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Show (kir TlClf iT f I1D J"1 VirtYk4'f .fXf1TQ Interesting Nobleman and Man of Many Parts With Lifelong I W Jfc2dLil jk Lilt JL1 JlJllll Lli JU1Uo Training in Diplomacy. His Wife Also Bred in Diplomatic W By JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS Copyrir'-C, 1910, by John Elfreth Watkins Atmosphere ; Is an Accomplished Musician and Linguist III I yjjj on "will be roadiug of flS f Baron Hcngelniullcr . irivy councilor aud cm-(jr cm-(jr ' Emperor Francis ,lo-W ,lo-W exalted Tank, of dean C corps rctiident in the ye devoted somo study f ipes 3'ou probably have I uidcr.stnndiug of tho 3 Hs title or of tho pre-Qff pre-Qff v'auhere to it. Evorj' f 7cach of its sister na-Cflft na-Cflft tic representative, who ter, with access to the 'i it. or au embaesador, msact business directly which ho is accredited, representatives resident i'jeonstituto the diplopia" diplo-pia" part of the court preside and aro techni-;of techni-;of tho "ruler 's housc-etions housc-etions ariso as to where jrjis is to appear, as to i se'dpnee of its members, i they are lo wear full (as to all such matters, MuT ceremonial, there Wedinm through which ligations may bo ad-k;Vody. ad-k;Vody. This meiliuui is ifho lias resided longest concerned, and he is pf tho diplomatic corps, tals, where I'Veuch is fee, ho is known as the rank is second after the iSct after tho heir lo the irchial courts, while in :'ranks next after the rHo, by virtue of a vul-t vul-t CHovcland, acceded to prcign oflieo, is the heir iUniled States, jlrlfelong Training, jadors Avoro first ac-tcapital ac-tcapital Baron llengel-tho. llengel-tho. first dean who lias fctinio to diplomacy, rhoni ho succeeds, was irp aa a Ktatosinau than pioto being sent here, p. previous lo him had jtic service of conso-Lto conso-Lto their appointment, ini had been a Kussian and M. Cainbon a official, while Lord jnis first foreign diplo-yashingtou diplo-yashingtou Dmullcr, on tho other i apprcnticcsdiip in a youth, and has parte par-te throughout tho four ?o since changed the rhl. And that his ex-various ex-various capitals of the csflcd his hovereigu to iglf novating him to the x f tho empire means sa Cis .ToBoph, emperor of M K of Hungary, '.s famed ? jcting of reigning tnou- !. irestiug Career. :4 ttRoluiulk-r von Henge- .M ?P BmlapeKt Kungarv, 41 After liavin'g rj g ienna especially for k Mn-ico ho climbed to his vHTouKh Kervicc iu Her- 'M Lo,lon, Belgrade M S FTCah "PPortuuity S ff RflHrT d'llomacv was 3 or'bnt'Sn'r! Kt PprtnnatelyS for 'him ?Sdor!S amlloVt iSSf ?S? i qtiainted in English society, so t hat soon he had the. reputation in Vienna of having a. more intimato acquaintance with English politica, than .any ranu iu Austria- tlungarV? Tried to Restrain King Milan. Ilo was minister to Serria duriiig tho exciting events preceding tho close of King Milan's reign, aud ac tho tima of. that monarch's brutal treatment of Queen Natal io,. whon t"ho youthful princo royal, Alexander, was forcibly torn from his mother, Baron llengelmuller did his utmost to restrain the king, while the Gorman minister. Count Stcinburg, ar-ra.yed ar-ra.yed himself against tho unfortunate queen. .lust previous to his coming to America tho baron was minister to Brazil, Bra-zil, whero he acauainlod himself with the ever-vexing Latin-American problem. prob-lem. Ho arrived hero fifteen years ago, to succeed Chevalier von Tavern, aud was presented to President Cleveland on the ove of (lie opening of the social season sea-son of lSO-1-uu. He brought with him a bride, for in 1S03 ho had married, in Dresden, an Austrian countess, a young and handsome widow, a nativo of Galvsyu, Austrian Poland, and tho daughter daugh-ter of Count Dunin Borkowska, a poor of the empire, a mcmbor of parliament, and once Austrian minister at Dresden. Thus tho Baroness Hengolmullcr, shortly short-ly to become the doyenne of tho diplomatic diplo-matic corps iu Washington was, like hor husbaud, roared in the atmosphere of the chancery. Galzya, her birthplaco, was the ancestral home of her mother. Tho latter was a noblewoman of Austrian Aus-trian Poland, whose family for moro than four centuries havo been factors in Polish history. SUo Speaks Sevan Languages. Had she beeu destined from girlhood for tho career of ;ui cmbassedrcss hor eaiiy training coull not have been bot-vcr