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V . - ' . - . . i . , . -.:. -- ' Vy; N ASTOUNDING amount ofAmer , . ican wealth is invested in titles of . .Mobility across the sea. - Recently a ttatistician figured that I $2 marriages had tarried abroad an aggregattrdoio of $t6t ' tQo,ooo ' i ':. -vV' ; : ; American fathers and grandfath ers have gathered in business is handed over to Princes, Dukes,- Counts: and other titled foreigners, .- many of them ofk. impoverished estates and ': diminished coronets,who . seek i new infusions of financial t blood to redeem the waning glories of their houses. ' w- Some r of ' -these international alliances Have-been-pure love .matches - and have re-, suited happily. As' a general thing, however, it is noticed that the crested and escutcheoned European selects only the girl who canbring Rim a comfortable .fortune.: ' : Not long since,-it was stated, some Con tinental money lenders advanced $200,000 to a German Count upon the prospects of a cam-, faign which he had planned among American 'heiresses. :' ' -''.': 7 0 " -f " "v,,V. V Kind hearts are trior than coronet, , 'A iid simple faith tlian Norman blood... ' HAT strawberry lcar: j are considered worth' what American girls pay for them, it evi- v , denced by the fact that the drain : .f dow ers to Europe. like a golden Gulf Stream acro the sea, goes on most merrilyr- J Not long since, Baron Max - von- . Schwcdlc -Schwartrenburg, of Germany, who .was in Cleve- land endeavoring to secure from his wealthy fath-: x cr-in-law an ' increased allowance, unburdened his , poul in the course of an interview and voiced .the " s European view of the mating of titles with money. A title, lie declared, las an actual market value. . ; In his opinion,' this value should be arranged to -alidtng-scale of - prioes,-Tanirtng"fr6nr a Prince ot Duke to a Baronet or Knight .VVm" ' , ; 'Uw ;.- "Of all European titles,", be continued, "those of Germany and Spain re.the oldest , Newness of . " titles in England and France interferes with their V ' ' : ralue, . . r - o; . , ' ''j- ;"'.".;:' .:"-; V;. - ; , "When a nobleman who. as l" do, enjoys pri?i- leges at court and in the salons of Europe marries ' ' a woman without title,' be loses social caste. He .should be-reompensed for tbia loss; MoreorerTan , untitled woman, marrying into a titled family . should expect to pay for it" ' . ' V. . ; : . That quite . a number of wealthy LAmericanjU, women agree with the Baron is evidenced byieTcnr w partial list of the many who have wedded titles V .of recent years. Some 01 these, with the amounts -of their dower and the-names of their aristocratic husbands, follow: f ,'.'.'.,' 'f ' .'' v"'. " ." " "'' I' American OIrt Wwr, : " r Titled Hmbtnt. .. ' r Mar Ooelet .,..2fl.(00.0'i0..rhik Roxbura ' Anna Gould H.noo.cmo.. Count de Castellans Conaucilo VanderbUt.... 10,ono,0W..Duk Marlborough 1 ' " Mary LeltnT... ......., t,dX),UOi..Iord Curson . . . IsUr LciUr M.nMr-fi.QiiO.OM..Earl Buffolk , ' i . . Alice Thaw l.uoi),ooo.. Lord Yarmouth 'i ' ' " ' lomeiia Martin . z.wu.wiv..Kari craven Kftiena Zimmerman... Mlaa Brewvter H. 1"",; 'i'Vv:-'. : 'i ." "" '""V" V''"'" " ' I - "V V- ; Recently Divorced 1 i i ' l( 11 1 KG 1 i! 'ont: Harnerh She LIU Jta Oarner. AlUa Xilllendi Mlaa Caldwell Mia Forbes . Mattllde Iavla.u..... stances Lawrence...," . Cornelia KooaerelC..,. Mra. Iaaao Binder....... 1 WlunareUa. Singer.... : i Tflabella Blnir..'.'.."..'. . , Karah P. Stokea.. ....... - Mrs. Frederick Stevens Miss Wheeler, aitss S.(n0.nCIO..ruka ManrliMtav .l.OOOiaM. .Count Frankenstein . J.(.0O0..Blr Baobo Cuiufdr- 4.(K,0U.. Marquis de Breteull .a.uju.wi..flirquial Han Mai re (W.W.'.Maron von'ZedwIta l.lo,(XiO..Duke Cholseul-Praslln l,0U0.0UU.auke Bant Monfeltrto della Hvvere , , -1. WW,0nn..Ird Vernon l.(flO.Oii..Baron O. Beydllta S,u.(0..Ioks Camposelia, ' a.UW,uU..Prlnp de Hcey-MoaU beliard : .