Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-28
YANKEE HEIRES ESS AS
QUEEN OF SPAIN?
DON JAIME, PRINCE DE B0UR-
BON, SEEKING FUNDS
Has Support Of oeople-Waits Only
for Money to Begin Campaign for
Throne, Having Part Of the
Army on His Side
Inoeinl cnhln 10 rho Hern1d.

Special Cable to The Herald.
PARIS April 27.-Don Jaime, prince
de Bourbon, and son Of Don Carlos,
who, under the title Of Charles the
Seventh ruled over the northern
provinces of Spain, is busy planning
for his future. He is keeping in touch
with the leading Carlists in Spain and
is in constant communication with the
great Carlist orator, Deputy Mella
with an eye to the future he recently
paid a visit to Barcelona, the ancient
capital of Catalonia, where the Carlists
are very strong. He did this in spite
of the fact that IL he were caught he
would be imprisoned. Twenty-Five
thousand people, Carlists to man,
formed a meeting at which he was
present All the lower clergy, some OF
the higher, and a goodly proportion OF
the people are with him. He is a
favorite also with the army. So close
does he keep in touch with the Carlists
of Spain that he is sure he will be
invited some day to sit upon the throne
of his ancestors.
Needs sinews of War
Don Jaime would not wait for the
invitation If he had the "sinews of
war" An attempt is being made to get
these through the medium of rich
marriage. Several American heiresses
have been mentioned in this connec-
tion. One of the latest is Miss Blanche
Lervy Shoemaker, the young poetess,
and daughter of Henry F. Shoemaker,
the New York banker. AS soon as Don
Jaime gets money he will make war at
once on King Alfonso. He admits that
marriage with an American might not
be popular in Spain, but he says that
war without cash is impossible and
that his father fought until his vast
fortune and that of his friends were
spent.
Has Headquarters in Paris
Don Jaime holds court on the fifth
floor of an apartment house in the Rue
BENJAMIN GODDARD, a new street off the
Square Lamartine, and in the Passy
neighborhood. To these small apart
ments come frequently the leading Car
lists of Paris. His sister, the princess
de Bourbon, who will be princess of the
Asturias if Don Jaime becomes king
of Spain, runs in frequently to see
him.
The head of the Carlist party in
Paris is Count Urban de Maille. He is
often present at the princes gather
ings 1t was Count de Maille who al
most succeeded during the Spanish
American war in raising large sum
of money from rich BoStonian for the
Carlist cause. Count de Naille prom
ised to make the gentleman in ques-
ton a duke. Had he succeeded in rails
ing the money Don Carlos would have
made a dash for the throne. At the
princes gatherings there is naturally
a great deal of reminiscing because
many of those present are old Carlist
officers or generals who fought for the
pope. One of the latter is the tallest
man in Paris, being seven feet six. The
princes secretary, who attends to de-
tails, is Count de Coma, Spanish
grandee who tried to marry Mrs. Edith
Crawford Moore, the widow of the
Kansas City banker.
Likes to Speculate
Music, motoring and copper are the
princes chief dissipations. He loves to
speculate in copper and a corps of
messenger boys from the bourse to
his apartments is often kept busy.
Don Jaime is the hero of a novel
called ''The Car of Destiny" written
by the Williamsons. His rival for the
heroine's hand is the Duke dAlbe, who
paid such assiduous court to Miss
Townsend of Washington last year.