Evening star., 1923-05-16
Lord Castle-Stewart and American
Wife Soon to Visit in United States

family honors was due to the fact
that his two elder brothers gave
their lives for their country in the
great war. throughout which he him.
self served, first as a subaltern of
the Berkshire regiment, and then as
major. commanding machine, gun
battery. winning the Military Cross.
His principal country seat is Stuart
In which county he owns some $4,000
acres.
They are not. however, productive
and the late Earl found a large. pen.
sion. which he received from the: .1n-
dian government for services in the
far east, very welcome addition
to his income. while the present peer,
who. up to the time of the outbreak
Of the great war, had merely the
status and relatively meager allow
ance Of q younger son. was very glad
to turn the knowledge which he had
imbibed at Charter house at Trinity
College. Cambridge. and at the Univer-
sity of Paris, to a profitable account as
English public schools OF Rugby-the
Rugby of tom Browns Schooldays."
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The first Of Lady Castle Stewards
family to come to America was Meyer
Guggenheim, who arrived in the
United States more than century
ago from Langenau, in Switzerland.
and settled down in Philadelphia,
where he seems to have started on
his wonderfully successful business
career by means of his production of
a stove polish. Then he turned his
attention to mining. and built the
first smelter in Pueblo. Col. urging
his sons to follow him in the business.
The venture was successful, even
from the very outset. and as far
back as half a century ago an English
syndicate. offered the sum of $4,000
900 for the purchase Of the Guggen-
helm mining and smelling interests.
an offer which was at once declined.
1t is difficult to find any Irish peer
who has been more useful to the
Emerald Isle, totally irrespective Of
politics. than Lord Killanin, who has
been throughout his public life at the
head of every good work. and who
has given his services and intell-
genee. which are Of high order. to
the furtherance of every project cal
culated to benefit his fellow country :;
men in an economic sense. Yet Va
leras followers have given another
instance Of their character by burn
ing down his country seat at Spiddaf
on the north shores of Galway bay.
Son and heir of that lord chief JUS
.tice Of ireland, the late Lord Norris.
who was 20 celebrated for his wit and
descended from one of the ancient,
thirteen tribes Of Galway. he has been
the pioneer of the organization of
irish American lines running between
New York and Dublin and New York
and Londonderry, pending the reali-
zation of his efforts to revive the an
cient glories of Galway as. the" prin- :
cipal transatlantic port of Ireland,
the distance between St. Johns. New
foundland and Galway, the terminus
of the Midland Great Western road
Of ireland, being 2.1OO miles as COM
pared with 5000 miles between New
York and Liverpool. ,.
Columns could be written about
Lord Killanin's energy and useful
enterprise. There is no one who is
written and spoken more apprecia-
lively about the United States than
Lord Killanin. Having travelled ex-
tensively in America. he has nothing
but good to say Of the people who live
under the Stars and Stripes. Simple
and candid. without pretense or con-,
ceAlment. the American people, race
OF their own wide land. are free and,
easy in manner. speech and dress.
There is no secrecy or hypocrisy
about them