Why the Boy Earl Lost His Pretty Bride
ERROLL
HIS CREST
Coat of Arm* of tha
Earl’* Family.
The Countess and the ! lajor Got
Rid of Their Mates After the
Latter 's Little
Jaunt to
vA merica
dences the Earl’s suite at the
Ambassador Hotel snuggled
right up against the suite of
Mrs. Ramsay-Hill.
BOYISH NOBLEMAN
lie Jolly Young Earl of Erroll,
Narked at Co-respondent in Major
Cyril Ramsay-Hill's Divorce Suit,
and Eventually Divorced by the
Countess Erroll.
LONDON
DIVORCES ^ of royal personage:
are no novelty in this city of the
jaded mismated. But the recent
double-barreled action which blew to
bits the separate romances of the jolly
young Karl of Enroll and chic Mrs.
Edith Mildred Ramsay-Ilili is still re
crberating through Mayfair. The an
•cstors of the Kail were kings of Scot
and.
•Society was frankly .stunned when it
learned that Major Cyril Ramsay-lli!!,
bluff army man, in suing his wife had
lamed the Karl as co respondent. The
Major, much aggrieved, asked and was
warded 5to,000.
But this surprise was nothing to that
elt when two months later the ex
uisito Countess Erroll, formerly Lady
dina Cordon, sued her boyish* mat
•harging misconduct and naming Mrs
Ramsay-Hill.
P- S, She got the decree.
This jjraee of matrimonial disaster'
teems, superficially at least, traceable
o an unfortunate propensity on tin
>art of fate to make neighbors of Mrs
famsay-llill and the Earl. In Scotland
of which, despite his youth, he is thc
premier peer, her estate adjoined hi
•astie. Last Summer, when Mrs. Iiam
ay-1 fill took the Aquitania for Amec
■ a, on the very same day she reached
• ew York who should hound from thc
angplank of the Leviathan hut the
•arl? And on top of it all, by the most
delightful (blit portentous) of coinci
w It was the latter fact, per
haps. that inspired * number
of sizzling cablegrams from
Great Britain to Erroll in
which, it is said, he was urged to
return home at once- “His Lord
ship's departure’’—so commented
the New York press of the period—1
“was hastened by a peremptory note
from the British Embassy.” Whether
or not this was true, the blonde, beam
ing Scotsman didn't tarry long on
American shores. Nor did Mrs. Ham
say-Hill.
Even then dat old debbil coinci
dence was busy. For, purely by chance,
each booked passage home on the Aqui
tania. Then when they reached London
the divorce mill began grinding with
unusual vigor.
The Kamsay-Hillas divorce, while
startling, could be dismissed by society
with a tolerant shrug. But when the
very noble Errolls split up. no shoul
der-gesture in the world could express
the amazement that was experienced.
For the House of Erroll is rooted in
the proudest and most profoundly
patrician soil of Scotland and its mem
bers are expected not merely to com
port themselves like moral citizens, but
to uphold the lofty traditions to which
they have been bred.
Yet, curiously enough, this is not the
first time that the leading elans have
figured spectacularly in the news
papers. There was, for example, gav
old Lord Granville Gordon, a forebear
of that Captain Charles Gordon to
whom at one time the Earl of Erroll's
wife was married. “Granny” Gordon,
brother of “Teapot” Gordon, was »
notable spender. Having run the bank
ruptcy gamut, he opened a gaming re
T •*"-<
sort which the %• _
police raided. X'* # * -
Mis brother, ‘/s’"'
“Brings” Gordon, **"
was famous for his power
of invective, while an
other. “Charlie,” the Mar
qucss or uunucy. lied Horn xngianu 10
Albania when ho was charged with
fraud.
With this depressing background of
nobility on the loose in mind, it is no
wonder that the Countess Enroll pre*
ferred to go her own way via the di
vorce court. Being the sister of Lord
de la Warr, she doubtless felt that she
had her own family traditions to keep
up, for this is an extremely important
and aristocratic line. This did not pre
vent her from having the costs of the
suit assessed against both her husband
and Mrs. Rarnsay-Ilill. Especially note-i
for her fashionable frocks and the dis
tinguished way she wears them, thr
Countess Errol) has been one of Kng
lish society’s most impressive t’erninins
figures.
