Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-01-27
VANDERBILT WEDDING
Daughter of Cornelius Becomes
Bride and Countess.
CATHOLIC PRIEST TIES KNOT
Mansion Transformed Into Brilliant
Orchid Garden When Hungarian Mo-
bIeman, Count Szechenyi, and $751;
100000 Heiress Make Their Vows.

Orchid Garden when hungarian mo-
bIeman, Count Szechenyi, and $751;
100000 Heiress Make Their Vows.
New York, Jan. 27.-In the Wander
+ bilt home at Fifth avenue and Fifty.
seventh street today at noon Miss
Gladys, youngest daughter of Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt cousin of the
Duchess of Marlborough and one of
the richest Of American heiresses, be-
( came the bride of Count LaszlO Jeno
Maria Henrik Simon SZechenyi, a
young Hungarian noble of ancient
I lineage and comfortable fortune.
The marriage ceremony was perform
ed by Mgr. Lavelle, rector of st. Pat
+ rick's Roman Catholic cathedral. The
, brides attendants were Miss Ruth
/ Vanderbilt Twombly and Miss Dorothy
! Whitney. Count Anton Sigray, who
recently arrived here with Count Di-
onyis and his wife and Count Ester
hazy, was best man. One of the
brides brothers gave his sister in mar
riage. After the ceremony a breakfast
was served, to which some go invi-
tations had been issued.
Mansion CLOVIS With Orchids.
Standing under a bridal arbor Of
orchids, the contracting parties made
their vows. Streamers of orchids trail
ed from the bridal bower to the lofty
ceilings of the drawing room.
Banks of orchids masked the tall
windows, and immense clusters gleam-
ed in fantastic designs on the tapes
tried walls.
Behind a screen of orchids and trop-
zeal palms the red supplied choir of
st. Patricks cathedral sang to organ
music. In an adjoining room buried
in orchids Nathan Frankie led an or
chestra of siXty-fye pieces through the
love songs of Tristan and Isolde and
the bridal march of Rubeinstein.
The national yellow of Austria Hun
gary predominated in the Brilliant col
or scheme The immense dining room
to the left of the Fifty-seventh street
entrance glowed with yellow. orchids.
Only on the bridal table were the flow
ers white-Orchids and orange bios.
sons blended.
Bride Has $15,ooo,0o0.
Both the prominence of the BRIDES
family in the social and financial life
of this country and the romantic cir
cumstances 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 en-
tered into possession of her share Of
his great fortune, estimated at from
$12. 100000 to S15,0O0,000.
Ever since her coming out a few
years ago rumor has been busy engag-
ing Miss Vanderbilt 10 numberless
young Americans as well as to an end
less succession of titled foreigners,
ranging from royalty to the latest i'm
pecunious noble who happened to land
on American shores. But even the Cos
sip mongers cOncede that in her mar /
riage TO this comparatively obscure /
young Hungarian she is making purely |
love match.
Count Laszlo is handsome man Of |
twenty-eight, slender and straight. his |
bearing betraying his military training
and devotion TO out Of door sports. He +
is not even the head of the family, be- I
ing the youngest of the four sons Of /
that Count Emerich Szechenyi who |
was for many years the AustrO-Hun-
garlan ambassador at Berlin and who
played an important part I'm the nego-
tlation of the German-Austrian ALI
ance and was one of the limited circle
of diplomats who enjoyed the close
friendship OF Bismarck.
Bridegroom Is Wealthy.
Count Laszlo is said TO have an in
come of some 100000 year and owns
both town and country estates.
The wedding gifts exceed S1.O00O00
in value and are guarded day and night
by detectives and special police
The bride and bridegroom will leave
this afternoon for Newport. where Mrs
home. The Breakers. has
been prepared for them. There they
will remain until Feb. I, when they
will sail for Europe.