The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-10
THE KING OF GREECE.
He Is Rich, Is Tired of Royalty, md
May Quit the Business.
New York World.

Prince George of Greece, following the
example OF his brother, the crown prince,
has obtained leave of absence for twelve
months on the pretext of recruiting his
health. The fact is that the princes are ex-
posed to so many virulent attacks in the
press, and to such offensive manifestations
of unpopularity on the part of the public
in connection with the late war as to rem
der their existence in Their fathers domin-
ions intolerable.
Their absence from Greece will leave the
King alone with his wife and his two
younger sons-Prince Nicholas and Prince
Andrew-the latter a schoolboy and the
former captain of artillery. Nicholas
lacks strength of character, and in the
event of trouble at Athens King George will
find himself practically without support,
moral or Others
This serves to confirm the widespread i'm
preston that King George will abdicate be-
lore 1ea4 me r END OF the year and With his sons
dltional rank, prestige or fortune, and
serves only to depreciate them in the eyes
of all Europe and to antagonize them with
those who should be most near and dear to
them
The King CT Greece was a penniless DAN
ish princelet serving in the English navy as
midshipnan when elected to the throne of
Greece and happened to be mastheaded by
way of punishment when the Greek pleni-
potentiaries came. on board the British
man-of-war to offer him the crown Of
Greece He has amassed $50, 600 900 or $4O,-
600. 900, not as, in the case of King Charles
of Roumania. by real estate transactions In
his dominionS, or as, in the case of King
Oscar Of Sweden. by keeping hotels, brew
ing beer and competing in other forms of
advantages against his own subjects, but by
specializing in foreign stocks. The founda-
ton of his enormous fortune was laid at
the time of the Turkish Russian war by
colossal transactions in American wheat in
which he was supported and aided by the
then United States minister at Athens, the
late Gen. Meredith Reade. An unfortunate
editor of an Athens paper who published
this fact had his journal confiScated and
suspended and was sentenced to six
months Imprisonment.
Several financiers at Paris have received
the Legion of Honor from the French gov
eminent at the personal request of King
George by way OF reward for keeping him
posted and In looking after his interests
on the BourSe.
1t is probable that King George will
shake the ancient dust of Greece from his
feet shortly after the marriage of his
daughter Princess Marie, to Grand Duke
George of Russia, a few weeks hence. and
Will reside in his beautiful palace at Copen-
hagen, which is being made ready for his
arrival.
A very serious element of discord has
disappeared from the court of the Khe-
dive at Cairo through the sudden death
Of his European private secretary, Rou-
illier Bey. The latter, a native of Gene
va, was professor of French at the Their
esanium, the military academy at Vienna,
at the time when the present Khedive and
his brother were being educated there. On
Abbas succeeding to his fathers throne he
invited his teacher to accompany him to
Cairo as private secretary
Rouillier determined to play a political
role used ali his influence with the Khe-
dive in favor of France and of Russia, and
against England. and matters at length
reached such a pass that Lord Cromer in
sisted upon Rouillier being temporarily
sent out of the country.
By and by the English authorities con-
scented to his return thinking that they
were according too great an importance
to the man, and merely adding to his pres
tige and to his influence by intimating that
his presence in Egypt was a danger to their
rule. So he was allowed to remain. and,
continued until the time of his sudden
death the other day. from an English point
of view, the evil genius of the Khedive.
Whether evil genius or not he at any rate
was the cause of most of the troubles Of
Abbas with the English authorities, and
it is to be hoped that now he is dead
things Will so along more pleasantly.