Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-08

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| 600 year in Europe" said Mr.. DallIba the
| other day, and the 'remitters' as perma-
| nent American residents are called who re-
| ceive their incomes from home spend
| nearly as much more. The balance IL paid
I for paintings sculpture. bric-a-brac and
automobiles. Our people buy several mil.
| Hon dollars worth OF automobiles in Eu-
rope. chiefly In France. every year. There
| Is a very large trade In renting machines
as well as selling them. This summer every
machine in France that could be spared has
been rented by an American. at expense
| Of from $50 TO $50 a day. The outside price
includes everything and insures the tires.
| The inside price covers the machine alone,
| and the renter has to provide his own fuel,
pay the wages and hotel expenses of his
| chauffeur and all the cost OK repairs. A
large number of Americans have brought
their own machines, and many have rented
| them IN London. The highways Of Europe
have been humming with American auto
mobile tourists all summer.
London a Way Station.
The Paris season is getting longer every
year, continued Mr.. Dallba. Paris has
become the pivotal point OF Europe Every
tourist comes here. London has become
only a way station between New York and
Paris large portion OF the Americans
VINO are coming from going to Egypt
and the far east stop here Those who
spend the winter the Riviera and in
| Sicily begin to show up about the middle
| OF March. They have been loating long
enough. have become tired and want to see
something and somebody. Then Paris be-
gins TO get gay. ~pring fetes and the races
come on about that time. The season used
| to end with the Grand Prix the second
Sunday in June, but II has been extended
| Tor thirty days or more. The introduction
of the automobile has altered these condi-
lions so that people can go back and forth
between their chateaus and Paris and run
up to the city any time there Is anything
to attract them. That keeps people here
until July IA the French independence day,
residence
rich and other people of leisure. In the
meantime the Americans begin to come
In from Egypt and Italy and the Rivera,
and great many English run over after
the London season or stop their way
home from the east to buy their clothes.
The greatest number o. English tourists In
Paris during the summer come in excur-
sions on cheap circular tickets and ride
around the city in buses, but they do not
compare In numbers with Americans any
more. Formerly England furnished a ma
Jority of our tourists. Now there are moro
Germans than English, and more Ameri-
cans than both combined"
OF course this hoard of tourists brings
Its share of adventures and unfortunates,
and as usual just now, toward the close OF
the season, battalion of busted" Ameri-
cans are inquring the way home. People
get rid of money very rapidly over here.
Sometimes II goes all at once. Sometimes
innocent fellow countrymen have their
pockets picked or are robbed Y chance ac-
quaintances of the feminine persuasion
while seeing the town. Others tempted
| to increase their resources by counting the
god of chance, and of course lose their
stakes. There is charity fund raised by
generous members of the American colony,
but ii does not apply to such persons, and
| they are compelled to haunt the hotels In
search of acquaintance or sympathetic fel.
low-countrymen who have not wasted or
lost their letters of credit.
Deserted American Wives.
We have had an unusual number of de-
serted American wives also. AS a rule tho
American girl knows how to take care OF
herself and is not such easy prey to
adventures as European girls who have
| been brought up In converts. This summer
| we have had some distressing cases OF
| young. women who have been tempted to
| marry titles and have been promptly de.
| serted by the Adventures who have en<
trapped them soon they obtained con- !
troll Of their money.
In July last the daughter of a deceased
Brooklyn physician. just out of school, fell
| in love with an alleged Italian count, Bap-
tiste de Montilina OF Naples, captain in the
l73d Regiment of the Italian Infantry. Her /
guardian opposed the match and she con-
sented to eope by steamer. But when they
arrived In London he refused to marry the !
girl. offering one excuse after another.
When he got hold of her money he told +!
her he had business in Belgium and sent
her in Paris, where he agreed to meet !
her in few days. They crossed the chan- I
| mel on the same steamer. He babe her an
| affectionate goodbye, and placed her In D
hotel to which he had wired for rooms
while he. with all the money. jewels and
other valuables, started for Brussels and
has never been seen or heard from since.
After waiting for a couple of anxious weeks
the lady appealed to the American consus
late the police were consulted and warn.
ing was telegraphed to all the detective
agencies in Europe. Information from
Naples seems to identify him a notorious
confidence man, and the police expect to
get him sooner or later, but she has lost
interest in her titled lover.
On the 4th Of last June young Call.
fornia girl of excellent family and ante
cedents, was married in the chapel of the
Assumption at Manila by chaplain of the
United States army to a man who pre-
| tended to be Baron Santos Doliyo Won
Dobrowolsky de Donnersmark. They be-
came acquainted at Hongkong, and, after
three weeks, were engaged. They were
married Immediately, wl..l the consent and
approval of the young woman's chaperon,
and the wedding was attended by a number
OF prominent people in Manila The baron
said he was business associate OF Signor |
Marconi and expert in wireless telegra-
ply. He had gone east to look after the
wireless telegraphy business during the
Russo-Japanese war; he was the heir TO his
uncle Count Henkel Won Donnersmark, one
of the richest men in Germany, and pos
sessed a large fortune in his own right.
Unfortunately his letter Of credit was on
q San Francisco bank, and the earthquake,
having paralyzed business, prevented him :
from making his usual drafts. The young 1
woman, however, had a large letter or
credit, which he promptly took charge OF
and converted into cash. He bought two
first-class tickets on the German steamer
for New York. and finally turned up in
Paris, where they went to the Grand
Hotel.
A few weeks ago Count Baron Santos g,
Dolvo Won Dobrowolsky de Donnersmark :
gathered his own frugal wardrobe together, +
seized his wife's jewels. worth many thou
sand dollars, their steamer tickets and :
everything of value that she had. even her !.
umbrella, and took the train for Hamburg. /
leaving her alone without penny in a
strange city, with an unpaid hotel bill. She
already suspected him and was not sur :.
prised, but that did not remedy the situa- /
ton. There nothing to do but throw ]
herself upon the protection Of the United !.
States consul general and appeal to the
police.
The Alleged Baron Caught.
The alleged baron was caught few days
later at Hamburg. where he trying to
get hold of five trunks, containing her sur
plus wardrobe which had been sent on
there by steamer and were in storage. He 2