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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1911.
APPOINTED COMMISSIONERS.
It Is perhaps too late to start malt?
ing changes !n the report of the Joint
committee on Improving tKe adminis?
tration of Richmond But thcro Is
crent force and sound wisdom In thw
petition that was taken by Alderman
Adams on Tuesday evening.
The experience of other cities, where
unmodified commission government has
hrrn tried, shows that the people are
both able and willing to choose for
themselves perhaps the hont citizens
that could be chosen to administer the
public affairs. But in other cases
where this successful choice lias been
made, the irion so chosen were given
a free hand and the voters who were
doing the choosing were actively
awake and intently set upon making
the best choice possible.
In P.l-hmi.nd we are to choose, under
the proposed plan, five commissioners
nil at one time. It is a large experi?
ment and one which labors at the out
sol under the serious difficulty that
the administrative board is only par?
tially responsible, and will be hamp?
ered In its actions by Its divided al-j
leclance to (he Council of two bodies
and to the public at large.
This experimental feature, especially"
In view of the failure of Norfolk's ad?
ministrative board, will doubtless de?
ter cttl-/ens from seeking positions
who would otherwise make cfllcletit
and valuable public servants. No one
who looks at the quality of the rep?
resentatives throughout tho country at
l;,rpe would affirm that the standard
requited, or even tho standard re?
ceived from elective officers, has in?
creased in the last generation.
Without discussing the reasons for
this state of affairs, it is obvious that
if there Is to be a wide open scramble
for five offices, Richmond will be by
no means assured of getting nt the
outset the sort of commissioners thai
tho city desires nnd deserves. Rich?
mond will doubtles receive the live
.citizens who ure tho most popular
with the 10,000 voters, many of whom
art city employes, and many of whom
have boon registered In anticipation
of a wet and dry fight; but whether
popularity measured by this test will
mean efficiency in administration Is a
very different matter.
Now. if Mayor Richardson could ap?
point a number of citizens, leaving the
Council the right to contirm" the ap?
pointments, Richmond would at least
be assured that th:s new experiment
v.'as to start under the most favorable
< oiidltlons.
It has been suggested that there are
members of both branches of the Com.
inon Council who would make excel
:(;:i administrators, as such they
would be debarred from even offering
to servo tha^ city. i if tho appointment
made.'by*the Mayor and confirm?
ed by the Council, because no member
uf the Common Council can be elected
to any office within the gift of tho]
Council within twelve months from
the date of his resignation.
If this objection is considered seri?
ous, there Is no reason why the law
rould not be repealed, or why tho
members of the Council who would be
affected thereby should not be ablo to
offer themselves to tho people at tho
brtt general election?a matter of on?
ly a year or so of waiting.
No one who Is familiar with the
affairs of Virginia can doubt that the
.s i'cess of the Corporation Cominls
i loh has been In a large measure du
to the fact that Its officers were ap?
pointed at first. This enabled Oover
not Montague to secure a. class of
"?ice that he could not have received
had the oflli ers been elected.
Now, that the work of the corpora?
tion commission is .".rmly established
and its lines have been clearly defined.!
the election of one corporation com-!
missioner at the time would not ho!
anything llko so dangerous to the pub-;
lie welfare as would have bsrn the)
election of them all at first
So Ir. th* matter of the ndmlnlstrii-]
tive board for Richmond. The people!
know who they want and i.rc able id
choosox*tv:.'im they want If they have
only one o; two choices to make at
the time. But. with the present cut
look, and with the great and serious
burden that the administrative hoard
will be calico upon to assume, it
undeniable that f better .-Usr ol ser?
vice will be rec< ved by the people of
Richmond If the Mayor could appoint
and the Council courirm. or if the
Mayor could appoint without confirma?
tion.
ITALY AND EL'ROT LAN TURKEY.
In notlolng the report thai the war
in t'r,o Immediate nelghb irhood <.f
Tripoli'Is "apparently" o .< : . Bin ? Ihn
Turks have retired to the desert und
the Arabs hsve submitted to lt.ili..n
authority, the Provldenie (R r.'j Jour?
nal suggests that now Hie government
at Rome might ivltr, >-e,'.?.-,ii Ig; ore i
rctialblliltcs of A'uslriU'Huiigan and
(JcrnWny, and orlng the struggle to
.'{Quick end by attacking Tinkey/O; Eu
rope. "Italy surely owos lier nominal
allies no further consideration." con?
tinues that contemporary.
