New-York tribune., 1905-08-14

0f-fN . NEW MASTER OF THE HORSE
emperor Williams affection and regsrd e.r -.
srrofot,,s tels'iEes arc once more shown by the
opiolhtnaent Of Baron Hugo Reiscbs.. -, s
of Princess Marguerite EJohar,ot 90 lOl. - nusoahd
70 me post Of grand master of thA borsa +ta4 =,
say 10 one or the chief dignitfas Of bfs oo,,r,
IA me place Of Count Wedel who has t,,s, -,
On was Tor number of years one NJ Tho
- rne''oeFs OF the household of the late
Empress FREDERICK, snd rs tall handsome ,-
Ileh man or about fifty, grandson ~ Iao,, - =
Ii0hAiort banker. and is not only a cour,tar h,,+
- "'ioush sportsman in the English sneak
ing as Wen as in the German sense az +be 40
so.. Oto'her' Baron Hans Refs ,hacb IS the
eoohu husband Of the unfortunate utd1 -
Frince Louis OF Sayn Vfttssns,., = VI
NIN'H pF MS relatives after his dAatb .ttr,.,es
80 nuch attention some years ago in Eurone
a.; '1is ueo very suddenly at Rome te3y-
- 1o" almost penniess Not that he had
d Paupef. cry far from it. He was n, The
Time chief Of his family and No .,,oL a.,1, ~"
80 i@ise revenues few days prior 10 HE do,,isa
-, uo'ufseo large sum If money and was
Hs 'urIner subsidies from his steward az
' oi MS death. The instant # became
Known that the breath had left his body his
orother Alexander. who had succeeded TO the chief
tainEhip OF the family and as such :, the control
or us revenues, forbade the payment Of single
cent to the widow the ground that the latter
pcihg OF bourgeois birth. her union with his dead
brother could only be regarded in ,he light Of hav-
had been legally married tn his wife bx no less
a parsonage than Cardinal Mcrmillod ard had
made a viii, leaving all his personal property to
Ter. as well as declaration % me effect that
she was entitled 70 the jonture and annuitics Of
q widow, OF the head OF the house from the en-
tailed estates of the sayn- -Wittgenstein family
She beio7Eed by birth TO Of the most respect
able faHhiies OF the higher Berlin b>urgeosie her
father having been prominent member OF the
Municipal Council All Gisters married noble
Ia her
had never been darkened by even the shadow of =
reproach. II not until the unfortunate woman
had threatened 10 appeal 10 the Pope and 10 the
aristocracy Of Rome for pceuniary assistance to
defray the expenses Of conveying her husbands
corpse back 10 Germany that Prince Chigi hered-
tary grand marshal of the Roman Catholic Church
and hereditary guardian % the conclave who had
married the sister Of Prince Louis consented to
advance the sum OF 5000 needed for the purpose
and for the recovery OF which he subsequently sued
his sister-in-law.
! may add that the German courts sustained the
contention OF Prince Alexander and the other MEM
bers OF the Sayn- Wittgenstein mediatized family
against the widow of Prince Louis and on account
Of her bourgeois birth she not only pronounced
incapable of benefting in any way under the will
of her husband and debarred from any claim on
the family estates, but was even deprived by the
trt unals Of the right OF using the title and name Of
8 princess of sayn- -wittgenstein, which together
with the predicate OF serene highness," had been
conceded 10 her everywhere even by his relatives.
during her husbands lifetime
would not refer 10 this case at sucn length
were II not that il a typical one and which
is deserving Of the attention OF every American
girl who dreams of rnatrimonv with a German
prince duke or count II these happen 70 be scions
Of mediatized or formerly reigning houses, she is
likely in the event of widowhood TO be treated in
the same way as the much prosecuted widow Of the
late Prince Louis Of Wittgenstein. She married
some years after his death Baron Hans Reischach.
and divides her time between his chateau in Ger
many and Brussels. But il is only when in Bel
giun that she ventures sign herself Princess
sayn-Witt genstein. In Germany she IS not allowed
do