The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-03-02
Aga Khan


a prince of India, second cousin to
the late shah of ersia, and the sultan
by hereditary right, of the Mohamme-
dams in India, is riding about Chi
eago to-day. says a Chicago daily, in
the rain and smoky fog. His chief
attraction is the stockyards. When
he leaves Chicago Monday it will
be to inspect the powerful plants for
generating electricity on the bank of
Niagara falls and the great steel
works at Pittsburg.
The prince is all business He has
come to America to see for himself
some of those enormous industries
which have made the United States
famous throughout the world. For
the pleasures of society which have
proved attractive to many of Chi
cago's visitor from the countries of
Europe and ASIA Aga Khan has re-
served no time.
The great commercial cities where
lie the big business establishments
are what 1 have come to see, rath-
er than the political capitals, and the
social centers," explained the young
prince in perfect English, as he well
coined reporter for The Daily News
to his suite on the fifth floor of the
Auditorium hotel Just now 1 am
so fortunate as to be lin wrong" as
believe you Americans call it. Be
[ left San Francisco, / sent nv lug
gage ahead. But it appears to have
fallen behind, and I am now without
any other clothes than those 1 stand
IN. 1t is most annoying.
THAT was a terrible disaster which
befell San Francisco. Such a beau
tiful city it must have been, and
then when all completed to have it
practically ruined in a moment! But
that is the same fate which am
told it was one Chicago's lot to suf-
fer, though your great city was de-
vastated by fire. 1t seems impossible
to realize that Chicago ever was des-
troyed.
81 have come to America because
your country Is acknowledged to be
the most progressive in the world
and / have long wanted to see for
myself its successful enterprises and
great commercial centers. am in,
terested particularly in electricity
and 1 am curious to examine the
methods and machinery used for
generating that power from the falls
of Niagara. We have some falls in
my country which have an idea
&C Id be utilized for a similar pur-
pose. My country, you know, is in
western India near Bombay and my
principality contains about 100000
people. But I am also to be found
part of the time in Calcutta.
Isn't this weather unusual for Chi.
cago in January? I understand from
your papers that there is much sick
ness in Chicago. That is too bad. Chi
cago is the first spot I have seen
since / left the acific coast where
the ground can be discerned. All the
way across the continent 1 saw only
snow, snow. One vast blanket of
white seems to cover the whole coun
try to the westward"
Abdul Hamid and Abdul Hard, thu
princes servants, had been making
a fruitless for the missing baggage
and in disgust their master took upo1
his own shoulders the task of finding
his lost wardrobe. With Private Sc
cretary Talmon he drove in a motor
car through the rain-swept streets
to the Northwestern station. where
he produced checks for fifteen box.
es suitcases and trunks.
There's one!" cried out the secre-
tary, gleefully, and the prince took
on his furlined coat and waited in
the baggage room with the stical pa
thence of the East Indian until the
last of the fifteen had been sought
out. The princes wardrobe filed a
baggage wagon and as soon as It
was loaded it was transferred at once
to the hotel. The prince himself
started for the stockyards.
Il have read the book called The
Jungle he explained as he climbed
into the motor car, land / am an.
xious to see what the stocl,vards
really are like. have been told that
the conditions actually prevailing
Were much exaggerated in that book
but l would like to see Just how the
de-" "'s ALI
This inquisitive prince. who devote,
- SANS " AHuustrlal progress
rather than to social functions rs
wei fitted for either role. He Is 81
years old and since he was 10 he has
been the hereditary chief of the
hhoJas and the head of the Moham.
medans in all India, with a follow.
ing OF hundreds of thousands in Ara
pa ersia, Kashgaria and Zanzibar.
ell Is of mevdium height. stoclr,l1
pullt and in the European clothes
ne wears he looks like a noble ~
france His features are handsome
and he possesses a pleasing and court
eous manner. His ability and "Yan.
kee push" in conjunction with bj.
nlg1 rank IN state and religion, have
mac, ns him. in spite of HIS youth. one
al tne most influential personages m