But. on the other hand. Italy surely
owes something to the pcaco of Eu?
rope. Than bringing the struggle to
H quick end. far more likely an attack
by Italy on European Turkey would
prolong It indefinitely, :?nd Involve the
whole Balkan peninsula find several of
the grcsl powers other than Italy In ?
death grapple. The Albanians are still
in a ferment, ami are i.olng encour?
aged In their resistance lo Turkish
authority by the million or over of
their exiled cognates and the de?
scendants of these In Italy. The Mace?
donian cry Is merely stilled for the
time lielnir: Bulgarian animosity to?
wards Turkey hnd lillrsl for expansion
are not even seemingly abated; tho
fires of Servian ambition for the res?
toration of the old empire only smould?
er, the embers bring kept alive and
ready to hurst Into blaze |>y the breath
"f patriotism and hatred of Austria
ITungary of the serf* in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, no less than by the serfs
at home. Cyprus, under lhe covetous
eyes of rJreorr. Is held In cheek
through tho influence of the conceit
alone, and is ripe for revolt at the
first sicn of possibility of success, and
Greece herself cherishes as Intensely
as ever her longing for her ancient do?
minion In Europe. It Is only a ques?
tion of opportunity with all these ele?
ments of danger of starting on n
swooping ravage a gejrteral Balkan
flame.
That ItaAy. hy carrying the war Into
European Turkey, would afford that
opportunity cannot lie doubted, and
It cannot be Villnko.l thai not only are
there the gravest reasons to apprehend
that the opportunity would he taken |
tidvantngo of t.i the fullest. rmt Ii is
dtfllcull to cdheelVe how the ppwers
fOtlld avoid becoming entangled, some
of them poiyilhly to the point of .timed
participation. More tjiarj this. Italian
Invasion of Turkey in Europe would
In any event cause n necessary drain
nn Ttaly'.s military and naval resources,
which would obviously weaken her
power to cope with Ihe Trlpolltan sit?
uation, encourage tho Turks and the
Arabs In Tripoli und the hinterland to
hope for ultimate triumph, and thus
In Itself conduce materially and p.itent
ly to protracting the conflict.
The net logical conclusion to which
every factor of the ease conspires is
that In her own Intrrest. In the In?
terest of humanity, nnd in the Inter?
est perhaps of preventing a universal
clash of European arms, It Is almost
unthinkable that Italy will be so rash
and so defiant In the matter of alien- 1
itlng the sympathy of other notions ns
to attack the "unspeakable Turk" In
1 ? in European domain If she Is wl.Jc
In her generation and as to the future,
she will confine strictly all further hos?
tile operations to tli-n Trlpolltan sphere,
ihe pacification and actual conquest of
which we question not. Is destined to
keep her pretty well and pretty ac?
tively employed for some time to come,
despite the assurance that tho strug?
gle In that quarter Is 'apparently"
nvor.
i< HinnroND afraid of ptsei.fi
Those who opposed tho Hirschberg
amendment based their position chiefly
on the argument that Richmond could
not put the Police and Fire Boards Into
politics without suffering a great loss
thereby. Would these gentlemen say
that the Police and Fire Boards are
out of politics to-day? Or. would they
fay that Richmond was Incapable of
electing men who can sdmlnlster those
departments wisely? Do tho oppo?
nents of centralization of authority in
Richmond fear that this cltiv will run
mad with Puritanism Hnd make blue
laws the dally food for this commun?
ity? Or. do they fear that tho people
of Richmond will be so lnlsguldej and
unwise as to eloct commissioners who
will try la run Richmond as a wide
open town, without regard to the.
wi.-hes of the great majority of the
people?
If., these harassing doubts beset tho
minds of any opponent of centraliza?
tion government. The Times-Dispatch
will offer them the comforting thought
that no city has ever suffered' yet
where good citizens were enabled under
the law to put power and responsibility '
In the hands of their representatives, j
The difficulties that have surrounded !
administration of city government |
elsewhere have been due to the fact '
that the citizens were not fiood or that j
those whom they chose to ofllcc were]
sometimes unable to carry out good
laws, and were always able lo hide be?
hind complicated forms of government
(hat gave power without responsibility
and work without the reward .if,
?;lory!
