The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1903-07-31
At Mrs. SchuyIer's
Ball
BY L. c. HOWE
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WITHi all the wealth Of the Roth, 10th,
wv bits back of her, Caroline had
been brought up with the belief that
she must not let herself go too cheap.
IL. Nothing else than an English earl,
or Russian prince, could aspire to
her and her famous silver mines. So
when Prince Austerlitz and his suite
came to visit America, and incidental
y TO find an heiress wealthy enough
to retrieve the Austerlitz fortunes, the
world and his wife pointed to Caroline
Rothblt and said:
"She is the one. There is no other
who stands a ghost of a chance to be
princess. She can outbid all the heir
esses of America; her wealth is fabu-
lous."
Mrs. Cortland Schuyler was the for
tunate leader of society, upon whom
was conferred the honor of introduc-
ing the prince and his suite to the
world of America. She had planned a
ball that should outrival the Bradley
Martins. The only disappointment
she had had in her preparations, was
the fact that Caroline Rothbilt had
been unable to accept her invitation
to the dinner that should precede the
ball; Caroline and her fabulous wealth
had been one of the drawing cards in at
tracing the prince. Notwithstanding
her absence, however, the dinner was
pronounced the most magnificent ever
given in New York. and the dance that
followed was as brilliant and sumptu-
Gus as a colossal fortune could make
it.
Caroline was late at the ball, and
Mrs. Schuyler was almost in despair,
when the prince had asked for the
third time if the lovely Miss Rofhbilt
were not to appear at all. Her en-
trance was all the more effective when
she did arrive, and the prince watched
her eagerly from his place beside Mrs.
Schuyler. as she pointed out the heir
sss to him. Flushed, radiant, her SUI
perb shoulders and neck rising flower
like from fiimy pink cloud of drapery.
the famous Rothbiit pearls cleaning
softly on her bosom and III her hair.
she drew the attention of everyone in
the room as she made her way to her
hostess.
The rooms were filed with the most
beautiful women in America with a
gay sprinkling of brilliant foreign uni
forms of the princes suite against
a background of sober, conveptional
evening dress. The gorgeously deco
rated house, full of priceless paintings
and bronzes and tapestries made an
appropriate setting for the gay scene.
Caroline felt that she had stepped into
some old-world palace.
With ill-concealed eagerness her hos
tess brought up the prince and his
secretary to be presented to her. and
all the world stopped a moment in it's
mad career and watched the port
tous meeting. Both men bowed low
before her in their courtly foreign
fashion, and both looked upon her
with open admiration in their eyes.
That much the world could see
The prince was a magnificent speei-
men of manhood. One could tell at n
glance that the blood of a race of
mobiles flowed in his veins. Tall and
muscular, with the body of a Greek
athlete, and the head of an Adonis, he
was in striking contrast to his secre-
tarv, who was small, prema turely ed,
with face lined with dissipation; n
face weak, uninteresting, almost re-
pulsive 10 beauty-loying Caroline. She