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Show SALT, LAKE TRIBrNE. STTDAY TTTE MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1925. t 1' ' '" Hi A - r r - - ' tee ' r t f 1 iv 5 " j 0?&s ,0urO - . i . " - . ; : -- ' - S X 7 IN How Noble Earl Percy Paralyzed British Turning His Home Into Kitchen Castled' with cc Food-- rolley That ; Kept the Viands Hot Pm porridge hot. pease porridge cold, "Pease porridge from the pot, nine seconds old I" New Northumberland Version. Patricians LONDON member of tlie British FRIVOLOUS a new and startling nickname for the proud Duke of Northumberland famous ATfrwtck'Catlc,' family seat of the clan. They hare duhbed- by ; . f T the King enjoy even evening a dinner that wasn't stone cold ? Wasn't he entitled to eat hi grouse at a temperature of more than tepid? If he liked hi Burgundy cool, wa that any reason why he should prefer his terrapin at two degrees Fahren- - hat served to focus such excited attrollev lunchtention upon the Duke eons was the fact that, in recent ears, he has been in the public ee rather more ; - , .j'.' . of "cleaning up carefully from $5,000,-00- 0 to $10,000 000 within five year by this dubioush judicious procedure. Then there was the protracted squabble oser the Dukes conduct of Syon House, Qne of the Dukes se'eral gorgeous Manchester-- GuardtAO, with con- -, siderable temeritv, 'entured to suggest editorially that the new Duke might be well, just a bit more kindlv to the public in letting it 'lew the priceless art treasure within than had his predecessor, the ' ? owner of the Dundrearjs . which, by the way, the Sjon Hou-- e "Alnwick Cattle wet fitted up in the fashion of American department store, baskets crammed with smoking viands whizzing through the picture galiene to the far off banquet ball! n i (C) E. O. Boppw Above: the Stately and Duchese of Comely Northumberlend, Who Vainly Tried to Solve Coat-of-Ar- of the Ancien Family of Percy. Her Hungry Husband' Dinner Dilemma. K w But the Northumberland holdings were Still m possession of acres -- m the family were 180,000 Northumberland, 5,000 acres in North historic facts influenced the Riding, Yorkshire, and valuable land in Middlesex and Surrey. The Duke could Duke Whatever hi motive, he entered a flaming defense still ride without getting out of bounds! of his father - generosity, He had let Syon House go, to what an and,-ithe words of interaccompaniment of curses no one will ever ested spectators, "knocked know. But Alnwick Castle. . . . ? That wag the Manchester Guardian a fafMifferent matter. groggy, and Mr. Smillie, the Thither weft wont to repair when new Labor M. P., too, in a the frenziedthey fight against boredom during chain of vitriolic letters and the London "season haa got on their speeches that left hi baffled nerve. And well might they have Telished co mpetitors the charm and splendor of AlnwickI Sprawled over five acres, the majestic fasping for seat of the elan waa like some dream That the Duke fortress from a legend of the Middle Ages. should have felt House galore graced the scene his a n c e stral where onceparties the old Duke and Duchess had pride outraged maintained their strict embargo on card by suggestions games despite the fact that their Majesfrom the poputies, the King and Queen, hankering deslace and it repfor a "nominal game of whist, . resentative was perately had been baffled by the Percy precedent. only natural. How guests must have reveled m the Not only was he halls, the wonderful armory, with the b r e a t hing spacious its of offensive and defensive weaphead of the ons,array dating from the earliest times. House of Percy, But with all this and pomp, whose peerages there was just one grandeur flaw in the workdate from the ings of the superb teeny edifice. That waa the XIV Century. kitchens. In themselves, were comHe could also plete, modern and able to they serve up a feast claim the presthat would have glutted a giant Bat they tige 'of a very diswere so far away from the banqueting tinguished career in hall that, to the impatiently hungry Duke 'circles. In seated at the empty board, it army just seemed Sudan and South as though that venison would never arAfrica, his feats had rive. been widely ac- ' When ft did arrive, borne by claimed, and in the butler and uniformed men, it had World War, as lost its savor, being aaserving cold as the first Liaison Officer bepatrician heart. Can I never get tween the Military Percys a meal at a decent th Intelligence and the Duke, exasperated, wastemperature? wont to complain. press, hi work had Yet willing and eager as the staff was won only praise. to give satisfaction, its effort proved Owner of estates sterile. For even a Marathon runner, in that permitted him the pink of form, to spnnt from oven to to nde from coast to table in a few seconds was unthinkable. coast without tresThe butlers grew lean; the serving men passing on anothers got haggard. And still the Duke's test