New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-11
QUEEN WILHELMINA'S FATHER

ECCENTRICTTIES OF THE OLD KING
II is TO be hoped that the young Queen a.
Holland has inherited the character OF her s.,
sible mother rather than that OF her err.,,.
old father Were 1t possible to draw a distin.,
line between sanity and insanity, it would ha,
been difficult TO decide upon which side the la.
King OF Holland was to be found The ma.
in his service. both gentlemen in tendance an.
those occupying humber places. wore an AM,
ious and careworn look. His iu,patence ana
discomfort in the latter part Of his life m.A.
the existence Of those about him some hing ~
burden.
One sumner at Carlsbad. when the King =.
taking the cure, he became angry al one OF IN.
gentlemen in attendance and ordered the nm
fortunate young man to leave the town in a,
hours As TO whether there was conven,.,.
train within the prescribcd time it mattered M,
the lisgiaced individual was forced to dena,.
Another time one Of the Kings Wallets was /.
moment late in responding to his call and n
a punishment His Majesty kept the man stanA
ing an hour before giving him the order. addips
IL the offence was repeated NJ would throw tn
man over the banisters
AT tina; time Nine F. % the hotel whe,,
horses. which ne rented for the north. An.
had also "A pair OF ponies and a light yictorh
that an American woman had engaged On
day the King noticed the ponies and admirel
them Madame was summoned.
His Majesty wishes TO have the ponies Tn
afternoon
Madame was INDEPENDENT and had Likewise
found that American citizens paid quite a. wei
as Dutch royalties and were not troublesome
so she informed the Comte de M that u
monies were engaged and His Majesty could n
have them There followed ID small tempest, bm
Madame rema ned firm and tro,ted off in triumph
to inform the American woman Of the incident
As the latter was not intending to use IL
ponies that afternoon. she told Nine. F. u
King might have them. Somewhat reluctantiy
the plump little landlady returned to the Coum
and received the order TO have The ponies In tn
landau al , O'Clock.
my ponies drag that heavy landau. NotaM
OF 1t. His Majesty must use The victoria or e
without the ponies
Neither nattery nor seedlings moved Madam
and His Majesty was forced TO yield to the s,ou
little Austrian landlady, who in repeating II
story slapped one hand hard upon the other n
marking. He didn't get enough " that whn
he was little boy.
At 3 o'clock the American family hung out u
the windows to watch the King start on b
drive I'D came the victoria, the fat pono
and the wcnzcl gay IN his livery Of blue and
gold His Majesty, looking like thunder cloud
came out on the steps. and was assisted Int
the carriage by the sad-eyed Comte de M
quaking lackey started 10 put a heavy W
across the Kings knees. Here was an outh
for the royal wrath. SEEING The wrap the King
hurled il al the servants head with such forc
that the man staggered back and sat down
suddenly upon the stone steps. and His Ms1esu
drove away with plessanter expression
while the King was al Carlsbad, bis on1
son. the Prince Of Orange died. but the strange
old man would not allow this Bereavement
interrupt his cure and ordered the funeral u
be posi- poned for ten days Though il was r.
ported that OF the scores OF great boxo
brought by the King contained Two HUNDRED
hats he never would wear any but anciep,
soft snuff colored one. At first this bore -
sign OF mourning until the Americans and Eng
lish al Carlsbad sent him resolutions OF syn
patty. The following day he appeared with
narrow black ribbon tied carelessly around III
same old brown hat. A week later h. departed
at o'clock in the morning an hour he AWAY
chose to begin his journeys.
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