The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 2, 1905, Page 17

- SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1905. GERMAN CROWN PRINCE FINDS COURSE OF HIS LO R i CURZON PROVOKES WRATH OF PEOPLE OF INDIA. Natives Make Sharp Reply to Words ofCondemnation LONDON wh April as everybo rried the e 1. — Lord n America Mises Leiter, has been returned ws e He has b g the at their lack ity and general disreg of the command- nte and solemnly exhorting them to nd their ways. The expert dis- ples of An e on the of their perso Instead of receiving his nitions in a contrite and humt the natives have made a fine of righteous indignation, ailing themselves of the 1 ved the native press, they ha and e al- gome he Viceroy red hot. Among other nge they declared that he is “an- 21" and they prove it, too, out of own mouth. They have circulated er the length and breadth of the land exiract from his book, “Problems the Far East in which he acknowledges-himself to be an impeni- nt prevaricator HIS OWN WORDS QUOTED. Having been particularly warned,” d Curzon there wrote, “not to admit president of the | Korean Fo Office that 1 was only 39 yea ge, an age to which no respect at- es ir rea, when he put to me e straight question, ‘How old are I unhesitatingly responded ry Dear me,’ he said, ‘you look ry young for that. How do you ac- ount for it?' ‘By the fact,' 1 replied, t 1 have been traveling for a month in the superb cllmate of his Majesty’s Special Cable to The Call. | dominions.” Finally he said to me, presume you are a near relative of t Queen of England?’ ‘No,” I repli am not.’ But observing the look of dis- | gust that passed over his countenance I was fain to add, ‘I am as yet an un- | married man! " i a; The subtle Bengalese have lost none of the delicious opportunities to re-! taliate on “Gentleman George,” and | point out to him in various ways the | exceeding impropriety of the “pot call- ing the kettle black.” Lord Macaula; who was for eight years the legal ad- viser to the Supreme Council of India— for which, by the way, he received the snug salary of $50.000 a year—discov- ered that the Hindoos were a nation | of liars. But he was too wise and di creet to tell them so. He waited un he had thrown up his billet and re- | turnea to England and then confided | the information to the British public | and explained what' \were the causes and conditions which made them liars. REASON FOR BAN ON GIFTS. The Prince of Wales has been cred- ited with displaying great tact and | seit-dental by causing it to be an-| | nounced that neither he nor the Prin- | | cess will accept any ceremonial pres- | ents on the oceasion of their forth- | | coming Indian tour. From the ccm-i | ments made by society journals on| i\Mp “gracious act,” as it is styled, it | | would be inferred that his Royal High- | jnees has been actuated solely by a desire to save his hosts needless ex- pense. As a matter of fact George is | more concerned to avoid a heavy drain upon his own exchequer than to spare | out giving something in exchange. ! for | There would be a lot of objecting in the pockets of his entertainers. One can’'t very well accept presents with- By announcing that he will accept no pres- ents he cscapes the burden of having te make any. When King Bdward, as Prince Wales, made his memorable visit to India, he brought back with him a shipload of gifts worth something like $1,250,000. And Parliament was re- quired to vote $300,000 to help him pay the things he had given away. of Parliament and some nasty things would be said if it were asked to re- peat that performance. And it is doubt- ful if such a grant could be carried through again. The most costly of the gifts received on that occasion came from independ- ent native Princes. It was a much easier matter for them to raise money in those days than it i{s now. They levied tribute pretty much as they pleased and their subjects were com- pelled to pay. Since then British in- fluence has placed considerahle restric- tions on the tax-levying powers of the rajahs. So take it all round, the no presents proclamation was an exceed- ingly wise one, Of course, it was the King who put the Prince up to it. ————— Czar Employs Many Woumen. BERLIN, April 1.—Recent statistics give the number of women emploved on Russian railway lines as 22,000. The average salary paid to each of them S BORN AND THE ' PH WIFE OF PRINCE WEDS BEFORE BEING CAST OFF Morganatic Spouse of Victor Napoleon Steps Aside for Belgian Princess. ROME, April 1.—As a preliminary to Prince Victor Napoleon's coming mar- riage with the Princess Clementine of Belgium, anneuncement is made that Mme. de Beauclere, the morganatic wife of the Prince, by whom he al- ready has had three children, has con- tracted another marriage with an Italian Cbunt and is now in Thuringia on their honeymoon. It is said the Prince has amply pro- vided for her future and for that of his children, the eldest of whom is now 21 years old and an officer in the Ttalian army. The Prince met Mme. de Beauclerc many years ago at a private house in Rome and fell in love with her. amounts to only $65 a year, although a | Through the good offices of the late few of them acting as express clerks | Princess Mathilde the ma; receive as high as $230.- The women employed about the rallway stations lodgings are furnighed to them.. was arranged, the woman consenting to re- tire in case the Prince became the are.paid an average salary of $20, but’| French Emperor or buml}ed to marry a Princess of the bloed. . i - BIRTHPIACE o DICHESS CECTIIE e MOTHER OF THE FIANCEE OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF GERMANY THE PLACE WHERE THE YOUNG DUCHESS WA PH WHICH AROUSED-HER JEALOUSY, AS IT SHOWS HER FUTURE HUSBAND WITH ONE OF THE PRINCESSES OF BAVARIA. b Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was | not selected as a suitable wife for the | German Crown Prince until many | other candidates for this exalted. posi- tion had been passed in review and re- jected by the German Emperor and his | advisers. It was no easy matter to find a Princess who combined all the quali- | ties for a German Empress. It was felt | that the German Crown Prince must | have a wife who is robust and healthy, so that she will perpetuate a sturdy | and vigorous Hohenzollern stock. It | was also felt that the future Empress | must be in possession of a large private | fortune, because the German Crown ! Prince will not inherit much money | from his father. Although the German Emperor's offi- cial revenues are ample for his require- ments, and although his private means Stirs Jealo Special Cable to The Call. as the best of all the possible candi- dates, the German Emperor and his advisers have not shut their eves to the fact that she does not possess all | the qualities which they considered es- sential to the position. It is true that she will fullfil their expectations in re- | gard to financial matters, because her grandfather, the Grand Duke Michael Nicholaivitch of Russia, has promised to make her his heiress, and he is a man of fabulous wealth. The Grand Duke will present his granddaughter with a substantial dowry on the day of her wedding so that she will bring her husband a big fortune combined with the centainty of a colossal legacy at a date which cannot be postponed much longer, for Grand Duke Michael Nicholaivitch is already seventy-three years of age. Duchess Cecilie is also a Protestant. < BERLIN, April 1.