Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1924, Page 75

THE SUNDAY STAR, - Prince of Wales a Good Horseman, Says Officer and Big Game Hunter Record of His Racing L Cited in Discussion ol. J. C. Fauthorpe, an alde de zamp to King George, is one of the leading horsemen and big-game hunters of the British empire. Formerly an extra secretary at the British embassy in Washington, during the last months of the war, he is in New York now helping to uperintend the mounting and ar- | rangement of the Indian wild ani- | mals shot for the American Mu- seum of Natural History, in York, by the Vernay-Faunthorpe ~xpedition , BY LIEUT. COL. J. C. PAUNTHORPE. ROM remarks made recently in the house of commons, one might infer that the Prince of Wales can hardly climb onto 2 horse without immediately falling offt. This is far from being the case T was one of the stewards of thel Tucknow races when the prince v ited India and got up & day’'s racing Yor him. He rode in four races and, won two of them, and 1 haye no hesi-{ tation in saying that he is as good rider as any amateur jockey we have in India. Shortly after these Lucknow he went to the Kadir cup pig- ing meeting and rode the winner in point-a-point race called the hog| hunter's cup. This is a four-mile race | over very rough country, indeed. No one but a fine horseman could ridc four miles at racing pace over ‘suck sround, and to ride the winuer is performance of which any one migh well be proud. At Lucknow and elsewhere in India the prince played a good deal of polo. | When I saw hin? play at Lucknow it] struck me that the ponies which had been bought for him were mostly not of the type which suits him best. He vlayed a very much better game on « small, quick Arab than on two or| Lig, long-striding Australian | | 1 | races | tick- | al ponies. Tdon polo player as he i ington and had appreciated our cock yroperly mounted there is no reason, tail. Why not have a cocktail 4 to rood | why he should not be FO°%in the stewards' tent? The manu- tournament form. facture of cocktails is, according to| I have a vivid recollection of | my superior officer, the only thing at day's racing Lucknow. The ap-|which T am any 1 had, during proaching visit of the nce of|my atay tried best Wales had for some time been thel o o fiad my heat one topic of conversation in officiall ot b ety and other circles. The municip: e Ee Dt board and every other body Prepared | the ancient and addpesses of welcome. Bunting wi AL brought 2 erected | t1og at the umpi Jlong the Guards of honor| Retty Marriott 4 polished their buttons and practiced | tne two most be presenting arms approximately in | G v iatt time. The government house Staff{car. what the kept the telephone b The rajah | promised to help prepared fotes and fireworks. Police [ mignt e officers wore uniform worried | Yook day and As Commissioner of Lucknow, & therefore rosponsible for the gove ment provines involved. My immediate Meas firmly fixed brain—girst, that 1 ing; secondly, that 1 wrone. | tn think that he is as good a ce rider, L\;tl bar that | avod. Americ proficie in my to Ereat | ture sports, '} | hrowing of pop in the b 1d Naney Harcourt utiful girls in Luck- Lucknow er women order that there woaning at the bar. 1< prepared, the poker and were the now : = n A program bles entered ght 1l their horses, bands § along T pre try the op capital and half Oudh, 1 was ¥ | arm, noises tke polo innocent peasa had two | massive | doing noth-, ng it alt! superi round d eight addresses pre- was 1 had rent times in political uni- | looking like adm and & % Wales on the western front he was with the guards. Nothin bored th he appeared v s a G S O st offica schen hi th, front line ca agined H»-i wanted to be in the self all thes time, and was frequentl to be seen paddling about bike on roads which were under firn Possibly he to an observation Berkelay the with Gen. Wardrop. does. spot t r I knew that processic r, fetes, rkception: 5 which with monotonou gularity at place the prince visited in India was up to me, as commissioner an Barl several other things, to cvolve re- | was on the thing really bright by way of relief.|lops on a lot of horses. rode 2 lot | -1 ordered myself several tins of sar- next morning. He rode all dines. Fis! said to be a brain food looked rount I had a brain wave; why not get up , more. « day's racing? 