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Show fitter Lerxon for Our Unpatriotic Mponairerj William Waldorf Astor, America's Most Notorious Expatriate, r Ambitions Thwarted, Millions Wasted, Harassed by the j yAtue ooffasjo' W Jc? SnarP Tongue of His Beautiful Daughter- nnnnn nr tiV WKsd& in-Law, Drops Out of the Fight for a Dukedom IT'M tin HI ft w cmo iirilwHI M fo Wage WAicA fe Gave . dMkMT! A I ' v4J i -. T . K. ... , ill , v W2Esa Waldorf Astor -.UJlXil WALDORF ASTOR. VfJ oTier of tie biggest sliced New M Tori real estate, has abandoned j ls eanpa-gn to win & British title a tecoae a sodal power In England. t ku decided to sell his London u KTSfipers, which lie ran simply to lin-ca ks claims to a title from the xt party and to withdraw from Eng K pt3e Lfa and society He will d1 tia rest of his days at an odes od-es l-ica on the Continent. He will dc p to Amenta, for he became dls-ssi dls-ssi mi hj native country before U-d rejected him. -j is tie miserable end of the most x. attempt ever made by an Ameri-to Ameri-to Tia Boail honors nd title." in a -p country To gain these things TCaidort Astor abandoned the x&7 of his birth that gaTe him his -a Teakh, and neglected aj the pa rja and civic obligations which that u enlaced. And now he finds that 2 friga aristocrats whose boots he j jled and Those debts he has paid : treaty Ave years have nothing but ssxpt and ridicule for him. i Astor'a experience should be a za lesson for the considerable nnm f of Amer'can mJHonaires who are a social career abroad and for ies rto may be tempted toward a "-a morse. Foreigners can haTe no restct to' a rich American who -a abandoned hi3 native country with ' reason or necessity and no country fnf r honors worth having on such La, U amusing and pcturesque touch has a Eien to the collapse of Mr Aster's -Sil career by tne lively tongue of his -awn daughter in law Mrs Waldorf She was Miss Nannie Langhome J- or tie Sre noted Langhome sisters jrsau, the most famous group of "aa is society to-day Mrs. Aster's American sense caor ias constantly stirred by the straggles of her father In law ""title and she simply could not help finny Lttle remarks about it remarks irritated Mr Astor very Kir is aimed to be an antocrat In J" family According to the society . somebody asked Mrs Astor what " ner father in law would take under . tat Conservative government la "J4 she replied jtW De Lord Hlgh 0pener of ai fTVeeeatly it is said another J le bet what Utle Mr Astor ibJ"6 when he obtained his long rfferage, to which she answered he will be Earl of Tighfhurst " ssw snPPoaea to have been a dell n.er.ece to Mr Astor s disinclina-x disinclina-x 'e'"?fb Cliveden the Astor pal Thames at enormous expense more or less humorous remarks l tL 1 5 and her frequent references to his money bags are said to hae finally aggravated Mr Astor beyond endurance and proved the final thrust that decided him to withdraw from English social and publia life. He had already failed In every object on which he had set his heart and to make his daughter-ln law a jesting remarks an excuse for getting out of a hopeless situation was not a surprising sur-prising action in a broken-spirited man. It Is even suggested that Mr Astor s p que against his daughter-ln law has led to serious estrangement from his son and the distressful word "disinheritance has been mentioned but upon this point there is no reliable Information. On several oocas ons Mr Astor'a American Amer-ican dollars have placed him In a ridiculous ridicu-lous light In England although he has spent them so freely there During the last general election, for instance the English Tories made a great fuss about the American dollars they said were being be-ing sent over by Irish-Americans to win Home Rule for Ireland. At this election young Waldorf Astor was a Tory candi date for Parliament tor the town of Plymouth. An English speaker gifted with traditional English slowness of com prehension, who went dowa to speak In support of Astor laid great stress on the "dirty American dollars" cry "Fellow countrymen will you allow yourselves to be ruled by dirty American dollars sent over here to bribe our honest British electors Into selling their conn Jj n H! r 4L I Another British Cartoon Making: Fun of Astor a Ambition to Win a Peerage try? thundered the British orator Then If you wish to avert that tragedy vote for my upright, patriotlo friend, Mr W aldorf Astor Young Waldorf Astor realizing fully that he had nothing but "dirty American dollars felt greatly embarrassed, but thought that he ought to back up his friend s remarks as strongly as possible. -1 boil with Indignation at the picture my noble friend has drawn of the base fnoro sr UAt-t. e C H S London Pretty Mrs Waldorf Astor, Whose Nimble Tongue Has Made Her Father in Law Funou3 and Put the Finishing Touch -j on His Social Collapse in England. ' attempts to seduce our "j. " I dear old country with for II I eign gold" cried Mr 1 1 I Astor when his turn to ' speak came. "We will Yixn. 3Uy wel1 snow' tbem that the can ' bny nP dear 01,3 eraS" England with their dirty American dollars "I say old top" called out a vulgar Briton in the audience won t yer please tell us wot you re a living orf? Young Mrs Astor related this amusing episode and many other details of