The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-20
PLAYS BACCARAT YET
PRINCE OF WALES STILL LIKES
TO DAILY WITH THE
CARDS
GOES OUT FOR BIG STAKES

Revival of Long Series of Gam
bling Scandals In Wales Titled
Set Richmond Would Not Per-
init Gambling at His Country
Seat and Albert Edward Went
Elsewhere.
With the exception of ex-King Milan
of Servia, there is no royal parsonage in
whose existence the card table has play
ed so important role as in that of the
Prince of Wales.
1t is perhaps unfair to establish any
comparison between the disreputable ex-
ruler of Servia and the British heir ap-
parent. The latter plays straight game
and pays his debts of honor within the
time, while Milan is a welcher and
cheat, says the New York World.
But there Is certain analogy. For,
while the former monarch of Servia has
sacrificed throne, wife, fortune, consider
alton and honor to cards, they are also
responsible for every contretemps by
which the prince has been overtaken;
they constitute the only shadow upon an
brought about the ruin and disgrace of
many OF his most intimate friends.
1t is difficult to understand whence he
derives this failing, which he alone of
the queens children possesses. His
father, the late prince consort, never
touched a card. The only historic gam
bier IN the house of Hanover is his grand
uncle, the late Duke of York, son of King
George III, who on several occasions
sat at the card table fer thirty-six hours
at a stretch, at OAklands, his country
seat.
QUARREL WITH RICHMOND.
to the card-playing propensities of the
prince by his quarrel with the Duke of
Richmond, one of the most trusted
friends and advisers Of his mother, the
queen. Cards have kept the future king
of England from Goodwood house, the
Sussex country seat of the duke, this
year. Cards took him instead to West
Dean Park, as the guest of an Australian
millionaire, Willie james. The play be-
meath James roof last week was high,
large sums being won and lost, the prince
and the Duchess of Devonshire being as
Now people who remember when the
Prince of Wales went to Tranby Croft
as the guest of Mrs. Arthur Wilson, be-
cause the Duke of Portland, whose guest
he was to be, barred games Of hazard
at Welbeck Abbey, are asking whether
the stay of his royal highness at West
Dean Park last week Will be followed Ivy
some counterpart of the unfortunate bac-
| carat scandal of just ten years ago.
IF ia difficI1t TeOn1a ont Of England
to realize the sensation created by the
princes doing Goodwood races from
West Dean Park inSread IF from the
Goodwood house, the Richmond seat.
Ever since Albert Edward married. in
1868, he has been each year save one the
| guest of the Duke of Richmond for the
| Goodwood races, a sporting event that
| marks the close Of the London season.
The duke, who is of the same age as
Queen Victoria, and a man of immense
| independence as we'll as pride Of race,
| being a lineal descendant of Charles IL,
| has two fads-his horror for gambling
| and his rule of retiring to bed every night
I at 10, no matter where he may happen to
| be or who is present.
| The duke was Mortified by the baccarat
scandal at Tranby Croft, and when the
| prince came the following year to Good
/ wood for the races he extracted from his
| future king a reluctant pledge that under
no circumstances should baccarat be
| played during the visit. He reminded the
| prince that Goodwood had been at the
! beginning of the century the scene of q
! terrible tragedy due to cards
! On the third day of the stay the duke,
| who had hidden goodnight at 10 o'clock
| to the heir apparent and to the other
/ royal guests, happened to have occasion
| to come down stairs about half an hour
| later.
His establishment and wrath may be
| imagined when he found the male por-
ton of the house party and some Of the
! ladies seated around a table in the
! library playing at baccarat for high
stakes, the prince acting as banker.
A FUTURE KING SCORED.
The old dukes indignation for once
| got the better Of his loyalty, and he rated
his future king in the most cutting man
ner, charging him in the presence of
the other guests with having broken his
word.
The prince presented sorrier specta-
Gle than ever before or since. He real
lied that he had placed himself in a
| false position and found nothing better
! than to stammer some shamefaced ex-
cuSe
| Needless to add, the game came to an
| immediate end. The prince was only pre-
| vented from leaving Goodwood on the
! following day by fear that such action
| would lead to the episode being made
public This he was naturally anxious
! to avoid, as it was a matter which re-
! fected no credit upon him, and coming
SO soon after the Tranby Croft affair
| would have made a public scandal and
| led to renewed denunciations of the
| prince in the press
So the prince remained to the end Of
| the race week, although it must have
| been as awkward for him as for the
duke
The following year the prince declined