1 wrote e eleeted The reply was enthusiasti. The prince, in spite ¢ tractions at government nounced his int. after the last rac T had sardines brain wave. “Wales,” as he was fectionately called in America, visited the British cmbas: at Wash- HAD of a cross between a vis: ral 1hep | in Lord Cavan' regiment was i nd top h damaged, like its owner, by ), looking like a groce: ding in the suburbs, h{of the legislative “I1{ nothing on earth may recall . : front line hi a pu une: | s found myself g post called | Sy salute when wearing La Bassee road, i e 2 removing military 1 know Wardrop | Bl instead of saluting smartly. | W ardly knew who or what ow the prince didn't. 1| e introduced to him scveral times | and ad- | | yrred | that day and he invariably said with | * {a puzzied air, “T am sure we have met | i before somewhere.” | ar and bowing hat s. . guards of | = | was hon were a the follow » race course ai H he | rode gal- | more the | we | | produced and for | to ride 2 Lay A h Sripal Sing Norse property ts, in the country-bred in the count These three races were all hand He also selected one of his own polo as his conclud- rah be- in the Smiling phell horse race, fro called I fon of staying more and another af- had | pon THE THREE SONS OF THE KING AND QUEEN OF ENGLAND, ALL TO RIG! TAKEN‘.?’]" THE RECENT ARMY RACES AT ARBORFIELD CROSS, (Coprright Ly Tnderwood & 1'nderw6od ) Y THE PRINCE OF WALES JUST BEFORE THE RACE IN WHICH HE WAS THROWN AND PAINFULLY INJURED. rwood & Underwood | the @ polo ponies. We had, him down on riding his own colors, but he voluntarily offered to ride in the owners' colors if they preferred this. They did. It was a kindly and tactful thing to do. He seems to do this sort thing instinctively—machinalement, t , like the young man in “Ta Possibly it is a hereditary suppose get that way if a British prince, but do admire their savoir faire when with a diffieult i which me either paraly which, when r proved on in the pr intense nce to Mr Donald, the French republi the Army. the Navy or the Daughters of 1812, I once had to make a speech to the Daughters of 1812 at Washing- ton. Tt was & painful busin € —=a short eprint card as in Bouch, sift. 1 you you are a royal on- tron situation—a leave ed or emittin eated and im- might give Ramsay Mac- the TIri stion, I mean, would words ARS Prince « Guards visited Indfa. overnors, fetes, receptions. re- curred as usual. d Provinces Horse, a vol- cavalry regir which Wals ugs, cheers and 1 ent, vided an ort in Benares. were rather und: of the men. The squadron of, behind and around arriage. Frequently they rode over it Some ¢ iplined. perilous procession eventunally The prince alighted, apparent- roved. The colonel, whom I Il Fitzbattleaxe, dismounted and saluted. He was a beau sabreur of the mustached and massive type portrayed by Ouida and other early Victorian novelists. He said: “Sir, what do you think of m unm rogi mer The reply came without a moment' hesitation “Col. Vitzbattleaxe, I have never avthing like it before.” Can beat it. Certainly not. Jamais you de la vie, The rajah’s fair chanee Arab looked the Arab race. to have a in He is not more unreliable than the average | of A a is hop: cert won't e As You ity and, en try ce horse the Arab try him a cast- T ess, . iron often as not, ard in the rac I have been there. 11d break the Bank of Eng- They resemble women; charm- creatures, but you never know they will do next. The pony, ver, happened to be in a good humor or per] liked his jockes and won fairl; a THUSIASTIC HORSEMEN. LEFT : THE PRINCE OF WALES, THE DUKE OF YORK AND PRINCE HENRY. PHOTOGRAPH | could evidently 1 | when | 1 { honor to command, pro- | L‘;\t‘kings pony started at about & to 4 each, with twos and an offer in places. The stewards heaved' a sigh of re- lief—the princo had won a race. He win on the best horse. Quite a number of profes- sional jockeys cannot be relied on to do this. There is a photograph showing the little rajeh, with a broad grim, lead- ing the winner, watched by Geoffrey Brooke, ome of our stewards, with his habitual ‘placid and superior amile. Next came the horse race. Smiling Morn Is a nice horse with fair turn of speed, but at welghts T, personally, thought that the Conder's representative would beat him. The betting showed that this was also the idea of the gem- cral public, and Smiling Morn did not start favorite. I had seen Smiling Morn run twioce before and thought that he had been ridden all wrong and had been taken to the front too soon. I confided this Metcalfe, the prince's master of the horse. Wo suggested to the prince that he should le up olose behind the leaders during the race, which was six furlongs and try to beat them with a run at the finish. This is exactly