The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 15, 1906, Page 21

RS B o e o ' Pages 21 t0 30 RIS —e LT 3 - SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1906. -_——-w— — Pages 21 to 30 ] ASTOR WILL |PRINCESS LOSES GIVE HOME 10 RIS SON —_— Thames Residence as a Wedding Present. Mayfair Regrets Loss of Rich Young “Eligible.” Said to Have Been Friendly With Future Queen of Spain. e THE CALL. Waldort was A at that there ing of teeth he attained Astors cannot be s: h society, Mr. Astor, a very proud and re- abnormally sensitive and without a vestige of anything like so- n, nevertheless had his sdn ht have married society. that the Hked” him. He ge of dancing night with her ; given by one of the nd a perfect ing a cotillo Accom- nie Cochrane, Princess ¥ iotored a few times with ¥ Asto People who know him say he has more business capacity then eny mem- ber of &k family. e occasionally leader for his father's paper, Gaszette,” and when in is ir ce every morning. that portion the staff with he comes into contact he is de- Mall popular, belng very pleasant y never familiar. The editor of all Gazette” may be sald g of a novice in journal- e greater part of his life was in India as a judge. Sir Douglas is ome of the few titled edi- is present salary of $15,000 st be a declded improve- judgeship. ——————— Woman Elected Mayor. DUBLIN, April 14—Lady Dockrell, elected chairman of the Black- blin rban Council, is the ayor ever chosen in the There have been uries and o st , Liverpool ? late years in Bel- Manchester, Shef- am and elsewhere, y were merely the wives of the Lady Dockrell, & promi- citizen of Dublin, was vice chairman of the il, and proved to be so excelient pinistrator that she has pow been placed by the votes of the men Councilors at their head. If she were 8 man sae would be a Justice of the Peace by right of her chairmanship, but being a woman disqualifies her for et position ——————— New Singer for America. LONDON, April 14.—"“Another capture by America” is the regretful heading of the published announcement here - Cunningham has been fempted away by an offer for the next son of opera in New York. It is revealed who has secured her, but it is: probable that the offer did not come from either Conried or Hammer- ctefn, for she is adapted to light opera. —_————————— lar eight years ckrock Cou Peeress to Be Actress. LONDON, April 14—Lady Angela 1 gister of the earl-actor, Lord n, has serious intentions of going e stage. She has been rehearsing im “Lord and Lady Algy.” and when this popular piece §s revived at the Royal Jaymarket Theater Lady Angela will play Lady Algy, Charles Hawtrey ap- pesring in his original part purchased | over the loss | HER FORTUNLE. Archduchess Clothilda of Hungary Ruined|countless Affairs Are Financially Through Speculation. - 1 i 1 [ [ 1 I B 1 | -+ S WHO HAS LOST TUNE AS A RE- | EULT OF SPECULATION. > . SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL. BUDAPEST, April 14.—Much excite- ment, coupled with much regret, has becn aroused here by the news that Hungary's most popular and beloved Princess, the Archduchess Clothilda, is in financial dif- ficulties. Twenty million kronen, or $,- 006,000, is said to be the total of her debts and labilities, The story is a painful one of an Im- perial Princess utterly ignorant of finance and commerce being led into all kinds of rash speculations by those who ought to have been the very ones to safeguard her against such undertakings. The Em- peror, who was recently informed of the whole affair, is exceedingly displeased. His Majesty has in his long life witnessed many scandals among the members of his imperial house, but the spectacle, of an Archduchess becoming invoived in building speculations, theatrical ventures, lime and. chemical trusts and combines and all sorts of other wildcat schemes is one which he has hitherto been spared. Archduchess Clothilda is 60 ysars of age, | and a widow, her husbana, the Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, having died nearly a year ago. She was born a Prin- cess of Baxe-Coburg and Gotha and her brothers are Prince Ferdinand of Bul- garia and Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg, whosge matrimonial - and divorce affairs with the eccentric Princess Louise of Bel- gium have recently been so much before the public. The Archduchess’ eldest son, Archduke Joseph, succeeded his father as Palatine of Hungary, and two of her daughters are married respectively to the well known Duke of Orleans and Prince Thurn and Taxis, SECRETARY WASTES FUNDS. The story of the Archduchess’ money troubles goes back less than ten years. Fifty years of her i.e passed quietly and unevenuully, undisturbed by monetary cares. Bhe had a dowry of 2,000,000 kro- nen ($400,000), which was carefully invest- ed, and during her long married life the principal had considerably increased, in fact, it is said to have trebled itself. In 189, through the influence of Court Becretary Unterauer the Archduchess was persuaded to embark In extensive build- | ing speculations in the central part of Budapest. Two magnificent palaces known 28 the Clothildenpalais, and an {m- mense apartment-house were erected at a cost of considerably