MILLION'S FOR TITLES.
MARRIAGES OF AMERICAN GIRLS.
PROPOSED TAX ON DOWRIES.
By Telegraph.—Pre** >\Mo:ti*h;n, -*.( right.
Mew York, January 15. 1 A Bill has been introduced in ho j United States House *>f RepresentaI tives imposing a tax of 2"> per cent, i on all dowries and settlements in i connection with the marriages of ! American citizens and foreigners. ! it is alleged that no less a sum | than £180,000,000 has left the United I States in the form of dowries to j American girls win.* have married | foreign noblemen, many <■:' whmf ■ titles have proved spurious. | More titan 500 Amerir*u sir;« U*\r ui»r. fried titled foreigner*. aim the following i t»')!<■ show. th;> estimated fortune* of 10 ■ who have become the «:%»•» <■!' Ktisli»h' i noblemen: —- ft: Dm he#*. of M«rUH>!«n-.!ti ... ... 2.0'X),Q00 Lilian Duches* of Maii'iv>rtsiimit ... SCO.OOft Ouches* of K >\»>>u . .. 2.0^0.000 Duchc* of Mh(!v'i: , *s<.! ... 4IKI.CCO ronsntdo 11uehe« of 200. GOO i Lady t'urioti ... .. 1,000,000 Cora Couiitex of is afford... ... ?00.0<j0 Countess Craven ... ... 200.000 Count*?** of Demon jihmore ... 100,000 Counters of Yarmouth ... ... "" 200.000 M ;-s .Vim# Gould, liiuuhier of Mi. .lav Gould. is said to haw* been -.v«3> from £1,200. to £1.600,000 when #!»«> married Count Rom do Castotlnno. Not more than £200.000. however. wo* ever under the individual control of (he count Miss Grant. gratuldaiitrhter «>f Goiter*! U. S. Grant. married Prino.. C.n»tacur.en»» of Russia in 1899. Miss Susan Wliiftier. daughter of General Charles A. Wintrier, married Prince Sergy> Be-kwelsky of llii^sia. Miss Marguerite Stoce. < f New V°rk. married Count liemhtiusjoii o' Austria. Miss Helen Morton, daughter 'if the Uto Mi'. 1 a'\ i I'. Morton, married the Due d* j Valoticity of Era nee. j Other American wi\e* of titled ioreijfttprs j »ro 11 jo I'riiii'fws Colonna >M.-» MtU'ka.vi, ih«* ' Countess Fe.itetie* ON Ii- -i lia-.'cin), I'finctw : Hatzfeldt iMi-i IJnntiiintonli each of whom i had a dowry of £200,C0c. j Miss MargnVot. Taylor married Count 1 m j peratori, of Italy, iiic hi'ter was p!»j- ---' mj; in an orchestra at .Sherry's ]{c?tsuii"ant, j Now York, and Mi.--" Kmily Moclo'l, of i Brooklyn, married Count Ferrari, nHo of j Italy, when he wiii a waiter at the World's I Fair, Chicago. j The most- melam-hoi;, ea>o. ««» that of I the Baron Takai.v do Kis-joka. of Hungary, ! who married the daughter of Mr. Charles i Hart, of Cleveland, yet only £80 for the ] honeymoon, and was afterwards put on an ! allowance of £16 « month.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13649, 17 January 1908, Page 5
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