The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-29
ny Ia MAnauisE DE FoNTENoY.

~oUNT KARL BONpE. who arrived
in this country last Tuesday on
" board tho Kaiser Wilhelm H..
and who is staying at the Hotel
Gotham with his nephew. Nils Flor
man. recently fitted hy Miss Helcnn
Stsllo, daughter OF Edmund * Stallo,
OF New York. and granddaughter OF
the late Alexander Macdonald. the
standard OIL magnatc OF Cincinnati. IL
one OF the greatest mobiles OF Sweden,
and three years ago was selected by
The present King OF Sweden to notify
his accession to the throne to the for
elSn powers of Europe. in the capacity
OF special amba ssador. He is the owner
ot Erissnere. a magnificent chateau.
sltuatou at a distance of some miles
from stockholm. in tho midst OF an es-
tate extending over an area OF 10000
acrts. The park around tho chateau ia
a creation OF Ii Notre, who designed
the gardens OF the Palace OF Versailles
EricEbers has been for hundreds II
Years IN The possession OF the Bondc
family, being filled from cellar to gar
rct wdith priceless treasures OF art
hnd history among them the throne
% Charles VIII. which occupies CON
spicuone position In the grand salon.
The chateau is particularly famous for
IT'S wonderful collection of books and
manuscripts. which include the corro-
spondsnce and the records of the
counts and Barons Eonde, az well as
family. who held high office in the
service OF the crown in the fifteenth
sixteenth. seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. Among others, there arc "a
number OF letters of Cardinal R.chelleu
OF King Gustavus Adoiphus. the hero
Or tho Thirty Years War. OF Cardinal
Mazarin. and OF Frederick the Great
Worthy guardian of all these literary
treasures. Count Karl Bonde has pub
iished many volumes OF correspondence
and Of anecdotc. especially Of the reign
~ sstssN \.
lies who have played a moro notable
role In the history Of Sweden than that
Of Bonde For 1t has furnished not
only numerous. archbishops. field mar
shals. admirals, premcrs and grand
seneschals TO the Kingdom but like
wise two Kings. one Of whom is the
national saint, namely. st. Eric. who
and Charles VIII. who ruled from l43S
to 1870. In the seventeenth century
Baron Gustav Bonde was president Of
minority of Charles. X!. A Count
! Charles, Bonde was the plenipotentiary
of Sweden at the court Of Versailles. in
4, the reign OF Louis XIV, and n Gustav
court of Stockholm to the last of the
Vasa Kings Of Sweden. at the begin
ming OF tho nineteenth century. The
father of Count Baron Karl Bondc was
special ambassador to notify the for
/ ciEn powers of the ascension to the
, throne OF Charles XIV, unolo OF the
present Is ing. near tnat the counts
voyage across the Atlantic and his ar
rival in America arc due to his COM
plete amazcment at the idea that a
nephew of his should have been re-
the daughter or Edmund i. Stailo on
the ground OF alleged social inferiorty.
( This has appeared so inconceivabIe to
Count Bonde that he has come to the
ton. and to right his young kinsman.
1t seems strange, however, that this
should have been necessary. For any
one al the swedish legation at Wash
young Nils Fiormanis U social statue.
Of his Relationship to the historic
house of Bonde, and the place occu-
pied by the latter, not only in Sweden,
but indeed everywhere In Europe.
Although the new Turkish Cabinet
is popularity regarded as Anglophile,
yet one OF its principal members was
subjected some years ago to ono OF
those affronts by Great Britain which
must be diflisult' especially esq. aa X to an m
OF Musurus Pasha In London. inquiry
WAS made by the Sublime Porte, at the
/ English Foreign Office. whether Rechid.
potcntiary at Rome. would BIO accept
/ able as a successor the response be-
| ing to the OBJECT that he would be re.
ceived az persona gfata al the court
Rome to STEAMBOAT, was intrusted by
Sultan Abdul Hanid with the post of
amba ssndor In London, his appoint
ment being thereupon oiiioia ally, and ma
| the Turkish government receive nn in
| timation to the effect that King Ed
ward objected to him, on the ground
that he did not possess the social stand
| sarys influence with the sultan to quail
~ him for the ambc ssndorship, or to