what he did, and iust won on the post after an excit- ing struggle with Georgo Barker of the 16th Lancers, our crack local Jockey, on the favorite. Doroghuoe could not have dono better. ¥ % % % 'HE assembled populace at once arrived. according to the degree of their intelligence, at one of two conclugions. The mors Il\lflllffix‘l came to the conclusion that the prince could ride, while the mora un- tutored of the Indlans concluded that the whole thing was a put-up job and that the prince was meant to win every race. They therefore fell over each other in order to back the gray country- bred in the next race. Assuming him to be fit, this noble animal cer- I tainly looked the best thing of the d He was the only thing on the card that really stuek out and barked at one. He was a better class horse than the others, but Conder was doubtful whether he was fit. His price went up to 2 to 1 on. Some | Ereedy bookies even asked for 3s. The stewards were not so happy. If ithe prince won the country-bred race, |and also the polo pony race, for which in the gallops his pony had shown himself distinctly useful, every one would say the whole thing was & “frame-up.’ Geoftrey Brooke's smile of placid superiority faded. Matthew- Lannowe, with bristling mustache, fixed his eyeglass and looked fiercely round for Kirkpatrick, the handi- capper, who had taken cover behind a |saddle in the weighing room. The | voice of Mr. Justice Stuart (ulias the hushed. It | Foghorn) was temporarily was a terrible moment. The country-breds ran, Conder was right—the favorite was not at turf was green, the sun shone. The ewards heaved another sigh of re- lief. Our reputation was saved. The turf was green, the sunshone. The band was playing ragtimes which had been popular in New York about three years before. (On a s=imilar occasion some three years hence they play, “Yes, We Have No Ba- {nanas Todar.") We 4id mot care if it cnowed ink. Brooke smiled again. Matthew-Lannowe ceased bristling and dropped his ereglass. The volce f Stuart was heard beginning a {fresh anecdote. The handicapper |emerged from cover and walked boldly about the paddock. All was well. The prince could {not win all his races. Betty ancy were hard at work shaking up cocktails for the naval members of the staff. “Wales” rode a good second in a very big field in the polo pony race, which was won by one of the 17th Cavalry ponies. * % & ¥ HE subject of cocktails calls for another digression (this ir abso- {lutely the last). This particular {cocktail is called the zux force. It {1s both potent and seductive. It was invented for the benefit of generuls who come to inspect the Lucknow | auxiliary force and contains an olive, ia symbol of peace and good will. For generals’ wives a cherry, previous!y embalmed in sirup, is substituted, producing a pink glow like the roseate hues of early dawn. It pro- duces a charitable frame of mind in even the most crusted brass Sometimes they become almost com- plimentary, although our evolutions are not always up to the standard of those of the Grenudier Guards or of a really good class at West Point. We have since its introduction, at any rate, escaped remarks like that made by a drill instructor (Regular Army) to a bunch of embfyo Army cfficers of Pattsburg. This is a jchestnut, but may yet be new to some of the inhabitants of the wilder tracts of New Jersey. Anyhow, I'll take a chance. After a long morn- ing’s drill the parade was halted. The instructor said: “Gentlemen, I thank you; you have done your best. I omly wish Presi- |dent Wilson could have been here {to see you"—a quiver of pride ran down the ranks—"I know exactly what he would have said. He would have said, ‘Thank God, from the bot- tom of my heart, that we hi a Navy. ™ The races were over. The stewards collected at the cocktail bar and con- gratulated each other. It was the end of a perfect afternoon for us and I hope also for the prince. Any- how, I'Il' tell the world he rode a fine race on Smiling Morn. (Copyright, 1824.) The Question. Mother: “Jessie, the next time you hurt that kitty, I am going to do the same thing to you. If vou slap it, I'll slap you. If you pull its ears, I'll pull yours. If you pinch it, I'll pinch you. There now!" Jessle (after a moment’s thought): “Mamma, what'll you do if T pull its tal1?