Morgan County republican., 1907-10-24

FROM time 10 time reports drltted 10
America of their summer pilgrimage.
They were entertained in London by
Ambassador and Mrs. Whitelaw Rec.
then visited the ambassador at his
country place, Wrest Park. Later they
were said to be at Carlsbad for the
season. Then the messages had them
cruising on European waters.
This went On until nearly the end Of
August Miss Gladys was 21 on the
cath Of that month. Mrs. Vanderbilt
cabled an order to open The Break
ers, her Newport home, and she and
her daughter started for New York, ar
irving on Sept. 25.
When Mrs. Vanderbilt and Miss
Gladys reappeared at Newport, their
presence seemed to crystalize vague
rumors that had been coming from
Europe. The gist OF these was that
Miss Vanderbilt had fallen in love, in
the good old way. with foreign noble
man, and that, Vanderbilt.like, she
would brook no opposition when she
had decided to have her own way.
Nothing was to be learned Of the
nobleman's identity. There was not
an inkling Of what had actually hap
pened to Miss Vanderbilt during her
trip to Europe. Certain Austrian Of.
ficials in this country are authority
for the story. They say Miss Wander.
bilt met Count Laszio Szechenyi-they
called II Sa-she-nye-in Salisbury, a
continental watering place, and that
they had fallen in love with each other
in short order. The counts relatives
were told of Il and Miss Vanderbilt
was invited to come in the midsum-
mer to the home of the Szechenyi fam.
lily, in the district of Horpreck's, Hun.
gary.
At family gathering there, so the
story runs, the young American heir
ess was formally bethrothed under
the laws Of Austro-Hungary. Then
Miss Vanderbilt resumed her journey.
Count Szechenyis appearance in
Newport started the rumors of Miss
| Vanderbilt's romance again with few
erish persistency.
In the young nobleman who was
Mrs. Vanderbilt's guest at The Break
ers, Miss Gladys Vanderbilt's friends
saw quiet, affable young man OF 2s
whose dark complexion suggested 6
Magyar origin. Many even thought he
looked like young Robert Walton Goe
let, with whom Miss Vanderbilt
name had already been associated
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count wore small black mustach'
with the ends turned up like the EN-
peror Williams.
The engagement announced, ever!
one is repeating:
Who is Count Szechenyi?"
His full name is Ladislaus Szeche
nyi Won Saryar und Felso.Videk. HI
family is one OF the Oldest in Austria
! Hungary. Although a count by light
the title does not mean more than g
honor conferred on all men of hi
class, just as all the sons Of the Sz'
. chenyi family are chamberlains in tn
imperial court Of Austria. II ungary b
birth, and the senior member holds
I seat in the upper branch Of the HUI
= garian parliament.
So far as lineage goes, probabl
= none Of the titled foreigners who hay
D married American women can boa
4 Of a longer line of ancestors tina
J. count Szechenyi. Besides his fami
J. tree, that Of the duke Of Marlboroug
e who married Miss Consuelo Vande
/. bilt, is the yeriest sapling. Coul
S de Castellane, former husband OF Mi
e Anna Gould, might compare with Il
:. Szechenyis in pride OF birth, for h
/. family is one OF the oldest in Fran,
and their castle Of Castellane HI
IS been in the family for many centurie
IT The Szechenyi name, however go
y back fully 1000 years, The story
d the young man who is TO marry Mi
e Vanderbilt began not later than 8;
y, He comes OF the Magyars-wild o
It venturers defendants Of the ancie
h Scythlans, who invaded Europe fro
ie Central Asia in the ninth century a
oyerran Hungary and Pennsylvania