1t is insisted that the confidence
of the public is growing rapidly enough
to insure the success OF any internal
loans which may be considered necessary
this year.
The New York herald., 1921-03-07
LONDON STOCK MARKET
SHOWS FIRMER TONE
Business Dull, but Severity Of
Tax Pressure Abating.
Special Gable TO THE NEW Yoax HERALD.
Copyright, 1921. BIZ THE Nrw YoRK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau,

SpecidI Gable 70 THn New YoaK HERALD.
Copyright, 1921. bD THE NEw York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
London, March @.
Although business practically was at
a standstill during all the week, the
stock market closed with much better
feeling than for some time past Liqui-
dations were not so noticeable and there
was little buying of gilt edge and other
securities.
One of the favorable factors revealed
to large Industrial concerns which were
desirous of making new issues was that
underwriting was at all events not a
great difficulty. This has helped sections
Of Industrial securities and also removed
another weak spot. This, however. Is not
stating that the field for underwriting is
unimpeded.
The great financial difficulties occa-
stoned by the war will require years of
deliberation even IL the facts yet to be
faced come uninterruptedly into view.
There Is. however, all the difference In
the world between the assertion that
chaos is inevitable and already at hand
and the more sober reasoning Of the last
week
The truth OF the matter is that the
end OF the severity OF tax pressure seems
TO De approaching, ana lTltTc tNcii 10
talk OF cheaper money. Rumors that the
Government may later be funding a por-
ton OF the floating debt helped the
cheerfulness. and there is no doubt that
the markets liked the Arm front shown
by the Allies in dealing with Germany
and would have resented any weakened
policy.
Optimists predict decided reduction
In the bank rate before the end Of May.
Hopes based on trade revival are prema-
ture, although Il is to be doubted whether
the genuine trades have really been
affected by the high rate. The truth is
that trading troubles are deep seated.
The fall In the price of commodities
has been heavy. There still is much
trouble ahead, and until working costs
are reduced and export business is re-
sumed---thc latter cannot be accom-
plished without the former-there will be
no real revival of trade.
The New York herald., 1921-03-07
SCANDINAVIAN BANKS BOOM.

Special reports received by the Ma
tionai City Bank or New York show the
continued prosperity OF Scandinavian
banks. wermlands Enskilda Bank Of
Karistsd. Sweden, reports net profits OF
6,547,000 kroner for 1920. Nordiska
Handelsbanken, Gothenburg. Sweden,
had net profits OF 6.493.oo0 kroner De-
poslts OF Malareprovinsernas Bank,
Stockholm. are 323,60o,o0 kroner, and
total resources f34.970, 900. Net profits
last year were 5,667 900 kroner.
The New York herald., 1921-03-07
FINANCIAL NOTE.

Arthur q. Kcck formerly with Pynchon
& Co., has been appointed manager Of tho
foreign bond department Of Paine. Webbsr
q Co. !.
The New York herald., 1921-03-07
TOTAL TRANSACTIONS NEWYORK STOCK EXCHANGE
xENDEDMA