She became engaged to the Earl
when he was the flonoiable Josslyn
Open-Mindedness Plus Hnrd Work
Pares Way to Success-Robertson
ANDREW W.
ROBERTSON
Minimum <*/ the
IT eslinghouse Elec
tric nncl Manufac
turing Eu.
Andrew wells roeertson,
recently appointed chairman pi
the Wcstinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company, has gained
the forceful sobriquet 6t "The execu
tive with no pet plans.” He has, how
ever, very crisply concrete ideas about
public relations and the interrelation
ship of employer and employe, as set
forth in the following paragiaphs:
"Every business as an economic
structure must be before all else suc
cessful. But every business 5s the
product of the human beings who
compose it and it cannot be greater
than they. Few business institutions
succeed in making a complete use of
the brains that lie latent—and some
times fallow—within the organization.
It seems to me that thia is the true, the
acid test of realistic executive leader
»hip.
“Unfortunately there is an uncon
scious but none the less regrettable
tendency in business not onlv to fad to
give credit to junior members of the
organization for their personal contri
butions rf constructive thought and
effort, but actually to take it away
from them.'
“I have found invariably that there
is ari unbelievable magic in frankly
tendered credit and praise, freed from
that insufferable air of patronage
which tends to lessen the acknowl
edgement.
“My professional credo? I believe
-in putting responsibility upon em
ployes; then giving them sufficient
authority to carry out that responsi
bility. I want to sit across • desk with
the men and women who make West
inghouse what it is today”—last year’s
gross earnings were $190,000,000—
“until I know them as individuals and
understand their persons elements
of strength, and find out bow I can
help them to develop along the line of
their own talents, interests and capaci
ties. Then, and then only, can I get
the real picture, and attempt some of
the things a chairman of the board
ought to do.
“Other business essentials seem to
me to be the calmness and the moling
out of an impartial judgment. 1 try
to do both the right and the generous
thing; and if there is one thing more
than another that strikes me as im
perative, it is swift, decisive action.
There is always a time to do a thing,
and if you don’t do it then, you might
as well not do it at all.
“I have stressed the value of per
sonal encouragement. Of course all
men don’t respond to it. In a pro
gressive organization, one constantly
s .arching for new and better methods,
it is inevitable that occasionally there
is a man who can’t breast the tide.
When such a situation arises, action
must be taken. Sentimentalism must
not be allowed to run wild. Rather
than keep on applying the whip to a
man, I let him go.
“There is one guide, one unfailing
test. It is PROFITS.
“You think that sounds materialis
tic? It really isn’t. The only really
cheap things the world gets ape those
produced at a profit. Therefore, to
do what seems to be a hard thing is
sometimes inescapable. But one must
have the courage to do it in the interest
of the whole community, in the gen
eral social interest, in the interest of
the great public that uses your prod
ucts.
“Open-mindedness—that’s the secret
—combined with hard work. That is
what leads to the discovery of new
and better ways, and consequently to
supplying the community, the world
with more things at leas cost, thus
enriching standards of living."
Mr. Robertson’s first act upon as
suming the chairmanship was to estab
lish a generous pension fund for
employes. This was supplemented by
an attractive and eminently practicable
savings fund plan which has already
met with pronounced success, “lie has
not forgotten his own early struggles,”
remarked one of his colleagues, *'an<i
how it felt to be the under dog. It is
because of this that today he gives the
humblest of his employes the right and
the chance to be heard.”
_The ABC’s of General Knowledge
The Ten Largest Construction Contracts
Awarded During 1928 in the
rM!r^d United States and Abroad
$80,000,000
$00,000,000
$40,000,000
$20,000,000
<£>1929
International
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Chari bv FUELING FOSTER
New York Mas Awarded Eight, Chicago One
and Oetroil One
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Harbor,. Turkey, Turkish Government . .....
Apparel Marl Building. Chicago.
New York City Water Tunnel . ..„
Government Road,. Spain
Hoad,. Spain, owned l«y Conipania Automovi
Madrid Irmn ... , . ..
l.inroln 42nd Street Building. New York City. . .
Government Irrigation Project. Greece.
Government Electrical lnvtallalionG [!u„ia . . .
Detroit Billinorc Hotel and Office Building . .