Tin: row ami the city.
"Drive Iho cow from the city" on
sanitary ground.-, was ihe cry a gen
cration itgone. "Bring the cow back
to ihe city" Is ihe slogan raised at
Hi, hist annual meeting of the United
'flVC Stock Sanitary Association
by Mr. Wj a. Evans, aforetime health
comnilssloher of Chicago, und which we
are lold has awakened reverberating
echoes of approval in certain quar?
ters.
Considcrlng-whal a Roneraflon shows
n certa.n historic cow has done for
the Improvement and beautifying of
Chicago; we can well understand, from
Hu* standpoints cf sentiment ami civic
pride alone. Mr. Evans's any other
Chicagoan's advocacy of bringing ihe
.ow back to the city. On that score
Mr. Evans lias no "kick" coming from
the most bitter opponent of the. city
cow stable. In a way ??Bossy" would
he ns sacred to the Chicago municipal
embellishment euit na ahe iH to one
? ?f tin religious cults or sects of India.
?]? ihat aiu.it ami parenthetically
i Wlitttevor of sneaking sentiment ma
have inspired Mr. Evans, what wo
Ijiavq to du with uro, hl?>rftelj[c4i^ rtfu
sons?his plea for tho return of tho
cow to a sanctuary under tho shadow
of the urban roof trco to tho end of
conservation of public health, and espe?
cially the reduction of lufant mor?
tality. '"Wo need cows closo to the
babies; in no other way Is 11 pos?
sible to get raw millc for peoplo ot
small means." declared Mr. Evans.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
In noting this declaration. Is disposed
to be Ironical at Mr. Evans's expense.
"Mr. Evans," it observes, "would prob-I
! ably not go so for us Is done In Naples.]
where goats climb stairs to be
milked by the customers on the upper
floors." Why not? It*is not a very
difficult matter to gel a cow up a ]
J flight of stops. Rut, we forgot. Getting
I her down again Is cjuite a different
proposition, as many an old-tlriie
1 prankish college student found to his
sorrow when set to solve the laborious
getting down problem, as discipline for
having easily?and merrily?solved the
gettinrr up one.
So, on second thought. It occurs to
us that wc may have done our Spring
lleld contemporary injustice by mis?
construing the spirit and inspiration
o? its comments. It may havo simply
been ruminating.
For the rest, the determination of
the question of the advisability of fol?
lowing Mr. Evans's reactionary ad?
vice, we reckon wo would better lenvo
that to. the cowologlsts, sanitarian
ists. bactejeaphoblsts and the like.
Our province is merely, for tho pre::
cnt at least, to record the news that
Mr. Evans's pica and logic, as Indi?
cated, have not fallen altogether on
deaf cars, since thero nro students of
sanitation, hygleno and health pre?
servation who havo taken him serious?
ly.
By tho way. however, in conclusion,
we venture to ask timidly and impar?
tially and only for laymen's Informa?
tion, How do Mr. Evans nnd his fol?
lowing propose to meet and depopu
larlzo the position and argumentum ad
homlnem of tho fly "swattors"? We
confess, when cogitating on tho fly's
pestiferous pertinacity of a sum?
mer evening, and solely apart from
the nllegatlons against It as n disease
breeder and purveyor, we are curious
on the subject of an answer to the
query.
NOT WASTED EFFORT.
Lieutenant C. P. Shaw, of Norfolk,
who has devoted much time and study
to commission government, Is the au?
thor of a very able communication
printed In another column. After criti?
cizing unfavorably the plan of the spe?
cial Joint committee on form of gov
rrnmcnt for Richmond. Lieutenant
.Shaw regrets "the waste of any effort
along lines which are bound to lead
to failure," which he thinks would re?
sult from the creation of an adminis?
trative board for Richmond. Hi? plea
is for a concentration of effort toward
securing a constitutional amendment
from the General Assembly permitting
home rule.
