The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-27
Youngest 2, Son of Hungarian House to Wed Youngest Daughter of Mrs. Cor
 nelius Vanderbilt.
PURELY ONE OF LOVE
Unlike Recent Notable International Marriages. There Will be No Money Settlement of
 Any Kind.

New York, Jan. 26.--In the famous Vanderbilt mansion al Fifth avenue and Fifty-seventh street tomorrow at noon, Miss Gladys, youngest daughter of Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt, cousin of the Duchess of Marlborough and one of the richest of American heiresses, will become the bride of Count Laszio Jeno Maria Henrik Simon Szechenyi a young Hungarian noble of ancient lineage and comfortable fortune. Both the prominence of the brides family in the social and financial life of this country and the romantic circumstance es of her choice of d husband, lend the ceremony an unusua degree ot pub lie interest Last summer Miss Van derbilt became of age and under the publication of her fathers will entered into possession of her share of his great fortune, estimated at from S12,- 000,CG0 to s15,000,000
 Ever since her coming out a few years ago rumor has been busy engaS- ing her to numberless young Americans as well as to an endless succession 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 compara- lively obscure young Hungarian she is making purely love match. Count Laszelo is handsome man of twenty
 
 eight, slender and straight his bear ing betraying his military training and devotion to out of door sports. He is not even the head of his family, being the youngest of the four sons of that Count Emerich Szechenyi. who was for many years the Austro Hungarian am bassldor at Berlin and who played an important part in the negotiations of the German-Austrian aitiance and was one of the limited circle of diplomats who enjoyed the close friendship of Bismark. The present head iof the house of Szecheneyi one of the oldest and proudest of the Hungarian nohil- ity, Is Count Dionys, who until very recently was first secretary of the Austro- Hungarian embassy at Berlin and wno is reported to be slated for an important diplomatic post Count Dionyi's wife was a Countess De Cara man-Chimay and a cousin of the Prince Chimay who married Clara Ward, the American wirl whose sensational elope- ment with Rigo, the gypsy violinist, brought her into notoriety few years ago.
 Count Laszello is said to have an in- come of some se0,o00 a year and owns bth town and country estates.
 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 recent not able international marriages, in this case there will be no money settlement of any kind Countess Szechenyi will retain her great fortune, and she has will be used In common In the Ameri- can manner.
 The marriage ceremony will be per- formed by Monsignor Lavelle. rector of St. Patrick's cathedral. and the brides attendants will be Miss Ruth Vanderbilt Twombley and Miss Doro- thy 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, probably Regi- nald. will give his sister in marriage. After the ceremony breakfast will be served, to which some 25G invitations have been issued. The Vanderbilt home | has been superbly arranged and decor ated for the occasion. and one of the features of the ceremony will be music by an orchestra of sixty pieces The wedding gifts are said to ex- ceed s1 o00,00o in value, and are guard . ed day and night by detectives. and special arrangements have been made with the police to manage the curious throngs which usually gather on such occasions
 The couple will leave Monday after noon for Newport. where Mrs Wander | bilt's home The Breakers" has been prepared for them, They will remain there until February 4. when they will sail for Europe.