Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19
WEARY OF YANKEES.
Col. Apponyi Has Gone to Mexico to
Live.

Live.
From the Mexican Herold.
yankees make me tired. I've lived among
them for thirty-five years. l forsook my
own schoolmates and Joined their armies
during the of the rebellion. I've made
two fortunes of more than $1,00o,000 each,
and the thieves have gotten it back again.
I've come to Mexico with nothing but brains
for assets, and I'm going to make another
fortune bigger than any of them" That is
| the half-serious confession of Colonel Chas.
Edward Apponyi, an ex-Hungarian count,
who has arrived in the city, accompanied
by Mrs Apponyi and who expects to make
his future home in the City of Mexico.
| Colonel Apponyi is a character. But he
| has a number of monuments to his engi-
neering skill in the United States, among
which Is the electric railway from Colorado
| Springs, Col, to the top Of Pixies Peak.
The cog railway has been running to the
top OF the browning glory of Colorado
Springs for some years, but engineers were
agreed in voting that no other means of
mechanical transportation would ever carry
traffic to the peak of the Pike. That was
the only incentive necessary to stir the skill
of the count. He said he'd build an cleo
trio railway, and they laughed at him. But
the road is now in operation, and the count
is doing the laughing. Then, there are
others.
The count or the colonel, as he now calls
himself, has spent an interesting career. AS
| an introduction, he speaks eleven languages
three of which are dead-Latin, Greek and
Hebrew; the others include Spanish, Eng
fish, French. Italian, German, Russian and
Turkish, and he was speaking these tongues
before he was eighteen years of age.
His father, Count Anton Rudolph Apron
VI represented Emperor Francis Joseph of
Austria-Hungary at a number Of the Eu-
ropean courts, and Colonel Apponyi was but
boy of eighteen years when he completed
his college education, his father being the
Austrian ambassador a the court of Great
Britain at that time Macmillan had just
begun his attempt to conquer Mexico when
the young fellow was awaiting his commits
sion at the hands of the Emperor of Aus
| tria. A number of his college mates Joined
Macmillan in his trip to this country but
young Apponyi declined to Join the invad-
| ing army. His reasons, as told in his own
words recently, are better than any others.
| and are as follows:
Although I was count and the son of
count. despised royalties. was born on
American soil. 1t SO happened that my
people were in Baltimore at the time of nv
birth. and guess 1t made me democrat
| l loved republics, and for that reason de-
clined to join Maximilians army in Its at
| tack against the independence of Mexico.
| I was soldier. so went to the United
States and Joined the Union army in the
| and did plenty Of fighting, but don't talk
about those things.
Il have become ashamed of my adopted
country. They have grown title crazy.
Rich Americans seem to have no other am
| billion than to marry their daughters into
| the European aristocracy. Anybody can
be count. and most Of them are no ac-
count. Look at me. Precious few Of the
| American girls who have married European
titles have got their moneys worth. and
I'm not wasting any Of my sympathy on
| them. That's what l left the continent to
| escape, and that is why I have come to
Mexico. I'm an architect and an engineer,
| and l like these people, and I'm going to
live here and try to make an honest living
| and be happy"