The Washington herald., 1912-10-01

But the launching of the Mantua Me-
mortal University fund upon the public
| attention was the Princes" supreme ef-
fort. He remembered that early in the
eighteenth century one of his "ances-
tors had left for educational purposes
sum of money which, by the process OF
accumulation. had increased to s75O,OO0.
| and he managed to get quite a number
of reputable persons TO believe him.
The nonexistent trustees of the fund
| We're. it appears. anxious to utilize the
imaginary savings in the establishment
! Of university where il was most want
ed. and as at this time Wales was clam
| oring for a university. what more nat
ural than that the trustees should ac
knowledge the claims of the principaIty?
| Public gatherings in support of the
movement were held, civic deputatlons
waited upon the prince to urge the right
/ of their borouEhs TO favorable considera-
ton. and a good deal of Jealousy was
aroused between rival municipalities who
wished to supply the site for the univer-
sity.
| At a meeting in Exeter Hall in 1888
delegates from Wales proceeded with all
seriousness to discuss the proposal. and
| Brecnn and Wra Sham hotly contested
the superiority Of the attpactions they
could severally offer to a university
| But this was the impostor's final effort.
sham portraits. bogus key and other
Irara aphernaIia at Exeter Hail. the prince.
with his secretaries. curatcrs. pictures,
! collections, museums, medals and treas
| ures. disappeared from view. He lived
for years in retirement. with the mem-
ories of his vast imposture for solace.
Baroness Won Schoenborg. who has
been often in the limelight playing
rat ather undesirable roles, and whose
expulsion from Hungary followed a
scandal in high life there. has been
heard of again While she was bring
ing up her only daughter she married
a certain Herr Hohenau. who claims
to he connected with the courts of
Hohenau. who are in favor with the
Kaiser because Count Wilhelm Won
Hohenau married Princess Won
Hohenlohe- e-Oehringen.
The Hohenau. however. who became
the husband of the former Baroness
Schoenberg. was no count, wherefore
the lady. to equalize things. made use
of her former husbands title. combin-
ing the Baroness" and "Hohenau"
into one. The aforementioned daugh-
ter is now grown up, and a dancer in
certain cafes at Constantinople. where.
II is said, she appears "a la nature"
Mother and daughter recently were
taking the baths at the fashionable
ROumanlan resort OF COnStanZa on the
Euxine. being quite conspicuous at the
table dhote OF the most aristOcratic
hotel. Both were dressed in the ex-
treme of fashion, wearing all their
jewels at once. The mother would tell
the whole dinner table that she belongs
to one of the oldest aristocratic fam
lilies of Prussia (the Hohenaus were
made counts in 1853 in Saxe-Meinin-
gem and that she is connected by mar
riage with the German Emperor
One day several Roumanian officers
who were dining with her at the hotel
made fun OF what she said and were
free with her daughter. whose dancing
they had admired at Constantinople
Then the baroness abused them in such |
coarse language that one of them teIe-
phoned for the police chief, who sent
a detective to the hotel and asked the |
women to show their passports. The |
next day the baroness went to the Ger
man minister in Bucharest and COM
planned of the treatment she had re-
ceived in Roumania- assuring him that
Emperor William would be angry II apoI- |
ogies were not Immediately offered The |
minister sought the Rouma MAN Minister |
CT Foreign Affairs, who laid the COM
plant before the cabinet. The officers |
We're sentenced to thirty days arrest, |
the detective was dismissed and the no.
Ice chief was told he had better tender
his resignation.
When word was received from Berlin |
disavowing any connection with or |
knowledge of the pair they, of course.
had departed for their former haunts
in Constantinople.
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