It is quite true that the principle
involved In th? plan urged for adop?
tion here Is not the principle of com?
mission government, but the plan Is the
best which can be secured now. Com?
mission government cannot bo estab?
lished in Virginia before November,
IS 14, almost three years away, for a
constitutional amendment legalizing
commission government must have the
favorable action of two sessions of the
General Assembly and the ratification
of the people. In the Internal, what
Richmond proposes to have WOtlld be
better than what tho city now has.
If the plan is adopted, The Times
Dispatch believes that Richmond will
save a great deal of money by putting
Its water, light and street departments
under one control. There would be a
saving in the care of parks and In
other directions. There would he a
great general saving over what Is now
expended.
Tho agitation and action over the
new plan is not wasted effort for an?
other reason, because), through 'the
public dl3cuBslon of the plan, the peo?
ple of Richmond hove been very large?
ly aroused ns to their needs In the
direction of city government. Thero
has begun a campaign of education of
Inestimable benefit and blessing to the
city. Hundreds of citizens of high an.l
low estate. In every profession and
vocation, have attended the committee
sessions and the meetings of the two
branches of the Council when they
deliberated upon tho new plan. The
people have been awakened to a reali?
zation that their city government is
cumbersome and uneconomical, and not
in line with modern municipal methods.
The campaign for this plan ha.s been
tremendously Informing, and it 'has
stirred tho citlzeu^ as they have not
i>een stirred In many years. One of
the results of the agitation Is that n
standard of comparison has been cre?
ated in the minds of hundreds of citi?
zen.; who had never thought about the
facj that there are cities which have
far more modern, more effective forms
of government than Richmond.
Th.- Times-Dispatch will never be
content until Richmond has a model
form of government, but It believes
thai the new plan proposed for this
? !ty. will not only save money and
make for official efficiency and the es?
tablishment of tho principle of fixing
responsibility, but that Its worklng.s
will no Interest the people that they
will ultimately insist that Rlohmond^
city government shall be as progressive
and as nearly perfect as that prevail?
ing anywhere. The process of securing
advanced city government hore will he
slow, perhaps, but nevertheless sure.
Richmond men are so pollto that
they take their hats off when they
talk to ladles over tho telephone.
M ly'ot Guvnor has been saying some
very wise and excellent things lately.
A stenographer In the City Hall In
.New. tVSfk coiiipialiicd-J?- Jtilni-Abftt;. JhJe^
? ... ?/ '
employer (rave him office-boy work to
do and nsked tho Mayor If his chief
had tho lieht to assign such work to
him. The Mayor's roply was:
"If I wero you. I would do every?
thing- I was asked to do. That Is the
?way to get on in life. Did you ever
hear It said that ho who takes cave
to do no more than he is paid for
will never be paid for more thnn lie
does? Go right in and do everything
from sunrise to sunset and you will
go right up all tho time."
That Is mighty good advice, and
Now York Is not the only place where
it slsould be taken.
What may be tho historic saying
of tho Governor of Virginia to the
Governor of Massachusetts Is "The
enfranchisement of women Is sum to
come." Governors Mann and lross
stand united on thai score.
Seeing by wire, they say. will soon
be possiblo. If that Is so. it will put
out of business tho girl who tele?
phones the fellow she hud a date with
that she Is too unwell to see him.
although the other fellow Is standing
by her and grinning.
Voice of the People
Will Ittcbmonil De Disappointed f
Tu the liditor of The Tlmcs-Dlspatch:
Sir.?Your editorial of November IT.
comparing the proposed Richmond
??harter with that of Toronto, us noted
by conversation with Mr. Spencc.
makes n more thorough comparison at
this time advisable. I have before
rile tho "Report of Special Joint Com?
mittee on Form of Government" for
Richmond, and tho "Munual of the Mu?
nicipal Council of the City of Toron?
to," sent me by Mr. Spencc. I note
from tho latter the following in regard
to the Donrd of Control of Toronto:
1. it consists of the Mayor and four
controllers elected at large.
2. They have duties und powers of
Aldermen, and sit and vote In the
Council with the other eighteen Al?
dermen elected from the six words.
3. The Mayor presides over the Coun?
cil and Is chairman ex officio of all
its committees.
t. Tho Hoard of Control prepares the
budget and the Council cannot appro?
priate any money not Included in such
budget.
