New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-10

help got up great flower show at Vienna with
the object of raising thereby sufficient money
pay off the debts of the music exhibition. The
hover show was only very moderate success and
barely paid expenses the archduchess and its
ganizers being at their wits end how TO meet their
obligations in connection with the music exhibition
which the flower show management had assumed
Happening to hear of their predicament Princess
Hohenberg made inquiries as to what amount of
money was needed TO cover the deficit and on be-
ing Informed that $4,000 would meet all require
ments paid down that for the single chrysan-
themum blossom above mentioned. Had she not
come to the rescue the archduchess and the women
associated with her would have had to give the
money out of their own pockets
Now the princess and the archduchess are, to
put the matter mildly. a footing OF feminine
war against each other. The princess in her ante
hupual days was, as Countess Sophie ChOtek. one
of the only members of the old nobility willing to
serve as lady-in-waiting to the Archduchess Fred
erick The difficulty experienced by the latter In
recruiting her household from the fact that
she was not of imperial BIRTH being a daughter of
the late Duke and Prince of Croy, chief Of
medatized house of the Belgian nobility. Several
OF It's members make their home in this country:
one OF the Princes Croy is engaged in the real es-
tate business in New York. and another is
nected in a professional capacity with q musical
academy at Washington) Archduchess Frederick
is an extremely ambitious woman. and, realizing
the righteousness of her status In the eyes of the
reghlng family the nobility and the people by
veins,
Hoped to strengthen her position by marrying one
ol her numerous daughters to the heir apparent.
with the usual perverseness of men in such mat
ters, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, instead Of be-
coming the sutton OF any OF his cousins none of
whom are particularly good looking took advantage
or the opportunities arranged by Archduchess
frederick for their meeting him fall violently
love with their penness attendant Countess Sophie
Chotek. Archduchess Frederick indignant that
her daughters should have been "cut OUT in a
matrimonial sense by paid dependent,
beside herself with anger and Immediately pro-
ceeded to dismiss the countess Subsequently the
heir apparent overcoming all dynastio and political
obstacles to the match, married Countess Sophie
Chotek, who created by the Emperor Princess
Of Hohenberg, and granted precedence at the Court
of Vienna Immediately after the archduchesses
dual empire. and. her husband is as much de-
voted to her as ever, and she has his colossal
wealth and his power her command she IS to-
day one of the most influential figures In Austria
Hungary. On terms Of affectionate intimacy with
all the members OF her husbands family, only
Archduchess Frederick has held aloof. and under
the circumstances the great world at Vienna IS
asking itself whether the archduchess will look
upon the purchase of the chrysanthemum for $40 =
600 by Princess Hohenberg in the light Of an olive
branch. or additional cause Of offence and
humiliation the part of her former lady-n-wait-
ing, who prevented her from becoming the mother
in-law of an emperor OF Austria.
MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.