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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 22. IPOS.
KING IN SEARCH OF FINDS
Recent Visit of England"! Monarch
to Brighton for This End.
HE HAS All OLD YACHT FOB SALE
Assort at lona with
noraitr shoal
uring raary Price for Discarded
Craft -Coaaael Mar Tarm
SeclalUt.
LONDON, March a. (Bpeclal.)-On of
the object of King Edward recent visit
to Brighton was to raise a loan from Sir
Edward Bassoon, who has a. palatial reel
dence there. I understand that ha succeeded.-
Blr Edward and his uncle, Arthur
Bassoon,, are tooth enormously rich and un
derstand how to make their money count
In winning the favor of royalty.
Blnce lie was out of his teens the king
bus never been able to make both ends
meet. When he was prince of Wales he
was In a chronic state of "hardupness."
People thought when he became king and
came Into his colossal Income -that he
would then be able to get along comforta
bly. Not so, however, for King Edward is
one of the people whose wants Increase the
moment they come' Into a larger stipend.
The Bassoons and the Rothschilds have al
ways been the great atandbys of the king
In all his financial straits, which accounts
for his ardent affection for them, for, give
him his due, he lc an appreciative man. Of
late years Sir Ernest Cassel has been use
ful, but there Is a large sum due In that
quarter already, hence the necessity of
turning again to the Bassoons, which was
made easier by the fact that when he came
to the throne he pala them back most of
the money that he had borrowed up to
that time.
The king expects to get a "fancy" price
for the Osborne, the discarded royal yacht,
which is now In the market. The American
millionaire who saw fit to purchase and
pay the figure desired would ba sure of
the attentions of the king for many a day.
It was built as far back as 1870 and is a
good substantial craft of Ita kind. Boon
after the king came to the throne he had
it, like everything else that came into his
possession, completely overhauled and re
furnished, expending upon it something
like $36,0nnv Then he got tired of It and
ordered the new yacht, Alexandra, one of
the most sumptuous private vessels afloat,
though the king himself was willing enough
to admit It does not touch In luxury and
magnificence the Marguerita of Anthony
Drexel.
Itoyal Associations.
When compared with the up-to-date
yachts or the moment the Osborne Is a
"crock" pirre and simple, but it possesses,
of course. Intimate associations with roy
alty, which In the estimation of some peo
ple may add thousands to Its value.
The young daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Guy Wilkinson Is tarrying alt before her
socially In London Just now owing to the
fact that she won the amateur skating
championship of Great Britain at Prince's
for waltzing on Ice. It is In a great meus
ure due to her extreme youth she Is barely
lft that all this fuss Is being made over
her.
The Wilkinsons corn from Boston, where,
I am told, they rank aa blue bloods and
are In the first fight of the social elect.
The excitement caused by the girl's suc
cess can be Imagined. Competitors,' who
might have been Miss Wilkinson's grand
mothers and had given years of their lives
to skating, were outdone by a little girl
who is to stay In the school room for two
rnoro years! She looks even younger than
she is. At the performance In her very
short sfilrt'and long hair plaited down her
back she did not seem an hour more than
14 years.
The day after the competition she received
hundreds of boxes of chocolates and cart
loads of flowers, mostly from anonymous
admirers. Were she a year -or two older
and making her debut In town, there Is no
doubt she would have an extraordinary
success.
She has also received no end of invita
tions. Adeline Duchess of Bedford, her
self an accomplished skater, especially con
gratulated Miss Wilkinson and invited her
to see her.
Nellie Post Excites Wonder.
All her friends are wondering why Nellie
Post has taken it Into her head to desert
Txindon for the season. Of all the "group
of popular and smart American girls there
Is none who has a warmer place In the
hearts of her friends than Lady Barry
mnre's daughter; In fact, none of the
gaieties arranged for the younger members
of society seem complete without her. A
Number of stories are going around as to
the why and wherefore of It all. Some say
she has flown because a prominent Eng
lishman, with whom she was In love, mar
ried another of ' her countrywomen. The
story goes that he first proposed to Nellie
Pont, who refused him because of some
trifling misunderstanding. Aa Is often the
care, his affections were caught on the
rebound and he was captured by her friend.
Englishmen are far too vain to stand a
rebuff in these days, and the woman who
tries it on Is making a fatal mistake.
