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

America of their summer pilgrimage.
They were entertained in London by
Ambassador and Mrs. Whitelaw Rel.
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 Fl on the
Gath 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. %.
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 1t 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 it and Miss Vanderbilt
was invited to come in the mid-sum-
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 Hungary. Then
Miss Vanderbilt resumed her Journey.
Count Szechenyi's 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 Vanderbilts friends
saw quiet, affable young man of %,
whose dark complexion suggested a
Magyar origin. Many even thought he
looked like young Robert Walton Goe'
let, with whom Miss Vanderbilts
name had already been associated
The chief difference was that the
count wore small black mustache
with the ends turned up like the EN-
peror Williams.
The engagement announced. every
one is repeating:
"Who is Count Szechenyi?"
His full name Is Ladislaus SZeche
nyi Won Sarvar und Felso-Videk. His
family is one of the oldest in Austria
, Hungary Although a count by right
the title does not mean more than ar
honor conferred on all men of his
, chenyi family are chamberlains in thu
imperial court of Austria-Hungary b,
birth, and the senior member holds |
seat in the upper branch of the Hun
: garian parliament.
So far as lineage goes, probabl.
none of the titled foreigners who hav
! married American women can boas
! of a longer line of ancestors thar
. count Szechenyi. Besides his famil
r tree, that of the duke of Marlborough
2 who married Miss Consuelo Wander
. bilt. is the veriest sapling. Coun
s de Castellane. former husband of Mis-
e Anna Gould, might compare with tn
: Szechenyis in pride of birth, for hi
!. family Is one of the oldest in Franc
and their castle of Castellane ha
S been in the family for many centuries
r The Szecheny name, however, goe
y back fully 1000 years. The story {
d the young man who Is TO marry Mis-
e Vanderbilt began not later than 95'
2. He comes of the Magyars-wild az
t venturers defendants of the ancleg
h Scythians. who invaded Europe frol
e Central Asia in the ninth century an
oyerran Hungary and Pennsylvania.