New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-11

he lacks enterprise like all the rest OF the king.
and he made an appointment with me to show;
co 20 I'm the next day 50 l went 70 my hotel
1 t polished up the gilt work and and
time It Just the sort Of throne he nesdsa'
sI mere was a big armed chair for him TO sit IN,
Grown and scePtre when he happened TO be alone
LOT Few minutes There were drawers in the
throne where he could keep paper and ink ara
IeleEsraph forms, and a telephone instruments al
there was cupboard with painting materials. in
pisr1ra ana rrs-s 5vss 'el' y Mn e PAM
IN case ne should want 70 make little music.
twenty Eali3Ts ~ bssr fbs, ~ t4 n0leiihs
pressing a button whenever he r,iSSf 49, =, -
hJtle friendly with a visiting king, am
The Emperor looked the throne all through. ard
b [II51 y N'S = W9ndeFt9l Invention and that
says he The trouble is that must the throne
look very inconsistent with the remarks 7 some
Your grandfather was all right your majesty
need is up-to-dqte throne and here you've got
it. Give order. and III have a throne hers
for YOU in four weeks time.
grandfather of his always blocked the way.
please bur When c5lI Es' 5 lg as polite ne as you
winch dld every day for the next four days. he
ana the last day policeman told me that IL
InJ ( myself IN the PALACE yard again he would
Went 20 Russia, 20 try If could get order from.
- had throne that knew would meet the
Brnctp Pi "a 6 EmperSr II was built on ss
Tor n typewriting machine that lets you lower The
in use; This Russian throne was built OF Har-
v VEL steel and couldn't be penetrated by any
until somebody should begin to shoot ar him
Then all he had to do was TO press spring a1j
his chair would sink down into the throne and a
would De. safe and sound. matter how long the
0fber n0irts Ibo,1 7 on sHooLns, mere were
NAY slsen you the central Idea about il had
peror how completeIv tbe steel woTId rssis+ ~ -
bullets, but I calculate made a mistake in nor
hiding the revolver when I came TO cross the Rus
sian frontier. Anyhow when the custom house
officers found H. they arrested me- and coniscated
tLs LnotIe OF me throne. swearing that il
kept me in jail for the hest part OF a week and
then the American AmbasSador got me released on
e1-lou IA5 a. would leave Russia at once and
4 said TO myself that would try one more king.
a L that ~ made failure with him I'd quit the
had nice interview WI vi-b 5 ne 1, VEN q Honns and
!istIe CHAP but he's all right except. OF course in
ed me and l brought the model for an Italian
TroHe 70 ne Pa!ace Few days later 1t was the
IS % say, the snOW1esr-throne
had made for the Italians go in for show most as
a solid mass OF gilt with imitation diamonds let
INTO II every three inches apart II had a nice
beer reservoir in the throne meant for the Ger
WITH an % o-s ms s was sIIasr and was htted
There was hand organ concealed in the throne
his foot and told him that it would be a popuar
feature OF his receptions he were 10 play this
gan all The time that folks were being presented
70 him The King was nightly pleased with the
throne, and he called his little daughter who was
ABOUT Two years old. as should Judge. and made
her SIT down on II and work the organ He offered
70 buy the model for his daughter. to use as q
BABY house. but didn't like the idea As FOR buv-
ing throne for himself, he merely laughed az tkA
proposal He said he never had throne. and
that he Just used ordinary chair He said that
there were so many republicans in his domIni0ns
that they wouldn't stand setting up a regular
throne. I tried TO convince him that being a kin,
N active service he ought put on all the sryie
ne could command. but he wouldn't agree with me-
me plain truth IS. that he hadn't the enterprfse,
70 want 70 DO anything new. He had been con
tented with his plain armed chair and he coy1lfr'r
see that he needed anything better
AFTER that failure packed up and started for
nome m going TO sail the Caupannier n
morrow. and II II wasn't that my models are al
ABOUT tne snip would get you 70 come 20 a hotel
n Liverpool and have look them You'd ina
that II would pay you for your trOuble"-CThe b.
stander. 80 ~"