The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-10-12
LATE QUOTATIONS ON TITLES
What They Cost When Procured by Mar
riage or Otherwise.

riage or Otherwise.
From the Argonaut.
The number of American girls who have
bought titled husbands, and the enormous
prices they have paid for them, make pertinent
the inquiry: What is the cash value of title
The price paid by Miss Huntington for Prince
Hatzfeldt was two hundred thousand dollars.
Miss Caldwell bid ten thousand dollars year
for Prince Murat What Miss Mackay paid for
Prince Colonna and Mrs. Hamersley for the
Duke OF Marlborough cannot be estimated with
any degree of accuracy. Miss Won Hoffman's
husband, the Margins de Mores has cost her
family in the neighborhood of one million dol
lars already. In some cases, of course, value
has been received and the purchase-mo has
not been excessive. For instance Miss Jerome
obtained prize in Lord Randolph Churchill;
no one would think of suggesting that Miss
Endicott bought the Right Hon. Joseph Cham
berlain, or Miss Lee, Count Waldersee, or Miss
Wheeler, Count Pappenheim, but in some Of the
other cases the deals were purely commercial
transactions
Titles can be obtained for much lower prices
than have been paid by some of the before-men-
toned young women. The American heiress
desirous of wedding title can have one be-
slowed upon some young man she knows and
ambitious young American mana title is within
the reach of men of moderate means. Wooing
heiress is often difficult, but If the wooer can
bring the extra leverage of noble name to bear
upon the fair object of his wooing it may become
easier. And the prices are not exorbitant. A
short time ago card appeared in lie Figaro,
of Paris, announcing that M. Robert, of 36 Rue
Maubeuge, Paris, was prepared to procure titles
of nobility and foreign decorations for those
who are desrous of wearing such borrowed
plumes. An American correspondent answered
the advertisement asking the nature of the titles
and decorations and the cost of obtaining them.
By return mail came the following reply in
French:
MONSIEUR: have the honor of replying to
your questions. Here are the conditions for
titles of nobility
Francs.
Hlscount... ..........'.............. ........ 250O0
Baron ........................... 150OO
These are Spanish titles delivered by the Queen.
AS for decoration these are they:
The Christ of Portugal, 5000 francs, (Chevaler;)
the ne ribbon is red and Commander of the Christ.
Deeorati9n Of Isabelle the 9qthoc oheveier
mander of Isabella 6,OO0 francs.
Decoration Of Charles III of Spain, 1000 francs;
C9mmander, 1000 francs.
decoration for men and women for aid to the
wounded on land or sea; l,50O francs;
Lusignan (white-and- blue rosette) Chevalier,
loo francs; Officer, 1000 francs; Commander,
1900 francs.
Brevets of purveyors to the Court of Spain,
5000 francs.
About five or six months are necessary to OBJ
tain these distinctions, except as concerns the
two last, La Cruz Roja and Lusignan, which I
can get in one month. 1 must be given the full
name and quality. AS payment it is necessary
to send me half the amount on making applica-
tion, and the other half when deliver the title.
For this last transaction it is enough that you
have correspondent IN Paris, but if you do not
send me half the money it is useless for me to
trouble myself, because L must send this sum
first to Spain. r. ROBERT