Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14

ticed than Sophia was whisked off to
long arm of the kaiser reached out to
assign zu Putlitz to minor post at
the embassy in Athens.
The pair never saw each other
again. The betrothal OF Sophia to
princely cousin, rich and recently wild
owed, was announced forthwith.
Years passed in her effort to escape
that match--years during which there
was steady flow of love letters be-
tween Athens and Heidelberg. Sophia
succeeded in getting the engagement
annulled early in 1908, after per-
sonal visit to the grand duke of Sax
ony and many letters to the kaiser
The previous might Elder nuR Putlitz
had put bullet through his brain,
leaving letter Of farewell to the
Princess Sophia
Had Royal MourneF.
One distinguished mourner followed
the body of the young lieutenant to
the grave. 1t was the crown princess
of Greece, sister to the kaiser; and
on that occasion royalty was seen to
weep in public. For the crown prin-
cess had just heard from Berlin that
the emperor would place no further
barriers in the way of the young
couples marriage!
The little semi-royal court at Held
elberg, with its meager income and its
ancient dignities, gave no outward
sign. But the Princess Sophia was
fading visibly. Two years later,
among the routine of visitors. Hans
Won Bleichroeder appeared, He was
the youngest member of the great
Jewish banking house which, 1t is
said, made possible the Prussian vic
, tory over France in 1870. His title
of baron has been in the possession OF
the family a much shorter time than
. the millions. Every one knew, in
! fact, that it had been conferred on his
r father because of them. Hans Won
4 Bleichroeder was ardent, handsome
n and intelligent. He had vigor thai
even Elder zu Putlitz lacked. Sophia
o fell in love with him straghtway.
J. Again the ponderous wheels of Ger
r man statecraft whirred The Bleich
i. roeder millions would place this
y troublesome Saxe-Weimar family in {
r. position which the male members
9 would be less likely to desert-at thu
r first beckoning of happiness-as pri
n vate citizens The match was sane
/. toned by the shrewd kaiser. pendinl
/. the consent of the grand duke of Sax
~ ony, head of the house. The Bleich
n roeder clan, elated and breathless
r sent impetuous Hans to New Yorl
q. where he passed two years in Wal
&c street as an employe of Messrs. Kis
r. sci, Kinnicut 6 Co, international bank
id ers.
"A A year passed. then two. Tn
10 young Baron Won Bleichroeder RI
or turned from foreign parts--and wa
1r not received by Prince Wilhelm {
q Saxe-Weimar
lie Estranged From Family.
NJ The estrangement from her fanil
it. of the Princess Sophia began frol
be that moment On September ]
m Prince Wilhelm was startled by q
III ugly rumor from Paris. whence tt
princess and her mother had gone c
a shopping trip. AZ gypsy's child hs
he been killed in the forest of Fontain
an bleau by motor car belonging
be Baron Won Bleichroeder. The CT
nd had been driven not by the baro
or however, who sat with the princess
he Sake eimar in rear seat, but
at the Princess Sophia herself!
af- There is no record Of the intervie
he that took place between Prince w
er- helm, his wife and his daughter, VIII
en the royal ladies returned from Franc
he The household observed, merely, tn
no. the Princess Sophia kept to her roo