There is another tale to the effect that
she is In love with a fortune hunter, and
that In consequence her mother and her
aunt, Mrs. Adair, begged the Miller Mundys
to take her off bodily for a considerable
time, ao that she may learn to forget.
She has gone for a six months' cruise with
thrm In their yacht Narcissus.
It is no secret thst the durhess of Marl
borough Is thoroughly disgusted with Brit
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Aa orte ylaoea now may
as jn wihim.w
ish society. This, nevertheless, ' scarcely
Justifies the rumor which originated In a
usually well Informed quarter to the ef
fect that the duchess la about to throw
In her power. Influence, beauty and money
with Lady Warwick In her socialists cam
paign. Those who have snen a good deal
of her grace of late say that her In
dignations at the sufferings of the poor.
especially the sweated, Is Intense. Of
late she has made It her business to visit
the East End Incognito and there has Inter
viewed numbers of the Inhabitants who
turn out shirts, fully made, for 36 cents a
dosen. Bho has also had several conver
sat Ions with London's - "Bavonarola"-
Father Bernard Vaughan who has for a
long time been fighting the cause of the
sweated.
Cnirlng the time that the dowager duchess
of Newcastle has been living In Mayfalr
preparing for the wedding of her niece,
the duchess of Marlborough occupied her
flat In the East End for one or two days.
By the way, this apartment must have
been a revelation to the younger duchess,
whoso Ideas of lavlshness and splendor
are those of her most cultured country
women. The dowager duchessiof Newcas
tle s Don room is as simple as that of a
nun. A tiny camp bed, a rug for a carpet.
a crucifix for ornamentation with a red
lamp burning In front of it, a holy water
font and a plte dleu make up the furni
ture. Outside a lot of famished children
may often be found, sitting on the steps
of the building.
If the rumor proves correct that the
duchess of Marlborough means to throw
her Interests with the socialists, British
society will be staggered to the core. There
Is no doubt that the duchess has altered
utterly In the time she has been separated
from her husband. She has given up all
the state and glory with which she used
to surround herself. Her Nubian page,
her ten footmen and her state carriage,
In which ahe used to look exactly like a
fairy princess have vanished. It Is no
uncommon thing now to find her driving
about London in a shabby automobile at
tended only by her chauffHur, who wears
an ordinary prosaic blue livery like any
suburban woman's. Those who know the
duchess best and realize what she has
been feeling say they would not be sur
prised at anything she did,, provided It
brought a new Interest into her life.
LAD If MARY.
FORGE WORKER BECOMES POET
Htrennous Life Led by Alfred Ovten
,i i Williams to Secure an
Kdacatlon.
' IiONDON, March 21.-8peclaJ.-In tho
machine shops of the Great Western Rail
way company at Swlndow is employed a
brawny young workman who has won for
himself the proud title of "The Poet of the
Forge." Alfred Owen Williams is his name
and he Is the type of man In whom Cnr
lyle delighted. Twelve hours a day from
6 in the morning until 6 at night he works
hard for his dally bread, and at night
labors still harder to satisfy the cravings
of his higher nature. It Is pleasant to
record that he Is likely to win some meas
ure of the reward he so richly deserves.
His literary work has been pronounced
good by competent Judges and now he and
his faithful wife are looking forward to
the time when he may lay aside the ham
mer altogether for the pen.
He Uvea in Dryden cottage, a name, I
fancy, of his own choosing, in the village
of his birth. South Maraton, in the vale
of White Horse, where the edge of the
familiar Downs faces him on the south.
His father was a carpenter. ' At 8 he' was
set to work on a farm, and he speaks' of
the not unnatural sorrow caused htm
when the pigs got hold or his- dinner. At
15 he began work as a rivet lad In the
railway ' shop. ' Every morning at S he
tramped four miles to his work and back
four miles at sunset. At last he happened
on a book of translations from the ancient
classics and made up his mind to learu
Latin and Greek. Well, he did. He. got
"First Readers" and plunged Into Caesar
and Zenophon, and in no time he was
reading Virgil and Homer. Before long
he began the Ruskin college correspondence
course, and was reading English poets
from Anglo-Saxon days and writing essays
about them, which practiced his memory
and his use of words. At present he
Is master of an excellent English prose
style, far simpler and purer than that of
most college graduates. ' He read the most
out-of-the-way Greek poets, ' and always
satisfied himself that he could put them
Into good English.
Other workmen laughed, overseers
scolded, for now and then he would be a
little absentmlnded at the forge with
Latin couplets flying through his head.
