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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1912)
Jhe Omaha SoNMYlteMACiNE Pte . ..... . . , ,t ' , Copyright, 1912, by American-Examiner, f Great Britain Rights Reserved. ' ' ' ' N ' ' : ' ' J V t ' TJlOf S; I 1 49- ' ; - '11 tta tltiti r ir ; 3,,. ; f ': - -Sill Si ifi '-. f Jllllrrlfe . 'ft ' .U , VV'Vaj) 'lJlJlall.lL IwJl. w'frn r i r , rS I JK Jj Haddon Hall, Once the Home of the Romantic j 7 ' -A "TV I .'fA'. Heroine. Dorothy Vernon, Now the Probertv of Her 1 f ' : t- . n -- v -s; , - . . v a l I JL i Be8C.en.daS' the Duke of Rutland Fatner .. ri& I i T , 'ft ' i ' ' l I JrkTU- i Marjorie Manners. .: f4 : J -ll-SV V I V;.: ..: v IHKAl J What Lady Marjorie r; HrV;-'--jJr'. f : Manners Said When She Caught J. P. Morgan -rUl -CtM K. ...... u. ' u im ) w-tj-rw"" j; , ; AW'-- u- vV-. Iplf teii ma mask 1 It yp fi'-1 What Lady Marjone Manners Said When She Caught J. P. Morgan Trying to Carry Off Haddon Hall and Richard the Lion-Heart's Bones , and Cromwell 's Boots Cromwell's Boots, Which Are Included Among the Antique Treasures of the Rein deer Inn, Banbury. P' Lady Marjone Manners, Who Decided to Marry; Money Lto Prevent the Home, of Her Ancestress, Dorothy Vernon, of Had don Hall, from Being Shipped to America. ' London, Aug. 2. , 00R old John Bull is in a peculiar pre dicament. , r . In hia mind's eye he sees the American millionaire walking off boldly with every Interesting object of antiquity in his England,, not excepting the Justly cel ebrated Tower of London and the incom parably venerable Westminster Abbey. It was bad enough to have the Americana taking away all the athletic records. They might leave a few of the old things to make the country look .interesting. Really, they are becoming perfectly impossible, you know. " . So another great movement to save old England has been started. Rich English men have been implored to do something to save the old places and the old things, and S few have responded. Haddon Hall . has been saved from J..P. Morgan. The old "globe room" at Banbury has been saved. Cromwell's bootg have been saved. Richard the Lion-heart's bones have been almost saved. It was the beautiful Lady Marjorie Man ners, that very picturesque person, who started this new movement to save old England. As so often happens, it is a woman who takes the first step in any pa triotic or public-spirited movement. Lady Marjorie happens to be a collateral descendant' of the famous and romantic Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall. The Ver non estates and the Hall are the property of her father, the Duke of Rutland. Had don Hall, an early Tudor stone mansion in a state of mellow decay, is the most beau tiful place of Its kind in England. Now the Duke of Rutland Is notoriously a very poor man for his rank. He has not kept Haddon Hall In occupation or repair. Noting this fact, an American millionaire made him a handsome offer for the old place through an English estate agent.' It was, understood that the American wag J. Pierpont Morgan and that he would pull the old place down, load it In a ship and send it over to America. At any rate, that was how Englishmen figured it The poor Duke was very much pleased with the offer and quite ready to close with it. When Lady Marjorie heard of it, how ever, she blazed with indignation. " "What!" she cried; "sell our ancestral home, the most beautiful old house in Eng land, to be carried away to America like a load of stone ballast! . It la dreadful!" "But what can we do about it, my dear?" murmured the. sad-eyed Duke. "We have to have money to keep up our position. Then the Income tax and the new land tax are v dreadful and your clothes and little heb- r bies cost something." v Up to that time Lady Marjorie had shown ' a marked distaste for matrimony. She had reached an age at which it was surprising that an extraordinarily attractive young woman should remain unwed. Society heard there was a hopeless attachment be tween her and Prince Arthur of Connaugnv To others it seemed that she was so much interested in art, soul culture and other spiritual things that she could not think of anything bo earthly as marriage. But when she heard of the plot against. Haddon Hall she became intensely practical. Within a few months she became engaged to Marquis of Anglesey, the ncnest nobleman in England. Strange to say society had credited him with a hopeless devotion to Princess Patricia of Connaught. The Marquis has so much money in casli . and thoroughly up-to-date securities that he is able to smile at all the schemes of