Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-24
PRINCE AND M|LLINER
Austrian NobIeman Failed in
Novel Enterprise.
NOW IS IN BANKRUPTCY
Proceedings Reveal q Sad Story Of
Failure in Business.
MARRIED HAZARDS DAUGHTER
His Partner Wealthy Widow, Van
Haeften, Principal Creditor
Of "E. Reboux, Inc"
MARRIED HAZARDS DAUGHTER

NEW YORK, January 24.-When the re-
port Of William Allen, No. 81 Wall street,
referee in the bankruptcy proceedings In
volving the fashionable millinery establish.
ment "E. Reboux, Inc.," is submitted ID
Judge Holt next Monday new and inter-
esting chapter will be added to the history
of Prince Won Auersperg, who married the
daughter of E. c. Hazard, the millionaire
catsup manufacturer of Shrewsbury, N. j.
volumes have been written about the
prince, whose full name Is Franz Marie
Johann Joseph Won Auersperg of Aus
tria, and about his bride, and her mil
iionaire father, who spent half million
settling the debts of his titled son-in-law.
The referees report will be the first
revelation of Won Auersperg's embarka-
ton in the business of building womens
hats; of his association with a man mil
liner from Paris; the final collapse of the
business and the loss of many thousands
or dollars by Mrs. NJ. Miller Van Haeften
member OF distinguished family in Hol-
land and formerly lady in waiting to
Queen Wilhelmina
Won Auersperg Now in Mexico.
The prince, Won Auersperg, who quail
fed as physician in the Long Island
College Hospital in 1899, is now in Mexico.
and, it Is said, is receiving an income Of
$S'ooo month from mining company as
medical attendant to 1900 employees draw
ing 81 month from each. The princess is
with her mother at Shrewsbury Manor.
Mrs. Hazard denied to a reporter last
night that there was any truth in the ru-
mors plentiful for more than a year that
the prince and his wife had quarreled. She
ttxrAlx kl,1e
perg was travelling for healths sake and
was not engaged as physician by any min
ing concern.
The briefs to be filed by the referee will
deal only with the liabilities and the assets
OF the millner's shop at No. 500 9TH avenue
near 4Sth street, which was fitted up in
such elaborate style in December 1905 that
the newspapers gave 1T attention. There
Will be no description of the peculiar cir
cumstances which brought the establish
ment into existence, because that forms no
part or the legal proceedings, nor of the
manner In which the wealthy Mrs. Van
Haeften was induced to invest something
like $4,000 in a venture which began to go
to pieces almost Immediately after its in
ception.
Wins Millionaire's Child.
Won Auersperg, whose father was the
prime minister Of the Austrian empire
came to this country eight years ago. He
had an allowance of $1,000 a year granted
by his brother. Prince Charles. chamberlain
and grand marshal to the Emperor of Aus
tria. This was not sufficient for his wants.
After taking the hippocratie oath he be-
came house surgeon in the BayOnne City
Hospital. Immediately thereafter he fell in
love with Florence Hazard. the seventeen
year-old daughter of the Shrewsbury mil
lionaire His manner was engaging and the
title of princess was attractive. The we'd
ding attracted wide attention. An ambassa-
dor ~ Qrn0 N hn ON
Auersperg plate and jewels to the prince
and his bride. The princess abandoned the
Protestant faith and became a Roman
Catholic, of which denomination her hus-
band was a member. Later Won AuerSperg
began the practice Of medicine in this city.
Finds a Wealthy Partner.
DIR. Won Auersperg, for he did not use
his title in New York, was called in by Mrs.
NJ. Miller Van Haeften to attend her hus-
band. His services were faithful and con-
tinuous, but the patient died. Mrs. Van
Haeften was grateful, and when Won
Auersperg. who had gained some knowledge
of her affairs, came with proposition that
she invest part of her fortune in an elab-
crate millinery establishment she consented.
Won Auersperg told her that he had
genius in a man milliner, Arthur Fisher,
who had been connected with the famous
Partisan house Of Reboux. Fisher had
been selected by royal command to design
the trosseau for the Princess Victoria
Mary bride of His Highness the Prince of
Wales This looked like a tremendous
lad" especially as Fisher was credited
with being heir to a large fortune, his
mother being shareholder in the Ham
burg American line. 1t was said.
Mrs Van Haeften had no knowledge of
business affairs nor of the lack or possess.
sion of that faculty in other persons. She
believed that the prince understood the
plan thoroughly. She did not know that he
had filed a petition in bankruptcy for debts
contracted in Vienna, Paris and Berlin,
amounting to $3.50. 72O. with assets consist
ing of ten suits Of clothes. two overcoats.
three hats. two dozen shirts and one set of
shirt studs.
A Failure From the Start.
The millinery establishment was fall
ure almost from the start. Won Auersperg
had no business experience and was lacking
in knowledge of American methods. Fish
er's genius for millinery was of no account
in the business end of the establishment.
At the end of two months he got out and
was succeeded at a salary of $40 week
by Madame Adelaide who used to be a
hat trimmer. Many hats were sold and
many pages of the ledger were filed, but
the customers did not pay and were not
pressed, and the wholesalers clamored for
their due.
Thus it came about that suits were en-
tered by the several creditors. Mrs. Gabri-
ellie Muliner. No. $40 9Th avenue. a clever
woman lawyer. was retained by Mrs. Van
Henry NJ Earle. No. 1 Nassau street. to
protect the interests of the principal cred
itor who lives in a fashionable apartment
house and Is on the verge Of Mysteries be-
cause Of her experience.
Mrs. Van Haeften Is worth about $780,
900. She is thirty years old and strikingly
handsome. She became the wife Of George
Miller an American. at The Hague. who