The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-01-24

prince came nearest to the hearts of the
 mass of his people. He has been a con-
 stant attendant at the sports of the col
 leges a lover of cricket and boating, as
 well as of athletics. Shooting was ever
 his favorite sport and amounted almost
 to passion with him. For racing he
 had, penchant, and for years he has
 maintained a racing stable, having
 twice won the Derby. His yachting
 successes were mostly with the Britan-
 nla. As young man he was a good
 rider, but increasing weight compelled
 him to abandon the saddle. He drives
 some but is not an enthusiast.
 Cards were, and probably are still, the
 favorite game of the new sovereign.
 Fondness for the pasteboards and play
 ing for high stakes have made trouble
 for Albert Edward on many occasions.
 Chief of these, perhaps was the Tranby
 Croft baccarat scandal, in which were
 involved Sir Gordon Cumming, Mrs.
 Wilson, and Lady Brooke-"the bab-
 bling Brooke she was called after it.
 This brought the prince into court and
 made no end of talk, both in England and here in 1889. Only the shrewdness
 of the Duchess of Devonshire prevented
 an almost as bad scandal from being
 made public property as it was private
 chatter in the set in which the prince
 and his friends moved.
 In this George Russell, the private secretary of the prince previous to the 1 installation of Sir Francis Knollys, was i implicated and later Russelps opera tions became so fragrant that he was 1 obliged to leave England and was ex- | pelled from the clubs to which he be-
 longed. It was his unwillingness to stop playing baccarat during Goodwood race week that led to quarrel between the prince and the Duke of Richmond, one of the most trusted advisers of the queen. The duke found the prince and his party playing baccarat for high stakes, so he claimed, after the prince had given him his word there should be no card playing in the house.
 There was a violent scene, and only , by the greatest of tact was a scandal prevented. Later the prince refused an invitation to Welbeck Abbey, going in- stead to the house. of Willie James, an Australian millionaire, with his party, while the Duke of York and his friends were entertained at Welbeck Abbey. This led to a social upheaval and gos- sip that lasted whole season. It was also asserted that the queen would not allow the prince to occupy Windsor during Ascot week because he insisted on baccarat while the races were the attraction there. So set was the prince on his card games that he took a pri- vate cottage there for the week instead of occupying Windsor without the cards
 The income of the prince has been set at one hundred thousand pounds per annum, of which amount forty thou sand pounds came from the settlement made for him at the time of his mar riage. The balance came from the Duchy of Cornwall, and aggregated a trifie more than sixty thousand pounds per annum.
 Frank, loyal and warm hearted, and almost affectionate his friends say, the prince has ever been. Those who have had the pleasure of his association say the same of him. He was emphatical- ly of the ood-fellow" eort-simple, courteous, but stickler for the courte- sy and deference his position as heir to the throne demanded. For one occupy ing the position he has for so many years, he was approachable, good-na- tured and affable, so long as those who met him remembered his prerogatives, used Sir whenever they spoke to him, and remembered never to speak until spoken to or failed to make topics in- stead of allowing him to do the suggest ing.
 The prince was an honorary officer of so many military corps in Europe that his uniforms alone constituted a for midable wardrobe. Yet he had so little liking for display in this direction that he never wore them except on occasions when 1t was absolutely necessary for him to do so. Taken all in all, an Eng lishman would sum him up as being mot at all a bad sort"
 The new king is habitual theater- goer, and, though the death of his brother Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-S Soburg Gotha, last summer, and the enforced period of mourning in the court, kept him away from the play houses more than four months, some London chronicler esti- mates that he went to the theater no fewer than forty-eight times in the year 1900.
 As Prince of Wales, however, he nev- CT dabbled in theatricals and never be- came so closely allied with persons of the theater as his illustrious predeces- sor who bore that title, and made it | glitter at the beginning of the nine- | teenth century.
 Albert Edward has presided at ban quets of the Royal General Theatrical fund and other formal theatrical gath erings, and has met all the leaders of the English stage in his time. Tn short, he has cared for the theater, but he has not meddled with it or ever posed as it's patron. He has shown only the Eng ishman's traditional liking for 'the play" as an entertainment
 With his two nephews, William of Germany and Nicholas of Russia, he ! will now become one of a trio that will 'ule the greater part of Europe. How 1e will get on with them is the pro- )iem that the world will now patiently wait to see solved:-New York Times
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