The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17
PRINCE CALITzINE IN PAWN.
He Couldn't Live Up TO His Blue
China and IL is to Be Sold.

Oscar Wilde said that the worst part of
owning blue china was that one had to
live up TO It. The Prince Alexandrovitch
Galitzine. who came from Paris about
three seasons ago, owned one of the fin
est collections Of blue china I'm existence.
but he failed to live up to it, for to-mor-
row at o'clock the entire lot. together
with an immense collection OF bric-a-brac.
bronzes, furniture and rare paintings, will
be sold at auction to satisfy the Princes
formidable array Of debts. which. be il
said. he has contracted Ia wooing the god
of chance and incidentally enriching book
makers at the race tracks.
The Prince comes from royal Russian
family and for the last few seasons has
been courted by society in New York and
at Newport Before he came to this city
he had electrified gay Paris by the mag
nifcence of his establishments. the gorge
BUSINESS of his carriages and the extrava-
gance Of his entertainments
His feasts rivalled the spreads OF the most
noted epicures and his guests carried away
diamonds and other precious stones as
souvenirs of their visits. The Prince,
young and handsome and leader of a
The news Of his wild life and Of his ex-
travagant manner of betting. as well as
other particular doings which set the
royal persons with whom he was a pet to
turn from him. The result was that Prince
Alexandrovitch shook the dust OF the
Bots de Bologne from his patent leath-
cred feet and came to New York.
Here his fame had preceded him. and a
certain romantic story was told in many
swagger boudoirs. II was this: Anna OF
Russia who was a beautiful and capri
cious queen, once fell in love with one of
her courtiers. a noble prince of the realm,
whose blood was as blue as many gen
erations of nobility could make 1t. She
was not coy In expressing her attach
ment, and, although she was married at
the time, she delicately expressed to him
her wish that they might love forever
and aye. and laughed at any restraints
which convention had placed upon such a
union.
The prince, whose ideas Of love were
still young and beautiful. declined the
offered favors and Anna of Russia set
about to concoct a scheme of revenge.
She hit upon a most hendish one. The
night that the naughty but injudcious
prince refused her last appeal for his
love she issued a mandate that on the
morrow he be married to the lowest
scullion in the royal kitchen. The mar
riage was performed, and the wretched
bridegroom and his wondering spouse
we're conveyed to an ice palace, where It
was supposed they would die during the
night.
But the sculiion had a heart and a soul
despite her low station, and she set to
work to preserve the beautiful young
prince. She succeeded 50 well that on
the morrow Anna Of Russia heard that
the couple were still living.
ssae sent them 10 Siberia and there the
prince was seized with fever, and when
he recovered he heard that the cruel
queen was dead, and he and his bride,
whom he had learned to love on account
of her devotion TO him and her heroism,
were allowed to return to Russia, where
they came into their own again.
The present Prince Galitzine, who huc-
tuated between Newport Tuxedo and New
York for the last few seasons. was looked
upon with favor by chaperons and NAM
mas. The news of his immense wealth
and rumors Of the magnificent establish
ment which he intended starting In the city
this winter caused him to be courted ev-
erywhere, for, Of course, a young society
prince would entertain lavishly If he took
a house and furnished It with all the
priceless art treasures which were in
storage waiting for use.
Then the young princes gambling losses
began to be talked about The family
jewels, which had been given IN charge Of
his banker, were one by one pledged for
thousands Of dollars, for the jewels are
magnificent, and are said to be worth mill
lions.
The final blow came last week. when the
furniture, paintings and art treasures
were placed at the auction rooms of Sam
uel Kreiser, at No. 8 East Twenty-eighth
street, for public sale The last of the Ca
litzine diamonds had been pawned, and
there was nothing left to do, for the fact
Is the prince is in pawn. Onlya week ago
his sister wrote him from Russia that he
could return and claim another vast es-
applied for his passport to the Russian
consul he found himself so much N debt