* will | o the ! and | hat. g WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 13, 1924—PART 5. Boy of 13 Credited With the Discovery i By KARL K. KITCHEN. BOUT 8 o'clock on the morning of November 4, 1922, Howard Carter, who was superintend- ing the exploration concession of the late Lord Carnarvon in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings, told his Egyptian foreman, Ibrahim Has- isin, to dig toward the north while he went back to his villa to rest. It was just five days since work had been resumed on this concession, | following the long summer vacation, |and as the diggers and basket boys were merely clearing the ground near the entrance to the tomb of Rameses VI, Mr. Carter felt he could take a ttle rest. Since the end of the war Howard jCarter had been carrying on explora- tion work in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings for the late Lord Car- narvon withont finding anything. In tact, Lord Carnarvon had practically | decided to try his luck elsewhere, when he consented to make one more search—for two months only—in the grim valley. The thirty or forty diggers and basket boys who were at work on that particular morning were not | searching for the tomb of King Tut- | ankh-Amen, nor did the late Lord | Carnarvon or Howard Carter expect | to find it in that location. As a mat- ter of fact, they were hoping to find | the burial shaft of the tomb of Vizier, Rekhmars. | | Theodore M. Davis of Newport,; {R. I, who had spent a small fortune excavating in the Valley of lhe’ Tombs of the Kings, and whose vari- ous expeditions found more tombs of | real importance than any other re-| cent excavator, believed he had found | the tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen. From | which it will be seen that the discov-) ary of the tomb of King Tut was purely accidental. The workingmen of the late Lord Carnarvon's espedition had begun to | clear the ground in the center of the valley in the most systematic fashion when they resumed operations on the last day of October, 1922, It was slow, discouraging work, for the val 1 is of solid limestone rock, and the native diggers are notoriously lazy. In addition, they take great delight in disobeying {nstructions. So | it is not surprising that when How ard Carter left them with instruc- tions to dig northward they did ex- actly the opposite, and began clearing away the masses of rubble toward the south. AS * * it happened, it was s lucky thing for Mr. Carter that they did so— otherwise the tomb of King Tut might never have been discovered,| and Howard Carter would not have won the fame and fortune that are his today. For throughout the world his name is almost synonymous with ng Tut. He is regarded as the real discoverer of the famous tomr and in addition he is said to have re- eeived & large sum from the London Times for the exclusive information about the discovery and its subse- quent developments. What his share of the tomb's loot will prove to be is problematical—the Egyptian govern- ment may take it all. As a matter of fact, thirteen- year-old Egyptian boy, Mohamed orgar by name, was the real dis- coverer of the tomb. While digging in a southerly direction, in direct vi lation of Mr. Carter's instructions, 8:30 on the morning of November 4, 1823, Mohamed Gorgar found: a step | cut in the rock. Imstinctively he| knew he had stumbled across some- | thing of great Importance, and he set up a shout that brought Ibrahi 1 | a | Color Symphonies Gain Highest French Tribute “He looked at them, and went away. Me returned, with four men, Who turned out to be government officials. Thes looked at the color symphonies, and. then and thers, extended me an invitation to make an exhibition at| the Louvre! It ‘W three years after that before she had the time and could get the loaned pieces together from their owners, being occupied particularly, as she was, with work for the Cali- fornian palace of the Leglon of Hon- or. e And there you Parts has alway Europe, in fact, has known it for a {1ong time, as Loie's great triendships | testity. And now the world in general | coming to understand how Loie Fui- ler has had an effect on all modern art and theater by her light effects and colors, When she first darkened a theater In | Paris, in 1892, the manager of the Folies-Bergere refused to risk it at a representation, as it might | “cause a panic.” Lofe refused to go on otherwise. As afact, it took twenty minutes to | darken the theater completely—which slow work was supposed to “tran- quilize the public.” ‘But they could not have dome it more quickly,” says Lole, “because no groups of lights were on a button, and two-thirds of it was gas!" ‘When the manager of the Folics- | Bergere saw she was putting up a durk velvet curtain to dance againat, | he protested