—Pretty Duchess | lenburg-Schwerin was finally selected | early in 1903. { Duchess | Schwerin had eloped with a. young bar- VE FAR FROM SMOOTH. Regard for Bavarian Princess usy of Fiancee. A statement was pub- lished in the newspaper press of nearly every European country that Grand Anastasia of Mecklenburg- ber who had been an assistant in a hairdresser’s shop at Schwerin. The young barber in question, it was said, had been frequently summoned to the grand ducal palace at Schwerin to dress the hair of the Grand Duchess Anastasia, who had become enamored of him. When the Grand Duchess start- ed on her annual journey southward to spend the winter at Cannes the young barber disappeared from his shop, and was noticed a few days later at Cannes, where he continued to attend the Grand Duchess. The young Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin arrived at Cannes a few days later, drove the young barber away in order to put an end to the malicious comments of gos- RA » are considerable, they cannot be com- pared with those of the Emperors of Austria and Russia. The Kaiser is poorer than he was at the beginning of his reign, because he has invariably spent the whole of his income and a little more besides. It is an open secret that the German Emperor has raised loans on various occasions, so that it can be well understood that the family finances are not in the most prosperous ¢ondition. The Crown Prince will suf- fer financially from the fact that he has five younger brothers and one sis- ter, all of whom must be provided for by the Emperor out of his own private means. All of these circumstances combine to make it essential that the wife of the German Crown Prince should be a Princess possessing a large private for- tune. In addition to the requirements lof health and wealth it was necessary that the selected candidate should be a Protestant, and it was, of course, es- sential that she should be young. _ CONSUMPTION IN FAMILY. |-« Although Duchess Cecilie of Meck- fla\-& ot Pacal Frnlez - but here her qualifications end. Al- though she herself appears to be a healthy girl and although she lives a rational life largely devoted to outdoor sport and exercise, she comes of a stock which is so unhealthy that the gravest fears must be entertained for the future of the Hohenzollern dvnasty. Her father was consumptive, and for many years of his life was in such delicate health that he was obliged to spend thé greater part of the year in siping tongues, | was given to and a formal denial the whole story of the elopement. It has become an open secret in Ger- man court and social circles that Duchess Cecilie has inherited her moth- er's extremely jealous disposition, which often proved troublesome during his lifetime to the late Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. DUCHESS BECOMES JEALOUS. The Crown Prince was the guest of the Bavarian royal family, which in- cludes many young and fascinating Princesses. The Crown Prince went out hunting with the young Bavarian royal ladies, many of whom are good shots and enthusiastic sportswemen, and, of course, rumors of the pleasant way in which he was spending his time were speedily brought to Duchess Ce- cilie’s ears. In the course of the visit® a number of photographs showing the Crown Prince in the company of the Bavarian Princesses were taken and these caused trouble. In every one of the photographs the Crown Prince was shown standing or sitting next to Princess Rupprecht of Bavaria, whose husband will, in the natural course of events, one day as- cend the Bavarian throme. Princess Rupprecht is a most fascinating young lady and it is well known that she does not live on the happiest terms with her husband, so that her close as- sociation with the Crown Prince dur- ing his visit to Bavaria was much no- ticed and many false conclusions were drawn. One of the photogrzphs showed the Crown Prince arm in arm with Prin- cess Rupprecht, while others showed him sitting next to her in various at- titudes more or less tender and af- fectionate. The photographs were per- fectly harmless and there was nothing in them to suggest that the Crowl Prince had forgotten his duty te his fiancee, but Duchess Cecilie’s jealouss disposition led to trouble. so that for a time the course of true love Tam far from smoothly. The Crown Prince has now gone south to spend the rest of the winter with Duchess Cecilie in Italy, and it has been openly stated by German newspapers that the true reasom for his departure is the fact that the Duch- enforced exile In the Riviera or in the| ©88 Cecilie objected to his attending the mild climate of Italy and Sicily. THis son, the reigning Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, who is Duchess great court balls and functions which take place in Berlin during the spring, fearing that in her absence he would 1 ] Princesses and Cecilie’s brother, appears to have in-| firt with the young hérited the terrible disease. The Grand | }adies of the German aristocracy who Duke, with his pale emaciated features and sunken cheeks, has the appearance of a man doomed to consumptive de- cline into an early grave. REPORT OF A SCANDAL. Another grave objection to the choice of Duchess Cecilie as the wife of the German Crown Prince was the embar- are present on such occasions. Some discontent has been caused in Germany by two circumstances con- nected with the approaching marriage of the German Crown Prince. Duch- ess, Cecilie’s trousseau has been or- dered principally in London, Parls and Vienna and only a very small pro- portion of the orders for the articles rassing affair in which her mother, | of clothing required have been given Grand Duchess Anastasia, was invdlved to German frms.