bot-vcr "devised, Aftr-r six years a1 a convent con-vent in Paris sin went to Dresden, and, after a course of study under Tausig, became a talented musician. But her girlhood was shorr, for when only six- BABONESS MIELELLNE IIKNGEL MULLEIt , BARON HENGELMULLER. BARONESS HENGELMULLER. teen she married M. Taczauowoka, a territorial maguato of Austrian Poland. Then she whs prcaonlcd at court and became ono of the reigning beauties beau-ties of Vienna. whoso painters vied with ono another to execute hor portrait. Next, during a period of sojourns at tho courts of Europe, sho learned to speak TCussiau, French, German, Hungarian and Ttal-iau. Ttal-iau. iu addition to her native Polish. Aud more lately sho has mastered English. Eng-lish. This ability to converse with any European diplomat in his own tonguo i- lias greatly added to Ikt popularity in Wnshingto'n. She and tho ambassador have ono child, the little Baroness Miclc- lino, and tho baroness has another daughter. Mile. Folic io do Taczauowska, who has been educated in Vicuna. The baron is a tall, very erect man, with a countenance very impressive aud of a distinctly foreign mold eyes .sheltered .shel-tered by those prominent ridges over the orbits which always suggest perspicuity perspi-cuity and kcon powers of observation, a strongly aquiline nose and firm Wcll-iugtouiaii Wcll-iugtouiaii chin. T 1 is hair is very nearly whito and he invariably wears a monocle. mon-ocle. Tho baroness has handsomely molded patrician feature-, blue oyes, a very fair complexion and hair of a lustrous lus-trous black. Tho Austro-llungar'mn embassy, the official homo of tho dcan-rlosignalc, is upon Connecticut ayoniic directly opposite oppo-site tho British embassy. All of the baron's predecessors, from Baron do Marcschai, sent here in 1S3S by Ferdinand Ferdi-nand I", down to Chevalier von Tavern, had occupied routed quarters, but. M. Hongclmullcr shortly, after lus arrival paid, on behalf of his government, '?S0,-000 '?S0,-000 for the present mansion, which had been tho homo of -t.hat interesting Jewish Jew-ish figure iu our public affairs who first represented Florida in tho house of representatives rep-resentatives as David Levy, and afterward after-ward in tho senate as David Ynlee. Souvenirs of Royal Friends. The embassy is a treasury of souvenirs sou-venirs of sojourns among .and intimate acquaintance with the" greal.-por.sonagcs who have shaped and are shaping the history of tho world. In tho drawing room aro bronzo busts of tho emperor and tho laic ill-fated empress, and upon one of the tables is a jewel caso presented pre-sented by the Queen if Saxony. Iu the dining room are displayed a profusion profu-sion of ancestral plate and tho portraits of all of the rulers of the house of Hapsburg from the cleveuth century down lo Francis Joseph himself. Inside the embassy the fads of the embassador embassa-dor and his wifo aro apparent, those of tho embassador being autographs and signed photographs of the groat actors in the theator of events; those of the baroness, exotic plants, birds from the forests of distant countries and dogs. His Salary Largo. No embassador or minister in Washington Wash-ington can boast of a lengih of scrvico approaching that of Baron Hengol-mullcf. Hengol-mullcf. His nearest rival, as to seniority, is Sonor Calvo, tho Costa Rica minister, who camo hero iu 1S90. But the diplomat could not succeed the baron as dean of tho corps, because ho is not of embassadorial rank. Tho next in line for that honor will be M. .Tus-scrnud, .Tus-scrnud, tho French embassador. The now dean is not a man of great; wealth. Indeed, no American ol his 1 means might hopo to ropeat his success in our' foreign service. But his govern-nient, govern-nient, unliko our own. considers genius H and training as the most important fac-tors fac-tors coutfibulory to a diplomatic carcor. and besides supplying each of its high representatives with a dignified abode, pays them salaries adequate to tho needs of dignified hospitality. These salaries, regulated upon a sliding scale. . H rango from $30,000 to $.50,000, and now H that wo aro ono of tho groat world powers it is believed that the compensa- H lion of Baron Hengeluiullcr von Hon- H gervar is at about tho latter figure, or very nearly throo times as great as H that of our embassador to Vicuna, who must rent bis own mansion. H |