5. The Board of Control nominates
to Council all officers and may dis?
miss or suspend any heed of depart?
ment.
?. The two Controllers rccclvlns the
greater vote at election are. placed
on the committee to name committees
with the senior Aldermen from each
ward, thus giving them 25 per cent,
representation on tho committee.
7. Any action of tho Board of Con?
trol can only- he reversed by n two
thirds vote of the Council present and
voting. If tho Board of Control la
unanimous It will take nlxteen out of
the eighteen Aldermen to reverse any
of their decisions.
The fundamental Iden of the Toronto
charter Is the closest possible union
of the administrative with the legis?
lative branch, tho administrative board
being actually 0 part of the legisla?
tive brunch. This Is also tho funda?
mental Idea of the commission plan
of city charter. This plan, wherever
adopted, has produced unprecedented
economy and efficiency, and since nbout
175 of our most progressive cities have
adopted It anil some 250 more are con?
templating Its adoption, the charter
revision committee of Richmond. In
denouncing the union of tho powers
as vicious and by giving Richmond a
charter based on the separation of
these powers, is fighting against the
cold, hard fact of the Invariable suc?
cess of the opposite plan.
Their quotution of article 3, section
Sf. of the Constitution of this State,
which reads as follows: -The legisla?
tive, executive and Judicial departments
shall be separate and distinct, so that
neither exercise tho powers properly
belonging to either of tho others, nor
any person exercise the power of moro
thaji one of them at the same time,"
In Irrelevant and has no reference to
tho cities. If It should be conceded
that It did have reference to the cities
the subsequent definition In the Con?
stitution of these various departments
would compel every city to have a
governor, lieutenant-governor, t<c, in
Its executive department, a general
assembly for its Council, npd tho va?
rious State courts from tho Supreme
Court of Appeals down for Its Ju?
diciary. This is conclusive proof that
tho principle laid down for the sep?
aration of the powers in State affairs
does not npply to cities. since the
framing of police regulations and con?
tracts by the Councils cannot be prop?
erly considered legislation, and In the
Intent of oho framers of the Constitu?
tion was not so considered.
If this principle were intended to
apply to the political subdivisions of
tho State, counties as well as cities, It
would clearly be unconstitutional for
the Hoards of Supervisors of various
counties to levy taxes, make appropria?
tions and then supervise the expendi?
ture of money. The conclusion seems
Inevitable thut the principle alleged
with such perfect unanimity by the
committee to be vicious does not, and
was not Intended, to apply to cities.
The concentration of powers Is tho
essential feature of a board of dl
tectors, which controls all successful
business enterprises, and this Is why
that principle when applied to the
business of running tho city has proved
everywhere so Invariably successful.
An examination of tho "Report of
.Special Joint Committee on Form of
Government'' und of tho ordlnanco by
which they propose to accomplish their
reforms, shows a step In tho right
direction in reducing the size of tho
Council, and the establishment of a
board of control to replace various
boards and committees. This board Is
subordinate to tho Council In every
particular, and, of course, cannot have
under our Constitution any" vote In the
Council. Apparently, Its only sourer.
oi power Is such as the Council may
delegate to it, and even the extent of
its powers is limited' to certain de?
partments, and seemingly It has oven
Some fellers must wonder how ther
wives l;ln accomplish so much without
lulcln' it drink ever' ilflccn minutes."
Walchln' a cipher try in' f cut a ?g uro
iB.allu? annisjn', ? ? ? )--*? , ^
Martin
"CftRISTMAS IS COMING."
_By John T. McCutcheon.
[OoprTlctt: mi: By Ja2u> T. MoCutohoon.]
less nominal power than Is exercised
oy the Norfolk Board of Control. 1 do
not pretend to be u constitutional law?
yer, but Judging by the way In which
article rt. section .IP, Is strained In tho
report of the committee In attempting
to make It apply to cities. I am In?
clined to doubt the constitutional war?
rant for any delegation by the Council
of its constitutional powers.
