New-York tribune., 1909-06-28
SULTAN WILL TRAVEL
ye,r Padishah to Visit the Chief For
eign CamtaLs This Fall.
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=. and 10 Paris in the fall following in this
nsct the example of the other soYerelgus on their
.ccession the throne
~. last occasion on which a Turkish padishah
-, his donnions was in 1867, when Abdul Aziz
,5sued the Paris International Exposition the
,-,est of Napoleon III and Of Empress Eugene at
tbs TufIeries. afterward proceeding to England He
uas received at Dover by the Prince of Wales.
80 Edward VII. was lodged at Buckingham Pal
.cc entertained by the Lord Mayor of London at
. BANQUET given in his honor the Guildhall. was
-esented with the freedom of the city and visited
fueen Victoria az Windsor the Queen in obedience
- the laws Of etiquette. Offering her cheek be
pissed He returned TO his dominions stopping at
vienna on the way, where he magnifcently
-ertsined by Emperor Francis Joseph Prussia
was rot considered of sufficient Importance in those
davs to warrant his visiting the court of Berlin.
But II would be difficult TO conceive of Mehemed
or,ttng Berlin from his itinerary this fall In
deed Il is probable that his first visit will be 10
the Kaiser
The tour Of Abdul Aziz entirely spoiled for
him BY the fact that the visit of the Khedive of
Fe1rt 10 the courts of Europe had been timed for
.he same month When the Sultan arrived in
Paris he found that Khedive Ismai had reached
there several days earlier. while when he got 10
London Isrnai had again managed get there
r~o DAYS in advance Of him. Now. the Sultan
looked upon Isrnan a mere provincial governor
inferior IN rank 10 his Grand Vizier and to his
chief eunuch. He strongly objected sitting at the
same table with him. and was beside himself with
anger when he found that Ismail being
ceived everywhere with sovereign honors and was
being welcomed by the populace with
thuslasm than himself. For the Khedive
:ovial and CHEEKY as Abdul Aziz the reverse
Moreover, Isu1ai associated in the public mind
with the Suez Canal then nearing completion. and
besides had a for boundless generosity and
lor the most magnificent hospitality
Neither Napoleon III nor Empress Eugene. nor
yer Queen Victoria would consent TO slight the
Khedive for the sake of the Sultan by relegating
him 10 the background and by depriving him OF
the honors and distinctions which they had
corded him. and consequently the Padshah was
in a tearing temper throughout his stay in Paris
and in London, and not long after his return home
Issued q decree strongly censuring the khedive
Cor assuming sovereign honors 10 which he was
in no wise entitled. In fact. it only with the
utmost difficulty that the great powers managed
10 assuage his wrath and dissuade him from
his intention cf Furnishing the Khedve by depo-
sticn
The Khedive was obliged 70 go every year to
Constantinople in order TO pay his homage 10 the
Sultan who used TO take a savage delight in
publicly humiliating him. keeping him for weeks
together waiting for audience and then allow
ing him cool his heels for hours in his ante
chambers Never once during all the years that
Isnail visited Stamboul was he asked to dinner
hv the Sultan or to partake Of his hospitality.
and when one occasion. as an extraordinary
act OF favor. the Sultan consented to visit the
Khedive's palace and to dine there, Abdul Aziz
II.
servants or chamberlains but by the Khedive
and his sons On the arrival Of the Sultan ne
had been welcomed at the entrance OF the PARK
by the fat little Khedive and his sons Instead OF
inviting them enter his carriage. he caused
them TO run beside IL. ali the uphill. until
rbe,- reached the palace itself. almost reducing
Isrnan TO apoplexy; and when the visit was over
The Hhedive was curtly directed by one OF the
Sultan's chamberlains cause the superb gold
service on which the sultan's dinner had been
- s~~a nf "a
carriages as il could be permitted that plate
eonsecrated by rhe OF the sultan should be
ever contaminated by others OF less exalted rank
GAYS HE Is SON OF GRANDDUKE ALEXIS.
DISPATCHES from Colon announce the arrival there
of young man who is said to insist that the
name of r Wilm' under which he is travelling
with Yice-President Gldermeister, OF the South
African Trunk Railroad. is merely ncognito TO
conceal his true title and his princely rank as
son Of the late Grand Duke Alexis Of Russia
AS he announces his intention Of coming on from
Colon TO the United States for prolonged tour in
this country, 1t may be just well TO explain that
the grand duke in question, who died as a bache-
lor. left but son whom he acknowledge as
such and who now bears the title Of Count Belev-
skoi He is the issue OF the runaway marriage Of
Grand Duke Alexis with his mothers maid OF
honor Alexandra Jourovsky. whose father had
been the tutor Of Emperor Alexander II The poet
Jourovskv was her uncle. The marriage. having
peror. was pronounced by the latter invalid, both
in the eyes OF the law and in those Of the Orthodox
Church Alexis induced to leave the fair Al
exandra and came America Alexandra. after
giving birth to a boy, who received his father
name OF Alexis married Saxon officer, Baron
Henry Woehrmann.
The boy was thereupon taken from his mother.
who died in 1893. was adopted by the now widowed
Grand Duchess sergfus and brought up by her,
eventually marrying in lssi her maid of honor
Princess Marie Troubetzkoi daughter Of Prince
Peter Troubetzkoi When the late Duchess Zenalde
Of Leuchtenberg. sister OF General skobeeft, died
leff all her superb collection of Jewels 10 the
young couple as a souvenir Of her romantic az
teetion for the Grand Duke Alexis. She had been.
indeed the one real of his life And Alexis
himself frequently announced that he intended 10
lezve all large fortune 10 his son. but died WIN
making a will. whereupon his property was
virtually seized by his surviving brothers,
Grand Duke Vladimir and Grand Duke Paul. who
compelled by the Car to submit TO com
promise under the terms of which young BeleV-
sko. who was born in 1871. received only reia-
lively small portion Of his fathers estate
Count Alexis Beievskoi was one Of the Hldes-oe-
camp Of the late Grand Duke Sergus, is a colonel
OF Russian cavalry and has inherited r1cch OF the
good looks for which his father was at one time
80 famous. He is. ] have said above the ohiE
known son Of Grand Duke Alexis. although his
name does not figure such in the Aimsnach De
cotha, and unless he is identical with the r.
Win" row al Colon the latter's pretensions 10 re
son OF Alexis are, TO say the least open TO very
serions question.
VALENTINE cHIROIs AND THE MIKADo-
Emperor Mutsu-Hito, or the Tenno. as the Jap
anese style their sovereign. accorded the other day
al Toxic an audience of considerable duration TO
Valentine Chirol. who. for several years clerk
Of The Foreign Office in London. became first OF
az the correspondents Of The London Times at
Berlin. and is now the director OF the entlre tor-
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