The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-04
POVERTY GRIPS
U. S. WIVES WITH
TEUTON TITLES
American Heiresses in Ac-
tual Want in. Conquered
Lands.
EAGER TO COME HOME
Husbands Also Ready to
Become Plain "Misters"
Over Here.
WILL SEEK REPATRIATION
N. Y. Women Among Those
Who Hope to Recover
Seized Fortunes.
WILL SEEK REPATRIATION
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BERLIN, Aug. 3.-With nothing ap-
proximating the pomp and circum-
stance attending their departure from
America. the majority Of those stately
heiresses who married German, Aus
trian and Hungarian noblemen soon
may return willing to divest them
selves Of titles and do whatever else
may be required Of them that they
may replenish their empty purses.
Some Of the richest of the American
women who married into the titles Of
the now impoverished Central Pow
ers are almost If not absolutely In
want. They are bewailing the "heart-
lessness" Of their mother country and
grasping at every rumor and sugges-
ton having to do with the possibility
Of their getting enough money from
their American estates to tide them
over financial distress that is so
strange to them that they are utterly
bewildered.
The word has gone about that they
may be permitted to repatriate them
selves, fetching with them to America
their now truly impecunious princes
and counts, and that their titled hus-
bands may be permitted to discard
their titles and by naturalization
| processes become plain ''Misters,' y
thereby regaining for their distressed
wives the wealth that is now held by
the Alien Property Custodian, Francis
+. Garvan.
Nora Iselin I'm Trade.
An an example, the Countess Laszle
Szechenyi, formerly Gladys Wander
bilt, and the Countess Anton Sigray
who was Harriet DAILY of Butte, sister
in-law to former Ambassador Gerard
fed before the Bolshevist troops in
Budapest and are living very modestly
indeed In Switzerland. 1t Is known
that they have little or nothing. The
Countess Colloredo-M o-Mannsfeld, who
was the beautiful Nora Iselin of New
York, is said to have gone into trade
and hopes to become a merchant
princess.
The Princess Braganza, who was
Anita Stewart Of New York, IL II
Switzerland praying for speedy relief
Others of the well known American
princesses, countesses and duchesses
who are living In small colonies OF
borrowed money or on scale ridicu
lousy small when compared will
their former grandeur are the Princes.
Isenburg- Birstern, who will be re
membered as Bertha Emma Lewis o.
New Orleans; the Countess Manfred
Matuschka, formerly Ella Walker O
Detroit, and the beautiful Nancy
Leishman of Pittsburg, who marriet
Duke Karl Of Croy.
VIII Abandon Titles.
1t is no secret that these American
heiresses are quite ready to renounc,
the countries of their husbands anC
seek citizenship in their native coun
try, and 1t is quite as true that theil
husbands easily could be persuaded t,
abandon their now empty titles ant
seek Americanlzation along with thei,
perplexed spouses.
"Our position is pltiable," declare,
one of the princesses recently. "Ou
money has been confscated by Amer
lea and some of us are almost pennI
less. We are now less popular thai
ever in Germany, and letters from
home have 1t that we are not wante,
In America"
The most cheering news these be
leaguered noblewomen have heard Il
months has just been received in Ber
lin. A despatch from a New Yorl
theatrical producer to his Berlin agen
instructs the agent to inform Em
merich Kalman, the noted Austrian
composer, that II he desired to receIv
the money due him IN royalties, whicl
money was seized by The Alien Prol
erty Custodian, 1t would be wise 70
him at once to. begin proceeding
toward becoming an American cltizer
as there are excellent prospects o
such recovery by such methods.
The cable was sent by Abe Erlange
! of New York, and Immediately 1t wa
accepted as the longed for salvation O
all the impoverished ones here VIII
have depended upon American source
Of income.