The Washington herald., 1908-01-27
WEEDS COUNT TO-DAY
Orchids the Setting for Miss
Yanderbilt's Marriage.
FEW GUESTS TO BE PRESENT
Lavish SpIendOr viii Mark NuptiaIs
OF Heiress and Hungarian Noble
man-WiH Go TO Husbands Ances-
traI Home, Where Brilliant Social
Career Awaits Her-Few Guests.

New York, Jan. 96.-society's interest
is eentered in the marriage tomorrow Of
Miss Gladys Moore Vanderbilt TO Count
Laszlo szechenyL The hour set for the
ceremony is noon, and it will be solemn
lied by Mgr. NJ. J. Lavelle, in Mrs. Van
derbilts house, her guests being asked 10
enter at West Fifty-eighth street. that
side of the house being admirably sup
piled with retiring rooms large enough for
several hundred people to deposit their
wraps in. It viii. however, not be a large
wedding, as such things 90 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.
Miss Vanderbilt viii have no attendant,
and the Count Anton Sigray of Vienna
viii act as Count szechenyrs best man.
It WILL of course, be brilliant wedding.
There is to be an elaborate musical pro-
gramme. with Nathan Franker's fun or
chestra, and a seated breakfast
Gladys Moore Vanderbilt is tWenty-one
years old. She is the daughter of Cor
nelius and Alice C. Gwyslne Vanderbilt.
She was born at Newport, r. I
Count LaszIo Jeno Maria Henrik Simon
Szechenyf is a Hungarian, twenty-eight
years Of age. He is land owner and
imperial and royal chamberlain His
home is in Drmacs, Hungary
The Vanderbilt town house, in which
the wedding viii take place, is one of the
show places Of the metropolis It is in
Fifth avenue, occupying the entire block
between Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth
streets. Since the death of Cornelius
Vanderbilt, who built it, the house has
seemed 20 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 lived
is on Staten Island. II is a picturesque
place. within short distance Of the
ocean.
It is presumed that the count and
countess will spend the most of their
time at the formers home in Hungary.
Castle Oermexoe.
Brothers to Decide.
All the plans. with the possible excep-
tion of deciding which of the brothers
should give the bride-elect away, were
completed tonight Friends of the family
admitted that they did not know whether
Cornelius or Alfred G. would do this
Cornelius. in point of seniority. is head
of the family, but Alfred was recognized
as such by his father after Cornelius had
married against his fathers will. Since
the death of the elder Vanderbilt there
has been a reconciliation between the son
and other members of the family, but ap-
parently there has been some uncertainty
as 10 who should Officiate at the wedding.
The decorators were at work all day
and by night the drawing room IN the
Fifth avenue side of the house had been
practically converted into a bower It
will be an orchid wedding. The florists
who have had charge of the decorations
have just about cleaned the town OF
orchids. AT this season of the year they
cost from 81 to 81 each, and several thou
sand of them have been used in the dec
orati0ns
At one end of the drawing room there
has been erected a bridal arbor of orchids
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