over 5,000,00 kronen ($1,000,000). The Archduchess had unbounded confi- dence In Unterauer, who seeme to have had entire charge of her money and made numerous speculative investments with it without her knowledge. This first build- ing speculation proved a disastrous fail- ure. The rentable value of the properties | turned out to be mych less than had been | antieipated in view of the heavy expendi- ture upon them. But the next speculations were even more disastrous. The Court Becretary had been brought into connection with a very prominent business man who was interested in the manufacture of lime, bone manures and other chemical pro- ducts. Unterauer bought large blocks of shares on behalf of his imperial mistress, who gradually became deeply Involved in the chemical industry. Unterauer and his associates then started out to form a combine of a&ll the lime and chemical manufacturers in Austria-Hungary and 7 ! v‘.,,,;/// Tz~ R Germany. The plan for'a general umion of these miscarried, but subsidiary com- panies or combines were formed to oper- ate chemical ‘works in Berlin and Vienna and 'lime and bone manure factories in Budapest. TRUST SCHEME FAILS. Unfortunately, however, Unterauer's associate, the prominent -manufacturer with whom he began the enterprises, | broke down and had to retire-from busi- | ness: completely. This left the Arch- duchess as practically the only big stock- holder with all kinds of obligations and embarrassments. For as fast as the shares in these various undertakings had been acquired, they were deposited with | bankers as security for loans, and with the new funds thus obtained more shares in other companies were purchased and more new undertakings were begun. Matters at length reached such a stage that it was almost impossible to ascer- tain what the Archduchess’ financial position really was. At first it was thought that 10,000,000 kronen $2,000,000) would cover her losses, but it was speed- ily. found that this sum was far too small, and today it seems certain that her liabilities -amount . to at least twice the first estimate. There is very little ready money avail- able, as it is all-tled up in different un- dertakings. There is much speculation as [to where all the money has gone and many unsavory rumors are in circulation in this regard. One individual {n Buda- pest is credited with having made no less than 3,000,000,000 kronen ($600,000) out of the unfortunate Archduchess. Besides her building and lime trust en- terprises, the Archduchess was the lessee of the Volkstheater in Budapest and also the founder and. proprietor of the Infier City Credit Bank. All Budapest knew it as her bank,.only the Archduchess her- self knew nothing about it. One day the Archduchess’ bank lent the Archduchess’ theater 200,000 kronen (§40,000) and the the- ater.lost the whole sum in a year. The Court Secretary was compelled to make a report of this to the Archduchess, who for the first time gained some Inkling of her financial situation. But it was too late, as her sons-in-law, the Duke of Orleans and Prince Thurn and Taxls, who ordered an investigation of her affairs, speedily found out. The greater part of her fortune was already entirely lost. Shortly afterward Court Becretary Unterauer was pensioned. POPULAR WITH PEOPLE. ‘When the Emperor first heard of the Archduchess’ trouble he was a good deal concerned as to how far they affected the financial position of the present Archduke Joseph, For his father had also been somewhat unfortunate in his financial af- fairs. He had lost large sums over the establlshment of a new heaith resort, Bad Cirkvenica, and had also spent heaps gareteninsel—which belongs to him. This is an island in.the Danube, near Buda. pest, and a favorite summer resort for the citizens. But it has not turned out a Archcuke Joeeph has succeeded to some heavy financial burdens in that direction. For the Archduchess Clothilda herself, who is now at Mentone, the greatest sympathy js everywhere expressed. enjoys great popularity throughout Hun- gary both on account of her own charm- benefactions. She has always dispens charities on a large scale, and spent gro:zd Eums every year in supporting schools, or- phan asylums and other benevolent in- stitutions. A But with this universal sympathy much regret and even painful surprise is ex- | ©of money upon tmprovements in the Mar- | sides his magnificent palace in Budape: ing personality as well as her munificent { Archduke Joseph is ofe of his 1 i clever, BIG WELCOME AWAITS THE LONGWORTHS D Planned by the Londoners.* King Edward Will Entertain the Americans. et T SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL. LONDON, April 14.