The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-27
Gladys Becomes the Bride of Count Laszo Sztchsnyi
 To-day
THIS Is SAID ID BE
 REAL LOVE AFFAIR
Though the Young Hungarian Is of Noble Ancient Lineage and Com fortabe Fortune, Is Not
 Head of Family.

New York, January 26.-In the famous Vanderbilt mansion at Fifth avenue and F'ifty-seventh street tomorrow at noon, Miss Gladys, youngest daughter of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, cousin of the Duch- ess of Marlborough and one of the rich est of American heiresses, will become the bride of Count Laszlo Jeno Maria Henrik simon Szechenyi a young Hun garan noble of ancient lineage and com fortable fortune. Both the prominence of the brides family in the social and financial life of this country and the TO- nantio circumstances of her choice of husband, lend the ceremony an unusual degree of public interest Last summer, Miss Vanderbilt became of age and under the provision of her fathers will, entered into possession of her share of his great fortune, estimated at from $12,Ooo0o0 to kl5,OOo.O00
 Ever since her coming out few years ago, rumor has been busy engaging Miss Vanderbilt to numberless young Americans as well as to an endless sue cession of titled foreigners ranging from royalty to the latest impecunious noble, who happened to land on American shores. But even the gossip mongers concede that in her marriage to this comparatively obscure young Hungarian she is making purely a love match. Count Laszlo is a handsome man of 2S, slender and straight, his bearing betraying his mili- tary training and devotion to out of door sports.
 He is not even the head of his family, Fat1 of Count Emerich Szechny, who was for many years the Austro-HungaIian ambas- sador at Berlin and who played an i'm portant part in the negotiations of the Standardization alliance, and was one of the limited circle of diplomats who enjoyed the close friendship of Bis mack.
 The Present Head.
 The present head of the house of Szechenyi, one of the oldest and proudest of the Hungarian nobility, is Count Dionyz, who until recently was first sec retary to the Austro-H Hungarian embassy at Berlin and who is reported to be slated for an independent diplomatic post. Count Dionyz's wife was a Countess de Caraman-Chmay, and cousin of the Prince Chimay, who married Clara Ward, the American girl whose sensational elopement with Rigo, the Gypsy violnist, brought her into notoriety few years ago. The other brothers are Counts Stepehen and Peter and all of them en- joy hereditary seats In the Hungarian house of magnates.
 Count Laszo has done much big shoot Ing, and was member of the expedition sent by the Austrian Emperor some years ago to establish friendly relations with king Menelik of Abyssina. He is said to have an income of some s60,000 a year and owns both town and country estates, although he Is not as has been reported the owner of the magnificent domain of Horpacs castle That is the hereditary seat of the Szechenyis, and as such Is held by Count Dionys, the elder brother
 No Money Settlement.
 There has been much talk of the money settlement to be made upon the count, but close friends of the family aver that unlike nearly all of the recent interna-' tional marriages, there will in this case be no money settlement of any kind The Countess Szechenyi will retain her great fortune and has told her friends that their joint means will be used in America. Count Laszlo's brothers and friends indig- nantly denied the reports of a money set clement when they arrived here few days ago. and declared that no financial considerations of any character were in- volved in the marriage.
 The marriage ceremony will be per formed by Monsignor Lavelle, rector of St. Patrick's cathedral, and the brides at tendants will be Miss Ruth Vanderbilt Twombley and Miss Dorothy Whitney. Count Anton Sigray. who recently arrived here with Count Dionys and his wife, and Count Paul Esterhazy. will be the best man. One of the brides brothers, prob- ably Reginald, will give his sister in mar riage After the ceremony a breakfast will be served to which some 250 invita- tions have been issued. The Vanderbilt home has been .superbly arranged and decorated for the occasion. and one of the features of the ceremony will be music by an orchestra of 60 pieces.
 The wedding gifts are said to exceed s1.000;0oO in value, and are guarded day and night by detectives, and special po- lice arrangements have been made to ham de the curious throngs which usually gather on such occasions.
 The young couple will leave Monday aft ernoon for Newport, where Mrs. Wander bilt's home, "The Breakers" has been prepared for them. There they will re- main until February 4, when they will sail for Europe.