The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-14
NEW REGIME APPROVES
CRIME OF REGICID f

sational suicide at Budapest of Count
Adam Way de Vaja. One of the lead
erS OF the opposition to tho present
administration. and its most determined
adversary in the national Parliament
III "hlch he occupied a seat I'm the up-
1er chamber, he suddenly declared the
other day that he could not stand tho
methods of the government any longer
ana applying a revolver to his breast
shot himself through the heart. He
"ts cousin and member OF the
same family as that Roman Catholic
ireiate Mgr. Count Peter Way de Vaja.
Abbot of st. Martins, who is n fire,
quent visitor to this country and who
ueVotes so much of his time and atten
non to the welfare of the Austro- Hun
garian emigrants to the New World.
There is another member of this fan
lily whose history Is of a most extra-
ordinary character. Born a girl, she
was brought up until her eleventh VEN
as a BOY, dressed and educated as such.
ana invested with the masculine name
OF Sandor. The reasons for this would
take me too long to relate here. but
they were with the object of deceiv-
ing the girls father, who had yearned
TOT II son. 1t was only when she was
twelve years old that her brother was
porn ana that the necessity for deceit
came TO an end.
The taste for boys sports and pleas
ures had been. however, so strongly
lhStilled in the mind of the Young
countess that ii could not be eradicated
and as soon as she became old enough
10 pc emancipated from the Immediate
on'ioi Oh her parents she arrayed her
self in mems clothes. left her parents'
nome and established herself at pestb
GIVING her name everywhere as Count
sander Way. AS such she fought -
couple of duets. She likewise signed
.nat name TO some sporting articles
In,
Iesth newspapers. The climax of her
eccentricity was reached when she
eloped with the daughter of an army
contractor at Labach. In Austria. and
VINO was a great heiress. for the mr.
pose OF obtaining the funds which she
needed TO continue her life of enamel
patton.
>, This compelled the Way de Vaja fam
ny winch had made many efforts to
win her over to more conventional
MODE or life. to place her under re-
straint, which still continues. She ia
now about nfty-three years OF ape
IL IS thanks to Emperor Williams
personal intervention that some of tho
higher posts of Gormany's diplomatic
service are being opened UP to men of
bourgeois origin. instead of being re
strictcd as heretofore, to the old 6,ne
Flooded ariStocracv
mus Privy Councillor Michalles. who
mas Just been promoted from tbe nost
OIL envoy at Rio TO that of minister
plehipotentlary In Bulgaria. comes from
an untitled family at Hamburg wbich
has for several generations Ma vea
icadlng role in the coffee trade He
was formerly In the consular service
stationed at Alexandria, Zanzibar anJ
trieste. and was then transferred 70
'nc uiPiomatic service and no,nina ted
as minister. first to Hayti and then 70
fl
6ermany's minister plenipotentiary
at Lisbon. DR.. Rosen, is also Of ths
nourgeoiste. and so. too, was Baron Won
Schoen, the German ambassador to
'Idhce' untll he was ennobled some
years ago by the Kaiser. DR.. Rosen. nj
Lisbon is one of the most capehIe mon
IN Eermany's diplomatic service. and
mas won his advancement in tho face
Oh All Sorts OF obstacles by sheer merit
humahia's loss through death Of her
senior admiral serves to call attention
10 the fact that she Is naval as we'll
us military power. Her feet consists
or the late admirals flag ship, the EIiz-
aheta. protected cruiser of abou.
Z.ooo tons, built by tho Armstrones at
t.iswick, In England more than quar-
ter OF century ago: the Mircea, n
training ship OF 400 tons; about a dozen
torpedo boats. seven Gunbonts and six
ooastguard vessels. She has a naval
arsenal al Galatz and about 1000 sail.
ors.
The late Admiral Murgesce may be
described as having been the father of
the Rumanian navy. which be founded
In 1870. n couple OF years after his
graduation from the French naval
school ship for officers. the Roida, at
Brest. He was the first to hoist the
Rumanian flag on any ship, namely.