the British Government which are causing so much distress to the landed aristocracy. It is understood that his millions will be called upon to keep Haddon Hall in the possession of the descendants of Dorothy; Vernon. Between the discovery of the plot to ex port Haddon Hall to America and Lady Mar jorie's engagement, a new American peril was exposed, and this urged her to vigorous action. The new peril was nothing less than J. P. Morgan's project to carry away the tombs and the bones of Richard the Lionheart and others of the Angevin sovereigns of England from their last resting place in France. "Really," said Lady "Marjorie, "we-mu3t stop this sort of thing. If we don't, those Impudent Yankees will be stealing West minster Abbey." , The way the royal Angevin tombs came ' ft' f w . 1 ' . -. .... The Old Reindeer Inn, Containing England's Finest Carved Oak Jacobean Room, Which an American Millionaire Tried to Buy. mio tne market was ratner curious. Tho ancient abbey of Fontevrault In Frande was until recently occupied by the Benedictine monks. When they were expelled by fAe re cent separation law the property bmcttme subject to sale by the Government, ' . Art dealers knew that the abbey cont ftined the tombs of Henry II., the first Cou..at of Anjou to become King of England; of King John, who Bigned the Magna Chartai; of Richard the Lionneart and their wives, tiir. Morgan Intimated that he would like bo bu'y the abbey for the sake of these treasures. ' Englishmen declared that If the remains of famous English kings could not b te ft in the resting places they had chosen, tViey should be taken to England. The French Government was urged to at . . erclse its power of declaring the abbey a historic mon la ment. The Government poi it pond the sale of the abbe.y, ana tnere tne matter rests. Every day some new "peril" from Amer ican millions is discovered. The Old Rein deer Inn at Banbury, near Oxford, contained in its "globe room" the finest example of Jacobean oak penciling in England. Here Oliver Cromwell held a cduncil before the battle of Edghill in 1637.. Here: Oliver Cromwell's big boots are still preserved. The old inn was falling down, and it became known that an American millionaire had planned to buy the oak panelling, Crom well's boots and everything else of interest there. . s A "Oh, you dread ful man!" said Lady Marjorie. "You want to take Fontevrault A b bey, Richard the LionheartY bones, Haddon Hall, Cromwell's boots! You will be moving Westminster Ab bey next! Stop! Stop! I say!" iimtimm- : 'a -i, ' i'Pfe ""lWsJ : ' Again the movement started by Lady Ma jorle Manners produced results. A rich Eng lishman came forward and bought up the inn and the boots and preserved them for the use of the British public. In future a Briton will be able to drink his beer where Crom well sat and gaze in peace at Cromwell's boots. . Other objects of art and antiquity have been saved. Some time ago . Lord Lans- downe's Rem brandt, the most valuable picture owned by a pri vate person ia England, was sold to Mr. Frick, of Pittsburgh. Groans went up all over England. Recently it be came known that the Earl of Gal way, was .prepar ing to sell his Van Dyck, a less . valuable picture. . . but still a notable one, to an Amer ican. Encouraged b lady. Mar. .Jorie. Manners. n.t'. opulent British soap mak er came , forward ' and . took the Picture off 'his . lordship's hands . at - a handsome price. movement tin.. ' v- . . . happy results. : In some cases tL Trt ave en saveT to S British nation. In others the1 nowS owner has succeeded in gettine a larger price for his treasure from the American. The outer r IT! i v& 8ervcs a ?a,uabie ' Lw,xpf r,nce has 8nown' that few . ,A r,bl.e l0!,da wiU bM a to their most . eherltTi, d family possessions It a sufficTent taduefjnneiit to part with them be offered , There is .reason to believe that if they had Ahh8nC,Vt0 ral8e,y cash on WesSSsSr Abbey the v would not lose . It America ns on the other hand, are aulta unscrupulpus in the way , they spend large sums oA-oney. They have bought up pal aces, castles, chateaux, manor houses all over Eunpe. . These etxploits have worked on the nerves of some. IBrltons until they profess to fear that some . American is planning to buy and carry away that weighty prehistoric monu- mnt stV-nehenge.' They go even further. They are irw expressing fear that an Amer lean is gcilng to buy a spot called Maiden Castle, wlilch is simply an ancient CelUc earth fortill cation.. . - Even aa American millionaire may want more for hjt money than a pile of earth! U If , r Ull ! Air 1 X I ( I I
