The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-22
PRINCES IN WASHINGTON.
THEY ARE Ii HUNG CHANGES
GRANDSONS.

A New Arrival at the Turkish Minis
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Saddened by
the News From China-A WASHING g.
ton Belle Who Has Become the
Wife of an Italian NObleman.
other Matters of General Interset.
Washington, D. c., July 20-With doc
tors coming and going and trained nurses
in full poss session, the hitherto hermetic-
ally closed Turkish legation has been
turned into a hospital-all on account OF
the typhoid fever, a broken leg and a new
baby. Mrs. Ferrough Bey is the proud
possessor of the latter Cher very firsD;
and it is needless TO add that upon her
only women doctors are in attendance.
The minister himself is down with the
fever, and has been near to deaths door,
but is reported to be now convalescing !;
and his brother-in-law, who is one of the
attaches of the legation has broken leg,
acquired by a fall. The small son, now a
fortnight old, is called Muchteba Ali. OF
course no outsiders have seen him, but
through the female physician and nurses
1t is learned that he is a remarkably fine
boy, with the blacklist of eyes, and hair
and skin about the color of a haIf-Worn
russet shoe He weighed eleven pounds
when he arrived and was evidently born
to rule. as he already bosses the entire
household in a voice of power that may
be distinctly heard five blocks away
There win he an appropriate celeb alton
over the coming of his new subject of
the Sultan soon as the reign of doctors
and nurses is over. The baby will be
brought up much after the American
fashion until he is six years old, when
his capacity for religious education is
suppos d to be developed. Then his moth
er will teach HIM the Koran, bit by bit
By the lime he is 10 years of age he
ought to know the whole Of Mahomeds
g spell by heart; and then he will be TAX
en- into a mosque, in Turkey, and be fully
received into the faith of his fathers
Washingtonians are profoundly sad
dened by the news from China, especially
as a number of victims were we'll known
here. Before entering the diplomatic field
Mr.. Conger served in Congress six years,
residing here during all that time with
his wife and daughters. His two married
sisters, Mrs. Baldwin and Mrs. Edwards,
are YET living in Washington and are al
most crazed by the terrible fate of their
relatives. Mrs. Conger's young niece,
Mary Pierce, was also with them in Pc
kin, with several other lady guests, in
Guiding Miss Condit-Smith, a beautiful
young heiress, whose home is in Wash
ington Mrs Conger and her daughters
spent rarJ of last winter in America,
and few weeks in this city, returning to
China just before the Boxer uprising be-
gan. What their end was, none dares to
imagine; but il is to be hoped that pistol
bullets at the hands of their friends saved
them from barbarian atroci les. Mr.. Cong
er was a man of exceptionally fine APP
pearance, fully six feet tall, with broad
shoulders which he carried well thrown
back. like a West Pointer and average
weight of 225 pounds. He always wore the
old-fashioned full beard, with shaved up
per-lip, and his 81 years showed cnly in
a few gray hairs at the temples. His was
a face showing strength. intelligence and
genialliy in marked degree, and a person
alty calculated TO give foreigners broad
opinion Of Ame ricans.
BY the way, there are two young fell
lows In Washington who are just now in
doubt whether they are princes, or plain.
every day Cinnamon and soon 90 be in
the lamentable condition of the man
without country" They are grandsons
of Ii Hung Chang-he OF the yellow Jacket
and peacock's feather and hundred year
old eggs-who was toted about our streets
In a gilded chair couple Of years ago.
The Acknowledged boys came from Nash
Vile. Tenn, where they have been study
ing under DR.. Lambeth, (who was born in
China OF American parents), preparing to
enter Vanderbilt University. They are not
proclaiming from the house-tops that they
are Chinese princes. but on the contrary.
are going about incog and stopping at a
auiet boarding house, though they spend
the greater portion OF every day In the
Chinese legation. They have cut Off their
oueues and dress like American gentle
men. and both speak fairly good English.
Nobody can gee word out Of them re-
garding their opinion Of the situation In