The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-12-31
Noted Italian Prince
Becomes Heir to Host
TO Historic Titles

Don Scipio Borghese has just sue
ceeded to the craftsmanship of the his
toric house of Borghese and to the
many hereditary honors associated
with it. Those honors include the
French dukedom of Borghese, the Ital-
ian dukedoms of Bomarzo, of Giulliano
and of Poggio Native, the Spanish
title of Prince Sutmona, as well as the
Grandezza of the first class, and the
papl title of Prince Vivaro, dating from
1909, when it was bestowed by the
Borghese pope, Paul V, upon his
nephew and heir as well as the dignity
of prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
The succession followed the death of
his mentally afflicted father in the
beautiful palace of Ca de Couri on the
Grand canal of Venice and he is popu-
larly known as Don "Scipio Asiaticus."
1t may be recalled that Scipio Publ
lus Cornelius, one of the greatest OF
Roman generals who flourished 200
years before Christ, defeated Hannibal,
saved the Eternal City, ended victor
iously the second Punic War, conquer
eed Carthage and received as a reward
the surname of Africanus from his
fellow citizens. The new chieftain is
indebted for his surname of "Asiati-
GUS to the remarkable feat which he
accomplished in driving his motorcar
from Pekin to Paris.
The distance of more than 10000
miles, across the trackless and un
explored Cobb desert, the great central
Siberian plain, over rivers and boys,
through primeval forests, mountain
gulleys and gorges, through hordes OF
Mongol bandits and packs of ravenous
wolves, was accomplished in the same
car in which he started in fifty days,
breaking every record. And what is
still more remarkable isthat he was
accompanied by his wife, Donna Anna
Maria, only child and sole heiress OF
the colossally rich Duke Gaetano
Ferrari of Genoa, and of his Russian
wife, Maria Annenkoff, sister of that
General Annenkoff who created the
Trans Caspian Railroad. The four une
of the late Duke Ferrari, which went
in it's entirety to his daughter, was
acquired in the manufacture of SILK,
and especial of velvet, and amounted
to some $25,OOO,O00, added to the $5,-
100000 which Donna Anna Maria had
received from her parents on the &C.
casion of her wedding.
Don Scipio, who is tall, slender,
clean shaver man of much reserve and
soberity of manner and speech with
most pleasing smile and a great sim
plicity of manner, was at one time
freely mentioned in the American and
foreign press as a sutton for the hand
of Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, of New
York, VIII subsequently married the
Duke of Marlborough. But in tn end
he married one his own countrywomen
his present wife, by whom. he has two
daughters but no son. So that on his
death his many honors will pass to
his brother, Don Livio Borghese, who
passed some time in the United States
as secretary to the italian legation and
who is now minister plenipotentiary at
Vienna.
Half Hungarian through his late
mother, Countess Helene Apponyi, who
was brought up in England, where her
father was ambassador of the Dual
Empire, and with strong strain OF
French blood in his veins through his
grandmother, Theresa de la Rochefou-
cauld, daughter of the Due d'Estissac,
the new Prince of Borghese has been
able to restore in a measure, thanks to
his wife's great wealth, the shattered
fortunes of his family. They were
wrecked by his father. For in the
real estate and building boom which
followed the transformation OF the
Eternal City into the metropolis OF
United Italy, and which was character
lied by the widest speculation, Don
Paolo was anon gthe most reckless
and extravagant operators When the
collapse of the boom came somt eight
or ten years afterward, amid an ex-
traordinary panic, resulting in the ruin
of thousands upon thousands OF VIC
tins, Don Paolo was among the most
cruelty hit. His fortune was entirely
wrecked, and to add to the confusion,
his mind gave way and he had to be
put under restraint. withdrawing with
his devoted wife, the once celebrated
beauty, Helen Apponyi, to their place
on the Grand canal, at Venice, which
had been saved for their use through
the intervention of relatives, notably
his brother julius, who, marrying the
daughter and sole heiress of Prince
Alexander Torlonia, had been COM