The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-31
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NOT RICH ENOUGH
. TO BUY A DUk {
Reply Of Miss Burke to Story of
Engagement OF King
Alfonso's Cousin.
HE is DEVOTED ADMIRER
Miss Lund, of Chicago, Will
HE is DEVOTED ADMIRER
Miss Lund, of Chicago, Will
Marry Count de Currea,
of Spain.
BY PAUL PIERRE RIGSAux.

| Especial Cable to The Times Dispatch)
! Paris. December 3O.-'I don't think
father is rich enough to purchase u
royal duke" said Miss Patricia Burke,
daughter of John Humphrey Burke, of
Los Angeles.
| This was the reply of the willowly
California, with the rose of Erine In
her checks when asked to confirm the
report that she is engaged to cousin
of King Alfonso of Spain. Miss Pa
tricla. who was the winner of the
beauty prize OF Los Angeles. came to
purope six weeks ago, scorning the
| company of chaperon, and with no
other protection than her maiden
smile. She stayed at tho Ritz I'm Lon
don and the Hotel Maurice in Paris.
Tho young man who has made n
| formal demand for the hand and heart
of Miss Burke is I'r.nce Ferdinand dc
Bourbon Prince Ferdinand is son
of tho late Prince Pierre dc Bourbon.
: Is twenty five years old and cavalry
officer. Miss Burko Is the first Amer
lean girl no has ever mot. and he has
promptly fallen IN love with her. AS
all officer of the Spanish army and u
, cousin of the reignlng family. lie must
get King Afonso's consent to the
/ marriage. otherwise he will have the
same trouble as had the Infanta
Eulalia's son when he married with
out having previously secured the
consent of the King. Prince Ferdi
, nand has applied for royal permission,
, and meanwhile Miss Patricia Is in
forming him that tho Burkes or De-
Burge have deacent quite as long az
the Bourbons. She informs him that
there is a DeBurg chateau in Nor
mandy. SO moso- grown and ivy-clad as
TO make the Bourbon castle look like
a modern building, and that the irish
Burkes or DeBurg have been there
since the Norman invasion OF England.
Prince Ferdinand is here with his
mother and sister. Princess Marie Chris
tina. SO called after the Dowagcr Queen
of Spain. Every hour as the clock
! strikes he sends flowers and messages
| to the fair Patricia, besides which he
divides his time equally between hts
mother. who is suffering from paralysis,
and Patricia, whom he calls his fiancee
although King Alfonsos permission
has not yet arrived.
Pretty Miss Lund. of Chicago. who
came to Paris TO study music. Is vary
ing the monotony OF life in the Latin
! Quarter by preparin gto marry gran
doe of Spain. Count DE Currea. son OF
former Spanish minister to the court
of st James. He is quite rich and
shows his appreciation OF the Chicago
girl b. getting Antonio Agondara 10
, paint her portrait. Agondara Is we'll
known as a painter of beautiful women.
and Miss Lund's portrait will be one
OF half a dozen beauties whom he will
exhibit at the spring salon. Miss IAind
Is chaperoned oy her mother.
| Another evidence OF the intense social
rivalry in the preparations for the
coming season has come TO life In the
shape of quarrel between August
Belmont. OF New York, and Jean Stern
Mr.. Stern, who married into the RotnF-
child family. is quite as important in
Paris as Mr.. Belmont is In New York.
He stands so high in the French Jockey
Club that he may be said to be Mr..
Belmont's equal in racing matters. al
though the latter is head of the Amer
lean Jockey Club.
The American Jockey Club! Pshaw!
the American has nothing 10 jockey.
u sends its best to our tracks" said
Mr. Stern, contcmptuously.
The fight between Mr. Belmont and
Mr.. Stern is over the jockey, Guy Gar
ner. He used to ride on the Metropoli-
tan track. but came over here toward
the end OF last spring. and In less than
three months he had ridden forty-eiSht
winners. MIR. Belmont was paying the
youthful rider "a ridiculously small sal
AIRY, and Mr. Stern. learning that the
Jockeys contract expires In May. has
made n contract with him for the COM
ing season. Mr.. Belmont made a YER
y
and is trying to hold him for next year
at a stable boys wages. The poor
mother. who did not understand the
merits OF the case. was overawcd at the
Garner now knows his own work.
Having been coached in France by Mil
ton Henry, he is backed up by Mr..
the Jockey Club here. 81.
The mysterious and yelled woman to
whom the octogenarian. j. Blake
Baker, has been paying the most assid-
uous anti divorce attentions. Is now
known TO be II wealthy Now York
widow. Mrs Elizabeth Mealion. This
charming woman IS daughter.i Law
Though James. G. Blaine's former
secretary sends her American Beauty
roses every day. lunches and dimes with
her diurnally and keeps Ills opera
glasses trained from a coign of want
age in the Hotel Scribe upon her apart
ments In the Grand Hotel. Mrs Mea-
lions identity was hitherto unknown.
For three months she had been as
much u mystery as the yelled lady In
the Dreyfus case When Mrs. Mealion
sat in the baisony OF the , Grand nd H0 Nas
always so thickly yelled that 1t was
impossible to tell who she was. She
generally wore the hair. hats and cos
tunes OF girl Of sweet seventeen,
aud In order TO complete the mystifica-
ton she dressed occasionally like IA
dowagcr duchess. SO careful has MIR.
bd kcr Decn IN cooperating 10 COnccal
Mrs. Mcalion'a identity that he puts
only the number of her apartments and
never her name on Tho bouquets he
sends hor.
Mrs. Mcalion inherlts double for
tune, one IN her own right and ono
from hats. TITS accounts for the un-
divided attention now given her by Mr..
Baker. who Will lead her 10 tho altar
as soon AZ lie gets divorce.
For q iimc Beau Baker divided his
days between Mics Helen Wooiworth,
of san Francisco. and Mrs. MealIon,
OF New York. Then he was constantly
driving to the Hotel Majestic where