Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1911 — GYPSY BARONS VISITING IN ENGLAND [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GYPSY BARONS VISITING IN ENGLAND

LONDON. —The people of London have been much interested lately in the large band of Galician Gypsies that has been encamped in East Putney. These visitors are on their way to America and are taking their time about getting there, having been fifteen years on the road already. They are wealthy and are of ancient lineage, with all the pride of royal ancestry. Unlike the of wandering tribes, they are not beggars and thieves, but skilled workers in metal. Tradition has it that they have inherited their cunning in this direction from Samer, the goldsmith who made the image of the golden calf in the wilderness. They are a handsome people, large of stature, with a Greek regularity of feature. Their hair and beards are jet black; In their flashing black eyes lurks the melancholy shadow of a wandering race. ' >