The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 A~ HAT is a foreign title worth to N~ an American bride? What, on
 w the average, is it likely to cost her or her parents in the shape of a for maj marriage settlement or dowry? Ac- cording to Baron Von Schwedler Schwartz zenburg, who Is trying to get his Cleve- week allowance, foreign title of nobility has an actual market value. This value, the Baron tells the American publc' should be regulated by a sliding scale or prices ranging from a duke or prince down to knight.
 "Of all European titles" the Baron says 'the German and the Spanish are the oldest. The newness of titles in France and England interferes with their value. The title of Castellane Is only 15O years old; yet 1t was worth to Jay Gould daughter s6,OOo000. What, then. should German title be worth?
 "In England an untitled person may have social position If he has money enough to maintain it. But butcher or a brewer may have millions and yet be no more socially than hotel porter. The President of the United States, visit ing the Berlin court, would be cpurteously and hosptably treated, as the head or a. friendly nation should be, but it would be as a guest only and not as an equal.
 .When nobleman who enjoys, as l do. privileges at court and in the salons of Europe, marries woman who has .;,Io in n be recompensed for this loss. Moreover an untitled woman marrying into a titieu family should be made to pay for 1t.
 "YeIlow dogs are thick in the street. but the pedigrecd kind cost money
 According to a recent estimate there are five hundred American girls who nave married titled foreigners, and 1o2 of these girls, 1t has been calculated by an Eng fish statistician, have had total dowry of $i61 ,ooo,Ooo.
 There is one conspicuous exception, in the case of the wife of the heir apparent to the throne of Corea, who is an Ameri- can girl. Emily Brown, daughter of Prebyterian missionary from Wisconsin, long resident in that country. She brought practically no dowry to her royal hus- band.
 Miss H. A. l.. Floyd of San Francisco who was worth S75o,000, married in 1Na gripman on a cable car, one B. M Gopechevitch. a nobleman of the reign ing dynasty in Servia and possible heir to the throne.
 The experiences of American girls have been so varied in the foreign matrimonial market that the records do not furnish data to establish a fair average or the cost of titles. As a rule dukes, princes and counts get richer wives than fall to the lot of lesser nobles.
 Anna Gould, daughter of Jay Gould IS said to have been worth, when she mar ried Count Boni Castellane. s6,OOo'ooo to $. .O0o. coo. but her property was so hedged about by the administrators of the Goulo estate that not more than H,OcO,~o was ever actually under the individual con- trol of the count
 May Goelet, daughter of the late Ogden Goelet is said to have inherited sloUo.Ooo all of which was actually her dowry, but only a small part of it was legally settled an her husband. the Duke of Roxburghe-- not more than s1 oO0.ooo. according to a statement at the time of the wedding in 1903.
 Miss Grant. daughter of Gen. F. D. Grant, and sranddaushter of Gen. L. S Grant. brought but small dowry in