The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-05-04
new SECRETARY OF
THE GERMAN
EMBASSY
Will Enjoy Life at Washington
Because of American
Ties.

Associated PresH to The Evening Times.
Washington, D. c., May 4.-Oficial
and social circles in the national capt.
tai are considerably interested in the
appointment of Baron Herman Won
Observation-Disclosures to succeed Bar
ON Won dem Bussche- Haddenhausen as
first secretary of the Germany en-
bassy here. Barn Hatzfeldt will doubt
less find the Washington post agree
able as he has I. strong strain OF
American blood in his veins. his moth
er having been a Miss Helen Moulton
of Albany. N. Y.
The nobility of Europe, though it
has furnished stories of love, romance
and intrigue stranger than are to be
found in. the pages OF fiction, seldom
has furnished stranger life romance
than that in which the parents of Bar
on Hatzfeldt figured as principals.
Divorced for state reasons. remarked
for love. and in her old age the object
of a unique sacrifice. the mother OF
the new secretary Of the German EN-
bassy experienced at once more suf-
fering and more honor than falls to
the lot of most American wives of
titled husbands.
Baron Hatzfeldt is the only son of
the late Count Paul Hatzfeldt, who
was for many years German Ambass-
ador in England. His mother was
Helen Moulton, daughter of Colonel
Moulton of Albany, N. Y. Her mother,
Mrs. Moulton. was the daughter OF an
old French dancing master. who in the
early part of the nineteenth century
was professor OF the terpsichorean art
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name was Metz and his daughters
Christian name Cesarine. She was
celebrated in New York for her beauty
and fascination.
When the daughter. Helen, was
about ten years old the family went to
Paris and there made its home. Chas.
Moulton, the father. became associat-
ed with Baron Haussmann. who built
the boulevards and TRANSPORTED Paris.
and who was swept high on the tide of
sudden wealth. The family were
thrown into the most exalted society
of the empire. The son married a
Boston girl. Miss Lille Greenough,
who enhanced the distinction of the
family with her vocal and other ac-
complishments. Charles Moulton, her
husband. was killed in a railroad &C
cldent at Philadelphia some gears ago.
and she afterward married Baron Won
Hageinan. the Danish minister at
Washington.
Miss Helen Moulton meanwhile was
earning social triumphs OF her own.
At court she first met Count Hatsfeldt,
secretary Of Prince Otto Won Bismarck,
then the Prussian ambassador in
Paris. Count Hatsfeldt was nearly 20
years Miss Moulton's senior, but he
was under forty and age had dealt
lightly with him. He was the son of
that Countess Sophie Won Hatsfeldt,
who was the friends and patroness of
Ferdinand Lassalle, the Jewish phil
osopher and social democrat.
Miss Moulton returned the affection
which Count Hatsfeldt made known to
her, and they were married with every
circumstance of grandeur AS the
representative of Germany at Madrid,
Constantinople and other capitals
Count Hatsfeldt acquitted himself
brilliantly and his rise in the diplo-
matte service was rapid.
But change was soon to come. Bis
marck desired his protege, Hatsfeldt,
to become foreign secretary and re-
main in Berlin. In this position Hats
feldt would be parsonage of con-
sequence at court, and it was neces-
sary that he should be acceptable to
royalty 1t was necessary also that
his wife should be acceptable. But
Countess Hatsfeldts mother had been
an actress in America, and the views
OF the Empress Augusta regarding