-. , , t.0n0,O0A..ruke Peruses ' S.OOO.WO.. Baron Halkett i- - T,nuo,ouo..luke 01 Ulno Z - V Heten Morion; ' Duchess of Jfanchest Zmmervujt.Whoset Men- 2000 9 na Ha surd Mlaa Gallatin Mlm finanr Mlaa Borwlnd. eatterOeld. l.WM.noo. .Count Pappenhelm ' l.ono.onu.. Prince Ponlatowskl ' -.ono.wo..Lord Lister Kay l.OAO.OOO. . Prince Auersperr -' 1.0ae.0n0..Count de Rohanhabot i l.OfiO.ooo.. Prince Vlcovaro r L0(,oao.. Baron Bockllnson -1 l.OUO.WO. .Count von Laiiscb . " IS?- I' ytOlDl f&nnerv V&iderbtlt. She hit' ii -Suffolk..-" Jvmerly- Diisy Letier. ' fteiress ! 1 ,1 w-K CauniessreCnmjt.: tier fortune is iZfOOQffD'' 'i .'J .It, - j the $10,000,000 that went ;with; the Land ;of , Mitt' "Consuelo Tanderbilt ':-f . ', V !''f ' , - Y Under j! its . inspiring influences, s the drooping1 u-t v fortunes of - that 'noble house rerived' with-notice-' - able- splendor f rjnce -m'ore'the landa 'and castles of i Ifarlborough Jwerebufniahed -with , the prosperity i;a (UIWU ivuCOa I 1 ..-..1 t J ,i . ' : J, t.lff . of ; the , Thaw, and -Martin states,, so" that neither these young girls if liable to- coma to "want, . ! i Ample prprision f 6r the bread' and butter of ' the young Duke and Duchess' of -Manchester was ' j made'by "Papa Zimmerman, of Cincinnati, when 1, his daughter, went over to adorn the Manchester ancestral halls. It has been said that $2,000,000 -..was settled upon the eonple. ; y - That his. Grace if Manchester was' not at all. displeased by such an arrangement, is eridenced leTact that he occasionally returns to dem ocratio America in order to keep up the friendly acquaintance with his, rich' father-in-law. - --i -'.,. Now and then a painful 'echo of international .marriage iawhichlthe title is supposed to haT played an' important "part drifts back orer the sea. . Not long since-were broken "the -marital ties that bound Miss ' Uelen'Morton, the beautiful .and J accomplished . daughterTof former ; Vioe President Leyi P. Morton, to .her. French husband, who re- , joiccs in the aristocratic name of Saint Louis Ma- rie .Irchambault Bocan, Comte de Tallorand Peri gord. .; t :- , , '.' .. -s j October. 5, 1901.. at Chelsea. England, the air - were " married n the .presence of a distinguished company." The event was the social topio of two continents Once the Talleyrand-Perigord family had been rich and nowetful in France.'" NcrmgfternhennarTiageraiported" that the Comta hnrl again , secured control of the tamily estates, that had been Leavily. mortgaged. The' amount "required to clear .them was orer $500, ; 000hand ii'was said that this was advanced by Mr." Morton,' who stipulated that the title ( should be ested ;in his daughter. , -.v.-: This provision' was ; bitterly contested by the ., groom's relatives and, report had it brought on the 1 first rupture between the pair. ' They went to live -at the Perigord Chateau," but, it seems; the union was never a happy one. . " .When, a :fev' weeks ago, Mrs.' John W. Mao---kay's granddaughter, Dona Bianca. Colonna Stigli ano,,was married in Paris. to Count Jules de Bon-' vouloir, -Mrs. Mackay,made an arrangement that ' was . probably suggested; by : unhappy experiences of ' the pastv' : -4 :.'- - r'i :' h',; ",i-.v' ' , ' ' i : one declined absolutely to. aettla inr mnn , upon-her granddaughter, but' agreed to give her a IV. blTij J'T Now- and thcnit'is true, there- hdve been ru-"" henasome allowance,; which, however,' is to be .'.mtnibMtx U'b6ttbmHf-:th- 'trcaschest-.W: .dlV;WnW;.,,c?'0J ' r- "Vr . ; 'This means. that'MrMackay,, who is r i 1yVr.UV'--i-' herrandchilcLrwillTjontinne- young ..1.1 ' I- t f weaiuiy reiatives-in-iaw on uns'iiae-tne tcean, so J i.L devoted 1tflrovideTherT young -people jwith ample funds -as . long , as ' the ' rintint. wrinjia witriniit fortnnn valka -aaiata1 ! f ..thatHhere "is, wba.1l7, W ,iaMi(Ut .danger' of 1-disieitiysTiid-makte-bia-wif o-JMppy '" ::, w . '."'.acute', financial; embarrassment tVrV i :-i4.-i i ' ; The mother of 'this bride,' who -was -a daughter ., .. wi ine many, muuona snrewcuy- ana.pauenuy -01 jurs. 