The sun., 1890-11-24
CAPT. ORTIZ, ONCE ARCHDUKE
THE FATE OF A ROYAL AUS7RTAN
WHO WAS BORED By HIS HIGH LOT

He Renowned His FreroGatives TO Be-
como Sos Capitals and Marry Dancer.
and Now II 10 Probable that lle and
His wife Lie at the Bottom Of the Sea.
Johann orth bought last spring the first.
class iron ship Santa Margaretha in Dnnkir-
chen. He sailed to London and took on board
there freight for Ensenada In the La Plata
country. After unloading he cabled on July
IL that he would sail his ship to Valparaiso
shortly. Nothing more has been heard from
him. although the voyage from Ensenada 10
Valparaiso is at most sixty days long. For
some time 1t was supposed that Orth had en-
tered small haven to escape storm or to
repair his ship. Two vessels that have Just
arrived In Hamburg from Valparaiso how
ever, bring the news that In rounding Cape
Horn they passed. three wrecks, one Of which
was undoubtedly the Austrian. Santa Marga-
ie;ha. The inevitable conclusion is that tho
Santa Marearetha was overtaken by Ill luck,
and that Capt Johann Orth and the crew did
not escape"
This plain commercial statement appeared
In the Vienna Free Press OF Nov. g. between its
lines oil who know the recent history of the
ioase OF napsburg read the record OF ideal
love. high ambition. and crusader-like devotion
TO the duties Of human life.
just one year ago last Sept. 10 Archduke
Johann Of Austria made In Fiume his cxamin-
alton preliminary to becoming Captain on
the high seas" and few weeks later no re-
signed all his Hapsbure titles and obligations
and rights. in order that he might lead the free
and busy life Of a plain citizen. His friends
and family had long been apprehensive Of this
long step. for he had frequently expressed his
dissatisfaction with the lot Of an Archduke.
To the outside world his renunclation Of pre-
negatives was the source OF unendinG amaze
ment. not only because he had foregone all
the privileges that constitute life for the
ordinary aristoorat in Austria, but because he
laid aside honors that he had aspired to with
his own ambition and had Grasped with his
own hands. His sturdy common sense. his
keen originality. and his liberal and unpreju-
diced knowledge Of questions of the day had
w9n W IN hin the name OF being @ the most gifted OF
that the new Captain on the hixh seas"S re-.
signed v as his rank as Lieutenant Field Mar
a certain extent true, that in great military
state like Austria. male member Of the reign
Rs efsa Th ss IN
H. isss sheI H. but a!!,oy years od f.
%ilssS ssgdes in tSs form 4 sn an address ems ems
tained considerable heterodoxy. anu not few
senti1ents that gave % evidence zee, that they grew
@
and HI, ia at home; IA i. he Denounced
%sshPSs sss Ss sIssas 9sttssa The bs,r frgs Us
sh hs 5y a essk s9 s9
never be taught by sad experience how weak q
stay are tE9.ps that have been d. drilled but not
love Of his troops,,the l9ye whose possibility
dents Of many SUCCESSFUL and noble COM
manders ! at least least shall retain panshsttered a in
IN dsa IN ms hs
leads us to the realization Of them. The eon-
isssson 81 this creed 5%ay be in
A commander with sueh con nyictlons and ten
denotes Of thought. could not long endure the
as to sEs ns %
and finally he buried Himself 10 the stady Of
In seances % among no the Vienna % nobity: 'f This
the re
yealed The i'nuds a. 1f the great high priest Of
VAS the mediums rs name. and % VARIOUS liberies sias
yinced the Crown Prince and Arrhdukc that no
The moment It appeared the xrshdaHe ciaspei ped
Rnee on sao sh nd Bssan af soc
in state Of collapse before tho company.
bers ofthe House Of d APPS burg would have been
S2 Re eli conossed ene
MS fraud. received plainingly an Arch
his stociins feet to Be- @ seen n more 1 in Vienna.
Some two years ago the Archduke Johann
Soqn hs mas. Fl h wy For IN
satlated Beyond the usual limit of eSnicism c.
cirsumstances' the cSoioe " was '' somewhat ee hat
uniIue He fell in qys with hudma s.uIe
seRe9 tam tsy bis
not &rcsaSss Shsaa,f fy sor n tRpt "aSuss .se
remained intimate week after week and month
after month while the Arohduke was deciding
great discomfort He passed about every even
ns in 10 ana hSs sSssa 81 SSn' M 5
sSs%s s% 19n arS SIsh 'fS =
iish, plays were read By. the mem bers; The
az aTsys o4 Rst e. a amE %s
In preparing Tor the reading"
could love with his whole heart a Vienna
Nhuo0uso hlIoE uuOulub VI Iutlmbcy WIN QtT.
he tossed i all over eventually. decided to live
ior what other .th ,1 men live for engaged himself
animation at Fiume. :. / have long been dis.
Examiners, whom he enteEtained al, dinner
uI neI %bare ns haa oece%e No8
And 50 the Arehdpke Johann Of Austria bs-
chhnntnan Santa SAINT \ NaTEssretha; Ts 10 placed his
Santa Margaretha was being loaded in London
Ludmillu stubel crossed the channel from the
band sailed without her; Last May; however,
can port. She began with him the voyage
rom which he has not returned, and Whatever
fate may have overtaken him has probably
been shared BY her.
The circumstances OF Capt Orth and tho
condition OF affairs on the santa Margaretha
Just before the beginning g. She the ill;omeped
selt IL letter dated from Ia Plata ?n July IL.
tourist tourist author yh9 hr recently returned to the
Il saw Mr.. Johann Ortiz" says Modrlch, at
the Alstro- Hungarian Consulate in Buenos
25. His ship. the Santa MarGaretha. an iron