Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-05
EXPIRES ABOARD OCEAN LINER
DEATH OF MARQUISE MON
TIERS-MERINVILL
Wealthy Woman Who Made Lsrge
Donation to Catholic University,
Then Seeks Recovery.

NEW YORK. October 5.-The Marquise
Marie des Monitors Merinville. a passen-
ger on the steamer Kronprinzessin Cece-
lie, died aboard that ship just before the
vessel reached quarantine today. Death
was due to Brights disease.
The marquise. who was forty-six years
old. before her marriage was Miss May
Caldwell Of Louisville. KY. and New
YORK city, and prominent socially here
and In the south. Her sister, Baroness
Lodewitz, has been notified of her death
ana the body will be kept on the ship I'M
til directions are received from her re
garding funeral arrangements.
The marquises father was William
Shakespeare Caldwell. "a wealthy man Of
Louisville. Ky, who is said to have stip-
uIated In his will that out of the portion
of his estate left to his daughters a
large sum should be donated to some
phlianthropic or educational work 1t is
claimed that the donation made to the
Cathoilc University Of America, which
the marquise afterward sought to re-
cover. was made in fulfllment of this
provision
Be that is II may, in accordance with
her request her portrait was removed and
her name erased from Caldwell Hail.
which was built with her donation This
occurred in 1903.
The authorities at the university were
reluctant today to say anything more
than to express sincere regret at the
news of the death of the marquise They
have only kind recollections OF her gen
crosby and forgetfulness for all that is
unplea sant.
The Misses Caldwell. at the time of the
first publication of their intended gift to
the Catholic University. came to this city
and took the Myer house, at 18th and 1
streets lad joining the Riggs manson.
Here they extended hospitality on fire.
quent occasions. and were probably the
most sought-after women in the capital
that winter.
Rumors that they were to marry
took new form every week. At the
time of the opening of the Catholic Uni
versity the sisters were much In evil
dence. Subsequently the younger sis
ter. Miss Lima Caldwell. was married
to Baron Won Zedwitz. then attache Of
the German embassy in this city.
Their marriage took place in the chapel
been the brides gift and which she gave
in memory of her parents.
Bishop Spalding oflciates.
The ceremony which was performed by
Bishop Spalding. who had been the
guardian of the two sisters during their
minority, was followed by a large we'd
ding breakfast at the Arlington Hotel. at
which the fashionable and diplomatic So
ciety of the capital ives brilliantly rep
resented.
The couple afterward lived abroad. the
baron losing his wife when his yacht was
in collision with the yacht OF the German
emperor.
The elder sister was afterward engaged
to marry Prince Murat, but broke of
the marriage just before the date. the
reason being, it was said at the time, an
unwilingness on her part. to give him the
amount of money he wished.
Her subsequent marriage to the
Marquis de Merinville was evidently not
ho M mn
shortly after.
Countess Merinville has been in this
country at intervals in late years, during
which time she has been an invalid.