Evening star., 1905-11-11

The picture shows the late Princess Pierre Bona
daughter. the Princess Marie, d
Monte Carlo gambling tables. Prince
| Pierre died six months after this mar
| rage, and the young wife died eighteen
| daughter, the Princess Marie Bonaparte,
whom rumor has it will soon visit the Bona
parties at Washington.
| Prince Roland's Fortune.
What money Prince Roland got with Ed
mond Blanc's second daughter has always
| been matter for Partisan speculation, and
| a reorganization of 1.-The Company of the
Sea Baths of Monte Carlo some years ago
gave tantalizing glimpse of their fatness.
The father of the Monte Carlo tables left
| a son, Edmond Blanc, and two daughters
| one of whom married Prince RadZiwill and
the other Prince Roland Bonaparte. Prince
Radziwill, sixth son of the second line of
his house. thus gilded his blazon magnif1-
| Gently. By the marriage he had daughter,
now married to the Due de La Rochefou-
| cauld-Bisaceia, and a son, Prince Leo
| Radziwill, twenty-four years old and un-
married. The La Rochefouca,ild- -Bisaceias
| are a side issue of the La Rochefoucauld
| family, of which the husband of Matte
| Mitchell is the head.
| Now, in that reorganization, Edmond
! Blanc and Prince Radziwin seem to have
held together 100 shares (of the old, orig
inal value of 100000 francs each), amount
| ing to 3s,O0O.OOO francs. Prince Roland
| Bonapart, for himself and motherless
| daughter, held no shares. valued at 3D..
100000 francs. The two illegitimate sons
| Of old Blanc-Charles and Camille-as well
| as the Prince of Monaco, were down for
sums which delicacy forbade to make
| known, given the situation of the parties;
| but it would not be far from the truth to
assign to Charles and Camille 10000. COO
| francs and to the prince sum equal at
| least to the part given each legitimate
| fra
| This is all ancient history, because the
| company was not only again reorganized
| but the holdings shifted nobody knows how
| much the general public being let in to
| buy shares Of LOGO francs; and how much
| Prince Roland thus democratically let go
for solid cash and how much Prince Rad
| twill and Edmond Blanc and the prince
| were able to unload, all fresh and moist
| Is not known What is certain is that by
| his marriage with this gentle lady who was
! not a princess he became the richest Bona
| parte of his generation-before his cousin
| Louis fell heir to the 15.00O0,OO0 or so OOO
| coo francs of the Princess Mathilde the
| other day-or until his cousin Victor, the
| pretender shall marry the Princess Glenn
| entine and inherit $50. 600 600 francs from
| the present King of the BelgiaIss.
Went in For Travel and Science.
Being debarred from the army and feel
| ing no call to devote his daughters fortune
! to the problematicai restoration of his
| house in the person of the unenergetic
| Victor, Prince Roland Bonaparte went in
| for travel and science. Also he built a pal
| ace and a library-or rather, & library and
| palace Because most men first build
| their house and then put in their books
| Prince Roland. on the contrary first con-
Structed his library and then-bult his pal
| ace around 1t.
| For twenty years past he has been known
| as one of the great book buyers of Paris
This library which is stored in its own
| fireproof building, which constitutes half
| the first and second floors OF the palace,
| Is divided into three parts. The general
| library, which is very great; the geographic
| cal and aeronautical and Alpine libraries,
| and the Napoleonic library Both the lat
| ter are unique, the great feature of the Ma
| poleonic library being it's unpublished orig
| tnal contemporary manuscripts They have
| to do with the history of the Napoleons
| from the Revolution down to the present
hour and some day many books will come
out of them. err ~ =, a. .
Prince Rolands travels doubtless formed
his geographical taste, just as his geo.
graphical taste led, probably without his
foreseeing 1t, to his popularity. He trav-e
eled nearly everywhere, including the Unit
ed States QSSS-90), but little by little his
interest turned especially to anthropoloRv
and geography, with special trend toward
Alpinism and ballooning. He has published
any quantity OF monographs and special
books. sSxss.-e~,5..7.
This trend threw him into the arms of the
learned societies. When a man writes he
wants a reading public. and the member
ship of the learned societies constituted the
natural readers of works like 'On the Va
riations in the Length of Glaciers >, ssI)oc-
uments of the Mongol Epoch of the Thir-
teenth Century. ''The Eruption of Kra-
kasta" and 'The Huon Gulf with Maps" ;"
Thus, little by little, Prince Roland Bona
parte became member of nearly every
great learned society of Europe, such as
the Society of Geography of Paris the
Statistical Society of France the Society
of Social Economy, the French Association
for the Advancement of Science the French
tions. the Historical Society, the Book Low
ers' Society, the Aeronautical Society and
the Aero Club of France.
Prince Became Popular.
It was certainly not done with any cal
culation for popularity, yet; just as GER
tainly the popularity came out of It. None
are SO clannish as specialists and Prince
Roland is connected by these bonds with
untold thousands of thoughtful people all
over France and Europe. He has given
great sums to the societies For that the
members are grateful But far more they
value him, in each case, for his tet,hnicai
attairments, and so you may say he Is far
and away the most popular Of all the Bona
parties. and that with the best class of
Frenchmen.
But he Is no no way pretender In the
first place, he has no possible claim, the
recognized pretender being his cousin Vic
tor. Secondly, he has no taste that way.
He is the most democratic, easy-going OF
men, not being aristocratic or exclusive
enough to have himself shaved at home by
valet Instead he walks daily to bar
Der shop in the Avenue de rAlma and there,
sitting in barber chair. gossips with the
When the Aero Club was founded he be-