At night he Vould trudge home, wretched
and worn out, but something compelled
him back to his books. He says that for
hours In the evening his wife would sleep
with her head In his lap while he studied.
Then he wrote a play. It was a poetical
play about Nineveh. Ho sent It to a well
known London publisher, who was pleased
with It and gave It to 8wlnburnu and Theo
dore Watts-Dunton. All were pleased. But
the publisher's illness and a voyage to
America put It on the shelf. Now the
play Is being overhauled and something
may come of it. Then he came to the no
tice of the Authors' association, who are
on thj point of publishing a collection
of new poems. The two that he submitted
to them were Immediately accepted.
Everything has been agalnet him. He
has always suffered from chronic laryn
gitis. He deserves to win out, and hit
probably will. "Let not your life pass
away In silence," Is his favorlucquotatlon
from Sa'.lust.
Is th joy of the household, for without
it no happiness cm be complete. How
tweet the picture of mother and babe,
eneels tmile at and commend the
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(TAaUSHCS KIT.
ENGLISH LAW OF DIVORCE
Act Has Come to Be Regarded
Iniquitous and Unjust.
BILL FOR AMENDMENT DRAWN
seall Likelihood It Will Be Adopted,
Tkeash Nee for tt Is Oevlem
Evil Effects of the
Law.
LONDON. March a. (Special.) Although
there la small likelihood that the bill Intro
duced by Horatio Bottomley for widening
the scope of the divorce law will pass the
House of Commons this session, and a cer
tainty that If It did It would be summs -lly
rejected by the House of Lords, It Is of
Interest as calling attention to the unsatis
factory state of the English law with re
spect to the dissolution of marriage. No
less" an authority than Sir Qorell Barnes,
president of the divorce court, has stigma
tized It, as "full of inconsistencies, anoma
lies and Inequalities amounting almost to
absurdities."
Mr. Boltomley's 4)111 is a very brief one.
It provides that judicial separation between
husband and wife shall, at the expiration
of five years, If meanwhile the parties do
not come together, have the samo lorce and
effect as a decree absolute for the dissolu
tion of the marriage. It also makea in
curable Insanity or a sentence of fifteen
years' penal servitude ground for divorce.
The' large number of divorces In Amer
ica and the relatively small number that
occur here are often cited by English pur
ists as proof of the superior moral tone of
English society. It Is an entirely erroneous
conclusion. It Is the stringency of the Eng
lish divorce law, and not a higher regard
for the sanctity of the marriage tie, which
makes divorce comparatively so infrequent
in England. Thomas Paynter Allen, secre
tary of the Marriage Law Reform associa
tion, who has made a comprehensive study
of the subject, both here and In America,
says his investigations have convinced him
that the rigid English divorce law, so far
from contributing to a higher morality Is,
in reality, responsible for a greater laxity
of morals than result from the easy di
vorce laws of many American states.
English Aet In J est.
The English divorce law Is most bitterly
unjust to the woman. Without infidelity
there can be no dissolution of msrrlage.
But whereas a husband can obtain a di
vorce on the ground of his wife's unfaith
fulness, the wife can secure a severance
of the nuptial ties only when the husband's
misconduct Is accompanied by cruelty.
However flagrant and notorious his esca
pades they do not entitle her to a divorce.
He may commit bigamy several times over,
and perhaps go to Jail for It, but his one
legal wife must remain his wife as long as
he lives. He may desert his wlf immedi
ately after marriage, betake himself to a
foreign country, never contributing a cent
to her support and that of her child, if
there be any, and still she Is tied to him
for life. As long as he survives she Is de
barred from seeking an honest mate and
protector. Bhe cannot contract a second
legal marriage. There are hundreds of
such cases.
A man, In every respect worthy, may
take the place of the worthless one who
has abandoned her, but the law stigmatizes
their relationship as Immoral and their
offspring, should there be any, must bear
the brand of Illegitimacy. Such a state of
affairs Is opposed to justice, to common
sense, to morality, and - yet should a
measure come before the bench of bishops,
In their capacity of Lord Spiritual of the
upper house, enabling a wife to sue Tor
divorce on the ground of her husband's
unfaithfulness alone, they would oppose It
tooth r.nd nail as destructive of the sanctity
of family life, the morals of society and
heaven knows what else.
Wife Often Victim.
