The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31

The betrothal of Miss Gladys Van
derbilt, daughter of Mrs Cornelius
Vanderbilt, ST., and the young Count
Laszio Szechenyi of Budapest, Hun
barry (the marriage to take place on
December ~, had the dash of an An
thony Hope romance about 1t. What's
more, the young people, knowing all
the facts of the case, must be laugh
ing in their sleeves at the sensation
caused by the vague rumors from
Newport that found their way into
print.
From what Austrian officials in this
country say the so-called sensation
was quite cut-and-dried affair. One
of the richest of American girls had
been formally betrothed in Hun
garian castle weeks before, and on
that occasion the details of the
American betrothal in October" had
been arranged. Then a young Hun
garian nobleman had dropped quietly
into Newport to play his part in the
formalities.
The first surprise over, every one
asked:
who is Count Laszio Szechenyi?"
Therein lies the romance of the
story. Only the last chapter properly
belongs to the Anthony Hope school.
The first of it might be a short story
by William Dean Howells. On the
other hand, the real romance is wor-
thy of Gibbon or SienkiewicZ. In II
are the raids of savage Asiatic peo-
pie upon the nomads of the Russian
steppes, the primeval forests of the
Alps There is also the pageantry OF
primitive war, the strains of wild
music-of Slavonic harmonies EN-
broidered in a web of national trag
edy-music hardly suggested by the
Hungarian orchastras of the cafes, but
mirrored by List and Paderewski
| and visualiZed a few years ago In
the latter's opera. "Manru."
Then there are the green fez, the
| flowing white robes of the Turk, the
brown habit of the Christian mission
airy, the splendor of Hapsbure
court, and tyrannies that led prout
people to a rebellion that echoed
around the world. And all finally
ends In a basket phaeton on the Cliff
Drive at Newport, with young Hun
garian and an American heiresss &C
knowledging to their friends that they
are about to marry.
An Object of Interest.
New Workers have been watching
Miss Vanderbilt with more than Gus
tomary interest in the last thrH'
years. She is the youngest d..ughte
of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, and thu
only one of her children unmarried
Her sister is Mrs. Harry Payne Whit
ney: her brothers, Cornelius, Jr.; Al
fred Gwynne and Reginald Wander
bilt. She is, too, one of the riches
girls of her age in America, havinl
come into a fortune of $12.500,000 Of
her twenty.first birthday last August.
Miss Vanderbilt was introduced b
society three years ago at dane
given by her mother in the great Var
derbilt house at Fifth avenue an
Fifty-seventh street. 1t was one c
the events of the season The hous
had not been opened for FIVE years.
The chat of the drawing rooms COZ
nected Miss Vanderbilt's name agai
and again with those of young me
who might be considered her suitorI
Sometimes these reached the new
papers, sometimes not. One Of tn
young men was Robert Walton Goele
Another mentioned more recently wa
one of the younger generation in tn
Gerard family. When any of these r.
ports crept into print they were pos
lively denied.
Then there were rumors that Mis-
Vanderbilt's trip abroad last summt
had back of It a desire to put as man
miles as possible of sea and railroa
between herself and one of the MOI
persistent suitors. Be that as II ma
Mrs. Vanderbilt and Miss Gladys wei
TO California early last spring wit
Mira. Elliott F. Shepard, then can
east and sailed for Europe In April.