The Cairo bulletin., 1907-04-05
Is SOCIAL QUEEN
IN NEW YORK
MRE. HENRY SiEGEL, WELL
KNOWN IN CAIRO, AN AC-
TIVE MEMBER OF GOTH
AM SOCIETY.
ON NEWSPAPER STAFF
When She Met Multi-Millionaire and
Gave Up Writing Fashions
to Become Arbter
Herself.

Cairo friends and relatives of Mrs.
Henry Siegel Of New York, will be
greatly interested in an article that
appears in the April number Of the
Broadway Magazine regarding her
career.
Mrs. Siegel is niece of the late
Mrs. II. II. Cunningham Of this city
and has number of family connec-
items in Cairo ana at Odin where her
mother and sis er Miss Alice
Vaughan the latter formerly Of this
city reside.
The article in question IS as fol
lows:
From a reportorial position on a
New York newspaper to that of mis-.
tress Of three palatial mansions and
an assured position in the metropoli-
tan social circle of two continents is
an astonishing social rise. Yet such
has been the experience of Mrs. Henry
Siegel, the wife of the New York
merchant Hers has been a romance
that reads like fiction. She was q
young widow, Mrs Marie Wilde, writ
ing fashion articles for the New York
Press when she was assigned one
lay to write up a Siegel & Cooper
opening In obtaining the neces-
sary information, she CHANGED to meet
the head Of the house himself, and he
was so impressed with her charm that
he took a personal interest in her Wis
Its thereafter He decided that the
newspaper "wlite,ups' were becoming
a matter of such Importance that ho
must himself attend to the detail Of
supervising them. When he spoke to
The young woman on the matter he Of
Tered her position with which the
Press" couldn't compete The news
paper lost valued member of its staff
and she became Mrs. Henry Siegel.
Mrs. Siegel was Southern girl, Ma.
RE Vaughan, Of old Virginia ancestry.
She was married to Go. NJ Wilde
Who was brother of Rear-Admiral
Wilde, us. n. Ono daughter born
Of that union, Georgine Wilde. named
sor her father, Is the wife of a brother
Of Prince Luigi de Frasso Dentice. a
member of the Italian nobility. A
granddaughter, Julie Siegel, has just
married an Englishman OF famous
lineage, Tyrell William Cavendish
relative Of the Duke of Devonshire
and the vendish-Bentincks. which
family Numbers among its American
brides the twin-sister Of Mrs. Ogden
Mills.
The Siegels have house on Park
lane London, a country home In
ok, Westchester County.
md handsome residence al Eighty.
second street and Madison avenue. In
1ondon's exclusive social circles Mrs.
siegel and her daughters have had a
prominent place. Mrs. Siegel is a
lorsewoman of no mean accomplish |
nents. and has won more than one
'lue ribbon for her saddle.horses. But |
ihe Is not given over entirely - |
he lighter side Of life. She is grad |
ate of the Nloman's Law Class of |
Few York Uniyer ity. and Is the au.
hor Of novel. She was one of the
ounders Of the Womens String Or.
hestra in New York. She il especial |
y active in the work of the Protestant
Episcopal church. being a representa-
i've of st. Thomas Parish, Mamaron-
ok and Is on the Diocesan Commit.
&c.
Mr.. Henry Sisgel is sometimes al
ided TO as the Napoleon of the dc
store business in America. Il
lie is a little man with big ideas He
'as a German emigrant who began
$3.50 a week in New York, and
'ho now has on his payroll over 10
DO people at his stores in New York,
oston and Chicago. He is many times
millionaire. and his wife is no less
mbitious socially than he is in the
numerical world.