COWBOY BARONET.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12615, 18 November 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

COWBOY BARONET.

The New^ York corespondent of the London Daily Telegraph recently telegraphed as follows : — Sir Genille Cave Brown . Cave, known generally as the cowboy baronet, publicly declared today that he would sooner be "the caretaker of the Brooklyn barracks of the Salvation Army than ride to hounds and be somebody in English county society after the manner of his forefathers. Sir Genille has no grudge against fox-hunt-ing or county society, but, to quote his own words to the Daily Telegraph representative here : "There's no room in England for a baronet when he's without an income and his landed estate is lieavily mortgaged." I suggested that tho baronet's plight was equally bad in the United States, and ho replied that since he had been "saved" he had been "rich in grace," and that "earthly treasure allured him no longer." The former cowboy looks a mighty smart, clean-cut, young Englishman to-day, and all the better for his years of probation in the Salvation Army work. He has been caretaker of the Brooklyn barracks, floor scruhber and janitor during the week; lending a hand on Sundays distributing hymn-books, and playing the bass drum. Now he has been promoted to the rank of ensign, and in nonbr of his elevation there are to be grand doings at the barracks next Friday. Sir. Genille, according to the posters on the city walls, is "leading the service of prayer and thanksgiving and "experiences." It is to be "a great English night" and tho former cowpunclier will be the central figure. "Sir Genille Cave Browne Cave," says the poster" "a former man of fashion, of Stretton' Hall) England, will tell what the Salvation Army can do for you." It is further mentioned that Lady Duff Gordon arid "other English aristocrats" will be present. Sir Genille, when he returned from England three years a|-o after inspecting nis much-encumbered family es : tate, .called on the Daily Now York'-'-bureau arid said that he intended to marry and settle down. Then he disappeared for a while, arid was pot, found again until he joined the Salva-' tion Army. In his "experiences" he tells ' how a Salvation lass found him' one day^ in a public-drinking bar and-iiii vited him to the barracks. "I was on. my beam ends then," says Sir Genille, "and hadn't heard a kind word for ever, so long. I went to the barracks and proved that conversion to a Christian life satisfies the requirements of any reasonable man."