Since Its experiment of a Feeble ad?
ministrative board based on a separa?
tion of the powers has alreudv been
tiled here In Norfolk for the last live
years, without any success To Justify
a repetition Qf tho venture, it seems
a pity that Richmond should not make
a thorough examination of the fucta
concerning Norfolk's Board of Control
before making the proposed change
Such an administrative board cannot
be held rcsponslhle for results when
it lacks tho authority necessary for
their accomplishment. It is a realiza?
tion of this truth that has caused tho
commission charter's to be based on a
small commission of such ample au?
thority that It can bo hold responsible
lor every detail of city administra?
tion. The commission so empowered
is held to a prompt responsibility to
the people through the Initiative, ref?
erendum and recall.
Having tho deopest Interest In the
welfare not only of Norfolk, but of
Richmond arid all our othor Virginia
municipalities, I alncerely regret the
waste of any effort along linos which
are bound to lead to failure. It1
would be far be.tte.r for our cities can?
didly to acknowledge tho success that
everywhere attends tho commission
form of charter, and concentrate, their
efforts on securing from the coming
Legislature a genuine home rule
amendment to the State Constitution,
under which, within the limitations
Imposed by the State Constitution and
the general' law. each city would be
freo to adopt either the commission
form of such other type of charter as
its electorate might deem best suited
to its local noedb, and through their
regulnrly constituted authority to pass
all laws and ordinances relating to
their municipal concerns.
Norfolk. C. P. SHAW.
The CArrlngton Case.
To the Editor of The Tlmea-Dispotch:
Sir.?Under the headlines of "Prison
Surgeon Is Again Removed." As this
article In a' late Issue of Tho Tlmes
Dispatch comes from one of your re?
porters, It occurs to me that he might
have recalled some of past statements
and reports In reference to this matter.
It Is a known fact that Df. Caj-rtngton
was dismissed as surgeon of tho State
Penitentiary, without even the oppor?
tunity of vindication?in fact, there
seems to have been nothing to vindi?
cate except a political ruse In which
the Governor seems to have sold his
birthright for a "mess of pottage"?
certainly for a position for his neph?
ew. The whore affair seoms to have
been previously arranged. The board
having accepted all of his reports and
agree that they were satisfactory, this
statement Is either frame or fako, and
If fako is gross reflection on the board.
It simply seems to havo been ah ex?
cuse on which to depose Dr. Cariing
ton without a hearing. They are
taking care of their promises. And
that it was political no one whose in?
tellectuality .reaches the levnl of me?
diocrity will question.. It Is a ques?
tion of he who asks equity should do
equity. That It is a disgraco to the
State of Virginia to havo Its Convict
labor in direct competition with hon?
est Itthor no one will question, and
from this fact that It is worse than
disgraceful If they are treated as pre?
viously stated. A civilized State has
as much right to a shoo factory in
the penitentiary (under private regime)
as decency and respectability has In
Hades. MRS. L. H. P. HUDSON.
Richmond.
The Destiny of the Loaf Rib.
To the Editor of The Tlmes-DIspntch:
Sir,?"W," in Sundbty's Ttmes-Dts
patch. doos not glvo Richmond as his
place of rosldenco, but we hopo he lives
there or close by and that he will avail
himaolf of tho'opportunlty to hoar Dr.
J. B. Straton at the Y. M. C. A. hall
Friday night, the 15th inst.
"W" doeB not soem to know that
creation and formation of tho human
race are two things and took place
at different times; that creation of man
and woman took place on the sixth
day of that period. In which Ood made
the heaven and the earth, the sea and
nil that In them Is, and that forma?
tion was another and a later work.
Somehow we are po'rsuaded that Dr.
Straton, on the occasion announced, is
going to impart Just tho knowledge
"W ncods concerning the destiny of
the lost rib. So mote It be. L.
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La Marquise de F?nten oy
CAPTAIN WILLIAM PAKENHAM,
who hue Just been appointed a
Lord of ehe Admiralty. In the
reorganization of the board, con?
sequent upon the transfer of Winston
Chui. l|ill to tho oflico of Chief Lord of
tho Admiralty, und head of the Navy
Department, was tho only foreigner on
throughout the war of Japan wllh
Russia, six years ago. lie was the
only alien to whom Togo accorded his
entire confidence throughout that
memorable conillot, in which the sec?
recy of the Japanese commander's
movements contributed so much to
their success, and to the victory of
Japan. There is no white naval otll
cer, indeed, who possesses s.i much
practical knowledge of naval warfare
on a large scale, under the most mod?
ern conditions, a.3 Captain Pakenhajn;
and Winston Churchill certainly mlJe
an admirable and popular move when
he summoned him to hin assistance In
tho administration of the navy, be?
stowing upon him a Ijordshlp of the
Admiralty, usually held by an ofllcer
Of flag rank.