In other respects the English law of
divorce is unreasonably oppressive to both
husband and wife, but It Is the latter
who Is most often the victim of its blind
stringency. A man may commit a criminal
offence of so heinous a character that he
Is sentenced to twenty years penal servi
tude. Still as long as he lives his wife
can have no better husband. She must
struggle alone. No other man can claim
the legal right to support her and make
a home for her. A man may even attempt
to murder his wife, and undergo a long
term -of imprisonment for it. but the ties
that bind her to the Inhuman monster
cannot be severed. He may cruelly abuse
her, but he cannot be deprived of the right
to call her his wife on thst account. He
may desert her, but though a wife only
In name she Is still his wife. To reverse
the picture, the wife may be a criminal,
or an habitual drunkard who neglects her
home and children, but the holy bonds of
wedlock must still tie her husband to her.
One or the other may be hopelessly In
sane and lodged In an asylum, but under
English law that does not suffice for tho
dissolution of the marriage. A man or
woman may be tied to a lunatic for life.
Of this the English per rage affords a
melancholy instance. Soon after the mar
riage of the earl of Durham his wife bo-
came Insane. For twenty-seven years ahe
has been a maniac, and for that whole
period he has been compelled to endure
a lonely and loveless life. Scores of similar
cases might be cited, equally tragic, but
less well known. It needs no explanation
to show how the conditions set forth op
erate as a direct incentive to what the
law terms Immoral relations.
Reiteration a PnnUhment.
For most of the offences above stated,
the only relief provided by Englls'i law is
a permanent separation one of he most
Illogical remedies that could possibly be
devised. In effect It recognizes the unfit
ness of the man or wife, aa the case may
be, for mutual marital relations, snd parts
them, but preserves Intact the tie which
prevents both of them, tho sinner ss well
as the victim from contracting another mar
riage which might turn out happily. Small
wonder It is that Sir Gorell Barnes says:
"The conviction hss forced Itself upon me
that permanent separation without divorce
has a distinct tendency to encourage Im
morality, and Is sn unsatisfactory remedy
to apply to an evil which It Is supposed to
prevent."
Mr. Botlomley's bill, it will be seen, would
make divorce follow automatically after
tho separation order has been In effect
for five years without any reconciliation
having taken place. It does not remove
the glaring anomaly of the English law
which discriminates so unjustly between
the consequences of Infidelity on the part
of the wife and Infidelity on the part of
the husband. The better and more direct
method would seem to be to make those
grounds for which permanent separations
are now granted causes for divorce. Prob
ably Mr. Bottomley has adopted the round
about method to avoid arousing those
ecclesiastical and social prejudices, which
are so strongly opposed to any broadening
of the divorce law. But it Is doubtful If
the subterfuge will help him to obtain the
votes necessary for the passage of his bill.
The English are a conservative folk, tied
down to conventionalities and traditions
and slow to respond to any argument ex
cept those which appeal to their pockets.
Something more will be needed than a
mere demonstration of the Injustice and
iniquity of the English divorce law to make
them mend It,
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TITLED MEN FIGHT TRUST
Sights of Heritable Usher of Scotland
Eegrarded with Dislike.
ASM SELVES FOR LEGAL EBAY
Trade In Baronetcies Extremely El
pensive aa It la 'Without
Having Any More Fees
Added.
LONDON, March 21. (8peclal.) Led by
the doughty Sir William Bull . bald
baronets and gallant knights have formed
a league to fight a trust. The trust is not
one of those monopolistic combinations
devised to put up prices and Increase divi
dends. In these money-grabbing days
baronets and knights do not wage war
against the mammon of unrighteousness.
Rather do they seek, tu make friends of
It ant1 get In on the ground floor where
shares are to be had at the lowest rates.
The p-.r.lcular trust at which they have
thrown the gauge of battle is one that
preys on baronets and knights alone. It Is
an attack on their private purses which has
led the present day representatives of an
cient chivalry to buckle on the golden
armor of modern defense and take, meta
phorically speaking, tho field.
It seems that In the old days when
knighthood was In flower, and the txst
scrappers got the fattest Jobs and high
est honors, all sorts of functionaries were
entitled to claim various fees and perqul-
lles from those who received dignities
from their sovereigns. Very likely, tJO,
the sovereigns themselves got an ample
rcke off from ttu-ne payments. But In
more modern limes these official para
sites have been gradually weeded out, gen
erally by paying them a lump down to re
linquish their claims. Vha late govern
ment was particularly generous In thus
relieving tho well-to-do victims of the cub-
todlatur of ancient privileges by casting the
burden on the BiUinh taxpayer.
