The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-16
HAS RENOWNED
CHURCH OF ROME
MarquiSe DeS Monsters MeriR-
vile Returns to Old Religion.
GIVES THE FACT PUBLICITY
ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY.

HEW YORK, Nov 15.-The As0sciat-
ed Press has received the follow
ing. Before giving it publication
its authenticity has been fully verified
by cable from Rome:
Rome. Oct. so. 1sO4-Editors of the
Associated Press: You have my full
permission to print the enclosed and
give it as wide a publication as posi-
bic. Yours truly,
Marquis Des Monsters
/ Dear Editor: 1t may interest some OF
( your readers TO know that the Mar
I quise Des Monsters MerinvilIe. former
I " Miss NJ. G. CaldweH. who. il will he
remembered. founded the Roman Cath
Olic university at Washington some
years ago, has entirely repudiated her
( former creed. IN an interview with
me the other day she said:
/ Wanted to Do Something.
yes, it is true that I have lett the
/ Roman Catholic church. Since have
/ been living in Europe my eyes have
! been opened TO what that church real
/ ~ is. and 10 its anything but Ssucti-
/ ~. But the trouble goes much further
! back than this. Being naturally rei-
/ gious. my imagination was early
+ caught by the idea of doing some
/ thing TO lift the church from the lOwIy
I position which it occupied in America,
/ so ! thought Of a university or higher
/ school where its clergy could be educat-
/ ed and, If possible, refined. OF course.
i in this l was greatly Influenced by
+ Bishop Spalding Of Peoria. who repre-
scented it 10 me as one of the greatest
works Of the day. When I was %
/ turned over TO them one-third of my
/ fortune for that purpose. But for years
/ l have been trying TO rid myself of the
/ subtle Yet overwhelming influence or
a church which pretends not only 10 the
+ privilege Of being the only true
church" but of being alone a ole 10 o. zen
( the gates Of heaven to a sOrTOwful. sim
+ full world. At last my honest Protest
ant blood has asserted itself and L now
forever repudiate and cast off "the
\ yoke Of Rome. SO saying the mar
I quese politely dismissed me
Of Kentucky Descent.
1T viii be remembered that the Mar
quise Des Monsters Merinville and her
sister. the Baroness Won ZeedWitz, are
/ the daughters OF the late William S.
/ Caldwell and his wife. who was a
/ Breckenridge of Kentucky. Shortly be-
/ fore his death Mr.. Caldwell became a
convert to Roman Catholicism and left
/ his children to the care Of Irish Roman
! Catholics in New York. whom his wife
/ had met in church circles. The young
er sister married some fifteen years ago
! a German nobleman, Lutheran, and
( has since then also left the Roman
! Catholic communion. The elder has
I been in very bad health for some years,
( from having TO occupy a position be
( fore the world as a prominent Roman
! which was NOT real one and
10 which her extreme generosity led her
| when a young and inexperienced girl
T Now. at last. her own mind has as
( serted itself and she returns 10 the
! creed of her ancestors"
Inherited $4,000, 900.
Mary GwendoHn Caldwell IS the
{ daughter Of William Shakespeare Cald-
we'll, who. after being a theatrical man
! ager in England, settled in Richmond.
/ Va, and eventually made a large for
! tune in building gas houses in Chicago,
! St Louis, Mobile and other cities. He
married Miss Breckenridge, a famous
+ Kentucky beauty. Miss Caldwell and
/ her sister, Lima. spent the summers at
b Newport. where they had a magnificent
( house. and usually passed part of the
/ winter when they were not abroad. in
+ New York. On the death Of her father.
/ Miss Caldwell inherited 81 000 600. On
J Oct 10. 1896. Miss Caldwell was married
\ TO the Marquis Monsters Merinvilie. a
French nobleman. in St. JOsephs
/ church, avenue HOcue, Paris. by Bish-
} op SpaIding of Peoria. III, the guardian
and administrator Of the estate Of Miss
/ Caldwell, assisted by Father Cooke.
Prince Got Left.
( At the time Of her marriage Miss
/ Caldwell was a very handsome woman.
about 80 years old. and a devoted Ro-
man Catholic. She had previously
shown her devotion to the church by
/ giving 100000 to found the divinity
/ college Of the Roman Catholic univers-
! ity in Washington. Some seven years
previous TO her marriage Miss Cald-
vel Twas engaged TO Prince ALuraJ,
/ grandson of the king of Naples. The
! engagement was broken because the
! prince insisted that half Of Miss Cald-
wells fortune should be settled upon
him.
Sister Married German Baron.
Miss Lima Caldwell married Baron
Won Zeedwitz. who was killed on. his
yacht Aug IS 1896. while taking part
I in the races of the royal Albert regatta
at South Sea. England. as the result or
a collision with Emperor William
/ yacht Meteor. The baron was struck
y
, thte broken mast of his yacht. and was
unconscious when picked up, dying
soon after. Baron Won Zeedwitz was
a brilliant young man. who had held
a number of diplomatic appointments,
including the sercetaryship of the Ger
man imperial missions at Washington,
st. Petersburg. Toxic and Stockholm.
while in 1883 he was appointed minister
Of Germany 10 Mexico. 1t was while lu
( the United States that he became a con-
vert TO yachting and commissioned the
! Hereshoffs to build him the twenty
( rater Isolde. on which he met ms
death
! Little was known Of the MARQUIS DeS
Monsters 0IerinvilIe at the time of ms
marriage to Miss Caldwell, with the eN-
ception of the fact that he was chron-
icled in the Annuaire De Nobiesse as
dating his title from 1854. the rank or
count having been given his ancestors
i'm 1855
The divinity college of the Roman
Catholic university ina Washington Is
known as the Mary Gwendoim Caio-
well han of divinity.
LOATH TO BELIEVE 1T