Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-06
DUKE BORIS VISIT
Russian Nobleman Trotting a
Very Hot Pace.
WONDER OF NEW YORK
YELLOW JOURNALS FIND HIM
SOURCE OF PROFIT.
All His Doings Chronicled in Most
Sensational Style - Lord
Rosslyn a Rival.
WONDER OF NEW YORK
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star

| Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, September 5. 1902.
Instances multiply as to how easily this
| town is diverted. Last week. after a vast
| ly chronicled jamboree extending over
many days in Chicago, a presentable-look-
| ing young royal rake of Russia swooped
upon New York with his suite, several
members of which looked shaky and all
out from the swiftness of the Chicago
! cltp-one of them, indeed had to be bundled
or the train in the arms of a couple OF
| porters and deposited in an invalid's chair.
That this young Boris person had won dis
tinction in the domain of dissipation was.
of course, sufficient to instantly make him
| an extremely interesting individual in the
| eyes of New Workers
Your New Yorker dearly loves a fellow
| with reputation for "openn' wine" and
the young Russian OF the Romanoff blood
had, 1t seems been going after all of the
| records as a fizz guzzler in Chicago That
ne had not been over dainty as to his
| choice OF vessel whence to convey the
| sparkling fluid to his lips was shown when
! ne employed the slipper of Chicago cho-
! rus glrl Tor that purpose. New York
thought this was awfuly cute on Boris
| part On the and in other public
! places. before his arrival here, one could
near New Workers calling Boris "a dead
game sport" and hot stuff" and the real
| thins, a boy that knows how to go the
route-all because of that slipper incident
| IN chicago. Shop girls on their way to
work talked of how perfectly grand this
young Slav who had participated in all
night plano-pounding seances in Chicago
| must be.
| His Advent in New York.
Ard it so came about that this young
hn had
anything except go after the species Of
youthful amusement known as "a hot time
| began to fill UP more space Of the New
ork newspapers from the hour of his ar
| rival in towr-well. certainly more than
would be devoted to Tolstoi. Boris coun-
! tryinan, were that renowned humanitarian
ana writer to come to New York He was
| Kept under the ircessant observation of
changing shifts Of reporters from the mo-
ment that, with all of the evidences of
KatzenJammer, he emerged from his apart-
ments at noon. until. at something close
10 me hour of dawn. he found his way
pack TO MS gaudy suite in the garish hotel
! looking as If he had been deliriousIy dining
| without lntermission since his morning an
| pearance. There wasn't a night that the
reporters Tor the yellows didn't track him
| 70 the restaurant rendezvous where he
| feasted- the chorus young persons and
| cameras We're poked over the tops of the
screens that usually hid the grand ducal-
SIioI us party on tneSe occasions and SnaD
| SHOTS made of the dizzy young stage women
| In the act of making goo-goo ewes at the
young chap who is only four removes from
the as throne rome of the great white tsar.
Inc impressions of the 81 done it, ard
| Il seen it" soubrettes with the nicture
| hats who had broken bread and HOLSTERS
with the Boris young man were printed
with great elaboration, and even the wait
| erS who attended the bulky. heayy-faced
young man were .interviewed' as to what
| they thought of him. One of these walters
| who happened to be an Am tican gave II
as his impression that the grand duke
w vas que nave purity swift rassle wit
| IN d. / If he keeps on sluggin' TIL cock
| tails and fizz tn way he does" All of the
| female reporters who tackled the sprightly
| Boris asked him what he thought of
American women" appearing to quite take
| 1t for granted that the Russian had really
ever talked with any American women out
side of those known as chorus loidies.
Asked Absurd Questions.
He was asked his opinion of the relative
| attractiveness Of American cities in spite
OF the fact that he had not visited the
American city that is in a class bv itself
for loneliness Washington. And thousands
of sane persons over here who felt that Ii
didn't make a particle Of difference what
Boris thought about ANYTHING on earth or
| In the waters beneath the earth have been
compelled to read the headlines of this
dreary slush in their efforts to get at the
| legitimate news Of the day
One OF the yellow newspapers taken to
account by large number of it's readers
for publishing so many columns of rot
J about the doings of Boris. excused itself
and its contemporaries by stating that
Boris being quite as exalted a parsonage
as prlnce Henry of Germany. was therefore
entitled to the same amount of newspaper
notice on his visit to this country as Prince
Henry received Prince Henry's tour If
this country was in every sense an official
W PnyiS &c troy alir
private persona fact which appeared to he
overlooked on Saturday last, when idiot
cally enough, a royal salute of cwentv-one
guns was fired upon the occasion of the
Russians visit at West Point Moreover
Prince Henry. when he was in this country
behaved himself
Another Nobleman's Advent.
Several days after Boris got in one of the
transatlantic steamers brought along a
young Englishman who figures in BGrke's
IS the Earl of Rosslyn, and who has been
figuring rather VIGOROUSLY in the public
eye OF two continents for a number of
years He comes over here to go upon the
professional stage. This young Britisher
with his future behind him used to be
pretty caloric proposition himself in the mat
ter of "openin' wine" but when he had spent
a huge fortune at that and other equally de-
lghtful games he found himself forced to
seek some method of snoring up his bank
roll. So he announced that he had discov-
cred infallible method of beating the
games at Monte Carlo, and he organized a
syndicate with the announced intention of
putting the beautiful Mediterranean gam
bling plant out of business. 1t is said that
some $3.50 900 good deal of Ii pretty hard
wrung money contributed by comparativeiv
poor folks, went into that syndicate OF
course. none Of the money ever came out of
the syndicate. and equally of course. old
Monte Carlo has gone right on doing bust
ness at the old stand ever since the earl
finished his dismal effort to make them nut
the shutters up there
This earl is a drawily. lanky Individual
with embarrassing and generally neu-
trail If not efeminate personality. and yet
his mOveme nts. and his savings and his
dressings. and his eatings and his drfnkings
have been dwelt upon by the papers of this
town ever since his arrival In singularly
foolish and roisome manner. Not only