The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-11
Neither Country Satisfied With
Its Representative at Others
Capital.
ny La aIAR0UIsE DE FONTENOY.

by LA MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.
lD 9TH Russia and Austria have
IL como to the conclusion that thcy
have been badly served by their
respective ambassadors during tho
past Few years. and that much dissen-
sion and misunderstanding would have
been avoided had their diplomatic in
terests been confided to moro com
potent hands. Accordingly. Count
Douglas Thurn Val-Sassina has been
recalled By Emperor Francis Joseph
from st. Petersburg. and mas been
placed on the retired list, while the
Car has meted out a similar fate to
Nicholas de GIers. who for the past
eighteen months has been his amba.-
sador at Vienna
The. successor of Nicholas de Giers
In the Austrian capital is Nicholas
Schebeko. for some time past minis-
ter plenipotentiary at Bucharest.
where ho has contributed much to-
wards the strengthening OF Muscovite
influence In political and official
circles. and even in society, at the ex-
pense OF that of Germany. which had
hitherto been predominant there
The new Austrian ambassador at ST
petersburg is Count Frederick SZapary.
member of the Hungarian House or
Lords. an officer on the reserve list
of the Fifth Lancer Regiment, and
hitherto one OF the most trusted chiefs
OF division in the Department of For
eisn Affairs at Vienna He is but
forty four years of age. and has been
, ns, for the past four years to
Princess Maria Windisch- Graetz
daughter of Prince Alfred Windlsch-
Graetz. former Prime Minister of Aus
tria, and president of the A=..rian
House OF Lords, and sister of the late
Prince Vincent Windisch Graetz, who
was attached for some time to the
Austrian embassy at Washington.
where he made himself very much
liked. and who blew his brains out at
Rome last spring, in n fit of temper
airy insanity
The new ambassadors father was n
very popular general OF cavalry and
he Is the nephew of the late Count
Julius Szapary. who was for so many
years Premier of Hungary. and one or
the leading statesmen OF the dual en-
pire. In his youth. Count julius gave
but little indication of tho fact that
lie would ever attain eminence in the
history of the nation, and at school
was noted for his Incidence and stu
pidity. The master of the school was
priest of the name of Vaszary. One
day. when the reverend fathers indig-
nation had been more than usually
aroused by young julius Szapary's
failure to answer n simple question, he
turned to the next boy, who happened
toy be peasants son. and, finding that
the latter WIS also unable to reply,
he apostrophized him as follows:
You. Kardos, you are no Count.
You have no right to be a donkey II
n Count, such as julius. decides to re-
main an ass. he becomes a landed pro-
prietor, and a member OF the Table
of Magnntes blouse OF Lords), but IL
you remain ignorant you become n
vaErant and n tramp"
That Count Julius bore no malice
against his tutor in after life. Is per-
haps best shown by the fact that as
Premier it fell to him to nominate
Vaszary to the Primary OF Hungary,
which carries with 1t the colossally rich
Arch bishopric of Gran. and seat in
the Sacred College at Rome as cardi-
nal.
Another member OF the House OF
SZapary, namely, Count Paul, n cousin
OF the new ambassador. and who came
to America for the wedding of Count
Ladislas Szechenyi to Miss Gladys
Vanderbilt, has been for many years
president OF the Park Club. the most
exclusive club at Budapest, and also
of the Automobile Club of Hungary. In
his early life he attracted attention by
losing half a million crowns in
single night at cards at the Jockey
Club at Vienna. Thereupon he turned
his attention to trade and commerce,
and has endowed Budapest with It's
finest hotel on the Ritz pattern, stu
ated on the Danube Quay. Mt the corner
of the Corso and OF the Eotvas Terrace,
and has become one of the leading d.
rectors of the International Wagon
Lifts Company. and is at tho head of
all sorts of other, more or less, sue
cessful Industrial and financial enter
prises.
or course the failure OF Count Thurn
at st. Petersburg has revived the out
cry in the Austrian press about the
alleged folly of restricting the higher
posts of the diplomatic service, and
Of the Department OF Foreign Affairs
at Vienna, to the old aristocracy, which,
1t is asserted, enjoys monopoly of all