WEEK ENDED MARCH 5. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-11

defenders Of the fort. The seamen were re-
PEELED, but the army carried the works
There is an automobile highway now from
Wilmington to Fort Fisher, and the grand
and great-grandchildren of some of the brave
defenders sometimes run down there for pis-
MICS. The negroes who live in the woods
nearby sometimes tell, with eyeballs cleaning
afrightedly, Of ghostly sentries who still pace
the broken, weed grown battlements, calling
the hours of the night.
You can't, of course, take any stock In
"nigger yarns" but it was only recently that
my hackles rose when / heard = rebel yell
split the night at Wrightsville.
It was veterans night at Lumina. Among
the flags that hung from the ceiling was
the treasured relic of the community. It's de-
sign was concealed in careful folds, held by
a halyard that trailed to the floor.
The floor itself was clear of dancers, and
then a line of old, old marched out and
came to halt beneath the furled flag. They
wore their ancient uniforms, and though the
gray of the cloth was faded, the buttons still
shone. There were only eight Of them, all
that their leader, Captain James L. Metts
C Company, Sd North Carolina Infantry,
had been able to muster for the occasion. As
a matter of fact, they constituted about half
the surviving veterans who dwell in New
Hanover County, where once every adult male
could be so described
A Kentucky colonel" Is considered some
thing to jest about. But these men were not
colonels. They were privates, and there was
something in their bearing that struck awe IN
the hearts of those who saw them. There
was one whose hands trembed with the palsy;
several linped, but all held their heads high
There was Private King, of Company,
10th North Carolina Infantry; Private Mont
gomery, of the 36th North Carolina; Private
Baldwin, Of the doth North Carolina, snd
Trooper Cox, of the 9th South Carolina
Cavalry. There were also Privates Hodges,
Clemons and Crump.
They stood there in this wide expanse o6
polished floor waiting. The band began 70
play medley Of Southern airs-"Suwanee
River" "My Old Kentucky Home" and .
rolicking bit Of quick music couple Of
the veterans were tapping their feet. Cap
tain Metts Che is commander of the Con-
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"Huzzaw echo their husbands.

'Huzzav' echo their husbands.
"Huzza" will be remembered as the British
equivalent for the Japanese "Banzai."
Through the similarity in pronunciation of
these widely divergent expressions, it is pos
sible, the peace is maintained
Desiring to be alone, it is always possible to
escape the crowds by wandering either toward
Masonboro Inlet or Moores Inlet, the extreme
ends of the island Sheltered on either side
by sand dunes, one can fancy ones self dwell
ing in the perfect hermitage desert island,
or, gazing out to sea- picture the horizon
broken by the snowy sails of a blockade run
ner, earlier pirate craft or even foul
BLACK birder," for all three types have made
of this white-margined shore a rendezvous in
the past.
If the Imagination needs assistance tangible
evidence Of the existence in these waters of
those romantic ships is offered by the blackened
ribs of Civil War blockade runner that are
exposed off Lumina at low tide. Sixty-fve such
vessels were intercepted while trying to enter
the Cape Fear River and land their precious
cargoes at Wilmington. But hundreds of
others elude the thirty or forty Union YES
sells that were always lying outside the guns
of Fort Fisher and Fort Caswell In the latter
part Of 1864 Wilmington remained the last
port of the Confederacy, and the military lead
ers of the North determined that it must be
taken at all COSTS
Fort Fisher, guarding the northern entrance
to the river, was one of the most formidable
earthworks on the Atlantic Coast The para
pets were 25 feet thick, with an average
height of 20 feet, while the traverses, 10 feet
higher were 10 to IL feet thick The fort
mounted forty-four guns Colonel William
Lamb was in command
Old Ben Butler had pet scheme that he
wanted to try out on the garrison of Fort
Fisher. He figured that if ship filled with
explosives was foated in under the walls of
the fort and exploded the attackers work
would be practically over
On the night Of December %. 1854 the
Louisiana, an old steamer, in tow of the
Wilderness, was taken near Fort Fisher.
Manning this floating mine were four officers
and seven men. Near midnight the Louisiana
cast off her towline and under her own power
steamed to a position within 400 yards Of the
fort and anchored
Two Of the officers lighted the fuses while
the others were getting into a small boat.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-11