for grounds, the Duke's a piping meal was unabated. was well Just bow, when or where the brilliant bulwarked by hi notion of taking over one of thoe clever blood and his riche. American notions presented itself to But while blue blood Earl Percy, is not disclosed. But, perlasts, money doesn't chance through a scrutiny of American alwajs, so it was newspapers, perchance through the casual with no gossip of some lordly pal, just ret urn epeeial shock that people a trip to the States, His Grace of hi financial grabbed at the clue to his dilemma. d fficultie. Nowaday visitors to Alnwnck Csstlo It wu in 1922 don't have to b sourly content with lsmb that the first reports of hi pocketbook a la iceberg or quail with frosted wing-tiTheir provender comes skittering woes began to seep through to the public. from kitchen to table with the promptitude Verification of the rumors came with hi of a chorus girt making her entrance The disposal of considerable land holding. His mansion on the Thames he also rented Duke he of the whim and caprices out unuaual act for a Percy. Then has saCsfied his most gnawing caprice and came the announcement of the al of indulged a whim that even noblemen mut to: the gratification of hunger, fyon House, most cherished of Percy bow promptly 1 landmarks. kissing the children goodbye forever, Charles I had left the building to be executed No matter whether these far from depleted. n. h i A grim medieval fortress "Kitchen Some e'en call it Cuisine Corner. And all because the Duk ha installed into the ancient and Imposing edifice a system whereby he can at last get a meal served piping hot ! The caprice, whims and thunderbolts ot the Duke character ha'e long been an enigma to the general public, unable to glance behind the curtains which shield hi private life from ees that peer and leer. Even in his apparent clinging to certain traditions, forgotten bv his peers iirthe radical welter of modem evistenie, he has alwajs been full of surpn-es- . Some "m the know have alwajs declared that his astonishing tendencies weTe inherited; that his love of the unusuil, even when it took the form of an adherence to outworn standards, was a hertagc from his father, that leonine old gent'e-ma- n who fought the ad'ance of the mo'or car as if it had been a pest of snakes, and whose Dundreary whiskers, daughters with their lock sternly unwa'ed or unbobbed, and general Puritanical background were like a museum-piece- . True, his sort, who became eighth Duk of Northumberland in 1 91 P. was of an ether generation from his father, and his picturesque utterance and deeds were of a slightly different color. Still, when the new-- s crept out that Alnwick Castle, ancestral home of the Terr's, England greatest nobles, had been fitted up in the fashion of an American department store, with wire baskets crammed with smoking viands whizzing through the picture galleries on their way to the far-of- f banquet hall well, the Duke's friends treated themselves to a tiny churkle. Why not? his more eonvrvative intimates argued. Wby shouldnt tne mtwt prominent member of Great Britain's oldest and moit independent family put bis house in order for the sake of comfortable HE who gaarronom) ? Why shouldnt didn't hav to unco'er before His Majesty J r,'wL this Castle. L ; than one would expect from a descendant of the Percy A series of incidents, some of political import, some of personal aspect, had made him a figure much belo'ed of headline writers on the London journals There was the little episode of the House of Commons meeting, when the Duke made a few remarks that were considered exceedingly advanced for a n Hock. scion of such Arising, he had declaimed: "A world conspiracy exists to overIn throw the British Fmpirel I gypt, India and Ireland th Bolsheviki and others of our enemies are fomenting un- , Test. In England both the moderate and extreme Labontes are openly advocating a dictatorship of the proletariat! The jackals of society oro out to wreck the goverwmeat! We must awake to the fact that a great alien conspiracy exists among us. The people will then rally to our support. Tia In itself was a staggerer, but there were other issues which engaged tbe activities of the choleric and .gomus Dele. He led the fight a.amst the Tractive of raising party funds by the sale of peerages and ether honors. In the House cf Lords, he accused the Llojd George government young Duke later sold when he was short of funds is one of England's most romantically traditioned castles From its gat s Ladv Jane Giey had ridden forth to claim the throne after the death of Edward VI, and incidentally k her death on the block, and, after Hit Grace, tkv of Northumberland, in the Uniform of Duke ' V tn T tbe Northumberland Futiliers moss-grow- 4. self-estee- m .1 is V 1 t... f ef-fro- . rd 1. p. c-- ;- Ain wick Cattle. kL' ;; -I r ei f -- f Indicatee Location of Banquet H-- !l; B, the U Ducal G t.f'U ft ! 1 t'J Kitcbtta t ,1 |