The Portland daily press., 1893-07-25
THE RAJAI RAJAGAh.
Jajat Jit Singh and His Wife No.
Four Going to the Fair,
JAJAT TAKES IN CONEY ISLAND
ON THE WAY.

There He Meets Tom Platt and Watches
Hindoo Prince Eats-The Rajai Raja-
gan Owns Kapurthala Subject to an
Incumbrance in the Shape of q Mort
gage Held by j. Bull.
NEW YORK, July 24.-Jajat Jit Singh.
rajai rajagan of Kapurthala, has visited
the great and only Coney. He says he
never enjoyed anything so much in his
life, not even cutting off the heads Of a
few turbulent Hindoos, as he did IN bask-
ing on the sands of Coney Island. The
party started about p. m. and on reach
ing the island it was suggested that his
highness go up on balcony at the Man
haitian, where there were no crowds. He
| would not have it. He wanted to go
right in the crowds, and said that was
what he came for. The party walked
| over to the Oriental, and Tom Pfatt was
pointed out to his highness. He wanted
to shands with Platt and did so, the two
politicians conversing for some time on
the weather and other kindred topics.
The prince would not dine at the
Oriental, because it was too quiet, SO
they had to 90 back to the Manhattan.
There. among the rabble, the prince sat
down to hearty neal, with cold bottle
on either side of him, and about 200 In
terested spectators, who were anxious
| to know how a Hindoo prince consumed
his food.
| This prince of India who arrived in
| New York, Friday evening, came so sud-
denly and with so little flourish or prep
aration that at first he seemed bit
| mysterious. A telegram was sent to the
Hotel Waldorf only after the arrival of
| the Paris. announcing the coming of the
| Prince, and while the clerk was still
| studying out the Hindoo names of the
personages which make up the suite of
the king of kings, and wondering who
they were, the rajai rajagan himself ar
rived. That was late in the evening.
No one had an opportunity to see more
| of him than that he was large, heavy and
dark; that he wore English-made
clothes and that instead of silk hat he
covered his head with the folds of
4 white turban. His suite were like him
self-except that they were less heavy.
! As an escort to the party the British
government sent Col. G. F. Massey.
The prince came SO suddenly that the
state apartments at the Waldorf could
not be made ready for him. Rooms on
the third floor were given to the party,
i and all retired Immediately. With them
had come an Indian princess, She was.
i the fourth wife of the king Of kings, the
4 first woman of an eastern monarch's
! household to visit the western world.
The suite of the Prince did not appear
until afternoon There was DR.. Sadik
| Ali, Major Nahal Singh, Captain Sundal
Singh, Dawlet Ram. the princes private
secretary, and Miam Axis Baksch, mas
ter of the revenue. They are all fine
looking men. Their faces are clean cut
and intellectual. About them is a gen.
tleness of manner and bearing digni
fed and aristocratic, which bespeak their
noble BIRTH Even without their great
soft turbans of brilliant colors they
would attract attention, but these strange
head-dresses they are never seen without
| 1t is contrary to their religion to cut
| their hair or shave, and beneath the
| yards and yards of the silky stuff of
| which their turbans are made, is hair as
! black as coal and of wonderful fneness.
| Their boards are black and curly.
But perhaps the most surprising thing
| about these strangers is the purity of
their English. Their voices are soft,
| clear and impressive, their words well
| chosen and earnest. ana their expression
faultless. Their vocabulary of English
seems to be unlimited, and they all con-
verse pleasantly on whatever topic may
| be introduced.
Colonel Massey, the official escort of
| the prince, said to reporter, whom he
received in his rooms "The prince is
travelling simply as a private tourist.
| We shall try TO see as much of this coun-
try as possible in the limited time we
have and of course will make our longest
stay in Chicago, at the Worlds Fair"