Milford chronicle., 1896-07-31
DEEPLY IN DEBT.
The Prince Of Wales Owes Vast
Sums of Money.
a,s Royal Highness often subjected to
Deep Humiliation by Requests from
Creditors-The Tranby Croft
Baocarnt Incident.


What does the prince Of Wales owe3
Probably nobody alive could answer the
question, even approximately. otfhand.
For 30 wears at least his books have
shown a balance on the wrong side, and
despite the large sums annually passing
into his strong box. the deficit is be-
lieyed to have increased every year
with gloomy regularity. In 1854 ne
was said to be getting, from all sources
combined. about $780, 900 year. What
his gross income is now it would puzzle
anybody to find out. Mr.. Gladstone
in 1889, with that knightly Difference
to the dynastic principle which has al
WAYS been so marked a characteristic
in him land which has been constantly
reraid by the most spiteful ingrat-
tude from at least the head OF the
dynasty), passed through the house OF
commons a measure to consolidate, re-
arrange and otherwise reform the
whole business of royal grants, with
particular reference to the prince OF
Wales and his family. Mr. Gladstone
vouched for the bill in a speech OF great
earnestness and eloquence. and 1t went
through all right, but have never met
anyone who felt sure that he under
stood the exact effect of its provisions
II was assumed, however, that it Ger
tainly left the prince no worse on than
he was before, and it did, in one re
eneet definitely increase his specified
income by creating a new grant Of
S1sO,OOO a year to him for his children
this to be in lieu of further gran Is
70 them as individuals during his lie
time. Since then his elder son has died
and his elder daughter has married a
banker-peer, who is also an intimate
friend of the prince, and who. we may
he sure. has relieved him from the
necessity of accounting for that par
ticular fourth Of the grant. Another
daughter. Princess Maud, is to wed
a cousin of the Danish family. who will
be handsomely provided for from
financial point Of view, and it may be
taken for granted that here, too no
heavy outlay is to be dreaded by the
prince, her father.
The prince of Wales still has, there
fore, a gross income of $50O,OOO or more
and vet, with all the machinery foi
tightening his current expenses. which
experience and necessity have perfect
ed he gets more and more into debt
/ have seen with my own eyes iettel
written not long ago by his prlnclpa
man of business to an old-establishee
firm of wine merchants, to whom th'
nrinee had owed about $4,000 for live
Years or more. They had asked very
respectfully for a settlement, and TINS
in substance, was the answer when
as has been said, personally saw III
roval highness is extremely annoye'
at your communication, and INSTRUCT
me to say that if he gets any more suel
letters his patronage of your estapiisn
ment will be at once and permanent.
xvitbdrawn. / fnclose $3.50 on account
which is the most that can be done a
present"
It is easy to think harshly OF the sit'
ation disclosed by such document q
this. hut somehow to me the pathos OF
comes uppermost. If ever a man wa
thrust bv fortune into false position
and then remorselessly held there, as ]
avise. by forces entirely beyond his cor
troll, it is this unhappy prince OF Male
It is not open to him to go through til
bankruptcy court. He cannot cut dow
his current outlay to any such econon
ieaI point as would yield savings lare
enough to affect the ever-mountln
nrineipaI of his debts. He has to go @
In the weary treadmill, using the none
that comes in to extinguish here al
there ancient claims which douo
themselves at usurious rates, meal
while contracting new obligations
rise up and confound him later on.
If there were no other signs OF tn
the social humiliations to which u
nrince has surrendered himself duril
the past dozen years, solely for the sal
Of the money they would yield, wou
furnish ample evidence. have spok'
ofteu before of the peculiar signihean
Of Reuben Sassoun's presence at tn
notorious Tranby Croft baccarat part
The repellent old creature did not pl
at the pame, but he had an importa
connection with it all the samoa CO
nection which alone accounted for /
having been admitted to the house
a1l. His function was to sit behind t
nrinee and to put on the table out OF
noclset the necessary counters VINE
ever the prince lost. All the chips tn
the prince won were net gam 10
royal highness.
A plain man might he forgiven
thinking that it was not worth wh
to be a royal highness on such terms
these. But practically, all the sporti
princes Of Europe have gone down
70 the level, and are not ashamed TO
seen there The prince of Wales SUM
from the double misfortune of bel
much harder up and Of living IN va
~ brighter blaze of publicity than
others. That is all. OF course th'
are princes of great position, like
Cerman emperor and his brother,
do not play cards. and who hate
whole debased atmosphere OF gamDli
and so-called sport" in which so mt
of modern royalty is plunged.
they are rare exceptions, and throu
the others, the great majority. this
and sinister figure of the court favor
called indifferently Hirsch. or Sasso
or Bleichroder, or Polnakoh. has b.
brought into familiar prominer
Sometimes one of them. as in the
Of Baron Hirsch, combines with ser
and fawning instincts notable and e
lofty qualities. Mankind very Prope
is willing. in the case of Maurice Hrs
TO pass over lightly and quickly
meaner and baser side Of his chara'
and life, and to dwell for long 7
upon che splendor and magnitude OF
philanthropic conceptions. = Han
Wrederiak. IN N. Y. Timea-
Neat Little Caps.
The nurses caps are round, not
like the sweeper's in shape. They m
up for their simplicity of form by &