—It is to be hoped that the American women in Londonl will not kill with kindness Mrs. Long- worth when she comes among them in { June. If she succeeds in appearing at one-fifth of the festivities which are being arranged for her by Britishers as \well as Americans she will be very indeed. The King and Queen have intimated to the American Em- bassador, Whitelaw Reld, that -they will receive Mr. and Mrs. Longworth pri- vately in the first instance, but there is alsq to be a royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace in their honor, and among well-known Americans who will be invited to be presented are Consuelo Duchess of Manchester, Mr. and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, the Duchess ot Marl- borough, Lady Naylor Leyland, Mrs. Chauncey and a few others. During their stay in London Mr. and Mrs, Longworth will make Dorchester House, the town residence of the Amer- ican Embassador, their headquarters, but, I hear, the Duchess of Marlborough has invited them to Blenheim for a week end . and Mrs. Adair has asked them to spend a few days with her at her new house in Windsor. L4 The story goes that the City of Lon- don will also entertain this interesting couple at one of the luncheons for which the Mansion House is renowned. The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London pride themselves on being the most hospitable civic body not only In Europe, but in the world, and they are sure to turn out a record feast for tha American bride and bridegroom. Enthusiastic as will be the reception of the President’s daughter, it will be nothing compared with that she would have received had she come as Miss Roosevelt. Had she arrived last season, London would have gone “clean off its head” over her. No royal princess would have received half such an effusive welcome. She would have had a thousand proposals. At the Bache- lors’ Club alone fifty or mora of its members had made up their minds to proposé«to-her. I may remark, en pas- sant, the Bachelors' 1s' made up of the richest unmarried men in soclety, more than half of whom have titles. British soclety here is hoping it may not be disappointed in Mrs. Longworth, I may say in time that if she puts on the least “standoffishness,” it will be. English people expect the American woman to be all smiles and civility and to do all the talking. From her they resent dignity or patronage. The fact is they have with good reason formed certain ideals as regards the American woman and they like her to live up to them. STAGE TEMPTS RICH SOCIETY GIRL ABROAD Her Mother Strongly Opposed to the 1dea. Pt B SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL. LONDON, April 14.—Mrs. Cavendish Bentinck’s daughter is causing quite a sensation with her beautiful volece, which has been perfectly trained in Paris, and now I hear the great trouble is to keep her from going on the stage. She has had the most tempting offers and one well-known and daring mana- ger has promised her the part of lead- ing lady and a princely salary. This has been regarded by the Cavendish Bentincks as the perfection of imperti- nence and I hear that Mrs. Bentinok has cut off her visiting list the lady ltl whose house her daughter met the auda- clous manager fn question. Mrs. Cavendish Bentinck is one of the very exclusive Americans and does not visit even Upper Bohemla, so the effect of the offer in question can be imagined. The idea of her and her daughters having been as guests in the same house as that in which a theatri- cal manager was received has been a most serious blow, not only to her nerves, but to her dignity, and now Miss Cavendish Bentinck is rarely al-/ lowed to sing outside her mother's drawing-room. —_— e % called the Hungarian Archduke. He was Palatine of Hungary, commander-in-chief of the army in Hungary and his home was among the Hungarian people. Be- he had a country estate near the capital and a villa at Flume. He and all his family spoke Hungarian. The Emperor and other members of the family spend profitable investment and the present | very little time in Hungary, ang the peo- ple feel this neglect véry keenly. That these financlal scandals should center around thelr own Archduke's famlly is therefore a matter of the deepest regret She | to the whole nation. The Emperor also has a special interest in the affair; as the wife of the present he Princess Augustine, Sanen. daughters, the Prince ne, daugh- ter of the Archduchess Gisela, elder daughter of the Emperor, and who fs | married to Prince Leopold of Bavaria, e Archduchess Clothilda has many rtg connections, her mother, the old Duchess Clementina, being one of the pressed that members of the imperial | richest as well as probably the cleverest Hapsburg family shoul® have become in- volved in such kinds of transactions. At:d this feeling is intensified because these particular members of the family chance to be the only ones particularly and close- of the Princesses in Europe. It is, there- fore, devoutly hoped by all Hungarians that the widowed. Archduchess may be soon relleved from her present sea of en- ts, and that henceforward tanglement ly connected with the kingdom of Hun- | Archdukes and Archduchesses—at leaat gary. The late Archduke Joseph was always the “‘Hungarlan’¥ ones—will keep clear of SCIENTIST PHOTOGRAPHS A GHOST the Ex He Has Flashlights to Support His - Contention. Scouts the Posstbility of Fraud in the Work. Experiments Carried On in Interesting Manner. SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL. LONDON, April 14.