Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-22
PRINCE HENRY.
Stories Which Prove Him a
Jolly Good Fellow.
Something Of the Distinguished
Foreigner Who is With Us.
A Sketch of Miss Roosevelt Who
Christens the kaiser's Yacht.

Prince Henry is a jolly good fellow.
He has had no chance to distinguish
himself in war. He has had no great
missions of state to perform. He is
a sailor. and twenty of his forty years
have been spent in active service on the
sea Yet all Germany loves him. 1t
admires his good sense, his courage, his
nobility, his clean character and his
loyalty to father and brother. 1t
sdores him for his humor and his
emIa bility.
The prince is royal good fellow in
the sense in which Americans use the
term He is democratic and simple in
habit He doesn't stand on his dignity
as a prince of the royal blood. Above
al things he is manly. He puts on no
airs. and he is bound to win the ad-
miration of Americans.
That is as it should be, for there are
many reasons why the United States
and the German Empire should be the
pest of friends. Frederick the Great
not only praised the generalship of
Washington but he befriended the
struggling colonies of America. In
1856 he entered into treaty with the
young TepuDlc, anu pip''SAo-'
smack of an alliance.
1t Is well to recall such sections as
the following:
Where the parties shall have COM
mon enemy. or shall both be neutral
the vessels of war of each shall upon
all occasions take under their protection
the vessels of the other going the same
course, and shall defend such vessels as
long as they hold the same course
AGAINST all force and violence, in the
same manner as they ought to protect
and defend vessels belonging to the
party of which they are"
1t is hardly necessary to refer to the
ties of blood between millions of Amer
leans and those they left behind them
in the yaterland. And now the kaiser.
after ordering a yacht built in America.
pays a pretty compliment by asking
the President to permit his daughter to
perform the gracious ceremony OF nam
ing the vessel which Is to fly the yacht
ing colors of the German emperor on
many cruises in the future.
To emphasize his good will, Emperor
William sends his only brother, Helm
rich the Navigator, the beloved of Ger
many, to greet Americans as his per-
sonal representative. The nature OF
the mission of the sailor prince is clear
ly indicated in this extract from a
message cabled by the kaiser to the
President: ..s.
He 1.-THE princel. will be able to ex-
press to you once more my sincere
feeling of friendship for the United
states and their illustrious head"
The international courtesies of the
occasion are one thing. The personality
o; Henry IL another. and it will appeal
to Americans, for he is a hail-fellow-
weli-met which is an open sesame to
American hearts. The prince Is hall
English has spent much time in Eng
land and understands the Anglo-Saxon
character. He was on mission to
China in 1895, when the German ship
Irene caused some criticism by remov-
ing n number of Spaniards who were in
distress at Subig Bay. north of Manila
during the American war with Spain
Prince Henry smoothed that out by ar
official note. explaining that the Irene
took on board only Spanish women anc
children. who were removed from
motives OF humanity and with stric'
observance of the rules of neutrallty.
It has been said the prince fully es'
tablished his popularity among th'
Anglo Saxons in the far>East when M
stepped up to the buffet of the Hong
kong Club and called for whisky ans
soda: The attendant poured out por
ton of liquor in a glass. whereupon TIT
prince said: go on; don't stop till
say when"
Prince Henry enjoys jokes, and N
can tell one on himself, which Appeals
II American sensibilities. He was borf
at Potsdam, and when he doesn't un
derstand a thing at once he has quiz
zical way OF apologizing in laughing
ocular tone. with the remark: Oh
know I am a Potsdamer." The pom
Is In fact that the natives of that cit!
have the reputation of being SLOW
The prince has an admiration for tn
kaiser which amounts almost to rever
ence. but he is n favorite OF the EN-
peror. and takes some of the Liberties
OF a brother. Once upon time, a
tho story goes. the kaiser fell victim
IN seasickness during a cruise on nj
Yacht and was forced to take to nj
cabin. The experienced sailor prime
cpioyed the situation, and while IN
kaiser was struggling with soda an
towels the Younger brother opened IN
cabin door to poke in his head an
shout. Hello, William! How zoe
divine majesty feel now?' Inc an
swer was soda bottle, throw
sufficiently wide to do no damage I
flesh and blood.
The kaiser likes to drop in on nj
brother at the schloss at Kiel. and tn
relations of the two families are Yer
cordial A good story is told of tn
meeting of the two brothers last fall
the course of discussion Henry too
occasion to quote from Shakespeare
There ere more things in heaven an
earth, Horatio. than are dreamt or l
your philosophy" and he slyly added
las the divine William said" tn
emperor keen to detect the covert joke
countered with the remark: Dear me
old ! say that, Henry? had quite for
gotten"
The natural affection between tn
two distinguished brothers was doubt
less strengthened by the fact tina
Henry saved Williams life while the
were swimming in the Havel near tn
so-called Marble palace in the sum
mer of 1874. With his unfailing goo
humor and sunny disposition Prime