because “it would look like a funeral” No orchestra had been darkened in Paris until Lole Fuller inventad the | {cover over the orchestra lights. No turning colored lights (with the wheel, Invented by Frank Fuller) had been used in Paris. The glass square in the stage flcor, to permit ascending lights, had nevér {been used. “I invented it,” says Lote. | And, of course, projectors as ske { used them, to create moving colors on stage and dancer, were unknown. “You cannot go Into an artlst’s are. 1 { theater,” a than was saying, “without perceiving the influence of Lole Ful- ler. I was the first to proclaim it” ‘Who is that?" I asked. “Why, that's Besnard, the foremost painter of all France,” they answered, scandalized at my ignorance. [ which undoubtedly f f “IT WAS A GREAT DAY IN THE LIFE OF MOHAMMED GORGAR.” Hassin, the Egyptian foreman, to the spot. One glance at the uncovered step was enough to convince him that the boy had made an important discov- ery, and he ordered his diggers to concentrate on that spot. A messen- ger was dispatched for Mr. Carter, who hurried back to the concession to find that the workmen had cleared the beginning of a flight of steps led to a tomb Further clearance revealed a wall upon whict was impressed the seal « the royal necropolis. And few days later the cartouche of King Tu ankh-Amen was found, which proved conclusively that the tomb was none other than his Lord Carnarvon was cent for and the discovery was an- nounced to the entire world. Not at that t nce—has the name Mohamed Gorgar been given to the publie, Mr. ‘arter announced that he had discov- ered the tomb, and let it go at that. I had not gone to Luxor and talked with the natives I would never have learned the true story. For quite naturally M Carter, his >ssistants and the coteria of famous —nor at any | Bgyptologists who winter there have nothing to s tian box. about this poor Egyp- I heard the story of Mohamed Gorgar's discovery of King Tut's tomb from a native guide, 1 arcepted it with more than th verbial grain of salt in Luxor many hours b that Howard Carter was unpopular with the na vhen I was told the native version discovery of the tomb 1 put down to jealou However. 1 could not do otherw story T went Fahmy, gov WHE re I learned extrem es. And risdiction extends over the Valley of |d the Tombs of the Kings, and the highest Egyptian official in this part of the country. 1 asked him if it was true that Mohamed Gorgar was the real discoverer of the tomb ankh-Amen, and he said it was. not only substantiated the story his discovery in every detail, but told me he knew the boy well, and where 1 could find him nab, the tle village on the side valley. “Lord Carnarvon gave h an Englishman does not give a thir- teen-year-old Egyptian boy a sum like that for nothing,” the governor added, with a knowing smile. I learned that Mohamed who is now a lad of nearly was still employed by Mr. Carter. the time he discovered the steps to the tomb he was receiving 5 piasters a day, about 25 cents in American money. Since then he has becom one of the Englishman's f: He Gon Nile of the £170, and pro- | 1 had not been | Tut- | |4na nas received many adaitional | gifts. 1 saw the boy at his home in | Gournah, where father was a | minor offictal yor—before he became blind. The youthful discov- erer is unable to read or write, and cven with an interpreter 1 was un- ab "t anything out of him | “What made you disobey Mr. | ter's orders when he told vou | in other his Car- " 1 ask When the question was to him he laughed sheepishly plied he didn’'t know. Other gue: about the tomb and what inside of it brought forth equally illuminating replies. The only thing I was able ascertain was that he was glad the work on the tomb had pped, so that he could rest ] { been st | |'THE diggers a work with the various excavat- | ing expeditions in and about the Val- ley of the Tombs of the Kings are nearly all residents of Gournah. } It must be remembered that the tionalist feeling in Hgypt ry strong, and that the British are de- cidedly unpopular. The popular atti- | tude toward Howard cCarter is largely f due to his British connections. for he has lived in Egypt many years and {was chief inspector of antiquities for upper Egypt before he | ciated with the late Lord }in 1907, Naturally, creat deal | the Valley of the T searching for tombs is his business, just as searching for the north pole the profession of the late Admiral And. like Admiral Peary, he a profitable business of it. n s less than six months. The working day varles between