Foster's Daily Democrat

AT THE FRONT IN AFRICA.
Prominent Englishmen Who Have
Gone to Fight the Boers.

"There is one thing the British have beaten us on in this fight of theirs," said Charles Dorr of Philadelphia at the Fifth Avenue hotel to a reporter of the New York Tribune, "and that is in the number of public men who have gone to the front. One reason for this is, I think, the fact that a greater proportion of Englishmen of birth and position receive a military training than do men similarly placed in America.

"Already 24 members of parliament have gone to the front, including Harry McCalmont, who is probably the richest commoner in England. He sold the wonderfully fast steam yacht Giralda to the Spanish government in 1898. McCalmont married a sister of Hugo de Bathe, who married Mrs. Langtry, and, as you may know, he chartered Amzi L. Barber's Sapphire, and she is at Cape Town now. Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, whose brother married the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, is also among the M. P.'s who have gone to Africa. (These people are American born, coming originally, if I mistake not, from Massachusetts, their birth name being Bartlett.) The one who married the Baroness Burdett-Coutts was her private secretary at the time. Lord Stanley is also among the M. P.'s who have gone to the front. He is the oldest son of the Earl of Derby. Three of his brothers are already there, one a lieutenant in the Life Guards, the second in the Tenth Hussars and the third in Compton's Horse, a pretty fair record for one family; don't you think so?

"The Viscount Sudley, only son of the Earl of Arran, has just started for the war with a part of his regiment, the Blues." You remember Thornycroft's horse, that figured so conspicuously in the relief of Ladysmith? It was this command that attempted to storm Spion Kop, and, while the attempt was not successful, the manner in which the command behaved reflected the greatest credit on Colonel Thornycroft. He is a great hunter and has among his trophies, it is said, a picture of a tiger in his death throes, which he was fortunate enough to secure while hunting in India."