'jkiacKay, ine vouniess xesieucs, lormerly gathered by the late Levi Z.'Leiter," of Chicago, tenMias JIaggin,' and the Princese'IIattfeWt formerly -have gone to : uphold titled dignity in England. L Miss Huntington,! were three rich . Western brides tr:; Five millions ecch is-said tolbave been the of titled Europeans, takipg to them dowers estU '. pbrtions' of Mins .Mary LeitcrnpW Lady Curron, mated, at from one. to five mjllions each. ' ' ; and her siter,Miss Daisy Leiter . who recently be-." Now and,then a foreigner of. high; rank mani :came,the Countess .of Suffolk.; ; r; ' ; fesU the good sense of seeking the heart and hand : .j.: ..-Doubtless, his wife's fortune hasigreatly,aided f a portionless American girl -simply because of -1 the political ambitidnat-oi-Lord iCunon, although ner cnanning personality.' xnese nre love romances '"''.! 1 a ' Sal . ai n1nn- 1 nr rraa rl Va-kaiBiAaiat T a at sal i-1ak VI a i aili1iv . Ti"I11S1 V. . . ' ; ' ' .....'.-'...,.'.'' i - . - iiv mm BvaiivnKuauu vvr iuoirvoa wuaiauwA auio aa-aiaabv Mr - v, - ... , CbwieSS Of XinnOUtl. 1&merryAiCt7Al)K . Cbunhsss de CjfWl-Fae, JvrmerfyAnxj&uld:-J in ; statesmanship. When he was appointed Vice- - (. Miss OranV daughter, f. General Frederick D. roxi of .Indian-it Was ; eurrently reported that - his Grant-,oarried .an - wwignificant 'dower- to.Prinoa .2 . 5vU-.. ',-U ., , , .,.,,, .... -J-v ... v.i--1 ; - . . ..i at . t 'i -. .financial: ability, to maintain'the semiregal splendor Cantacuwne, ox iiussia, .whom she marr.ed in 1899. T . ''' . .: ; i f i :'t ' it:"- .:itTi '(:y,,J:l'iXr, Prince Belosebky, of Kussia, also chose an Ameri-. i Among. the latest of these: important. fiftanoial. i . Gould the young-Frenchman has mada aa mrw i eloctioh'as1hisacknowledged'fitness 'for tho can bride who was comparatively poor Misa Susie , captures was-when-, the--Duke of 'Kexburghe; bwA-iaf(aST..MWr0 yTV'.'vfV''-bitney. Miss Margaret Btom; of Jfew York, con stowed Un title upon Miss i Mat Goelet. of New assumed Baph alarmir. nmMriW. , j i. . York. " '" - . " ' "terrifiuf inrrja.!aMiw.n-tr. if'a kjji 1 lLa Af a-. JA - . W 'From' the -'- TheTEarl of Suffolk appears to be regarded as a man' of auiet tastes rand few extravagances.- so many millions ' bf1 tho . lata Oo-drn (hit-ioma'tinM it t 1 - . that, his-bride's handsome, dower -is thouaht to be Goelet, it' was stated 'that ',$20,000,000 was, the env;firm and peremptory restraint. ; -. tin.no danger of undue dissipation.' .. dowment Portion of the bride, 'finch i'Unl'ni.'; At tW m,.a m.tmA.Ut. JU. l.v' 1. .a". -Wiri Iflsa AllfHiXThaw. of Pittaburo'' banarnar count in possession ofhia, wife, no doubt,, proved the Countess, took, control of -tie remainder of - ber U ttoe Oouri teas of .Yarmouth last year, her marriage very acceptable to 'the -T.earer.of the Jloxburgbe , dowry, and will, in the future, exercise such kindly portion -was reported aa being a cool million of good uucai crown. . . - . , : .' . ; I , This is- $.1,000,000' more than Miss Anna Gould carried abroad to bolster .up the prostrate fortunes :4 fraternal supervision that. the wings of the. gs .'American money.'. xii . l x 1 - tt ' -a at . - Boni. will no more undertake agance. Jtzj flights of extra v ' ' Twov million is 'the estimate placed upon the fortune with which Miss Cornelia Bradley Martin vf Count Boni de Castcllano, of Paris, and 'with- As welcome as refreshing rain in thedesert toV-endowed the Earl of Craven WhlCO gCnerOUS Slice from the Vait wealth of Jit .' . tlm nnwrl.n,AiJ t1n1rJnm' . r..lk..nU - TWa nnnnmna ntl which generous slice from; the vast wealth of Jay: the pomty-parcVd Dukedom' f Marlborough waa-. Thert art numerous. othtr-inillioDJi rcmauurg 4AlMaw1 ATklvtlta JB7Aall tVl ' 4 ' Vlak ' laVwan ' iw.a . at ia a . vaa . rvuv v sivi v w UJVU VUUUI y Beroldingen, of 'Auatrla. '..' .. -. . Kor .do all, American .fathers agrets with the 4 views of the Bar on von 3chwedler Bchwartzenburg, quoted r above,! to ' the effect that ; titles have an ; " actual market value.. Commenting . upon that as -sertion, Mr. P. J,,Keidcl, father-in-law of the Ger man nobleman, and is stated to have tersely re- marked:' ' " 1 ' ' ''"' -"T.J .,'-. ;. : V , ' .-"I will.state; simply,' that"! have received tio" ' ; 'dividenda from the only investment of .the kind I '-ever -made," ', '..;.; 1 . .