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*“No one who saw the two Spanish girls dnnch:.lu front of
the humble Inn dreamed that one would come the
proud princess of an Oriental potentate and the
other &o wife of one of America’s wealthiest men.”
Became a Ra]’ah's >Qufen and the Other tbe
Daughter-in—LaW of One '
of America's Most
Eccentric Millionaires
ER HIGHNESS the Ranee of Kapun
thala is fighting to win the Winans
millions of America for her little
penhcv and niece.
Behind this simple anpouncement les
pne of the most amazing romances of mod
ern social life and of sisterly devotion.
There were once two surpassingly lovely
gisters in old Malaga, Spain—Victoria and
Maria Delgado, The daughers of an inn
keeper of the poorest class, they sold
chestnuts in the streets for a time and
then they danced in popular places of
amusement. '
By a strange chance one sister, Victoria,
married young Thomas Ross Winans, son
of one of the richest and proudest families
of America, related to many European
princely and titled families. But by a
much stranger chance the other sister,
Maria, married His Highness the Mahar
ajah of Kapurthala, a reigning prince of
Yndia, recognized as sovereign within his
own wide ‘territories by the British Gov
ernment of India.
Victoria's marriage turned out very un
happily. Her husband proved one of the
great spendthrifts of international soclety,
She pawned her own jewels to save her
children from want and suffered greatly
herself unknown to her sister, the Prin
cess, who was at the sime away in Indla,
Finally Tom ran away with a beautiful
cdusin of hers, Carmen
Garcla, and then his irasci
ble father died, leaving lit
tle to him and nothing to
his wite and two children
out of @ vast fortune esti
mated at more than sls
- Poor Victoria Del
gado, the onceadored Span
ish beauty, died of a broken
heart.
Maria Delgado, the Ranee
of Kapurthala, knew noth
fng but happiness and lux
ury ‘from the time of her
marriage. She was adored
b{ her dusky husband, who
placed all his vast wealth,
all his immeasurable store
of jewels at her command,
and made her an object of
envy and admiration
throughout the civilized
world.
Refore she went away to
India she made a vow that
it ever her sister needed
her she would go to her at
once. :
When the feted and for
tunate Princess heard that
her beloved sister, whom
ehe loved better than life it
gelf, had died in want and
misery of a broken heart,
she became wild with grief
and indignation.
She determined that she
would do every thing in her
power to right the memory
of her sister and to obtain
justice for Victoria's little
children. Her husband, the
Maharajah, placed all I¥s wealth and influ
ence at her disposal, for not only did her
wish to please his beloved wife, but he had
& strong personal regard for his lovely, un
happy sisterdn-law, Victoria Delgado.
Thus it happens that a great contest has
pegun between the Ranee of Kapurthala,
as gnardian of her dead gister's children,
and lthe representatives of the Winans
samily.
The two children of Victoria Delgado
~sw now in Paris, under the care of 310
wfaharajah of Kapurthala and his wile,
The Winans and Whistler familles, who
are equally concerned in the contest, are
endeavoring to have them transforred to
the care of their father, who is now in.
@witzerland and acting in harmony with
his wealthy relations,
Tho Ranece, it is believed, seeks to prove
that the late Mr, Winans was fncompetent
mentally, and that the will under which
he disinherited his grandchildren was in
valid. Considerable reserve is still main
tained concerning the legal action to be
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taken, as several courses are possible. 1"
the will can be interpreted according to
French law it may be set aside simply
because it disinherits the nearest heirs.
The will has been in dispute several
%‘;ll‘l from various standpoints, Old Mr.
Inans, who was rather eccéntric, died in
1012. He left only the income tfrom $200,-
000 to his son Thomas. To his daughter
Beatrice, Princess de Bearn-Chalals, he
left a trust fund of $284,000, but she died
before her father and he took back the
money. The Prince brought suit to ob
tain control of it and won.
Mr, Winans also bequeathed $500,000 to
Miss Dorothy Bateman, an innkeeper's at
tractive daughter, of Newport, R, I. The
bulk of the estate he left to a nephew,
Ross W. Whistler,
Young Tom Winans also began a suit
to break his father's will on the ground
that he was not of gound mind. He cited
various facts that were supposed to bear
out his coniention. The son sald that
when he ordered newspapers at a Parls
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Whose Vow to Her Sister to Care for and Protect
Her Two Half-American Children, Is Now Having
Some Surprising and Dramatic Results.
hotel his father knocked the charge of
“gix cents for newspapers” out of the biil
as “extravagance.” On the other hand,
when the old gentleman was disturbed by
workmen repairing some rooms in the
hotel he ordered all the rooms closed and
the rent charged to him.
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seemed to indicate eccentricities such ass
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ne%wellfix. rather than insanity. The
suit appears to have been settled amicably
among the family, as Tom Winans is now
acting amicably with them,
The Winans fortune was made by the
father of the late Ross Winans, a Balti
more Scotchman, who went to Russia and
built the first railroads there. The Czar
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across the map of his empire, showing
where he wanted mllr«zxn. and _Mr,
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artist. One of Ross Winans's brothers is
Walter Winans, who has lived all his life
abroad, is the champion revolver shot of
Europe, and a man of yaried talents.
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remarkable family the most romantio wag
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certainly that of young
Thomas Winans, al
ready referred to, but
of which some details
remain to be told. He
had been educated at
Cambridge Unliversity,
in England, and started
out to see Europe, feel
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exhaustible fortune at
his command. The
course of his wander
ings took him to the
picturesque and roman
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day he strolled into a
modest little inn or
ease in the city of Malaga.