—Spiritualists have reason to be proud of a new scientific champlion. Dr. Charles Richet, member of the French Academy and known in scientific circles as “the French Kel- vin,” has just finished,a remarkable series of psychic investigations, during which he believes he has practically demdnstrated the existence of real ghosts. Professor Richet has subjected his spirit manifestations to"the severest scientific tests; and now comes out boldly in thelr defense; staking his pro- fessional reputation on the accuracy of his investigations, and the reality of spirit phenomena. The photographs taken by Professor Richet in connectlon with these re- searches have been carefully examined by Sir Oliver Lodge, one of England's most distinguished scientists, who pro- nounces them genuine and confirms Professor Richet's statements. It will be remembered that Sir Wil- liam Crookes also conducted investiga- tions along the lines of Professor Richet; but the Richet experiments are so remarkable and so convincing that they might almost be considered the last word as to the reality of ghosts. Professor Richet was elected presi- dent of the Society for Psychical Re- search for 1905, and has recently been succeeded by Gerald Balfour, ex-Cabi- net Minister. APPEARANCE IN KIOSK. In the course of an interview granted the writer during a short visit to Lon- don, Professor Richet described his re- markable Investigations In the follow- ing statement:” © “The phenomena I describe are cer- tainly strange enough to provoke in- credulity, and I would have some hesi- tation in- bringing them to light were it not for analogous experiments of Sir Willlam Crookes. “Thanks to the kindness of General and Mme. Noel of Algiers, and to the goodwill and abnegation of Made- moisclle Marthe ‘B,’ the daughter of a retired military officer, I was able to pursue these experiments for a whole month at the Villa Carmen, the resi- dence of General Noel. Present at the seances with me were General and Madame Noel, M. Gabriel Delanne and several others, whose names [ am not at liberty to disclose. Suffice it to say that I knew all of these persons per- sonally; that I had satisfled myself by every scientific examination that fraud was out of the question, and that the phenomena are, in my opinion, unde- niable. “The ‘appearances’ took place in a small kiosk, situated in the garden of the Villa Carmen. This little house is entirely isolated from the rest of the premises, and - Is composed of one room. The windows were blocked up and covered with canvas nalled to the wall, and over the canvas was a thick tapestry curtalin, also nalled to the wall. Linoleum was nafled to che floor. “In one corner of the room was a ‘seance cabinet, made by merely cur- taining off the corner by means of a canopy, suspended in the usual way from s rod by brass rings. Inside the cabinet, during the seances, was the young lady whom I call Marthe. She was engaged to General Noel's son. Marthe was sometimes accompanied by a colored servant, Aischa. “Marthe was what we might call the | ‘medium’ through whom the appear- ances or ‘materfalizations’ manifested themselves. The seances took place in the afternoons and evenings, and lasted about two or three hours. HEARS GHOSTS BREATHE. “It was in this room that certain ap- pearances made themselves known, not- ably a personality calling itself Bien Boa. This personage presented all the attributes of life. I have seen it leave the seance cabinet, walk about, go and come; I heard it breathe, and speak; I touched its hand several times, and through the drapery with which the hand was covered I felt the wrist, the bones of the wrist and metacarpus yielding to my hand-clasp. “One of the most remarkable mani- festations took place on Friday, Sep- tember 1. Marthe and Aischa were In the cabinet, while in front of the cur- tain outside were the persons I have mentioned. I prepared a bottle of clear baryta-water so arranged that by blow- ing into a tube the expired air would bubble in the water. The personality bent forward and after a number of trying efforts made the wa bubble. In order to preclude the possibility of Marthe assuming this form through fraud I am able to state that during the experiments, while Blen Boa was breathing into the tube, I distinctly saw the forms of both Marthe and Aischa; while M. Delanne remarked zloud to ‘me that he could the medium’s face and form, as well as that of her com- panion, quite distinctly. “For some time the manifestation tried fruitlessly to make the water bub- ble, and then finally succeeded. I heard the ‘glouglou’ of the bubbles; and when 1 examined the water it had turned quite white—from the natural precipi- tate of carbonate of baryta which had formed. My eyes did not leave the tube during the time it was being passed from my hands to General Noel, nor while Bien Boa was blowing into it. s . ALL ATTRIBUTES OF “From experiments LIFE. conducted r. Richet Believes That He Has Proof of tstence of Real Spooks. Dr. Charles Richet, a member of the French Academy, has concluded experiments which he believes demonstrate the existence of real ghosts. He supports his arguments by flashlights of a phantom. ANOTHER. SOME M1LES AWAY BY MEANS OF THOUGHT ~TRANSTERENCE o MEMBER OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY WHO BELIEVES THAT HB % PROVED THE EXISTENCE OF REAL GHOSTS AND HAS PHOTOGRAPHS WITH WHICH TO SUPPORT HIS