The captain, who In unmarried. Is ?
grandson of the second Karl of Lonu
ford. u nephew of tho third and fourth
earl, and a first cousin of tho present
peer. The name of Pattenham is not
unknown in this country. For General
Thomas Pattenham, a grandson of the
Countess of Ixingford. In whose favor
the present Earldom of Lonaford was
first created, married tho eldest daught?
er of William Clarke, of New York. Uy
whom he had a number of children and
grandchildren, all with a strain of
American blood In their veins. Then
there was General Sir Edward Patten?
ham, who commanded the British
forces In the battle of New Orleans, In
which he lost his lifo; while Sir Rich?
ard I'akenham spent a number of years
at Washington as British envoy, after
OiavhiK previously distinguished him?
self as minister In Mexico, and at Lis?
bon. General Sir Hercules Pakenham
waj one of the principal lieutenants of
the great Duke of Wellington, during
the Peninsular War, receiving tho
thanks of Parliament; whllo Sir Fran?
cis Pakenham spent more than a quart?
er of a century as envoy to various
South American Republics, winding up
his diplomatic career as minister
plcnipotentary at Stockholm.
The family of Pakenham was found?
ed by one of Cromwell's captain.?, who
In lieu of arrears of pay, received the
lands of the ancient Barony of Ban
try, In the county of Wosttneath,
where he built Pakenham Hull, which
has ever since remained the ancestral
home of tho family. His great-grand?
son. Thomas Pakenham, married. In
1740. Elizabeth, grandnlece and heiress
of Ambrose Aungler, last Earl of Dong
ford of the former creation. The
crown thereupon bestowed upon bcr a
new Earldom of Longford, In her own '
right, and also conferred a Barony of
Longford upon her husband, both be?
ing Irish honors. The countoss sur?
vived her husband for a number of
years. When he died his barony went
to .his eldest son. But the latter pre?
deceased his mother, and it was In con
sequenco thereof that his eldest boy
became third Baron Long'ord, before
becoming on the demise of his grand?
mother, second earl of that Ilk.
To the second Earl of Longford, a
favorite at court, was givon tha United
Kingdom Barony of 811chcster. in 1821.
by George IV., thus endowing him with
a seat in fho House of Lords.
The present and fifth earl is a
Knight of the Order of St. Patrick, Is
colonel of the Second Life Guards,
served through the South African War,
where he "was badly wounded at Llnd
loy, and Is married to the daughter of
the seventh Earl of Jorsoy, by whom
he has had two boys and two girls,
the eldest, his heir, now nine years
of age, bearing tho title of Lord Sll
ehester.
Bonaparte* are so often described,
both In print and In conversation, as
"Cor3lcan Parvenus" of humble origin,
that It may be Just as woll to ex?
plain here that their ancestry Is of
the most anolent description, and that
tho great Emperor Napoloon, conse?
quently also tho present Imperialist
pretender, Victor Napoloon, as well as
tho two American Bonapartes, ope of
t'hom attorney-general In the Roose?
velt administration, can boast of de?
scent tfrom Charlemagne. Tho Corsiean
Bonapartes. to whom tho groat Em?
peror NapolcTon and his brothers belong?
ed, were (descended (from a certain
Francesco Bonaparte, svho in tho year
InOO emigrated to Corsica from his na?
tive town of Sarzann. in the province
of Genoa, to Corsica. He figures In
contemporary Corsiean records still in
existence, as "Francesco Bonaparte
surnanied II Moro dl Sarzana." This
Francesco Bonaparte, from whom tho
first Napoleon was descended in the
male lino direct, could show in turn a
lineal dcscejit In an unbroken mal*,
line from lanfaldo llouariars, who In
1245 was a town councillor of Sarzuna,
and who figured there as a member of
lb.- local noblllt.v. The noble, descent
of Krauel? Bonaparte^, who cetiibllehcd
himself near 300 years later In Cor?
sica, was never contested on that Is?
land, and both ho and !.l.. descendants
were always accorded the rights and
prerogative! of noble-. There Is In
existence an original judicial decree of
the Supreme Court, or Supremo Coun?
cil of Corsica, bearing the date 13
September. 1771, In which the Bona?
parte family Is rcferrod to as having
been nobles of Corsica for near three
centuries. ?*iat la to say, ever since
Francis Bonaparte settled in Corsica
I n 1500.