He sat down to order a glass of the
wine of the country, The most amazing
vision of loveliness he had ever seen came
to take his order, She was an absolutely
perfect type of Spanish beauty—black
haired, with eyes of fire and a figure of
wonderful sinuous grace.
Tom Winans became a regular customer
—a worshipper, rather—at that inn. To
his further amazement he found that a
great Hindu potentate was frequenting the
inn at the same time as himeself. This
potentate was the Maharajah of Kapur
thala.
When the Maharajah saw Mr. Winans,
doubtless thinking that the American's
object was the same as his own, he looked
at him as if he would bow-string him or
inflict some cruel Oriental torture upon
him. Mr. Winans, on his side, naturally
concluding that the Maharajah's object
was the sanme as his own, looked ready to
punch him,
At this instant a happy aecident re
vealed the fact that the Maharajah was
interested in another sister, Maria Del
gado, just a 3 handsome as the other—al-
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Winang’s opinfon, quite the same winning
type of loveliness. Thenceforth the Hindu
Prince and the American millionaire's son
were the best of friends. .
The history of the Delgado sisters was
g fairy tale, They came from the poorest
of the poor and suffered untold hardships.
At one time the sister, Maria, was selling
hot chestnuts at five for a cent. Then she
found an additional way of earning pen
nies by dancing to the music of a barrel
organ In the street. She was usually ac
companied by her sister Victoria,
The family moved to Madrid, hoping to
make more money from Maria’s beauty
and talents, Soon after going there Marla
danced on the top of a table in an obscure
restaurant with such exquisite grace and
abandon that she created a sensation. The
proprietor engaged her to dance and the
place became celebrated. Then the Maha
rajah, who had come to Madrid to visit
King Alfonso, and who always sees the in
teresting and curious sights wherever he
goes, went to the little restaurant.
The moment he saw Maria he was smit
ten with her wonderful beauty and fell
passionately in love with her. Papa Del
gado, enraged at the prospect of having his
breadwinner taken away from him, threat
ened to kill the Maharajah, but was
calmed with a present of $30,000,
With this money the thrifty father
moved on to Malaga, where he was born,
and fthere established a niece little inn,
where his two beautiful daughters waited
on the superior customers,
The Maharajah followgd after them. He
could not live without Maria, and in a few
weeks married her and carried her away
and made her a reigning princess of India.
The fame of the beauty of the two sis
ters led to an offer of a stage engagement
to Victorla, which gha accepted. Tom
Winans remained constant in his devotion
to her and, following the Hindu Prince’s
example, soon induced her to marry him.
Then came the difficulty of breaking
the news to father Winang and the sub
gequent cutting off of supplies. The young
couple, who were living in Paris, were
reduced to great distress. At first Walter
Winans, the young man’'s uncle, helped
bim with money, but hig father, hearing
of this, requested the uucle to stop help-
The Beautiful Mrs.
Tom Winans, Sis
ter of the Ranee of
Kapurthala, Who
Died Broken-
Hearted by the
Sorrows of Her
Marriage to a
Noted American
Millionaire’s Son.
ing him under penalty
of a serious disagree
ment. A similar re
quest to stop helping
the nephew was made
to another uncle
Thomas Whistler, brother of the famous
artist, Whistler. Other friends helped-oe
casionally, but the young man was wonder
fully extravagant and gradually fell into
euch distress that, it is sald, they actually
lacked feod. -4 45
At one time old Mr. Winans relented
and agreed to take care of hiz son and
daughter-inlaw. He was charmed by her
beauty and won by her two little children.
Then thei incofrigible Tom eloped with her
cousin, another s:nnhh beauty, his wife
died of a broken heart, and his eccentric
father changed his will. 3
Tom is perhaps as well off with the for
trne in the hands of his relations, as legal
proceedings in 1912 showed that he had
spent $400,000 in a year and received very
little for it. But the trouble lies in the
grievances of poon Vigtoria Delgado’s
children. .
The Maharajah of Kapurthala thought
much of his beautiful sister-in-law, and at
one time was well disposed toward her
husband, Tom Winans. At a sumptuous
banquet in Parls he once sald:
“Our wives are twir pearls of women."
Kapurthala, the Maharajah’s country, i 3
a large and populous native State in Indla,
adjoining the British province of the Pun.
jaub. His title, Mnhnr\{nh, means “Su
preme Prince.” Within the borders of his
State the Maharajah i« absolute, but the
Briiish Gavernment of Indla takes charge
of his foreign relations. He is highly re
garded by the British, because his father
aided them during the Indian mutiny, and
he received a high decoration from M-sen
Victoria. ®
He possesses several hundred thousund
dollars’ worth of the finest jewels in the
world, He wears a turban that is en
erusted with rubles and dlamonds., His
gtate robes are of exquisite colo Ik,
gewn with pearls and diamonds.
His capital, also called Kapurt 18
a handsome city, and thm\rho p 08
a gorgeous palace recently Tebuilt in the
Louis XIV, style,
Of the Prince’s realm 800 square miles
are his versonal property and pay rent to
him, as well as the liberal taxes, Which
they pay in common with the rest of the
inhabitants of the country.
In this private domain the Maharajan
has a great tiger preserve, a mountain
palace, a lake with luxurious housebosts
and other wonders whick are only known
by teport to the outside world.
During the late war the Maharajah vis
fted America. While he was returning to
India a German submarine sunk the steam
ghip Persia, which was carrying $400,000
of the Maharajah's wonderful jewels. His
Highness escaped because ho was making
the short route to Port Sald,
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