The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-05
COUNTESS VICTIM
OF HERITAGE HABIT
Third Large Fortune Comes
TO Former American
Woman.
DUKE ABANDons PURSUIT
Pretty Miss Ward Engaged
to British Embassy
Secretary.
DUKE ABANDoNs PURSUIT
ny VANCE THOMPSON.

can get the heritage habi; as we'll as
the cigarette habit" said Emile Janet
professor of psychology at the Col
egc dc France. There is action and
reaction. Then you have to consider
the power Of Suggcstion."
The immediate occasion of his
marks was large fortune to which
he Countess de Moy, formerly Miss
Minnie Glib OF Brooklyn y. Y. has
jusi fallen heir. During the last six
Years. this is tho third large Inheritance
which has come 10 the American
countess
The first was from her father. How
ara Glib. who lef, her an important
fortune upon his death The second
came from her grandfather John Gi ID.
and now Uncle Glib dies and keeps
NJ the heritage hahit.
What is curious is that her marriage
was penniless love match, for Count
who has married an American girl
without dowry. TIE countcss's father.
as We'll as her grandfather and uncle.
opposed the match. and though tho
penniless lovers did not have to run
away il was almost bad, and until
the frs, fortune came in they had a
hard time OF IL in Paris.
Then they took y flat IN the Rue
Jeffrey but after Grandfather Glib
died they built a magnificent mansion
in lie enue Kleber. Now since Uncle
GLIB. who was also the countesss
guardian, is dead. they Will entertain
In the princeiy fashion which char
acterzed the hes, days OF Count i3oni
de Castellanc. Besides their town
house, the De Moys own the Chateau
dc la Livanderc. in the Sarthc. They
have two children, one a pretty girl
Of eleven The other, Viscount Guy de
Moy. is known as the Raphael
Clerub." The counts family was
founded in the eleventh century, when
an ant stress married one OF the
Nalois Kings.
Duke lAbnndons Pursuit.
Al last the Duke d'Alba is removed
from the crowded ranks Of American
fortune hunters. for he has just be
come engaged to Mademoiselic Yturbe,
one of the most brilliant girls OF the
Spanish American colony of Paris
The duke kept up his chase after an
American heiress until the end. For
years he was in the train Of MISS
Mathlde Townsend, a daughter Of Mrs
Richard Townsend, of Washington.
Finally, when she threw him over for
Elbrdge Gerry. the duke turned his
attention to one of the young nicces
of the late mulli-miliionaire MacDon-
add OF Cincinna.'. but Miss Static, who
IS a granddaughter of the late Judge
Stallo. former American ambassador
10 Rome, thinks more about her school
girl studies than castles ia Spain
The dukes chief hunting grounds
have been the Ritz Hotel. Paris, and
Carlsbad. He has been the most per-
sistent fortune hunter OF the day. with
the exception OF Count Arthur Tcherup
Spiridovitch. but the latter sought
wealthy widows. while the duke con-
fined his chase to rich young girls
lie IS nephew OF former Empress
King Of Spain. An ancestor Of his was
that notorious heresy hunter, known
In the history of the Netherlands as
the Bloody Duke OF Alva." He has
wick. and is connected with the Eng
lish reigning house in left handed
sort OF way. lie Is Spanish grandee
and has every order OF Importance,
from the Golden Fleece down.
BY way of business he breeds bulls
and sells them for bull fights in Ma
drid. Barcelona and elsewhere. His
bride.to-be belongs to Spanish
American family long settled In Paris
lier money comes mostly from Mexico
she Is a dark, brilliant girl. and speaks
siS ianeuages. The Yturhes are pow
erful financially and socially.
Pretty Miss Ward Engaged.
has been arranged. The beau itis
Ward has become engaged to Eric G.
r. Phipps the second secretary of tho
british embassy in Paris and priv;its
secretary Of Sir Francis BERTHE, the
the father Of the tiancee. Is the only
survivor OF the rescue expedition that
was taken out by Stanley under tho
auspices Of the government. and 10 j.
ne posseSsor Of magnificent collec-
ton Of African arms. He is also
sculptor Of great merit
housh MISS Wards father is Eng
lish. she considers herself an .Amerjnan
morn. OF that very American CITY phil
delphia. so il is not Surprising thar
e"e american strain predOminates.
Miss Ward is slight in figurc. blonde
ACCOMPLISHED and nineteen. Furthcr
more. she is rich. Her fortuna ,.omcc
iron, -, I'm an an1estral trade in hides down
Ing young diplomat. much favored ~
Sir Francis and Lady Feodnrovn,
,ern s ne Is we'll known in paris
s son,ftS' and belongs TO the Phipps
Or Normandy is no head The famiiv
mas long played an important role ~,
british diplomacy. ."
Frank C:nrdncr's $40 pr
low long can Frank l.. Gardner =,
taris and New York. and nar.a, ~
ne Duke de Morny. cousin Of Ennero ~
S ga a lll; keep up his payment OF OF
ara ara /" as uaH this reason why rarisans
MS; MS. carrie Swayne Whistler. the &c
nc -, "'tu sin.ef. once widely known
- 'ie ~ 81 AZ rs. Gardner. has ;, s,Iit
10 compel him to nav =that ., - ~
e ersrx t Gay which has elapsed since the
order for an accounting was made man
Gardner fourteen months ago a, Ia,
time the cohrts ordered him 10 az
coun for the money he made in AIS
tralta while he was acting as carrie
Swayne's theatrical manager. n f,ne
o. $40 was imposed for each day on
which he failed to comply His an
peal Is now In the higher court. Even
IN case Carrie Swayne gets q 6nai d. :
cision the lawyers say there vii r..
81 great 4. dimenlty in collecting, as most
name Of his second wife Mrs. Swavne
mas ma secured SCI; photographs Of all the
rare old furniture, costly pictures ann
statues In the Gardner mansion ana
these photographs alone arc worth
Her sentimental grievance Is that
the magnifcently decorated piano upon
which She played for fifteen years is
Feptt from her and Is now PLAYED on
by her French successor III
lie WANTED TO Kill
THE GIRLHE LOVED