The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-23

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Count Zeppelin IN American war
veteran.
- GUN ERD1NAyD Yep PELIN.
age Of seventy Is attracting
tho. attention OF the entire civil ,ii
aerial navigation at Friedrich
shafen, on the shores OF Lake Con-
s stance, is q veteran OF tho American
Civil Wal fact which have not ut
served through the entire Civil War us
q cavalry officer 1.-THE Union side, be-
sSo oh,irgg an m intimate friend Of Carl r
9 hone II anne
Of 1856, and also in the war with
France OF 1870. IN the early part OF
ssSo ne vas w promoted t9 the rank XII, q
dates Mas rf,ev e e la %
plenipotentiary Of his native. kingdom
OF Wurtenlberg at Berlin. and the re-
preventative, Of his country in the Fed.
sal u GsnG hs the Is sm gRse, Il hs
capacity was completed. and that he
OF general OF cavalry, in 1891. that
he began seriously to devote hinselfto
Ing most Of his fortune in tho matter.
he may be. reEarded as having attained
his aim. when the other day. lie crossed
IN hts aerial motor the Lake OF Con-
with party Of friends on board, and
took them cruising In the air over the
greater part Of Switzerland. flying over
Zurich, Luccrne. and other towns and
motors anchorage at Friedrichshafen
twelve hours later.g9 f
Although the count has many enc
mics. owing to hislirrepressible energy,
his obstinacy: his brusquerie and his his
though some OF the higher officials OF
the War Department at Berlin look
upon him as a crank yet he enjoys IN
a very marked degree the favor and
good will LOT his two soysre!gns, the
each Of whom has attached him to
his personal STAFF as n general A. D. @.
He has one daughter. unmarried, ny
his union With the Russian Bar9ness
ing like herself from the Cars Ger
man speaking province OF Livonia, Is
married to. his younger brother Count
Eberhard zeppelin. "A cousin, Countess
Grand d'Hautevillo. OF the Chateau Of
neva. in Switzerland. after he
had been divorced by his first and
lean wife. Ere derrick S. Grand d'Haute,
Vile. OF New York. and who inherited
the chateau and estate of Hanteville.
married Miss Elizabeth Fish, sister or
Stuyvesant Hamilton Fish Old Con
zalve Grand d'Hauteville had no chill
dren by his union with Countess Yep
pelin.
Count Ferdinand Zeppelin. the aero
raut. must not omit to mention. was a!.
Reconnaissance July Al 1870. on
French soil in which several German
troopers. and also an Englishman serv..
ing in the German army. Lieutenant
WInsloe, lost their lives, but which
brought back information Of immense
value to Field Marshal Moltke. and was
one Of the first and most sensational
OF the feats Of arms OF that great
struggle between France and Germany.
families in Germany. belonging to the
Mecklcnburg .'uradel"-that is to say
to the aristocracy the origin Of whose
nobility antedates the dawn Of history.
They received their titles OF count In
the middle. of the eighteenth century.
and played a prominent part In the
field during the Thirty Years War. the
Seven Years War and the German War
OF Liberation from Napoleonic thral-
dom at the beginning Of the ,elghtee en-,
ers. and one Of the nephews OF the
aeronaut--namely, Count Henry Zeppe-
lin-fell as the captain ola Boer com
mando during the War nsSouth Africa
in 1899.
Plus x. has announced his decision
Of being buried in the crypt Of st.
Peters. a determination which will re-
lieve his successor of much !dt Mculty:
for although Leo XIII. has been dead
found it impossible to transfer his. re-
mains from their temporary resting
place In st. Peters to the superb tomb
which he had had constructed for him
self in the Lateran Basilica, owing to
the danger of the same demonstration
on the part OF the worst element OF
the Eternal City as that which oc-
Cured at the time when Plus Ik. was
being conveyed through the streets Of o.
the hearse was pelted with stones and
mud, and an attempt was made by the
mob to hurl it into the Tiber, tho po-
lice and the troops experiencing the
utmost diflculty in preyyenting the
into execution.
The crypt Of ST. Peters contains the
remains Of number Of other pontlfs
|iish Pope. Adrian who. previous
to his elevation to the chair OF st
Peter, was Nicholas Brakesp OF
Adrian VI. who was asDutchman.s and
Of Nicholas !, y, the fonndsr q the Uni u
stitute, soto speak, species OF guarG
Of honor around the spot believec
Throughout Christendom to- be the last
resting-place of the apostle st. Peter.
It is difficult to understand the pre-
tensions Of young Louis Joseph Pau
de N1ontcalm. a native Of III ackensack
N. j., where he lived at&S8 River Street
to be the descendant Of the French
Marquis de Montcalm, who fell In bat
| tie on the Plains of Abraham, and lie
buried In the church Of the Ursulin'
EConvent at Quebec: and the announce
ment that the youth has left Hacken
sack to attend the tercentenary cole
bration this week at Quebec is. to- sa!