Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-24
GIFTS VALUED At
MILLION DOLLARS
Marriage Monday Is Attracting At
tentlon of Curiosity Seekers
Who Daily Surround Wander
bilt me--EnOrmOuS Crowd
Expected at House Monday.

New York, Jan. 24.-Count Lazslo
Szechenyi and Miss Gladys Wander
bit subscribed today to a contract
which provides for the administra-
tion and enjoyment of their property
interests as affected by their mar
rfage next Monday. The count and
ly their combined fortunes.
In view of pre- eyious marriage con-
tracts entered into between American
girls and titled Europeans in which a
fortune had accom- panied the hand
of the bride, the arrangements ac-
cepted by Count Szechenyl and Miss
Vanderbilt is offered in proof of So
ciety's announcement that it is love
match above all else.
SzecheDyi Waived the Dot.
Although Miss Vanderbilt Is cred.
tied with possessing a fortune esti-
mated at Is million dollars. her
fiance waived the European custom
of demanding a marriage portion
from the bride. The contract sign
ed today provides that there shall be
no change in the titles to properties
owned by Miss Vanderbilt and Count
Szechenyi. Husband and wife will
share and share alike" In income
from them. In case of the death of
either the estates of the one that
dies will revert TO the survivor Count
Szechenyi's property interests are by
no means as great as those of Miss
Vanderbilt, and therefore he will
benefit TO much greater extent by
the terms of the contract than sne
will.
q hot Jar
bilt and the members of her family
concurred in the decision that there
should be no balance struck, except
on the broad gauge of mutual parti-
clpation by the young COUPE IN their
combined fortunes.
Gifts Are Worth a Million.
While no inventory of the wedding
presents has been taken, the lawyers
estimated the value at close TO one
million dollars. TIE matter was pre-
sented to Count Szechenyi and Miss
Vanderbilt, with the result that the
Following clause was ordered IN
cluded in the contract.
ut Is the desire of both parties
that all reference of gifts be ellminat-
ed"
Only Ono Ceremony.
There will be a single ceremony in
the solemnization of the marriage.
and it Will be that of the Catholic
church.
Original plans for the wedding
called for three ceremonies. Catho-
lie, Protestant and civil. Then it was
learned that the laws of the Catho-
lie church forbade any such arrange
ment. SO, finally, the Vanderbilts
agreed to surrender their desire for
Protestant and civil ceremony.
Mgr. Michael ]. Lavelle of st. Pat
rich's cathedral will officiste at the
wedding. Archbishop Farley has
granted the dispensation rendered
necessary by the fact that Miss Van
derbilt is not member of the Cath
ollc church
Crowds Surround House.
The wedding will be held Jan. 27,
at the city house of the brides
mother, commonly called the "big
house on Fifth avenue and 5Sth
street. It has already become a mag
net for people hypnotized by the
glamour attending the union Of the
Vanderbilt millions and Hungarian
nobility. These light-minded souls
haunt the reighborhood by the hour,
even in this crisp weather. with a
hope OF catching a glimpse of the
$l5,O00.O00 bride or the titled groom.
Their presence on the scene so
early is sure promise OF the mob that
will swarm around the house on the
day of the wedding. Women crawled
through the coal holes 10 get a
glimpse al one of these hghtoned
weddings at a New York church a
few years ago. The present attrac-
ton is so much greater that they ara
liable 10 take the house by storm and
after viewing the wedding that IS to
mark the triumph Of true love, carry
away the mansion I'm fragments as
souvenirs.
Police Commissioner Bingham will
have most of the available police on
duty II the outlooks grows too
threatening, the president will be
asked to transfer hlther. where there
will be real action, the troops from
GOldfield.