New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-27
QUEEN AGAINST PRINCESS.
TWO COURTS AT ATHENs-sCANDALS IN


Vienna, Oct. II.
Much sympathy is expressed here in behalf of
the young bride of the Crown Prince of Greece,
whose position at Athens seems destined to become
one of altogether unusual difficulty. Although
more than eighteen months have elapsed since
the betrothal took place at Berlin, Princess
Sophia is still perfect stranger TO her future
mother-in-law. This is rendered all the more
strange by the fact that Queen Olga has during
tho last two years resided almost cntlreiy i'll
Northern Europe, and has frequently pascal
through Prussia on her way from Paris ana
Copenhagen to St Petersburg' Much oil her
time has been spent here at Vienna, cits "inoi'
is after all but a few hours distant from berHi''
and her neglect TO make the slightest step toward
becoming personally acquainted WIN hT SUI ,
future wife has been Of the most marNeu anu
pointed nature Considerable douot pFeVdheu
even until a few days ago as to whether OF hoU
the Queen would return TO Athens III uhe lor
the wedding festivities. III Is no secret 'IaV
Queen Olga has all along been thoroughly opposed
TO her sons marriage, which she views with the
greatest possible dlstastr. She was consulted
neither by Der son nor yet by her husband about
the alliance in question, and the happy domestic
relations which formerly prevailed among the
ROYAL family at Athens have become severely
strained in consequence. Like many other
Prncesses Of the Imperial House of Romanof
who have been married abroad, Queen Olga has
remained thoroughly Russian at heart, and has
retained all that reverence for and blind obedience
10 the Gar which is rendered to him Aut0crat
as Chief Of the Dynasty, and Supreme Head
Of the Orthodox Faith, by all his relatives, both
young and old Moreover, her Hellenic Majesty
is exceedingly devOut-even TO blgotry-and she
is dismayed at the idea that her son should have
imperilled his prospects of eternal salvation by
contracting a marriage with Lutheran hereto.
From her youth up she has always been taught
TO regard the dctcstcd Germans the bitterest
enemies of Russia, and to look forward TO a
mortal and sanguinary conflict between the
Slavonic and Tcutonic races as inevitable That
her eldest son should have deserted TO those whom
she regards as the enemy, and that he should
have contributed TO the transformation of Greece
from a Russian into a German outpost, is sail
and NORWOOD TO her heart. The same feeling
may be said to exist at St. Petersburg; for when
King George visited Russia last summer to attend
the wedding of his laughter TO the young Grand
Duke Paul, he was received with the most frigd
courtesy by the Imperial family and court, and
treated with such rudcnesS by the Gar that
he made a point of leaving Copenhagen within a
few days Of the Cars arrival there.
Of a very wilful and independent character, it
is certain that she will be quick to resent her
mother-in-aw's conduct, and that rival courts
will be established at Athens, Russian influences
predOminating at that of Queen Olga and German
interests at that of Crown Princess Sophia The
latter will make her entry into the ancient
capitalaof Greece in gorgeously gilt state car
liase which has peculiar history. 1t was
originally built for the late Comtc de Chambord
after the Franco-Gcrman war, and was destined
by him TO be used on the longcG-for day of lis
triumphal entry into Paris. That day, however
never came Marshal MacMabon declined to play
the part of a General Monk TO the lame Prctender,
and the carriage remained in the warehouse of Its
builder, from whom the King Of the llellenes
purchased it nj a reduced price, some $4,000.
when last in Paris. Its by the Crown Prince S
bride on the occasion Of her first entry into
Athens is regarded by many superStitous people
with iorcbodings OF evil.
week ago the young Countess Of Hoyos-
Ilohcnsadt one Of the most brilliant beauties of
the Austrian Court, arrested BY the Bavaran
police at Passau, and committed to prison on
charge 81 perjury, alleged to have been committed
while giving testimony on behalf Of her father
in a civil suit which had been brought against
him. She has since been released on bail but the
incident has caused IN immense sensation in
society here. The young Countess I should add
is a first cousin of the Count IIcyos who first con-
vcyed TO the Emperor and Empress the news Of
Crown Prince Rudophs death, and who was sub
equcnty recommended" by the bercaved monarch
to absent himself from Europe for few years.
A few days before the arrest of Countess IlOyOs
the public both here and nj Pcsth, were startled
70 learn that the estates and fortune of Ccunt Louis
lisa, the brother Of the Hungarian Prime Minis
ter had been seized by the Government, which
will probably definitely confscate them Shortly
after the destruction Of the town of Szcgedin in
1879 by the inundaton of the Thesis. a sum
Of 100000 forms, or about So 600 900.
VAS voted by the Hungarian Parliament for the
construction of dams and quays destined to keep
The river within bounds. As the annual spring
foods frequently cause the stream to rise several
feet above the level Of the country round about
Szcgcdin, it was of vital importance that the en-
bankments should be made sufficiently strong 10
enable them 10 resist the pressure of the current
Through a disgraceful piece of ncpotism the
supcrintendence of the works in question was con-
Gded to the Prime Minister'S brother
Louis, man whose creation Of
,ount bears the date of 1888, and whose
rsnk of Chamberlain and Prvy Councillor is solely
due to the influence exercised in his behalf
Being utterly devoid of any technical training and
. knowledge of engineering, he was manifestly the
very last person who should have been appointed
to take charge of the Thesis regulation works. all
the more that, being of an exceedingly arrogant
and obstinate disposition. it was altogether impos-
sible TO induce him TO accept any good and com
petent advice. So shameiully were the quays at
Szegedin constructed under his direction that dur
ing the heavy floods of last July they crumhlcd
+bn fret
The waves played havoc with the unfortunate
town, which had been entirely rebuilt since the
catastrophe of ten years ago and in
undated all the surrounding country
devastating the farms and fields and
destroying the crops. With view of quietinp
the popular outcry which was raised against Count
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