The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-05-13

Received Invitation to Court hall.
Prince Metternich Entertained Him
at a Glorious Breakfast and Crowds
Cheered Him At Budapest-How He
Startled Hungarians.
MI. Charles NJ. Schwab, manager OF
the combined steel interests in the
United States, was a bright tai recent
~ in the world of Vienna, says the
New York Herald. He stopped at the
Hotel Bristol, where he occupied the
imperial rooms, and left, full Of joy,
contentmcnt and satisfied pride, fol-
Berlin.
While in Vienna Mr.. Schwab man.
aged to enjoy himself immensely. The
papers, he said. had driven him away
from where he would have wished to
stop in the sunny south. but Monte
Carlo was made too hot for him by
0~verZealous scribes who, as Already
known, told too many details OF his
winnings.
II got eighty cablegrams in one day."
said the unfortunate Mr.. Schwab,
while at Monte Carlo, asking whether
it could possibly be true that l was
gambling Sc high and whether l was
not ashamed of myself in my position
or something like it,"
He expressed much regret that a
great deal of fuss had been made out OF
nothing very much. He had merely
done what all do who go to Monte
Carlo. played a bit just as he would
put a little on a horse at race course
should he visit one, SO as to have an in
terest in the races. But Mr.. Schwab
holds that it would be an i'll construc.
ton which from that should lend him
the reputation Of being a turf gambler.
Mr.. Schwab's record at Vienna was
we'll nigh unrivaled. Just a few points
as to his reception by the Kaiser Franz
Josef. Specially pleasing was the man.
ner in which the monarch received
him. The emperor would gladly vel
come the news that any number of
Americans were coming over, and he
meant to show that in his reception of
Mr.. Schwab.
The steel trusts president made a
record in getting an invitation to the
court ball. All the Invitations had
long ceased, and the books of the
u We're closed. The answer at first
was. impossible" but that there is
no impossible" was shown by the
fact that Mr.. and Mrs. Schwab were
present. Thereby they saw one of the
finest sights in the world-a Viennese
court ball.
Mrs. Schwab astonished all by a
wonderful diamond she wore, and Mr..
Schwab made a record and astonished
people in Vienna by ordering a spe-
clal train to take him to Budapest
just as any mortal would have ordered
q public cab. So enthusiastic were the
Hungarians ver his large. handedness
and enterprise insthe matter that they
met him with cries as he arrived and
departed of ELLEN, Schwab" the first
word. it may be explained, meaning
"Bravo!'
He had a pleasant experience in
tasting some extremely fine wines at
q glorious breakfast given him at the
Hotel Bristol by Prince Metternich,
during which he quaffed such nectar
Johannisberg Cabinet, costing 200
per bottle. AT Budapest he
was treated to Tokay Of the most an
Gent vintage, which can scarcely be
anywhere else but there.
At this "dejeuner d'adieu'' there
We're present. among others, the hered-
Prince Metternich. Count Sap
airy. who has done Mr.. Schwab the
honors in Budapest as president OF
the Park club. considered there one
OF the finest clubs in the world: Count
Herr Novak CT Prague. one
OF the lending commercial men in Aus
tria. n Herren Charles Arthur and
Ernst Wolff. Dr. de tiricz Wittgen-
the largest steel man in Austria.
gave a party in Mr.. Schwab's honor
night he and Mrs. Schwab left.
They went direct from that party to
train. Il move which rather aston
lshed the guests present. but which
Mr.. Schwab described as 1.-The way we
do things in America
Z People say that Mr.. Schwab combin-
a touch of business with a deal of
and that he found time to
talk about the possibilities OF the steel
interests in Austria and that questions
IF an a~malgamation of interests were
not foreign to the conversation.
Anyhow, feelers were put out.
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