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Riviera Snapshot of
the Countess of Erroll When
She Was Lady Idina Gordon
and He was the Hon. Jossiyn
Hay During the Days of
Their Betrothal.
May. Shortly
t h ere after
through the sud
den deaths of his
grandfather and
lather, Josslyn
became in suc
cession Lord
Kilmarnock and
the Lari of Er
roll. The mar
riage was the
Countess’ third.
She had be
come estranged
from one of her
husbands, the
CAY •‘GRANNY”
Picturesque Old Photo of
Lord Granville Gordon,
Forebear of the Captain
Gordon to Whom the
Countess of Erroll was at
One Time Married. "Gran
ny” was Famous in His
Day as a Spendthrift.
ptain u ora on already referred to,
just before he married the beautiful
Honoria Malcolm Johnstone Lumsden,
me mb*# of an illustrious family*
I ragedy tracked Honoria despite riches,
charm, popularity, intellect and an un
deniable fascination for the other sex.
Honoria, too, had been married
thrice. The romantic first love of hci
girlhood, Reggie Fitzroy Johnstone,
was slain in the Aisne campaign dur
ing the World War. Her second hus
band, James Lumsden, sponsored
lavish social fetes in her honor and she
became much the lady of fashion. But
the couple gradually drifted apart and
were divorced. Her third marriage, to
Captain Cordon, appeared to be happy.
He was indeed a catch of whom any
girl—no matter how proudly bred and
aristocratically born—might be en
vious. Rich, suave, dashing, the Capt
tain had been an honory attache at
the British Embassy in Paris just be
fore the war. Instantly at
tracted to one another, he and
lionoria were married at Ken
ya, South Africa.
In an effort to shake off the
depression engendered by her
hectic existence in Mayfair's
gilded, cocktail-drinking circles,
Honoria had deserted Half
Moon Street for the wilds.
There, she fondly hoped, life
would be “different." jtut even
in Kenya there was the same
hectic routine to be pone through—for
in the Protectorate the Colonials did
their best to ape sedulously the post
war manners and merrymaking of
their kin “back home."
Hie Captain had been dispatched to
Africa on what is technically described
ip Army circles as "detached service.”
C,i.-*00’ was bored and lonely, and
nothing could have been more natural
than his infatuation with the lovely
Honoria. ^
For several years the Captain and
Honoria were far and awav the most
popular young married couple in Ken
•va- 1,10 surface current of their lives
SUING
BEAUTY
The Lovely Counted of Erroll, Who
Divorced Her Noble Husband, Chars*
ing Misconduct and Naming Mrs.
Ramaay-Hill.
was without a ripple of discontent
They rode, shot game, played bridge—
and were ideally happy.
But fate held an unlucky trump foi
them. Gordon was forced to rettfrr
to London, in” connortion with some
business natters relating to the man
agement of his great estate in Aber
deenshire. Honoria unwillingly ac
companied him—unwillingly because
she dreaded bcin^ once again involved
with the “charming people” of May
fair whose sole occupation had seemed
to her to be delicate and futile dis
sipation.
But she made the bc.it of a bad situ
ation, and, forcing a smile to her lips,
nodded assent when her husband asked
her to pack up and leave.
In London she complained of
“nerves.” One evening she excused
herself from a dinnerparty in Mayfair,
walked into her hostess' boudoir, pulled
a little ivory-handled pistol from her
bag and shot herself twice in the
temple.
Letter
(On the Rive rb&nk )
“Shall I tell of the swallow that's building a nest in the eaves?’’
\\ZZiiu you away
yy I count each day
And vaguely wonder what
to say
la the letter I write to you, dear.
Shall l tell you how l miss you,
How l am longing to hiss you,
llow happy I’d be with you near?
Or shall I tell of the swallow
That’s building a nest in the eaves;
Of the chickadee singing from shel
tering leaves
Of the plum-tree in the ho"
tf l relate
How / watch and wait
yOU will scarcely envy me.
So I’ll say I cm happy here,
That I wander over the lea
Sweet with the scent of the juniper :
tree.
Content with the moon for company
And free from the thought of fear.
I’ll tell
Of the delicate shell
I found on the shore this noon;
Of the nook tn the forest cool
That slopes to the lip of a pool,
Where russet pine-needles form a bed
To soothe a weary and work-worn
head. g
II dl you weaken and come to me
soonf _
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