The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-01
THE VILEST OF MEN.
Are Titled Aristocrats Who
Wed Rich American Girls.
CRIMES OF SOME OF THEM.
Why VIM women Marry Broken Down
Dsbauchees. Penniless. but With
ulustrious Ancestry
John Paul Bocock in New York Recorder

John Paul Bocock in New York Recorder.
1t is not only the daughters of the rich
who marry titled rascals. Their victims
are to be found in hamlets as well'as cities.
in the home of the mechanic as well as the
mansion of the millionaire.
Gossip about the possibly approaching
nuptials of the Duke of Norfolk. the most
distinguished British eligible. to Miss Van
Wart and about the near dates of the wed.
dIngs of Mrs. Livermore to Baron Seilliere,
of Miss Knowlton to Count Sierstorpff, of
Miss French to Colonel Eaton, son OF Baron
Cheylesmore; of Mrs. Robert Livingston
to Count George Erdody, as well as about
such international alliances as those of
Count Festetics and Miss Haggin, the
Marquis de Choiseul and Miss Coudert,
Miss Mitchell and the Duke de la Roche
foucald. Miss Chaplin and the Marquis de
la Tour de Willard and of the Duchesse de
Dino, nee Sampson. of New York, and
Count Orlowski, naturally suggests the
old story of the unhappiness which has
fallen to the lot of so many American
women who have married titled foreigners.
Some sociologis.s are now inclined to the
belief that there is no greater percentage of
unhappiness in these than in other mar
riages. Pessimists go 80 far as to assert
that most marriages are miserable. What
do the facts show about these international
alliances2 Is there gratifying prepon-
derance of good over evil fortune in them?
Has anybody attempted to show this side
of the shield? Have the two sides of the
shield, indeed, ever been shown at all &C
curately2
The list of unhappy marriages is an
astounding one. Indeed, the number is
far greater than even careful readers and
observers would suppose. no accurate at
tempt having ever been made to collect
and arrange the statistics of anything like
even a majority of the international al
iances.
In letter from England in 1891, Rev.
DIR. John Hall, of this city, wrote: "On
another point cauntionarv word may be
given by one who knows q little of both
sides of the Atlantic. / can best put it, per-
haps, in the language of lady, true lady,
too, a comparative stranger to me, who was
introduced. and in reply to my question,
Where is your homer said: We'll, it is
America, and / hope to go to it again, but
my daughter married in Europe. and, like
most European marriages. and then she
paused, with a quivering lip and fearful
eyes, and added: That's the sad reason
I'm here. If / had the ear of well-to-do
American girls l would say to them re-
spectfully: Do not despise your country
men; even grand dukes are not always
grand men, and counts do not always count
for much.'"
The fate of Margaret Fuller, the Countess
d'Ossoli, who was drowned with her babe
md brS in hn howl nF he
Long Island coast, has never been cited as
an instance of the misfortune resulting
from such alliances, But she made such
marriage-and what an awful sequence
there wasl
The Clemenceau case brings the whole
subject up again directly. Mrs. Gallatin,
of New York. married the Count de Chabot
in June, 1883. She is now suing for
separation on the ground of positive
cruelty and violent temper. Who forgets
the wretchedness of Consuelo Yznaga, as
Lady Vaudeville? The meretricious
career of Miss Blakeney, of Brooklyn, as
Mime. Muzard? Miss Bayard, of Della
ware, was the widowed Countess Lewen-
haupt before the orange blossoms had
withered. Baron l. +. Lagerfelt, Swedish
consul in Pittsburg, married Miss Mollie
Doty, of Steubenville. O.. was shortly
afterward charged with forgery and had
his property attached for ST., 900. Miss Fam
ME Fuller, of Philadelphia. the reputed
heiress of the Chase millions, gave her
hand to the Marquis de Boyer d'Eguille;
he sunk to abject poverty in the pursuit
of those millions and was arrested for
debt; Count Pietro Detto il Gallian de Mis-
sana Cimbar was sued recently in New
York courts, by his American wife, for
abandonment. Rufus Ogden, ex-post-
master of Keyport. had his daughter, the
Countess de We're, committed to the Door
of Hope in Brooklyn some months ago.
The count had deserted her. Count d. P.
Dufia married Miss Miner, Harlem girl,
about five years ago. She returned to her
fathers house last fall.
The matrimonial adventures of Nine. de
etuers are still in progress. The Duchess
of Marlborough has failed other high aim,
q standing at court. The Marquise LAMA
and the Marqpise San Mariana live in
New York, but who ever hears of their
husbands? The San Marzanos live under
different roots. The Countess Koochijay,
Miss Scovel, of Camden, N. j., is grass
widow-her husband having been con-
victed of bigamy. Countess Stumpf,
whose husband was royalty received in Ger
man circles here, where he married her, is
now cooking for living, while he has
been within a short time q waiter in an
Asbury park hotel. The woes of the
Duchess D'Auxy, an American girl, have
been more than once the subject of news
paper comment. Who hasn't heard of the
matrimonial vicissitudes of Miss Adele
Sampson, who was successfully Mrs. Fred
erick Livingston, of New York, and
Duchess de Dino; the poverty and wretch
edness of Miss Constable, the lovely Mary
land girl, who became Baroness Won
Sucrow;" Of the woes of the Countess
Kaisertreu, and of the unhappiness of the
Countess de Koppell, Poughkeepsie girl:
of Countess de Batonyi, Miss Smith, of
Poughkeepsie, deserted by her husband;
Sarah Strother, of Kentucky. Baroness
Fahnenberg. said to have become in
sane; Virginia Knox, of Pittsburg,
Countess di Montercole." beaten,
abused and divorced; Mrs. Nellie
Cooper, of Milwaukee, Countess Segardi,
wife of pauper Roman noble, mother
of Mrs. Florence Miller, who, in Deem
Der, 1891, shocked the country by going
deliberately into a brothel; Signorina
Robigliata, who was Miss Heskell, beaten
and divorced; Baroness Won Butcher, Miss
Alma Loeb, of Brooklyn, abandoned and
widowed; of Countess Norrnkow, of
New York, whose husband is in an insane
asylum in New York?
The Marquis Of Anglesev, who married
a daughter of Hon. j. p. King, of Georgia,
for years led q peculiarly precarious exis-
tence; his American wife had the pleasure
of reading in the newspapers about the
schemes by which he avoided service of
a summons on him. Once he assaulted
the process server.
Mrs. Isaac NJ. Singer, whose frs. hus-
band made fortune in sewing machines,
had a nobleman among her spouses. He
was the second, a Belgian violinist, who
called himself Viscomte d'Esumebourg at
first, and Due de Camposeiice afterward
When an American woman really wants
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