T?io grajidfather of this Krauels
Bon?parte bore tho namo of Caesar
Bonaparte, and his wife was Dona
Appolonia Malasplna, of the Illustri?
ous, and. historic und one time for?
eign family of Hint name. Malas
plnas of the tenth. eMovonth, twelfth,
ithtrteenth jy?d fourteenth octnlurles
are all descended from Adalbert II., the
Malasplna Margrave of Tuscany, and
from tho lattor*u wife, Rerthn, a great
granddaughter of Charlemagne.
In the great cemetery at Florence
a number of fourteenth and fifteenth
century tombs may still "be seen to?
day, bearing tho name of Bonaparte
It may also be added, ad Indicative
of the social position of the Bona
partes, that Napoleon Bonaparte, who
became first Emperor of the French,
had, as u boy of nine aud ten. been
the favorite playmate In Florence of
Archduke Charles of Austria, one of
the sons 4f the sovereign Grand Duke
Leopold II. of Tuscany, who after?
wards succeeded his brother. Joseph
II., as Emperor of Germany, ayfl of
the Holy Ivpman Kmplro. It was u
strange fate that brought those two
playmutcn subsequently together Ju
battle, the one as commander of Ihu
Austrian forces, tho other as French
Krnporor. at Aspern. on the 22d of
May. 1809.
The new Bishop of Sodor and Man.
who owes his appointment to the fart
that Dr. Thomas W. Drury has been
translated to the more lucrative Bish?
opric of Rlpon, will be, by reason of
ills office, the only lord of Parliament,
who. although having a scat In the
House of Lords, and permitted to take
part In Its debates. Is nevertheless de?
barred from voting. The Episcopal
See of Man, comprises tho Isle of Man,
the first bishop of which was Saint
Oermanus. consecrated as such by SI.
Patrick, in 447, after converting the
Manxmen to Christianity. As for Kod
or, It Is the name of a small village
on Iona. where, It Is said, an Episco?
pal See was established In the ninth
century, by Pope Gregory TV. In 10(u;
Magnus, King of Norway, having con?
quered the Scotch Hebrlbes.? and the
Isle of Man, united them under one
bishop, under whose jurisdiction they
continued until well on towards the
end of tho fourteenth century, when
England secured possession of the
Isle of Man. Since thon, tho bishop
of the Island, although he has neither
enjoyed nor exercised any Jurisdiction
In Sodor, ha,s retained the ancient title,
being still styled Bishop of Sodor and
Man: a designation so little tinder
stood abroad, that Dr. Drury, on one
occasion, found himself described In the
visitors' book of an hotel at Bordeaux,
as the. "Eveque de Syphon." Sodor hav?
ing suggested something In the nature
of sparkling water.
The Bishop of Sodor and Man. llko
the Archbishops of Canterbury and of
York, and like the Bishops of. London,
Dlrham and Winchester, takes, his
place In the House of Lords Immediate?
ly on appointment. Instead of waiting
his turn for a seat, there being more
Sees than scats for the spiritual lords
of Parliament In the uppor chamber.
The Bishop of Sodor and Man does not,
however, take his seat on the bench
of bishops and archbishops, but on a
stool at tho extremity thereof. Ho has
nevertheless some compensation for
this treatment, having a legislative
position of his own In the. Manx
Parliament, or so-called House of
Keys. His salary Is a'smull one, com?
pared with those of his Episcopal col?
leagues, amounting to but $8,000 a
year, as compared with the $20.000
which Is their average stipend. But
then living is cheap in the Isle of Man.
Where the Governor, Lord Raglan, only
gets $9.000 a year salary.
(Copyright, 1011, by the Brentwood
Company.)
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