federate Veterans of North Carolina) stood
rgidly at attention.
The musicians halted q moment. Then
they began to play Dixie" A little girl with
a crimson ribbon in her dark hair tugged at
the trailing hayard and down futtered tho
blood-red battle flag of the Confederacy.
The old men stiffened and then they began
to yell. / was watching Trooper Cox. His
eyes glowed. His white mustache stood out as
if it had been waxed. There is no use trying to
describe that sound. Analysed phonetically it
probably would reveal itself as an unendng
'Yi-yi-yi." But the effect of it! When Mar
jorie Rambeau screams in the second act eli
you experience a similar thrill, when
the pilot of an airplane takes you into nosc
dive on your first ride.
For me that battle cry from those withered
throats had reconstructed Fort Fisher and
salvaged the wreck of the blockade runner
lying in her grave out in the surf 1t was not
hard while that sound echoed to picture the
lead-coIored side-wheel craft with length nine
times her beam being the beach while
the shells of pursuing ships broke over her
decks.
The cargoes of those blockade runners were
usually worth as much as the ship itself
for just such emergencies. Cavalry and guns
were rushed to where the blockade runner was
beached and would cover the aborious work of
getting out the cargo through booming surf
Earthworks had been built at intervals along
the shore. There were not enough big guns
to equip all of them permanently, but in these
cases cannon were mounted in the works, and
in this way a stiff resistance was offered
against naval efforts to interfere with the
salvaging operations.
But Wrightsville does not think much of
those affairs any more-unless it be on vet
erans' night. 1t is, however, concerned abouA
the precise moments in a toddle when OLE.
should dip. If they dip too far or too often, or
wiggle when they dip they ges-promptly--
the air.
Speaking Of air reminds me that although
Wrightsville Beach is hundreds of miles south
of New York, its average summer temperature
is only one degree higher than that of New
York City, and three above that Of Atlantic
City. These figures are based on Wilmington
Weather Bureau records extending back more
than thrty-three years.
On the other hand, in naidwinter surf bath
ing at WrightsviIle is bearable, and in Noven-
Der it is decidedly pleasant.
When they play Amt We Got Fun ct
vv'i-l+;ifc +har -
New-York tribune., 1921-09-11
"What's Paul Jones?" / asked him.
why" he replied scornfully, cts a
dance"

renewed, and this time troops were landed.
Three thousand men made their way through
the surf, covered by seventeen gunboats, but
General Butler forbore to attack. The bonn
bardment lasted for seven hours, and again
the fleet retired. Eight of forty-four guns in
the fort had been put out of service. There
were eight Confederate dead and fifty-two
wounded. The feet had twenty men dead
and sixty-three wounded.
General Grant relieved General Butler then.
believing from the reports of other officers
that had the landward attack been pressed the
fort would have fallen. second expedition
against Fort Fisher sailed January l2, and
the following day 5000 men were put ashore.
General Alfred Howe Terry was in command.
A bombardment began at 80 that after
noon that did not entirely cease when the
Heet retired IN the evening, for the ronclads
continued to fire all night The cannonade
was resumed on the 14th, and that night
Admiral Porter and General Terry agreed on
plan for combined army and navy attack
on the following morning
Sixteen hundred sailors and four hundred
marines were sent ashore. One of the en-
signs in that landing force was Ensign Rob-
ley D. Evans. 1t was in the fighting that day
that Fighting Bob" suffered the wounds in
his life.
The army column was concealed under the
river bank, but the navy column came up the
oEen beach exposed tn As-~;sis fra f~eus xss
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1t continued for several hours, and the fort
was obscured in the acrid smoke of bursting
shells. Enormous craters were dug in the
parapets, but small damage was done to the
fort itself. A few buildings were burned, a
couple Of service magazines exploded, and the
guns were silent. At sunset came the signal
from the Malvern to retire.
On the following day the bomhardment was
New-York tribune., 1921-09-11

Fisher, but not the slightest damage done
to the fort itself to the morale of the
defenders. At daylight the huge fleet stood in
to begin the attack. 1t was nearly noon before
Admiral Porter's flagship, the Malvern, flew
the signal to engage the fort.
Then began a fearsome bonlbardnent. It
has been described as the most stupendous cam
nonade in the previous history of the world
New-York tribune., 1921-09-11

Then these two intrepid gentlemen climbed
over the side and the two small boats pulled
for the Wilderness, which after picking them
up wasted no time in heading for the open
sea. That was precisely at midnight. At 40
in the morning the Louisianas powder cargo
blew up.
A terrifying spectacle it must have been for
che sentries pacing the battlements Vt Fort