Evening star., 1924-01-12
BY THE MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoY.

BY THE MARQCISE DE FONTENOf.
It is fortunate for the new hus-
band Of Col. Henry H. Rogers
comely and popular daughter, whom
she so quietly married at the Munic-
ipal building in New York on Mon
day last, that he belongs to the Bel
gian nobility instead of to the Aus
trtan aristocracy. For all Austrian
nobiIitary distinctions and heredi-
tary honors have been abolished by
law. and their use prohibited under
severe penalties. 1t is a mistake,
therefore, to describe the bridegroom
of the former Miss Rogers as Count
Louis Salm, or as the head OF the
Austrian house of Saln-" Indeed,
In the official "Graefiicher Taschen-
buch" or "Gotha" annual. in which
the Austrian counts are still enum-
Grated (though no longer recognized
by Austrian law), no mention Is
made either in the present issue or
in those which were published when
the dual empire was still In ex-
istence before the war Of the names
of either Col. Rogers new son-in1iaw'
nor yet his younger brother, Otto,
married some ten years ago to MISS
Maud Coster, daughter of Mr.. Charles
Coster Of New York, in the pages
devoted to the enumeration Of the
altgraves, the counts and the princes OF
Salm.
The fact is that the two brothers in
question and their younger brother.
Alexander, who spent a year In
America before the war, participating
in a number Of tennis tournaments
throughout the United States, are
like their late father, descended from
a morganatic union on the part OF
Prince Constantine of Salm OF the
mediatized or formerly petty sover-
eign German dynasty OF that nam E,
who, in 1910, contracted q left-handed
marriage with Catherine Bender, 9
German bourgeoise. BY her he had
five sons. who were created Bel elgtan
counts of Hoogstraten, by his friend,
King Leopold I OF Belgium, In July.
1S47. The fourth Of these sons, Count
Albert Hoogstraten, married the
daughter of the German count.
turn, married Adolphine, daughter OF
Baron Victor Erlanger of the great
Jewish international banking house
of that name. She was the mother
of the Counts Louis. Otto and Alex
ander of Hoogstraten, who arc, there-
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and not Austrian ex-Counts OF Salm.
II X X
They have always been somewhat
Handicapped in Austria-Hungary and
throughout Germany from q social
point of view. first of all by the
morganatic ancestry Of their father
then, too, by the fact that their
mother was an Erlanger-that is to
say, a lady with Semitic blood In her
yeins-and also by the circumstances
that the princes and altgraves and
counts of Salm-Salm of the me-
diatized house of that name have
always been very powerful, nu-
merous and influential ana have re-
sented the action Of the Counts OF
Hoogstraten In making what they
claim to be an unauthorized use OF
the ancient and historic name OF
SaIm In conjunction with their rela-
lively modern Belgian an,har ,.,ie' III. h.r
sister, Ida. who married another OF
the Counts OF Hoogstraten, inherited
some money from her father, the late
Baron Victor Erlanger, yet the tnree
brothers have been far from rlcn
their NDOSGSSbiOnS pcihS At"htSh ~
Trautsnberg, near Reichenau, In
Lower Austria- and Erlanger Cha
teau. brought into the family by their
mother, and which is owned by the
eldest of the three brothers, Couni
first marriage to a. lady OF the name
Of Frankenthai, was sundeted by
divorce in 1919, fought In tho great
war under tho Austrian flag. serving
like his two brothers, in cavalry
regiments.
He, Count Louis, last came into the
limelight abroad through violent per.
sonas alteration and exchange oi
bleve With Count Michael KAsoly1s q