New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-09
CITY PLEASES MAHARAlAH
what He Was Told in Vancouver
He SAYS, Wasn't Quite True.
TAKES VIEW FROM HOTEL
Talks of Japan as a Wonderful
Country and of Kipling S Tales
as Unfriendly to India.

-, ,,77e told the Maharaiah OF Mourb-
= f,,at there WAS not much to see in
- York. that II was unhealthy. and that
ND be better for him TO spend three
:, Vancouver and see q real city and
=, Gotham only two days of his time.
- was what he said at the Waldorf
.-.o-ia Yesterday, but later when one of
,,,ssssnt persons around the big hotel
hin, I'D on the roof and let him see
,,;r Manhattan Island really is he an
,oa5 that the persons who told him
,,,+ New York must have been mistaken.
r,he Naharajah has been making a
.1e-1-orld tour and is about at the
.,-oe-orarter pole. lie has never been out
= India before. although he is thirty-eight
,.oors old But it would he q mistake TO
vi. that he Is not a citizen Of the world,
- he las an Engiishmaus accent and
.-,nrerisu1s IN May, when he determined
make his tour and get out of his s.s-
..-o some Of the malaria contracted after
,.o.-s of hurting in the jungle, he went
st 70 China and Japan.
aos, its a wonderful country he said
..oatinE of Japan. It's truly the Occident
:, the East Just as Kipline said, When
r,e, Meets West'-and 1 suppose you
,.,orr the rest of the une. I was so sur
.-sze5. and wondered at it
z.-,sn the conversation vsered over 10
z-t-linc the Maharajah, like other East
,r5isns. said that Il X. had not pictured
,be real India.
"a. did not get the real India he con-
.i,5,ed and the spirit underlying his writ
,ar IS not very friendly. He has over
stated facts and not put matters in :he
proper light. But. perhaps, having the
h7ilIiance 81 writing. he wrote for effect
and then you know he vas about the first
MA 10 put India into short stories, and he
got 10 peoples minds first
The Waharaje7 viii stop in London 10
sec Lord Morley. who is Secretary of State
FOR Indian Affairs He knew Lord Curzon
and has mot Lord Mimic. and said he did
MOI approve Of decryine British rule In
india
India is p hat ii is because OF England"
was his statement.
Later he viii 90 10 France and Germany.
arriving in Baripoda. his home city. about
The first part of November.
7 wish could see more OF New York,
r. lsmentai. hut I'm in the hands of the
railway people. 1 enjoyed the long sea
voyage 70 Vancouver and it helped my
malaria. and Il vas fine 10 sec Ranff and
Tho other resorts in tee Rockies. but Id
like 70 stay here d few DAYS. ! will sail
~ the Mauretania on "Wednesday"
The Ma harajah. who cherishes COPPER
Tlste Of one Of his ancestors OF the tenth
century, is TIE head of small principally
IN Central India in the province of Bengal.
While there are six hundred thousand PEG
p'e packed into the small space. the chief
city. Raripoda. tabout two hundred mics
- IL
ere railways; in fact. the Mourbhanj State
Light Railway, which runs out of Bari
uJda distance Of tllirty-three miles, car
Over lis two-foot gauge. There is nc stand
ing army, for the Msharajah says he not
rich ran like the Gaekwar of Baroda,
luj he has three hundred policemen. Agri-
culture and irrigation are limited. for in
addition 10 the country being covered with
jungle, the farms are small and il costs
money for the small farmer 10 use i'm
proved machinery. At present he tilis the
son OF MoUrbhanj with wooden handled
steel plough.
Elephants and tigers stalk the jungle,
and there Is plenty of hunting, but not
much pig sticking. he said. because You
ant get 10 the pigs for the underbrush-'
sears are the CHEF danger in the jungle.
The Maharajah sails ne had had some en-
COUNTERS with wild animals, but his mod
SIX interviewed. and he would say nothing
more or the subject.
The state of Mourbf1ani- as said, IS filled
with very old people. over 20 per cent cf
:iem arr aboriginal tribes.
Conquered people?" asked a reporter.
Yes. about fve thousand years ago,
answered the Maharajan.
Tic same proportion OF tho people arc o.
Tie animistic religion. a cult which Nor-
elprs primal nature. such as river OF 2
rlountain. He himself is a BTahmin and q
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