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Show Taylor Belonged to Wealthy Irish Family, Is Claim CHICAGO, Feb. 10 William Desmond Des-mond Taylor, also known as William Doane-Tanner. never had a brother and belonged to the oldest and wealthiest wealth-iest aristocracy of Ireland; according to a statement made today by Mrs. W. A Farnum. an old friend from Ireland, Ire-land, who know him well when he was a boy. "His father s name was Major Will-lam Will-lam Tanner' she said. "He wns the only one of his family who was not jnomothlnjr of a snob Ho talked to tho common people. Two other little girls and I used to wait at the edge of tho Keane estate, near the Tanner estate, In the hawthorno bushes for him to give ns a rldo to town. He drove four miles to school at LJamore In a pony trap. "He admired athletic people and tho first girl who ever got any special attention at-tention from hi in wa.i Ka hltv Sliun-non. Sliun-non. who was 16 und tho best angler in the country " |