the campaign In a very entertaining manner at London social gatherings Everything she said added to the Irritability of the elder Astor and helped on the final ex plosion. Another, reported remark of Mrs. Astor made fun of the Astor an cestry The Duchess of Marlborough was explaining to some English people that the Vanderbilt family was not as new as the English think an American familr must be But the Astors had stopped skin nlng skunks years before the ander bllts stopped collecting tolls on their ferry Interrupted Mrs Waldorf Astor This remark was quite annoving to o d Mr Astor because he had with great trouble and expense published a genealogical report showing that he was descended from an anc ent Spanish noble family named Astorga This was accom panied by copious Illustrations and heral J A Cunous Cartoon from the ' Winning Post London Eidiculing Mr Astor'a" I Course in Shutting the British Public Out of the Grounds of His j Country Place Cliveden, and Showing Young Mr Astor as M ne the Guards Patrolling the Battle Strewn Wall. 5 die devices and made very little mention of tbe German peasants from whom the I Astors were undoubtedly descended Ez One of Mr Astors peculiarities since h he settled In England has been to have ift everything about him very feudal, so that he might be properly qualified for a place 3 In the House of Lords He bought Hever Castle in Kent, one of the most perfect & Tudor castles in England It had be-longed be-longed to Queen Anne Boleyn, to marry g whom King Henry VIIL divorced Kath arine of Aragon Within a few years as tl every schoolboy knows he beheaded poor C Anne Boleyn. m After that the ghost of this beautiful J graceful unhappy young queen used to "J haunt her ancient home It was this M reputation of possessing a first-class his- M torlc ghost that induced Mr Astor to buy g Hever Castle. But after he moved in the H ghost absolutely refused to walk. A sar P castle Englishman remarked that a queens ghost would naturally refuse to K walk for an American parvenu. This Zt remark, line so many others annoyed Mr Astor very much. S Mr Astor has spent his money freely buying Tory newspapers and contributing 3j to Tory campaign funds in England with ajl the object of getting a dukedom. In the last two hundred years dukedoms have r only been given to men already having a high rank in the peerage and even that Sf way only four have hp.pn rpatori nra 1814 When the Tory party was last la power it Is said they offered Astor a baronetcy an honor given to various makers of pills and soap He spurned it It is explained that Astor is so un popular that the Tory party did not have the audacity to give him a peerage no matter how large his contributions might be Since he left New York In 189' and settled In London, his life has cons sted of making large expenditures to gam the coveted titla and getting into difficulties that made It Impossible to give it to him. In 1900 occurred the memorable Sir Berkeley Ber-keley Milne affair which astounded Eng lish society as nothing before or since has done This consisted in ordering out of his house Captain Milne because that gentleman the captain of the Queens yachts happened to be present as a caller wltnout an invitation at a musicals Astor caused an insulting Item about Milne to be printed In his newspaper King Edward Ed-ward IL then Prince of Wales was greatly enraged by this brutal treatment of a friend of his Astor by this act, became the most disliked man in English society as he had become in America a year before by renouncing allegiance to his native land Before he incurred royal displeasure by the Milne affzur he invited the then Phlnce of Wales to Cliveden. Ignoring the court etiquette of asking the royal visit or what divers on would suit his pleasure. Astor bluntly said they would take a ride 1? tt Iach which was exactly what the Prince did not want to do This gained him the name of being the worst authority on court etiquette in England. He made himself ridiculous by bringing a. libel suit against a London newspaper for printing a story that he had made a bet that he could seat twenty seven persons around a table made from a section sec-tion of redwood tree brought from Call tornia He really had such a table but the dinner story was a hoax, perhaps designed to poke fun at Astor The court laughed at him and dismissed the case after having more or less fun with the senseless litigant. After buying Cliveden from the Duke of Westminster the latter remembered tJ t rS 00k or autograph album f?, iaSked Mr Astor t0 re turn to him on account of its family as social ons Mr Astor curtly refused to k sTand becaie a bitter enemy of he Duke of Westminster ever af&-even af&-even refusing to print a notice of the Dukes death in his newspaper although lw was one of the richest peers of E?g fmtCVaCt f ?nuttiag out the people w .i 6 sround3 of Cliveden wh oh had always been a semi public park ftC mented feeling against him f" " every siep of Mr Astor s career In fact he seems to have done just the th ngS to defeat his own ends and am bition. Hever Castle Bought by Mr Astor? Because Queen Anne Boleyn Onca Lived in It and Her Ghost la Said to Haunt It Second w liwhwCsSS s x John F&HSfeMsi. I i iviV ihi? Uinform as Kflrl M fpTrl V an Officer Pglf ll i JL "A j j P 11 r |