CONTENTIO! vinced that the phantom, Bien Boa, has all the attributes of life. It walks, speaks, moves and breathes Ilike a human being. Its body Is resistant and has a certain muscular strength. It is neither a lay figure nor a doll, nor an image reflected from a mirror; it is a living being; and there are reasons for setting aside every other supposition than one or the other of thesa: hypo- theses: that of a phantom having the attributes of life; or that of a.living person ‘playing the part’ of a phantom. My rigid examination of the premises, and the precautions taken to exclude fraud, do not permit this latter theory. “On other occasions Blen Boa made his appearance by manifesting a white light on the ground outside the cur- tain. It was like a white luminous ball floating over the ground; then rising straight upward, very rapidly, and de- veloping into Bien Boa. He seemed to be limping; I could not say on this oc- casion whether he walked or glided. He went toward the entrance of the cur- tains and then, without opening them, suddenly sank down, disappearing into the ground. At the same time there was the sound of a ‘clack, clack,’ as it some hones were thrown down. Three or four minutes after this, at the very feet of General Noel, the semo white ball appeared, rose to the helght of 2 man, and sank with the same strange noise. On this occasion, the body in falling struck the general's leg with some violence. SUCCESS OF FLASHLIGHTS. “Three times I saw this appearance plunge itself suddenly into the ground, and on another occasion it rose to a great height and then plunged down, vanishing into the earth in a straight line. These appearances to my mind were decisive. The hypothesis of a hallucination, or .ven‘lllulio. on my part, is out of the question. “In photographing these manifesta- tions by means of flashlight three sepa- rate photographers worked at the same time—M. Delanne, with a stereoscopic camera; Madame X, with a kodak, and myself with a Richard stereoscope- verascope. Thus, five plates were taken simultaneously at one single flashlight. This excludes all po-lbl::ty of pho;o— hic fraud. The negatives were de- ::l.o?wd at Alglers by optical instru- ment makers who knew absolutely bout the subjects. e he “A personal of len. Boa -rov- him to have a long face, thick black moustache, masking the chin; eyes are rather indistinct, seem- ing open in some photographs, closed in others, as if in sleep, or death; the white drapery of the figure is cloudy; the top of thé head wears a turban, or helmet-shaped object which shades the eyes; the turban i8 put on over a casque with a pendentive, or chin picce, de- tached below. The figure is that of a tall, angular man. “There is agreement between all the photographs taken, and the most powerful reasons militate in favor of the reality of these phenomena. At the same time it is hard for me, a physiolo- gist—despite all the other admit ‘during various seasances I am con-|the reality of ‘materialization.’ m phenomenon is so mysterious, 30 mirac- ulous, that even after the fullest evi- dential investigation I find it difficult to vield to conviction. I cannot say In what these materializations consist; L am only ready to maintain that there Is something profoundly mysterious, that will change from top to bottom ouz ideas on nature and life.” SIR OLIVER LODGE’S VIEW. Sir Oliver Lodge, commenting ort the remarkable photographs described above by Professor Richet, points out the advantage of the various photo- graphs taken by Professor Richet being “‘stereoscopic’—that 1s, giving three di- mensions. He says: “Comparing the face with faces of the admittedly real and human persons visible in some of the photographs, it may be described as less fully and strongly marked than theirs; In some it may even be consrdered rather a sketchy outline of a face; but a face, and not any accidental arrangement of light and shade, it unquestionably is. It looks like a real face with rather a corpse-like or bloodless appearance. “I am well aware,” continues Sir Oliver Lodge, “as is every one olse, that phenomena of much the same kind have been observed and vouched for as gen- uine by eminent sclentific men. These responsible authorities have been forced by actual experience to admit that such things can occur. Whatever may turn out to be the real explanation of these photographs, they are the best of the kind I have recently seen, and whersas the so-called #pirit photographs have hitherto left me under the !mpression of an -artificial arrangement, or photo- graphic hoax of some kind—of whichi So many 'e possible—these impress me, when taken in conjunction wifh the evidence as to their taking and de- velopment, as being of quite a genuine photographic character. Moreover, the photographs taken by different and in- dependent ogservers are confirmatory of each other. “Some violent supposition Is necessi- tated by the evidence, unless the evi- dence itself be discredited.” ODD THOUGHT DRAWINGS. These Algerian manifestations as in- vestigated by Professor Richet, and in- dorsed by Bir Oliver Lodge produce be- yond doubt one of the strongest cases But the Algerian “spook” Bien Boa, however phenomenal, does not arouse