The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-10-16
COUNTESS
GURG0 TO
COME BACK
Returning TO America TO Pre-
vent Bieng Rob1sd by a Dis
honest Emp|oye.

New York. Oct 16.-word having been
received from Europe that the Countess
Vessichio Gurgo de Castelmenardo is re-
turning to her old family home In Tea
neck. n. j.. public interesting has been
renewed In one OF the best known Ameri-
cans WAC has married into the ranks of
the European nobility.
The countess. who was Miss Edith Van
Buren,. says she is returning to America
10 prevent herself being robbed at the
Van Buren, homestead by a dishonest en-
ploye. who has ordered goods In her
name and has not paid for them.
Just what this trouble is Is not known.
but II probably refers to a little flair
concerning a grocer's bill. which 1t was
supposed was settled last September
The countess was in Paris early In Au-
gust. when the sheriff OF Hackensack
levied upon her Teaneck estate, In be-
half OF a firm of Englewood grocers
Christopher e. Murdorf, who had little
bill OF $500 contrated, ostensibly In her
name. While these legal proceedings
were going on the countess cabed that
she had already mailed a check Tor the
amount and when IL arrived late In Au-
gust, the attachment was duly vacated
The Countess Castelmenardo Is daush-
ter of .e late General Thomas Van Bu-
dent Martin Van Buren,. She Is also Q
granddaughter OF Joseph p. Sheffield and
a niece Of Mrs. w. w. Phelps.
She Is OF very adventurous disposi-
ton and has long been famous for her un-
conventional departures. She has Travelled
around the world several times and 10
perhaps better known In Europe than In
this country, having been for years .
noted figure at the fashionable watering
places on the continent, particularly IN
France and Belgium.
Her first notable public triumph was at
n fancy dress ball In Paris. where. at the
height OF the revival or interest In Marie
Antoinette, she appeared as that unfor-
tunate queen, the resemblance being said
TO be very marked
In 1898 she made a trip to the Klondike
with Mrs. Roswell y. Hitchcock widow
OF Commander Hitchcock. u. 3. N, OF
this city, their adventures being subse-
quently recorded by Mrs. Hitchcock In
book Two Women In the klondike,"
which attracted much attention. They
"roughed IT. in the gold region in true
mining fashion and stakef out claims and
dug and washed gold like old stagers.
Miss Van Buren returned to the United
States I'm 1899. but was soon I'm Europe
again. and I'm July. 1900. was married. In
London 10 Count vessichio Gurgo de
Castelmenardo. whom she had met sew
eral months before In Nice. where her
brother Harold +was the American consul.
Her husband In a son OF the Duchess
Tortora Brayda di Belvedere Gluditta
Gurga de Castelmenardo. OF Naples.
The count and countess came TO Amer
lea in December, 1901. and made their
home In the Van Buren, homestead, in
Teaneck with the brides mother, wno
died not long after, leaving her daughter
the greater part OF $2Oo,OoO and the fam
lily estate.
The rowing spirit OF the countess proved
too strong after a few months, although
for time she had apparently been cum
tent TO settle down ia domesticity. and in
the spring OF 1901 the titled couple return
ed again to Europe, where they have been
ever since.