The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-25
ROYAL WEDDING
At FARNBOROUGH
Prince Victor Napoleon and
Princess Clementlne
HOOLIGANS ARE ACTIVE
Are Becoming as Pestiferous In London
as the Apaches Are in Paris.
Money Lender Loses on
King Manuel
HOOLIGANS ARE ACTIVE

| tracing parties being Princess Clemen-
tine of Belgium, daughter of the late
King Leopold. and Prince Victor Napo-
leon, the claimant to the throne Of
France It is at Farnsborough that the
aged Empress Eugenie is spending her
declining years. and it is at her special
request that the wedding is to take place
there, since she has always taken con-
siderable interest in the career of Prince
Victor.
This marriage, however. Is likely to ex-
tinguish his last shadowy chance Of ever
becoming King OF France. since the King
Of the Belgians, in giving his consent to
the wedding, has made 1t an express con-
dition that no more Bonapartist mani
festoes are to be published from Brus-
sells, and that the prince and princess
shall reside outside Belgium.
There was some thought of coming to
they will take up their residence in
Italy, where an estate on the outskirts
Of Turin has recently been bought for
them.
| 1t is well known in every capital of
Europe that Prince Victor Napoleon al
ready has a morganatic wife alive, by
whom he has at least three children. He
and the Princess Clementine have been
secretedly betrothed for something like
six years, but the late King of the Bel
CLANS would never give his consent to the
marriage. Owing to the court mourning
the British royal family will not be rep
resented, especially as King George has
not the same interest in the Bonaparte
family that the late King displayed on
several occasions.
The ceremony will be very modest
one, and in marked contrast to the al
most regal ceremony that was observed
on the occasion of the Orleans wedding
at Wood Norton some three years ago,
when the late King of Portugal and
Queen Amelie were among the several
royalties present.
The police of London are getting Sc
riously alarmed because the 'tHooligans"
here, encouraged by the successes of their
brethren, the "apaches," are beginning to
manifest themselves in a very similar
way to their French brothers
This is not the first attempt these
youthful desperadoes have made to ter
rorize the people of the worlds greatest
city.
Two years ago a serious attempt was
made by the authorities to stamp out the
gangs of roughs which systematically
paraded the streets of the East End and
|
few months the police have found them
selves confronted with a serious situa-
ton. An increasing number of cases has
reported recently in which members of
the public and the police themselves have
suffered seriously from the attacks of
hooligans.
This week more than dozen cases
have occurred in the East End alone,
mainly in Bethnal Green, Shoreditch and
Hoxton. Police court procedure does not
appear to have any effect In some dis
tricts residents are complaining loudly
that more police should be put on the
streets.
The London Hooligan works with meth
cd. He generally uses. a stick or belt
with great effect. 1t is estimated there
are more than two dozen Hooligan gangs
infesting the metropolis and defying the
police at the present time. They roam
the streets In detachments, and when sec
tions Of rival gangs meet pitched battles
sometimes result. The leaders of these
gangs are known to the police. and they
can generally ascertain when trouble Is
brewing. When knots of the lads are
seen whispering together at street COR
ners a raid or fight is almost sure to re-
suit. The following are some of the.
names by which these gangs are known:
THE Fortfes."
"Silver Hatchet.'
"Old Ford Boys"
THE Hackney Bruisers."
New Girdle Gang"
1.-THE New Boys
THE Bethnal Green Boys"
The result of the late Prof William
James plan to test the theory that 1t is
possible to communicate with the dead
is awaited with great anxiety by the
English students Of physical research
Sir Oliver Lodge regards 1t as justif-
able supposition that within the last few
years certain group of deceased per-
sons have been trying to communicate
with the members Of the Physichical Re-
search society. Various messages have
been received by the society-some by
medium speaking in undoubted trance,
others by people working unconsciously,
either In complete trance or in a condition
of imperfect consciousness. Many of
these messages are said to be intensely
interesting, but none of them has pre-
scented an absolutely clear case of sur
vival after death.
A certain money lender in West End
whose customers are mainly to be found
among the aristocracy is bemoaning the
loss of a very large amount which he
recently loaned to young King Manuel of
Portugal.
In his anxiety to be first in the fold
in the matter of large loan to the
needy king, he neglected to obtain from
him the usual securities, without which
not even king is accommodated these
days. and now he Is unable to get either
interest due or the return of the capital
He cannot even apply to the same court
in Lisbon which recently ordered Queen
Maria Pia of Portugal to pay an old
debt of $4,000 to a French firm, because
such a course would ruin his business
for ever; but he Is about to raise his rate
of interest on all future loans.
BeveridEe's Persistence
Albert j. Beveridge, the Grand Young
Man of Indiana" who Is now up to his
neck in desperate fight to make his
state go republican In the next elections,