Trust Her u red the Right.
One f unciloaai y, however, refused to sur
rendef, titf a cash consideration, the tight
to exact ti'H of the recipients of new
honors, probably because the cash consid
eration was not high enough. That func
tionary was the heritable usher of Scot-
lund. Who was tlie original heritable
usher nobody knows. Nor does anybody
know for what service the right was con
ferred upon him and his descendants to
Impose a tax on baronets and knights.
Very likely some Impecunious Scotch mon
arch created the office for a cash conse
cration. Aflet the act of union, by which
Scotland annexed England, the heritable
usher of Seotland got his JurUdlction ex
tended to include the whole of the United
Kingdom.
After refusing the offer of the conserva
tive government the last heritable usher
sold his rights to the toll to a trust, known
as the Walker Trustees. I'nder British law
such bartering of ancient rights is per
fectly legitimate. It may be assumed that
the Walker Trustees outbid the govern
ment. And now they are trying to get
some of their money back.
A Utile while ago every knight who had
been created In the last four years re
ceived this letter from the Walker Trustees,
whose offices are In Edinburgh:
Sir: Aa factor and commissioner for tho
Walker Trusters, Incorporated by act of
Parliament, holders of the office of herita
ble usher of Scotland, and entitled to the
fees of honors pertaining thereto, as the
kame are auvcified la the various charter
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1612 & TARNAM STREETS. OMAHAv
TBI VZOFX.Z9 rUlirfUIl A3T9 CABJPBT CO. ZBT. 18B7
of the said office and relative statutes rat
ifying the same, I have the honor to inform
you that the sum of 3 tis 8d became due
by you in respect of your creation as a
knight of the United Kingdom.
On behalf of the Walker Trustees I have
further to reauett that you will have the
aoodneBS to make navment to mo of the
said 3 6s 8d at your convenience. I have
tho honor to bp. your obedient servant.
I WILLIAM ROBEKTSON,
Factor and Commissioner.
Every baronet whose title went no fur
ther back got a similar letter, but the bar
onets as the possessors of a higher dignity
were asked to shell out 5 ($25) apiece.
Bis; Prices for Favors.
In the last four years no less than 300
baronets have been created by the king. In
most cases the recipients of these honors
have paid big prices for them far more
than they would have been required to pay
in the good old days when titles were
openly sold. In those days the money went
to the king. In these days the money goes
to the party war chest and the king gets
nothing. He simply confers the dignity In
obedience to the behest of his master, for
the time being, the prime minister. It has
been openly stated In Parliament that
towards the conclusion of the Balfour re
gime a peerage fetched as much as $750,000
and baronetcies and knighthoods anything
from $50,000 to $150,000; the money, after de
ducting a liberal percentage as commis
sions to the middlemen or middlewomen
who arranged the transactions, going to the
political fund. It Is one of those 'scandals
which will never be subjected to Investiga
tion while the two present political parties
are alone competing for power, because
they both play the game the same way
and are equally Interested In preventing
exposure.
Having paid high for their titles, the bar
onets and knights naturally resent this ad
ditional demand to shell out. The amounts
Involved are comparatively small; It la the
principle concerned which moves them to
an outburst of righteous Indignation. It Is
something of the same feeling which moves
American patrons of certain English hos
telrles to resent the charges made for petty
extras. And so the bold barficts and gal
lant knights have decided to defy the trust
that has bought out the heritable usher of
Scotland and contest Its claim in the courts.
O I UtbOCL OtnV td nlO lsAn : just how much this post Is worth In actual
1 j cash, but It Is probably something over
Ant lie Spends His Time In Fortress ' $10,000 a year, besides allowances for en
of St. Peter and St, ' tertalnlng and two residences. Baron
Pinl. ! Aehrenthal draws three separate salaries,
ST. PETERSBURG, March 21. Lieuten
ant General Stoessel, who yesterday began
to serve ten years in prison for cowardices
and treason in surrendering Port Arthur,
occupies a room In the fortress of St. Peter
and St. Paul adjoining that of Rear Ad
miral Nebogatoff. who Is serving a 1 ke
sentence for surrender to the Japanese at
the sea of Japiyi. The room is about
twent feet square and overlooks a little
garden, where the officers are permitted
to promenade. Stoessel's family has re
ceived permission to refurnish his cell. The
officers in the fortress run a private mess
of their own and to this General Stoessel
has been admitted.
