The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-02
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1894.

/ fall. During the summer he made fire.
quent fishing excursions 10 northern lakes
/ and toward fall did some shooting in
I northwestern forests. The prince stayed
B a few weeks at fhe NendOme CLUB, sixty
/ first street and Oglesby avenue, then
/ moved 10 the Lakota, on Michigan bOule-
/ ward, and finally had his baggage sent
/ farther down town, TO the Lexington.
/ He always had a iine suite Of rooms, but
| kept small number Of servants for
genuine prince.
/ Prince Isenberg- Birstein was one of the
| last of the titled foreigners 10 leave
/ Chicago. He remained long after others
/ had departed. While here his attentions
to Miss Pullman were assiduOus. After
( leaving Chicago he fingered for some
! weeks about New York, and the first re-
I port of his engagement to Miss Pullman
was telegraphed from that city. MIR.
I Pullman denied it with d great deal of
! earnestness, but before the prince sailed
/ away the report was circulated again.
Prince Isenberg- BirsJein is not of dis
tinguished appearance. He is short,
rather fat, with the thick lips Of the
Hapsburgs, and eyes that are not express
/ slVc. He wears dark brown WklSkerS,
/ cropped close TO his owls, but his chin IS
clean shaver. The prince IS considered
rather stupid by those who know him.
/ In conversation ne IS scarcely interesting.
! He is - years old.
1t was generally remarked last summer
that Prince MISUNDERSTANDING expenses
/ 10 America were paid by u Vienna mar
/ rage broker. The prince, like his father,
| Charles, has very small income. and be-
| ing DESTROYS of travelling in the style be-
| fitting his station, as well as improving
his chances OF capturing an helress, 1t Is
| ssid he entered into q contract with
. marriage broker, who furnished the
/ funds Tor his trip with the understaE ding
r-Nr a
| the investment should the prince make
| profitable alliance. His protracted So
Journ in this country was cited as con-
/ trmatiOn of the agreement, the eXplana-
ton being frequently offered that the
! Vienna marriage broker had made such
| heavy investment in his matrimonial pros
! poets that they were unwilling TO bring
him home until he had formed an alliance
with an American heiress.
During his entire soJourn in Chicago
| the prince was accompanied by a sharp
featured young man with piercing eyes,
/ who appeared TO discharge the duties of
| private secretary, but who in fact occu-
pied far more responsible position in the
! reCinue He was the princes paymaster,
| and represented the money brokers, who
were paying all the bills. This young
man kept the prince in funds, and with
| out his consent the nobleman could
neither ride in a hack nor invite
party of friends TO dinner His
American trip IS said to have cost his
| brokers about 500, 600 The prince gave
| a number of elaborate dinners during the
exposition, and it was remarked al the
| time that he wasted few taVors on dis
! tinguished Europeans then in Chicago.
| His guests were generally millionaires
with manageable daughters, who were
! supposed to be partial TO sOns-in-law with
/ titles. On alloccaslOnS, however, his pay
master conducted himself with the hui
| miliJy becoming faithful private secre-
tary, and few persons who met the young
man imagined that he was in reality the
banker of a prince
1t is commonly supposed that Prince
! IScn berg Birstelu is a member of the
royal family, but that is a mistake. He
can claim no closer relationship with
Emperor Franz Josef than that of second
! cousin, which does not count for much
with ruler who is surrounded by host
| of pauper relatives, all bearing preten-
tious titles. lsenberg- Birsteiu's relation
| ship TO the emperor comes through his
! mother, the Duchess of Tuscana, herself
a cousin of Franz Josef The relationship
was brought a trifle closer by the mar
riage of her nephew, Archduke Salvador,
| to the emperOr'S daughter, but the best
| Prince Isenherg-BirStein can claim is
second cousin to Emperor Franz Josef.
am so often asked to tell the first
| thought l had of the sisterhood that re-
! suited in the Order of the Kings Daugh-
tiers, writes Mrs. BottOme, the president
of the order, in the September Ladies
] Home journal, | was crossing the Allan
tic ocean. l had met on deck some young
fellows that had been tramping through
| Switzerland, ana learned they were from
some theological seminary. One morning
! l was startled at hearing of the death of
one of these young men. He had been i'll
/ only a few days, and l learned that
through his sickness, while delirious,
! he had constantly called for his
mother. AS 1 paced the deck in the
days that followed, and looked up at the
/ boat that swung day after day with his
body in it, If l had only been in a sister
/ hood wearing badge that would have
denoted service to humanity, they might
have asked ne if | would not like to see
the young man who called for his mother,
| for learned that no woman had seen the
| youth during his illness, and / pictured
( to myself how glad the mother would
! have been If | could have written to her
/ aud told her had seen her boy. AT that
! hour wished for sisterEoo that should
not be known by any distinct dress buo by
/ some kind of badge. did not speak of
/ this thought to any one.
A few months passed and DR.. Edward
!
! AS he was passing out he said Mrs. Bot
! tome, ! wonder you do not found a sister
! hood" And the word sisterhood took
! my thoughts back to the steamer Not
many days after | invited four friends of
miro who had been associated with NE
| and they came to my home, and we de-
! cided each To invite some friend, a CON
secrated woman, and to meet the week
| following, and there would then be ten of
! US, and | felt sure DR.. Hale would lend us
/ his idea of ten times one is ten" When
/ later / wrote to him about it he answered,
You are welcome, Mrs BoJtome, to any
| idea of mine that you can use"
The lovely woman, Mrs Theodore Irv-
| ing, who suggested the name for the new
| sisterhood OF service, The Kings
| Daughters has passed into the beauti-
| full beyond
l was made president Of that first ten,
not because | was better fitted TO be
| president than some of the others present,
| but simply because the forming of such
| ten was my suggestion, and later, as you
! know, the word tens was dropped and
! the word circles substituted. In all the
circles there is president, secretary
/ and treasurer.
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