Show Lord Sholto Douglas as Who Amused California Becomes Stony Sony Broke I I Englishman Had Merry Lt Life on Coast in Nineties Went on Sta Stage c nv fly JIO WHILES tier Ire Ire Staff London June 7 Poor 7 Poor 01 old 1 Lord Sholto Douglas once the most talked talked- 1 of oC man In San Francisco and the seven sev sev- seen seven en days' days wonder of all California California- poor old Sholto's gone on tho rocks rocks- i London which does docs not l know now Its I own Lord Sholto so well as the city by uy the Golden Gate once did read to toda today today to- to da day that George Douglas Dougla's Sholto dc da in the tho receiving order and commonly known as Lord Sholto Dou Dousing Douglas had entered a petition In bankruptcy before the London bankruptcy bankruptcy bank bank- court lIe Ho didn't h have ve a a. penny of oC a assets or an any chattels upon which anything could be realized Ho lie was stony ton broke Petitioner alleged that before the death of or his father in 1900 ho hu had hud received an nn allowance of 1500 and that ho he had Inherited which he had lost of or tho the I war a 1 1 After losing all his mone moneys money early In 1917 Lord Sholto continued fn In his petition pe pc- po- po ho and his wife had subsisted I Ion on the bounty of or a n relative who had made them thom an allowance of oC 50 a n week but now that had harl been with with- drawn There was positively ol not a stiver In sight and his debts amounted amount amount- ed to nearly 1500 n 1 In 1 A different Lord Sholto this middle- middle aged and humbled man who stood blood with head bowed before tho the senior officIal official official of of- 1 receiver from the ore one San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco knew know In the early Then Lord Sholto Douglas cut a flaming swath nth athwart wart nau naughty Frisco which was equaled subsequently only b by some of or the tho Indulged ed by wealthy miners from tho the Klon Klondike Ills his picture was in eYer every paper paler his hits namo on er c every lip The youth In his his' early twenties who hit Market street sheet with a n loud noise and a cloud of smoke In IS 1594 H was all tho the west believed a real En English lord should be he from Its instruction by the tho vau vaudeville stage and its recollection of the elder Sothern in Lord Dun Dun- dreary This chis gay a bo boy had white hair parted In the middle le and plastered down on either cither side with pomade pale blue blua blueeyes blueeyes eyes a n lar largo large c nose noso and what was known in the tho slang slang pat of ot the da day as asa asa asa a u r-u rush h of or teeth to the face tace Sherlock Holme Lord He wore checks as large Jarge as a new development subdivision out near tho the Presidio a monocle a fore end cap such as ns Sherlock Holmes used to sport on tho the stage when ho he followed the lighted cigar through tho the gas chamber Also Alio a n. stick a sUck a stick weighing weighing weigh weigh- ing about five flo pounds with a carved car Ivory alligators alligator's head for a handle Ho lIe was A mark 1 d 1 M S CI I it d th n poor young to o act u o part Ho lie had mone money to spend on wine in tho lice Palace grill He lie had money to spend on an any likely investment Result Result Re Ro- sult man many corks popped under tho the palms of tho the old Palace and every man con-man in California who know knew a asick asick sick cn engineer or an Indian chief with inside information on a gold mine groomed his and trotted them out before Lord Sholto The boy was a n. glutton for punishment No o easier mark marl over o passed under the ferry loch clock Sholto bought everything from Brazilian diamonds tb to shares In n tho the airship ship which was building out on street Order of ut near Hear Juet Just when Whon the Sunday papers had all the funny paragraphs on Sholto he lie made a visit to Sac- Sac valley C and Marysville I think It was wa-l The jolly yokels gave Ja the tho English adventurer nd an entirely new thrill Hed He'd heard all nIl about the Na Na- Native alIvo a- a lIvo tive Sons of tho the Golden what West what visitor to C Is allowed cd to live lI In Ignorant Ignorance r of this grand rand and glorious glorious glori glori- ous Institution Carelessly I over a 1 bar barIt barto It to tho the National l house on n tho the first nl night ht after his arrival the scion of or Norman linkage lineage ac dropped a a. regretful tear that ho he was not qualified to join this noble order order haYinG ha had the thc bad luck to ho fro born in England instead of oC the Golden state Immediately a ch choice group roup of tar ups cut determined ct that Lord Sholto should not permanently suffer the stigma stig of not being a nath native na na- na- na th tive son on ao 10 for tor hl his exclusive benefit they orga organized the thc Or Order or of ot the Woolly Bear and extended to te the Englishman a pressing invitation lt to become Lecome a a. member The They ur urged cd that Cow few 11 had ad ever cr received this honor in that thc they were absolutely truthful ho was tho the first and last initiate What hat ride Him him f fTh Th They nearl nearly killed Lord Sholto at that initiation Th These se brawn brawny young oung moil men took the r P Englishman apart to toI seo what made him run and put him t together again rather badly Rut nut I Sholto was game gam and ordeal was over oYer ho was propped up in 11 n I chair at tho the head of or what tho the local editor doubtless I referred to as IlS a groaning board and he ho ordered the gripe pe to pass r H Hardly l had the thc echoes of or this e- e 1 died eel when Sholto had a lovo 10 affair Her Iler name was Loretta Mooney and ind she was a n. singer on sma small time Loretta Lorettas family tree ran back to the Kings of ot Ireland pel perhaps haps but it wn was wai not listed In Burkes Burke's Peerage Lorotta's Lo- Lo rotta's mother was vas what the French Flinch ca call a n o so BO were n lII many of f California's grand 1 ladles ladies nt fit one onetime onetime time or 01 another Thc They wore were married j and ind the papers played Sholto clear across the front pa page c. c About hout that time tine the thc stern pater or uncle or whoever er It Il was back In England Eng EnC land tint that was supplying the th- sinews sinew for 01 Sholto's adventuring nd decided to toI togo I go gc out ut of the LIlt sinew supplying sinew supplying hu business busi l- l ness ncsa and the Joun young benedict was wan stranded Was as he ho hearted down Not Sholto to He Ile had somebody write a vaudeville aude part for him to pIa play In a 1 skit opposite opposite sll site Mr Sholto and ho made hi his pro pro- miMe In the tho same theatre that lint first r 1 David id Warfield behind thaC the tha C foots 0 J t s n I I It was a riot All Sari San ara Francisco fought for seats Boats atS' atS The Cherry sl sisters I In their prime primo never no had hail tho the S 5 S. S n 11 II 0 O. sl sign sigi l out on tho the sidewalk so 80 fast Cast rho The only stage Ita c appurtenance that ml might ht have hl added to the tho finish of or the act 1 V was a net had to do lO was wa j 1 t to tc come out on the tho stage stas-e and aud appear n tural n The audience di did the rest real After r a a. whirlwind career on tho the stage Sholto and the pretty Lorette disappeared i San Francisco never heard hear of them thereafter 1 I can only add this bit bit and and a 0 sad ad one one to to the tho latest history of tho the man who once awoke naughty naught Frisco l' Tho The eldest son on of r tho the once gay oay Sholto and Loretta Mo Mooney Mooney ne- ne who ho was a n native son soft even cn If his daddy couldn't couldn t be u- u was killed fighting in fn Franco France o IJ year ear |