Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
KRUPP SPOUSE
IS LUCKY MAN
TITLES REJECTED BY RICHEST
GIRL IN WORLD
Herr Won BohIen Has Led a Quiet Life
Future Husband Not Noted for
Naughty Franks, Having
sown His Wild oats
snooinl cnhle 70 The t1ersld.

Special Cable to The Herald.
BERLIN, July Herr Gustav Won
Bohlen und Halbach may certainly
claim to be the luckiest man in the
world since he has won the richest
prize in the matrimonial market to be
found in the two hemspheres. The an
nouncement of his engagement to
Fraulein Bertha Krupp, the elder
daughter Of the cannon king of Essen,
has caused many of the bachelor aris-
tocrats Of Germany to turn green with
envy.
Gustav Won Bohlen und Halbach Is
something of an aristocrat himself, as
is implied by his big mouthful of a
name, but nobody ever spotted him as
man most likely to capture the
wealthiest heiress in the world. AS a
student at Freiburg he was distin-
guished more by his daredevil escapades
than by his devotion to learning, but
years ago he finished sowing his crop
of wild oats and settled down, If not
exactly to the simple life to one that
gave no cause for gossip.
lie is NOW 90 years Ol1 anu Is tOull-
cillor of the Prussian legation accred-
tied to the vatican. 1t is not a post Of
much prominence, which will make 1t
all the easier for him to abandon a
diplomatic career in which there is no
evidence that he would have ever
achieved distinction. He will have to
give it UP to carry out the wish eX-
pressed by Herr Krupp before his death
that his daughters future husband
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management of the family business.
That is such a colossal business that
if he really tackles the job he will have
to work considerably harder than most
men find it necessary to earn liveli-
hood.
Miss Krupp will attain her majority
next year. Under Herr Krupp's will,
the younger daughter is to receive her
portion in cash when she comes of age,
while Bertha inherits the whole busi-
ness. This makes her sole proprietress
of the Krupp works, which employ
100000 men, and practically mistress, too,
of the town of Essen with its 250,000
inhabitants. The reserve fund of the
Essen works, according to a balance
sheet recently published, amounts to
nearly S100,000,000, and Miss Krupp's
net income from the Essen business
last year exceeded $4,000, 900. With what
she receives in addition from supple
mentary revenues her total income
foots up Approximately to S5,000,000.
Her friends have often suggested to
her that she might with advantage
abandon the ancestral home of Essen
for a residence in Berlin, where society
would welcome her with open arms.
They assured her that she would have
no difficulty in marrying any one of
a bakers dozen of princes at the end
of her first season. But the prospect
did not allure her. She announced that
she intended to marry the man of her
choice, without regard to his rank or
station, and she has made her selection
in accordance with his idea, to the
great disappointment of a host of titled
suitors After her marriage she will
continue to make her permanent home
at Essen in the mansion overlooking
the smoke begrimed city from which
she derives her wealth.
She is of middle height, with blond
hair, and her figure displays an OBJ
vious tendency to rotundity so char
acteristic Of German fraus. But she
exces in all sorts of outdoor sports,
and probably will succeed in staving off
obesity much longer than do most of
her countrywoman after they have as
sumed the burdens of family life