The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-14
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Nicholas Tires Of His Fifty
Years Rule as
Prince.
ttME e! WIDOW TO BLAME
Comic Opera Said to Have
Brought About Assumption
q Dignity.
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Especial Cable to The Time s. Dispatch.1
Vienna, August 13.--After ruling as
{ q prince for fifty years, Nicholas OF
Montenegro has decided that he will
be "a King, and for week Ills little
capital Of Cettinje, perched on one OF
the steepest hi.lsides or the Balkan
range. will be in a world Of mon
.hrchial sexcitement. There will be fire.
works. of8course, but most wonderful
of all, Cettlnje will be illuminated
with electricity specially turned on
for the occasion.
4 On Friday, August 10, the Skupshtla.
or Parliament, will meet and pass a
veto approving Of the elevation Of the
principally to the rank Of q Kingdom.
On the following Friday, the actual
jubilee OF NichOlas's accession, he will
be crowned King In the old monastery
here with a blazing diadem purchased
by himself. Then public rejoicing, u
military review of the wonderful
Montenegrin army, and the festivities
VIII come to rapturous close on the
GOTH.
Lots of Kings In the balkans.
This Is the third Of the Balkan
States to enter the charmed circle Of
european Kingdoms. the other two
being ServlaT and Bulgaria, and while
has been applied to these 1t is CT
riously appropriate to Montenegro. For
tho countdy of tho BLACK Mountains
is the Marsovia OF Lehar's comic opera,
Tho Merry Widow; the Prince Danilo
of the opera Is the Prince Danilo, the
heir to the throne OF Montenegro,
and the Merry Widow OF the opera
is Princess aRadmovic. tho dashing
,relict Of rich Montenegrin.
There are those who say that the
determination of Prince Nicholas to
elevate himself into the kingship rests
on the representations OF his subjects
that the comic opera had made Monte
negro laughing stock and that 1T
was essential for him to assume a
regal dignity In order to offset the
ridicule caused by the musical trav-5
esty.
A Comic Opera Kingdom.
That as 1t may be. it is certain that
In July Montenegro sent out note
to the powers announcing its inten-
ton to be a kingdom. The powers
made no objection. and answered that
they would be pleased to be repre-
sented at the celebra tion.
The King and Queen of Italy will
be there. the Queen being Monte
negrin princess; and the Gear OF Bul-t
CARA. an Austrian archduke, two Rus
sian archdukes. Helma Pasha, repre-.
senting the Sultan, and Prince Alex
ander. the heir to Servia, will oil go
to Cettinje to see the new King made.
Whether the Merry Widow episode
had anything to do with tho dcterm
nation of Nicholas. or whether the
are right when they say
that the scheme Of kingship was
forced upon Nicholas by Austria and
Germany. with Italy mildly supporting.
and Great Britain and France indif-E
ferent, the fact remains that the idea
OF Montenegro as a kingdom Is
comedy in itself.
The little buffer state, lying wed ge-5
wise between Austria and Turkey, is
one hundred miles long by eighty
miles wide. and has a population Of
less than 100000.
No Tariff In Montenegro.
The resources of the country are al
most nil . the people manufacture noth-
ing but the things required for their
own housing and clothing; they divide
their time about equally between
keeping pigs and maintaining family
. Is