The general's transfer to the fortress
yesterday was unexpected. He persisted to
the very last in hoping that the emperor
would pardon him. In order to secure a
room for the new prisoner two officers
who had served under Admiral Nebogatoff
were dispossessed of their room.
Tolstoi Suffers Helapse.
ST. PETERSBURG, March a.-A dispatch
received here from Yasasya Polynia says
that Count Tolstoi, who la 111 wltu In
fluenju, baa suffered a relapse.
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Macedonian Project Brings Baron
Aehrenthal to Fore.
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all the excitement of the latest political
uplieaval In Balkan affairs no single per
sonage has been more talked of than Baron
Aehrenthal, the Austrian foreign minister.
He Is regarded as the author of all the
trouble. Whether he failed to foresee that
his railway scheme In Macedonia was go
ing to upset all the powers, or whether,
foreseeing It clearly, he deliberately fol
lowed out his policy, are questions which
nobody seems able to answer Just yet. The
one thing clear and certain is that that
most astute of all diplomatists, his majesty
the sultan, has scored again. At a mo
ment when the powers were pressing him
uncomfortably hard upon the reforms in
Mecedonia by simply granting with too
great promptness the request of Austria
Hungary to be allowed to make a survey
for a new railway to Mltrowltza, Abdul
Hamld has succeeded in setting all the
great powers by the ears and securing for
himself a rest, at any rate for a time, In
the matter pf the Macedonian reforms.
Precedence of a Daron.
Baron Lexa von Aehrenthal. minister of
the Imperial and royal household and for
foreign affairs of Austria-Hungary, la the
second in order of precedence of all the
subjects of the emperor, Francis Joseph,
that Is outside of tho members of the Im
perial family and two or three eardlnal
archbtshops, who, as prince s of the church,
rank with the archdukes and archduch
esses. Immediately after these comes
Prince Rudolph Liechtenstein, first, court
chamberlain of the emperor, and next the
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one as minister of the Imperial and royal
household, another as foreign minister and
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the winter months he oocuples the mag
nificent state apartments In the Foreign
office, a large and handsome building In,
the Ballplatx, built by Empress Maria
Theresa, and In the summer ' he has a
charming, roomy villa just inside the park
gates at Schoenbrunn, whore the emperoc
lives most of the year. In either home ho
Is close to his Imperial master, for the
Foreign office is only Just across the street
from the Hofburg.
The Baron's Ancestry.
Baron Aehrenthal's ancestry Is less dis
tinguished than that of most of his pred
ecessors. His grandfather was a certain
Lexa, a Bohemian of Jewish extraction
who, rendering some financial assistance
to the government, was ennobled. Tho .
baron married a daughter of Count Julius
Szechenyl, formerly Hungarian mlntster at
the Vienna court, and uncle of Count
LaszlOt Szechetiyl, who recently married
Miss Gladys . Vanderbllt.
Personally Baron Aehrenthal makes a
very pleasant Impression, - He is tall and
stoops slightly, his hair Is - nearly white,
Snd he wears a sort of goatee and mus
tache. Htf is about 65 years of age. He has
agreeable manners and Is an excellent
linguist, speaking English fluently. Also
he works very hard, albeit he is a bureau
crat. , '
If the truth must be told, It Is to ba
feared that1 Baron Aehrenthal has not been
a shining success as a foreign minister.
As a diplomat he always enjoyed a con
siderable reputation, and for years before
he came from the embassy at St. Peters
burg he was looked upon as the successor
of Count Goluchowskl at the Ballplatx. Ha
has spent twenty-five years In the foreign
office and his other diplomatic experience
was almost entirely obtained In Russia.
He came to Vienna to succeed Goluchowskl
less than two years ago, and great things
were hoped from him. The dlplomalla
corps welcomed him as a statesman, but
they were speedily disappointed. Goluchow
skl was a lasy. clever man. Aehrenthal
Is Industrious, but not clever. He has a
baffling manner, very ' calm and self
possessed, but the diplomats who spealc
with him can never tell what Impression
they are making. One ambassador de
scribed him as an anvil of wood, from
which It was Impossible to strike sparks.
Resignation Report Denied.
BERLIN, March 21. The Hamburg-American
Steamship company denies reports
that Herr Ballin Is to resign the general
management of the company.
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