four ¢nd six hours, depending upon of the year. such as King Tut's tomb there are protitable publication rights and lecture tours. Within & twelvemonth Mr. Carter will probably come to America and tell audiences all about his achieve- ments, me asso- Carnarvon Mr. Carter deserves bs of the Kings a WWHEN one surveys the discoveries n this far-off valley in upper Egypt, onc begins to realize what it means to. have i press agent. The tombs and temples uncovered by The- edore M. Davis of Newport completely dwarf King Tat's tomb. Yet not one | person in ten thousand has ever heard of Mr. Davis and his discoveries. And any day another tomb -may die- covered that will contain more funer- ary equipment and a more elaborate sarcophagus than has been found in the tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen. Three excavating expeditions working on the Nile side of the vul- The Metropolitan Museuin of York bas a big force digging studio or on the stage of a Paris|, Ay of credit for his work in, And following a | are ! Of Tut-Ankh-Amen’s Tomb in Egypt Disobedience of Orders Resulted in Finding of Steps near the temple of Queen Hatshepsu at Dier El Bahari, and Sir' Alfred ‘Mnnd, an Englishman, and M. Voear, {a Frenchman, arc ripping up nearby | graveyards in the hope of fir {antiquities that will bring them { cheotogicar tame ) “What tomb impressed you most? |1 asked an American tourist I en jcountered in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings on the afternoon of my visit to Gournah to interview Moha i med Gorgar. : IIL" he re< plica brushing the | from his perspiring face “Why, what did you see there th impressed you?" 1 asked, for I had ,found the tomb of the third Rameses distinctl to the magnificent ! tomb of ferior oti 1 “That was the tomb } had lunch in. answered my new acquaintance And it was only with an effort that rrined mysel ezclaiming Authors’ Slips. TIO equently beem Ted ps fact made by novelists. Those who are wisest in the great things of lifc may need t put in a detail involving some tech nical point on which are igno rant. Some of them, like Thackeray. whose method of work seems not to have besn mincingly caref astray on points of fact, which an innocent umusement down, In Rache! Esmond Warrington | preface to “Henry Esmond Thackeray makes her date 1778, gpeaks of the coming of Rochambeau to this country. Rochambeau did no: come until 1780. Thackeray spea ‘Pendennis” ot d's soldiers cutting off the heads of all prisoners who would not acknowledge that was but one prophet truth Mo- hammedans believe all the proph- ets of the Bible , Abraham Moses, Jesus believe that Mohammed Thack should have had read Gibbon the “Virginians,” Chaplain Samp is unla arrested for debt! ring divine service. Under the Eng- this could not be. An old Sampson would proba- much of the law have accepted the e resigned question imon?” there of God. The is, only the eray for he 1 lish law offender like bly have known and would hardl situation witl At whose suit me persons think they have caught Defoe napping when ho makes Robinson Crusoe fill his pockets with biscuits befors swims to the wre But Defos was a master of fact. Probably Crusoe kept on hir short breeches ) Sir Walter Gibeon,” n the cast at 2 ing. It is the the mornin n the w after the suf Sir Rider Haggard, in “King Selo- mon's Mines,” describes an eclipee of an astronomical fm- Besant, The Childre makes a new moon risc clock in the morn moon that rises in + moon appears and sets moon a ! a ! the new moon | ossibility. of Menthol. menthol biack mint grown cultivated in it om £0 to 70 degree: » per cent of the own in the Hokkaido and the he mair The Making PLANT from which obtained tn Japan, and | mates ranging | Fahren About 9 [tota1 pr | norther: oduction c 1and of per ¢ | Accorai the | { require { The roots |main island i the pla ovember jand attain their ful {zrowth during ummer menths. { Three cuttings are made during the | season, the last July, in August land in the early part of September. The third cutting yields the great- est percentage oi and mentho! which resemble camphor are eamed und pressed by the planters, who then to t menthol factories. there twer our parts of Jupan. There the acted he leaves b pressing and {reezing. efforts have been the living plants the United States, been unsuc- fous tim to introduc from Japan o but far the plan ha cessrul, as they o stand the sew voyage Measures ow being { taken to » the Seed, but the plant not ripe dily, as it is gener- propagated trom root cuttings anot are ally