The San Francisco call., 1904-02-07
1WENDOLEN MAXWELL, AS THE OF THE DUKE
OF NORFOLK, WILL BE ENGLANDS RICHEST DUCHES
Besides the Highest Position in Britans Society She
Will Become Mistress of the Kingdoms
Greatest of Ancient Castles

less, but finding himself garlanded
with costly flowers, he became alright
ed, gazing alternately at Harrington,
the glittering gold in his hand and at
his floral decorations, and clutching
the florist by the arm he whispered,
TELL me, is he crazy or am II"
Jean Gerardy, the famous 'cellist, is
the latest notable addition to Edna
Mays long list of fervent admirers. I
hear that the impressionable young mu-
sician has given to the fair American
actress a rare old violoncello Of beau
tiful quality and tone, which cost him
S2000 and has also paid for six months
cello lessons for her, being fondly
convinced that she has other and great
er musical gifts than her voice. Jewels
from an Indian Prince and some valu-
able ermines from another titled per-
sonage were among her other Christ
mas gifts from this lucky Syracuse
girls circle.
My Brussels correspondent writes
that the Prince of Looz Corservarcin
has just been arrested in Brussels for
swindling operations in Paris. Re-
tired tradespeople and upper servants
with good savings were his principal
victims, ne having succeeded in wiring
as the police can estimate. The Princes
title and his luxurious style of living,
as well as the promise of generous old
age pensions from a fortune Of the
Humbert kind, were the bait that lured
the victims to ruin. In $780, when still
in the divorce court, his Highness made
the acquaintance Of a Mrs. Bloomfield,
a rich American widow, whose fortune
6a ooNra+ad ord he bapa me an gao n
her Her American shrewdness, how
ever enabled her to discover the state
of affairs and she declined "a crown
with the paint worn off, and a dam
aged reputation.
At Client the Prince picked UP at one
Of the clubs young American, the son
of a retired Chicago merchant who had
died in Paris in 1885, leaving his better
half a handsome fortune. The Prince
made the acquaintance Of the lady
through her son and laid siege to her
hand and money bags; but she, too,
escaped him. He then went to Nice,
where he pretended he was about to
marry the widow of Prince Troubet-
skoi-Demidoff. To keep mis- creditors
quiet he had to invent various pre-
texts to account for the postponement
Of the wedding. His matrimonial ad-
ventures are for the time cut short,
as he is now safely under lock and
key in st. Giles prison, Brussels.
The United States Minister to Bel
gium and Mrs. Lawrence Townsend
were among the special guests invited
by Sir Constantine Phipps, the Eng
lish Minister to Belgium, to the fare
we'll dinner given to the Papal Nuncio,
Monsignor Granite del Belmonte. AT
this Brussels dinner the various Min
listers of different countries were all
present with their wives. Madame Co
mez Brandao was also present with her
sister Mrs. Barton, and considerable
interest centered around the former
lady, as Sir Constantine Phipps seized
the occasion to present her as his
fiancee. She is the widow Of a resident
of Rio Janeiro, where Sir Constantine
was formerly British Minister, and is
doubtless well known to Americans
who have stayed there. She is young
and very charming, with lovely fair
hair. She has one little boy.
AMERICANS IN EUROPE.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. z. Stone of Cam
bridge, Mass, spent a few weeks at
WiItcher's Hotel, Brussels, whittier
they went from Paris expressly to
visit Councillor Ehrlich of Chicago, Mrs.
Ehrlich and their son Carl, who is
STUDYING at Cambridge Mrs Stone