Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-29
OWNS THIRTY-oNE AUTOS.
Princess Turns Old Palace Stables
Into Garage for Machines.

Into Garage for Machines.
VIENNA, Sept %. - Princess
Elizabeth of Lichtenstein, who owns
no less than thirty-one motor cars,
is certainly the most enthusiastic
motorists of all the imperial women
in Europe. The expensive stabling
at her beautiful castle at Stuhlweis-
senburg, in southwest Hungary, is
now largely converted into garages,
and grooms and stable boys have
given place to chauffeurs and me-
chanics skilled in the intricacies of
automobiles. But the princess pur-
sues her hobby quietly and studious-
~ avoids anything like publicity or
notoriety, SO that the great majority
of the public are not even aware of
her wholesale ownership of motor
cars.
Princess Elizabeth is the younger
daughter of the Archduchess Marie
Therese and niece of the emperor.
Her wonderful interest in motors is
the more unusual as the Austrian i'm
perial family have not yet greatly
taken to this new means of locomo-
ton. Indeed, the emperor himself
will have nothing to do with motors
and has never ridden in one. At his
age he feels much safer in his car
rage, even though it travels a little
less quickly. 1t is only few weeks
ago that he gave permission for auto
mobiles to be driven through the
court yard of the imperial palace, al
though this thoroughfare has been
open for carriages and cabs of all
descriptions, day and night, for many
years.
Princess Elizabeths half-brother
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the he'll
TO thf shrone, motors good deal and
so does his cousin. Archduke Eugene
who was showed up in his car last
winter when trying to reach his pal
ace at Innsbruck. Archduke Fred
erick, the wealthiest member of ths
family. has car or two. and so havs
one or two other archdukes, but q
the whole the Hapsburgs have gone
in less for motoring than most of tht
reigning houses. Kaiser William,
enthusiasm in the sport is wei
known and the Austrian motor in
terests frequently deplore the en-.
persor's aversion to their wares al
compared with the attitude of Lii
imperial neighbor in Berlin.
Princess Elizabeth hardly got he
craze from her husband Prince A.oi
Leichtenstein, for he is man o
studious habits, almost, in fact,
bookworm. They have lovely coun
try home near notwithstanding, til
old Roman town of Alba Regia, All,
where the Hungarian kings wer
crowned down to Ferdinand l.
The head of the house of Leic'iten
stein rules an old little princtpalit
of that name near to the frontier o
Switzerland. The territory is som
sixty miles square and the happ
population, which numbers no les
than 10000, pays no taxes and is no
subject to military duty. 1t forms
part of Austria, although never for
mally incorporated into it. TIL
members OF the family were Away
considered as Austrian citizens unit
the marriage of the Princess Eliza
beth in 1908, when the emperor de
creed that they should henceforth b
regarded as foreign princes. Thi
step was taken in order to preserv
to Elizabeth her rank and precedenc
as an archduchess, which she woul
otherwise have surrendered by mar
rying subject of the empire. TIL
foreign royalties such as the Cumbe1
lands, Coburgs, and Parmas, residen
in Austria, take precedence with tn
imperial family and at court ball
and other state functions walk in tn
procession of the emperor and arch
dukes and archduchesses. Elizabet
didn't care to lose her place in thi
exalted throng and so persuaded he
fond uncle to place her husband
family in the category of foreig
royalties