The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-26
ADVENTURES OF A PRINCE.
How a Man Fared Who Fell Foul OF
the Austrian Government.
RESTORED At LAST TO HIS ESTATES.
A Romance of Love and
Loyalty.

A man with remarkable history quit these shores
yesterday morning for Europe on board the City OF
Chester His assumed name Henry Meier, but
his real and now reaffrined and declared title ia
Prince Carl johann Nadasky member of an illustri-
Gus Austrian family. and he is now on his way back
to take possession of his ancestral estates and in
hert annual income of half million dollars. He
had the best cabin board the City of Chester and
was accompanied by his wife and her nursemaid.
carrying bouncing blonde haired baby eighteen
months old. He arrived in this city from Portland.
Oregon. the 18th inst and stopped while here at
Schaefers Hotel No. 6s Bayard street He revealed his
real and title to nobody except Mr. Schaefer and
a few of his friends, and if he a fraud, some
might suppose, he could have easily imposed upon
a very large number of wealthy Germans in this
city, who would have given their eyes to entertain
sprig of Teutonic royalty. He kept entirely to him
self and while here drove out in the mornings with
his wife and baby to the Park and i'll the evenings
went to place of amusement. To the HERALD
reporter he appeared to be of about forty eight
years of age. with somewhat Of downcast expression
of countenance if his mind hal brooded long and
deeply the persecution he had been subjected to
by the Austrian government He stands about five
feet ten inches with ample head of black hair
slightly streaked with gray. black mustache and
imperial. His eyes has dark and melancholy
preston. and his speech an undertone of sadness
that lends interest his strange eventful tale He
speaks English with slight foreign accent but evil
IDENTIFY with "a long and cultured acquaintance with
the language. In his travelling collection of books
he had John Evelyns Diary "Macaulay's Essays"
'.Burton's Anatomy. of Melancholy" 'voltsires
SON. '.Thackeray's Complete Works" lambs
Ella "Cowper's POEMS. "Emerson's Representa-
tive Men," "Paley's Natural Theology and other
works of general interest showing that his style Of
reading not of the common order. There
nothing in his dress manner suggestive of royal
hraa, linnh If fha Of his
constant avoidance of reference to himself, the will
ingness to yield point in argument that feeling
should be aroused pointed to phase OF character
that is supposed to be attribute Of royalty He
ISIS shenl mans. said Sehaefer's bartender. "from
the top of his head to de bottom He meier shpeaks
off himself. an he lows no mans to inquire into his
private affairs"
HOW HE JARED AS A YOUTH.
The Prince related that when he was a youth Of
sixteen he made officer in the Imperial Aus
trian Guard. "There was great excitement. said he.
in grave. retrospective mood of mind, 'throughout
all Germany at that time Mems minds unset
tied about the form of government best adapted for
the advanced stage of civilization and refinement
had reached. a monarchy was looked upon by many
medieval arrangement. fitted for men whose
capacity like that of children, whose minds were
immature and who required paternal government
to keep them within the bounds of law and order.
The country was flooded with pamphlets inspired by
the liberal party and the rule of the Hapsburgs
denounced contrary to the spirit of the age. and
the ferment went on until revolution finally broke
out
"WAere were gu at the time of the revolution %
Il was then in the army. and detailed to command
Blum. famous patriot of the time. The execution
had to be performed but it altogether repugnant
to my feelings as looked upon Blum as the type Of
the best class OF patriots in the country He died
nobly and amid the tears of those who had the pain
full duty of terminating his life"
What happened i'll your history after that 7"
II Joined the liberal party with many Others. and
arrested and thrown into prison. subsequently
was condemned to death, but influential friends in
terposed and the sentence was commuted to imprson-
ment for life"
How long you in prison p
Il in prison for eight years. and then there
happened the birth of the Crown Prince of Austria
and l. with many others who had been confined for
political liberated but bsAisned from the
HIS EXPERIENCE IN CALIFORNIA.
where did you go then y
"To America. l stopped for while in New
York and then proceeded to San Francisco. found
1t hard at first to get any work to do. but country
who was keeping flower garden the city
to be al independent gardener myself
"Do you feel any objection to telling your subse-
quent history
well would rather not talk about it, 1t is suffi-
Gent to say that got married. that went back to
Europe obtained IA complete pardon from the En-.
peror Francis Joseph and am now returning with
ing to my family were sequestrated in the revolution
of lS4S.
AN INTERESTING CHAPTER
From the friends of the Prince the reporter OBJ
tanned the information that he to Francisco
and assumed the name of Henry Meier and devoted
him-e to the hardest kind of work under that fc-
titous cognomen. While he was thus laboring .
Gardener a blonde haired beautiful German girl
named Marie Won Reiche, him and fell in love.
She herself the daughter of proud family that
held large estates outside of the city of Hamburg.
She away to this country from boarding
school in Hamburg and found refuge in tho
family of Mr. schae:er III Bayard street.
with blonde hair, blue eyes and figure OF classic
proportions. She speaks English. French and Ger
man huently like her husband. and has numerous
accomplishments besides. She went TO California.
and with the eye of intuition saw in her foreordained
at a schutzenfest and impressed with his gentle.
manly manners. fell straightway in love with
him. They got married. and both removed to
Salem, in Oregon Here their baby was born. but
the father was constantly thinking of the honors
to which he was rehtfuily entitled and which his
little boy, who become the object
of his deepes. affection. should share in. He had
heard through the newspapers OF the kindly con-
servatve disposition eviced by the Emperor Of
tria toward his recalctrant subjects; about how
generously pardoncd many OF those who had been
foremost in assan the integrity of his throne and
he resolved return to Europe and seek the Kasers
pardon in person His wife implorcd him TO allow
her to accompany hum and do, they call it in Hun
ror-that is. the going before His Imperial Majesty
and dropping suddenly in his presence. imporing
forgiveness for her crrng husband.
WHAT HIS MANLY CONDUCT SECURED.
This he would not consent to. He left his wife
himself. reached Vienna. sought AN audience with
the Emperor and told his simple story to his
sovereign. The kindly Francis Joseph took pity
the bronzed and weary exile. babe him arise
and told him his ancestral estates were restored and
that he was a free citizen of the Austrian Empire.
Overjoyed at his reception AMI treatment by the En-
peror lie hastened back and landed in New
York November IA. Thence ho proceeded to Oregon
and announced the glad tidings to his loving aud
pectant wife, and without ado packed up their
traps and started East. reaching here, has been
mentioned, January II.
Gus Stalls RECoLLEcTroNs.
When he arrived here he went first to Swecny's
Hotel, though intending to 90 to Earle's There he
remained a week unnoticcd and unknown. After
that lie went TO schaeers the wife of schacfer being
a relation o. his wife. who's name Marie Won
luiche. Miss Won Reche came over here about
seven years ago, ana was then, as Gus salt who
knew her WE'LL asserts, about twenty years of
age. She came Gus relates. from au arisrocratic
family aud was brought up in place called Molle,
In the kingdom of Hanover.
Il met the two of them, said Gus last summer,
when he going to Europe. and she wanted to 20
with him to make the l7e tdten before the Emperor.
but he wouldn't allow 1t. The Prince IL a Catholic
aud she is Protestant He Is somewhat like
An. u.ali IL