OCR Text |
Show A GERMAN NOBLEMAN How Slinging Hash in the Grand Pacific Caravansary in Chicago. INVESTIGATING ARKANSAS FEAUD. The Empress Frederick an Arti3t New York Art Show Other Special News. Boston, April 23. Special. Society So-ciety has ot late been so frequently victimized vic-timized by foreign adventurers who assume titles to which they have not eten the remotest right that it is beginning begin-ning to wonder why it does not lavish its favors on the genuine 'noblemen" of foreign extraction who arc occupying honest but menial positions all over the country. It has been discovered that the head waiter at the Grand Pacific hotel in Chicago is a baron, who, in Berlin eight years ago, was a dashing lieutenant of the Zeither hussars, the present emperor's favorite regi- meiit. A count, formerly an equerry to oue of the German royal princes, and son of an ex-German 'ambassador, is now agent for a lirtn in New York that manufactures a particular brand of whiskey; another count, a member of one of the most powerful families in Germany, is driving street car in Philadelphia; Phila-delphia; while still another count is engaged en-gaged as a money-laker in a variety show in St. Louis. The brother of an English baronet, and heir-presumptive to Ids ancient baronety, is working in a Florida saw mill; a brother of a well-known well-known English diplomatist is a porter in a Tallahassee hotel, and the heir of an earldom, who was employed in the mailing department of tho New York Sun, has just died in abject poverty. Besides these there are almost innumerable innum-erable titled foreigners, engaged in Various positions on the newspapers of the country. |