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Show 'i . Sussex Clergyman's Bar- ! : Famous Keepers maid Sinj9 ln l9 Of "Pubs" Church Choir Lewin, over the door. The Bishop of Chester, who is much interested In public house reform, runs several establishments es-tablishments on lines which he has laid down. To one of them the Sun at Sparkford he gives his personal supervision. The Rev. Frederick Wil-lett, Wil-lett, a well-known clergyman of Sussex, Sus-sex, manages a public house called the Anchor. The barmaid is a member of his choir. The Prince's Tavern, one of the best known houses in the west end of London, was until recently conducted by Miss Marie Lloyd of music hall fame. New York Press Potter Palmer and the Astors are not the only people of wide reputation who are in the hotel business. In novels nov-els of English life it is always the retired re-tired butler who sets up a "pub"; but in English real life which, by the way, is always vastly different from tne life"'of "the English novel it is often "his ludship" who opens the hotel. ho-tel. Lord Spencer is the proprietor of two hotels in Northamptonshire. The one at Harleston is managed by Canon Bury, the rector of the parish. Lady Lechmere conducts the Spital Beck Inn on the road from York to Scarborough Scarbor-ough and does a thriving business. Her husband. Sir Frederick Lechmere, owns severel hotels, which are under his direct control. The first peer to conduct an inn' was "Dick" Croker's late neighbor, Lord Wantage, who for many years ran an establishment at ' Ardington and gave the proceeds to charity. The house differed from others of the sort inasmuch as soup , as well as beer and spirits was sold ever the bar In winter. The actor William Terriss, who was assassinated r o nrTv mm in London a short time ago, was an enthusiastic hotel keeper. He ran one of the most profitable public houses in London the old Market House in Russell street, Covent. Garden. He was not proprietor in name only, but always ordered his stock himself, attended to the books fcnd had his real name, |