The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-11
AWE ER|CANS ARE
FINE DRESSERS
Merchants of Vienna Pay Com
pliment to Taste and Ele-
gance Of Visitors.
N0BLEMAN in POVERTY
WEALTHY ON DEATH BED
Austria's Two New Dread
noughts Will Be Monstrous
Sea Fighters.
BY EMIL ANDRASsY.
Bile to The Tribune.

Special Cable TO Inc Irlpunc-
VIENNA. Dec. 10.-American women.
who visit the Austrian resorts are said
to be the most fashionably dressed and
spend more for beautiful gowns than
those OF any nationality. Having tine
to ponder well on the beautiful wearing
creations of the season, Viennese firms
display them to the best advantage. and
1t is nothing uncommon for wealthy
American woman TO buy as many as
twenty frocks during the season, many
of these to take back TO America. al
though the duty is high. The "hobble
skirt" was never worn by the former
dollar ladies'. The latter allowed them
selves to be persuaded into 1t IN the
gay city. and women dressed In Carls-
bad or Vienna smiled in superior way
at their sisters foolishness.
In Paris, they say, the lady has 10
suit herself to the fashions. but In Vienna
lady. This method pleases American
women. for they like to be distinctive.
They are not difficult to satisfy, but they
CANT cut possible. and. above all. special
attention to the clothes that suit them
individually. The independent idea In
dress Of that which is best suited to
away from the custom of following Ger
tain styles that are not always suited
to all persons alike. Street dresses are
so plain that 1t is difficult to realize that
an apparently modest coat worn on the
street may be lined through with costly
fur and finished with inside ruffles OF
rare lace.
Life Full Of Thrills.
Count Vinzing Lalzar.. a Hungarian no@
Bile. is dead, after a checkered and 70.
mantle career, not the least incident OF
which occurred as he was on his death
bed. While yet a young man the count
-lz-a 4, 14ox L., ynf
After undergoing course of training at
Brussels as civil engineer after his
wealth was gone, he was given a post by
the Hungarian state railway admlnistra-
ton. After some years he retired TO the
town OF Mares Nasnrhely. There he mar
ried the daughter Of an inn-keeper, and
TO exc out his very small pension he
worked as carpenter. In their efforts
to save something for their old age the
count and his wife lived with extreme
frugalty. Finally the count fell seri-
death a message reached him announc-
ing that the sum of 100000 had been
awarded him as the result of long
standing lawsuit. The lawsuit was be-
gun in the days of his prosperity The
dying man was sufficiently conscious 10
understand the news,
An extraordinary duel is reported from
Mako, In Hungary. A 15-yenr-old school
certain remarks made by a school fellow.
Stephan Solymocki, of the same age, sent
two friends as seconds to him, and chal-
lenged him TO a pistol duel. The cbal-
lengc was accepted. and the meeting took
place outside the town. four school boys
acting as seconds. Revolvers, which tho
boys had stolen from their fathers, were
used. In the fourth round Perecky WAS
shot through the heart and died on the
spot Solymocki and the seconds wero
arrested.
New Battleships Building.
The cX-shah OF Persia, who has been
Ill OF bronchitis during his stay In VI
enna Will. on his recovery, visit some
Austrian towns In CALICO. Later he in
tends To make a journey through Ger
many and France The attack of bron-
chitis followed cold.
The building of the two drcadnougl,;s
is now well under way. The stocks have
been laid at the Stabiimento Tecnico,
in Trieste. for second dreadnought.
The first dreadnought is as high as a
large house. The rapid progress made
in the building OF this ship justifies tho
presumption that 1t will be launched. ac-
cording to programme. In June. 1911, and
the second in October. 1911. AS regards
the type. the details arc not given but
Il is certain that the displacement will
be above 10000 tons. the length 525 feet
and the main armament twelve 1l.8-inch
guns.