Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-01-31
.MARRIESHUNGARIAN
YLADYS, YOUNGEST DAUGHTER
OF MRS. VANDERBILT.
When She Became of Age Last Sum-
NOR She Inherited $15,ooo,o 900, Which
Goes With Bride to Count Szechenyi
He Has Fortune Also-Grand Ar
ray of Wedding Gifts.

New York, Jan. 28-In the famous
Vanderbilt mansion at Fifth avenue
and Fifty-seVenth street at noon Mon
day Miss Gladys, youngest daughter
of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, cousin
of the duchess of Marlborough and one
of the richest of American heiresses
became the bride of Count Laszio Jenc
Maria Henrik Simon Szechenyi, a
young Hungarian noble of ancient line
age and comfortable fortune. His home
is in Ormucs, Hungary. Last summer
Miss Vanderbilt became of age, and
under the provisions of her fathers
will entered into possession Of hey
share Of his great fortune, estimated
at from $12,00O,000 to $15,000,000.
The marriage ceremony was per.
formed by Mgr. Lavelle, rector of St
Patrick's cathedral, and the brides at
tendants will be Miss Ruth Vanderbilt
Twombly and Miss Dorothy Whitney.
Count Anton Sigray, who recently ar
rived here with Count Tionys and his
wife, and Count Paul Esterhazy will
be the best men. One of the brides
brothers gave his sister in marriage.
After the ceremony a breakfast will
be served, to which some $50 invita-
lions have been issued.
The Vanderbilt home has been SUI
perbly arranged and decorated for the
occasion and one of the features of the
ceremony was the music by an orches-
ira of GO pieces.
The guests entered at 2 West Fifty
eighth street, that side of the house
being admirably supplied with retiring
room large enough for several hundred
people to deposit their wraps in. 1t
was, however, not a large wedding,
as such things go in New York, Mrs.
Vanderbilt having kept her list down
considerably, sending out for the cere-
mony and breakfast only, there being
no extra invitations for a reception.
Gladys Moore Vanderbilt is 21 years
old. She is the daughter of Cornelius
and Alice G. Gwynne Vanderbilt. She
was born at Newport, R. /.
The Vanderbilt town house, in which
the wedding took place, is one of the
show places of the metropolis. 1t is in
Fifth avenue, occupying the entire
block between Fifty-seventh and Fifty
eighth streets. Since the death of Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, who built it, the
house has seemed to the outsider to be
closed most of the time This is not
true, however, as Mrs Vanderbilt
opens it quite often for some elaborate
affair or other.
The original Vanderbilt house-the
house in which the old commodore
ived-is on Staten island. 1t is a pic
-uresque place, within short distance
Of the ocean
1t is presumed that the count and
will spend the most of their
time at the formers home in Hungary,
Castle Oermexoe.
The wedding gifts are said to ex-
,eed $1,OOO,000 in value and are guard.
I'd day and night by detectives and
special police arrangements have been
made to handle the curious throngs
which usually gather on such occa-
5ions..
The young couple left Monday after
loon for Newport, where Mrs. Wander.
ollt's home, "The Breakers" has been
prepared for them. There they will re-
main until February 4, when they will
jail for Europe.