The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-02-28
Sketch Of Princes Life.
lie Is Idoiized by the Sailors OF the
German Navy.

Prussia, third ranking admiral Of the
imperial German navy, Is every inch
sailor. Fayorite of his imperial
tional conditions particularly condu-
Give to life Of luxury and ease, Prince
Henry has chosen to work hard for
nearly twenty-five years, and, as the
premier scion of the kingdom has dedi-
Gated his best talents to the sea SER
vice of the nation The Prince will
be 40 years old on Aug. IA of this year.
He is just three years and seven
months the junior of his imperial
brother, Emperor William Ii. He mar
ried in Berlin in 1888, Princess Irene
of Hesse. From this union, one Of the
conspicuously happy marriages or
royal Europe, there have been three
sons-Princes Waldemar, Sigismund
and Heinrich, aged, respectively ID, 8
and 2 years. They are destined to in
herit the maritime inclinations of their
father, II there be virtue in birth
place, for all three scanned their first
horizon at Kiel, Prince Henry's naval
station.
The first German prince to visit
United States territory has upon four
previous occasions sailed far from the
fatherland. One of the journeys took
him around the world. BY way of the
Cape Verde Islands, he cruised through
the South Atlantic, around Cape Horn
and through the Pacific to Japan and
China. where he tarried for almost two
years.
In the spring of 1880 he started
home, touching the Cape of Good Hope
and st. Helena. Two years later he
crossed the Atlantic again, upon this
occasion as junior commanding officer
of the corvette Olga, whose captain,
Baron Won Seckendorff, as court mar
shall of Prince Henry's official house
hold, will accompany him to America.
For thirteen years following, Prince
Henry occupied himself with the
ceaseless activities attendant upon the
birth and development of Germany's
modern navy. In 1897 he found him
self a full-fedged flag officer. When
the Chinese port of Kiachow was
taken by the Kaiser a few months
later he dispatched his brother to East
Asia as the commander of the second
division of German cruisers. His de-
parture from Kiel, aboard his first
flagship, the Deutschland, was the CEN
ter of fervent German naval demon
stration. Cruising through the friend
ly waters of China, Japan, Siam, Ko-
rea and the Russian possessions along
the Amur. chance found Prince Henry
in eastern seas during the bristling
days following the battle of Manila,
and. when Emperor William was
pleased to recall Admiral Won Died
richs. the command of all Germanys
sea forces in the Asiatic region fell
very naturally to the Prince. AS every
American officer who met him in those
days will testify, his career was
marked by tact, ability and kindness.
Prince Henry's distinguishing char
acteristic has been love and regard Tor
the men behind the guns and beneath
the deck. A disciplinarian, he has still
found it compatible to rule with gen
tleness and consideration. He knows
his ships from fighting-top to Keel.
He has mastered the practical side OF
navy things and understands the armor
strength and bunker capacity, as well
as maneuvers and strategy. He is in
tensely modest, almost to the point of
retirement.
Prince Henry was the favorite son
of both his late father and mother.
Once when Senator Pendleton OF Ohio,
then United States Minister to Berlin,
was received in audience by Emperor
Frederick, the American diplomat
spoke in admiration Of Crown Prince
William, to whom he had been pre-
scented the day before. yes" said
Emperor Frederick, William is fine
boy, but wait until you see my Henryw
Next to navy matters, yachting
claims first place in Prince Henry's
professional affections. He is even a
more ardent water sportsman than his
brother, besides being a practical
yachtsman. Prince Henry sails his own
craft with consummate skill. The
Irene, named after his wife, has many
q time won Kiel regatta cup under
the personal guidance of its royal
owner. His keenest delight is to
scramble into a thirty-footer with two
friends, and, in duck flannel, luff and
tack and splash through a smashing
contest. The wetter he gets, as the
result of choppy spin. the better he
likes the game.