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Show TatX BAaUXB) bMwTmBsM. Plaaa WaalHa 4a ceaapaeatlya LOMDON, Dec 30. It would be difficult to find a parallel to auch a sudden descent from Immense wealth to comparative poverty, aa that of the partners In the great firm ofBaringBros.ACo. Lord Revel-stoke Revel-stoke was building a splendid mansion man-sion In Mavfalr, which was to cost 100.000, but has surrendered tats, aa well aa the rest of bto property, to the creditors, to barealiasdas among the assets of tba firm. The other partners have dealt with their proprrty intheaameway. Mr. Hodgson, who waa a silent partner only, and osw $10,000 a the year forhto aharsof the profits of business, bad a aaagsificaat place In Kent, where htofiaaOlytad dweR for three generations. This he baa given over as It atanto, house, furniture, furni-ture, worka of art aaJ everything to the liquidators am! flnde klnastU beginning life agatoat aa Advanced age at a salary of S a .serin the service oT the revised limited company com-pany of Bar! eg A Co. Another parttr,Mr. Stewart, fatber-ln-lawto Herbert Ward of Stanley and Africa -erne, had pnr-ehased pnr-ehased one of the moat jpalatial bouses In Carltsn Bauae Terrace and was spenelng s 150.000 la decorating an-1 furnlaiiing. The house was to bate been occupied by him this spring and a great boaee warming was panned. He considers consid-ers himself fortunate In obtaining a purchase for it in the person of Mrs. Yet slaitheraMBtberof -brae, Henry BlBghsmMIMmay, bad a splendid hows adaatate fa Kent, firwb!Abel--to-'aat 'r three years In Sir Henry Jaates. |
