The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
REAL CINDERELLA
 IS THIS LITTLE NEW YORK GIRL
KIDNAPPED INTO RICHES BY UNCLE WHO TAKES HER
 OVER SEA TO PALACE.

| Do you believe in fairies? If you
 don't, if you are a worldly skeptic and look at everything through the
 dull eyes of a doubting Thomas tis-- 1 ten to this story and marvel 1t is | a true story of the sudden rise of lit tie 7-year-old Charlotte Schmidt from l a back bedroom of the tenement rent ] by her father on the fourth floor of i 70 St. Marks place to a palace sin Vii enna, says the New York Sun The whole loves East Side is talking about 1 this modern Cinderella to-day. 1 Charles Schmidt, the father of Charlotte, is the superintendent of the tory on the fourth floor of the eight story building at Twenty-first street l and Sixth avenue
 In his room in the St. Marks place tenement this morning Schmidt told ] eagerly how his little girl had been kidnapped by his brother Adolph, who LOOK her to Vienna on the steamship George Washington and placed her in the custody of her aunt Mrs Gus tave Pach of Vienna. Mrs Pach IS the fairy godmother in this story. Schmidt is quite reconciled to the absence of his daughter, though he fairly worships her, by the knowl- edge that in Vienna she will have ev- eryth1ng that money can buy. For While Mrs. Pach is not a queen her self, she is an intimate friend of the royal family, and her husband a cou- sin of the New York photographer of the same name, is an extremely veal thy man.
 While Schmidt is resigned to tha absence of the child,S and declares that for the time being he will make no effort to regain her, the little girls senzwe1g, is disconsolate Mrs. Ro- senzwelg has taken the part of a mother to the child since Mrs. schmidt died week after the birth of the fax-haired mite, and she de- ciares that she will weep her heart out unless the girls father asserts his rights and recovers possession of his daughter. .~,s
 II was mother to the beautiful child" said Mrs. RosenzWeig this morning, and, oh, how I miss her! fear for her health. too. Love is big, but pity is bigger" M
 Schmldt declares that he can get the child back ~at any time without going to law, as his sister in Vien- na wouldn't dare Sl<idnap her, but he IS seriously considering allowing the tot to remain abroad, foT he feels keenly the disparity between the mar row environment of the tenement on the East Side and the splendidly equipped mansion in Austria's capital. Iherefore, he has decided to wait for me arrival Of letter from his sis- ter before making any decision Tn and the whole Schmidt household seems under great bereavement.
 Little Charlotte was Kidnapped" on Aug. 10. She went to Freeport. LII. to visit her Uncle Rudolph and the next day she was spirited on board sel was sailing she wrote her .grand. mother a letter saying that she was going on a big boat and would catch lots of fish for her muyver.,'
 The steamer docked at Bremen on the 18th and. a special train, with MT the child to Vienna There she is living in suite of her own at the Cafe Central, the most splendidIy an- pointed hotel in Vienna, the property of Pach.
 Every one who knows the wee child tesf1f1es to her lovable disposition. and it is said that when Mrs. LPach nrst saw the baby six years ago when on a visit to this country she secret ly made up her mind to get the itl- fant for herself. she being chiIdless woman.
 The Pachs' visit to this country wa S on the occasion of the tour of the Vii enna Singing Society, and the uncle and aunt of little Charlotte were re- ceived at the White House then as guests of President Roosevelt
 MT. Pach is in possession of sever al medalS conferred upon him fifteen years ago in recognition of the excG- lent service. afforded members of his Majesty's retinue and visiting diplo- mats at the two biz Pach hostelries.
 You can't call this a real case kidnapping,"' said MT. Schmidt this morning, because the child hasn't gone out of the family. I feel con f1dent can get her back without talk ing legal steps and it won't hurt hcr to have two or three months of thar regal atmosphere in Vienna
 Mrs. Rosenzweig shook her head at this and jerked out between sobs:
 You don't know what you at. saying, Charles. That woman loves the child in the same way I do. snd it will take more than lawyers to got her back"
 But just think, mother, she'll be a little princess over there,' said pretty Hanpa Rosenzweig, Schmidt's isster-in-law, in an awestruck tona
 And that is the way the East Side looks at it. The pretty little girl with the golden hair has gone away and she's regular princess now.