The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-06-14
OWNS JEWELS
WORTH MANY
MILLIONS
Honolulu Entertaining One of the
Most Interesting Rulers of
the World.
HE is GAEKWAR OF BARoDA
Has Income of $12,000,000,
Owns Gold Cannons and
State Elephants.
HE is GAEKWAR OF BARoDA
tFrom saturday,s Advertlser.l

(From Saturdays Advertiser.)
His Highness, the Gaekwar of Baroda,
one of the wealthiest and most power.
full and influential of the Hindu
princes, and possessor of the most fam
GUS diamond necklace in the world, is
in Honolulu, having arrived yesterday
on the Pacific Mail steamship Siberia,
en- route to the mainland EN- tour of
the world. His Highness is accompanied
by his wife, the Maharani and their
daughter the Princess Inderaraja. The
Gaekwar's suite comprises eleven peo-
pie, although he is travelling in an un-
Ostentatious manner. The Maharajah
had wirelessed in for an auto for a
party of five people, and Immediately
upon landing the party entered the
machine and was driven about the city.
The prince, who is a potentate in
his own country, educated in England,
was attired in the conventional pongee
summer suit of the far East, and look,
ed like a gentleman in private, not pub.
lie life. His wife wore a part native
and part European costume, a pongee
cloak being worn over her native garb,
the princess being attired in the same
manner. The Rani is a handsome
woman. In the center of her forehead
Maharajah Sir Sayiji Rao Gaekwar
the caste sign appears. Their daughter
is beautiful girl, with large, soft, lus
trous eyes, with delicate refined fea-
lures. She has been educated in the
English schools and speaks English
fuently.
On World Tour.
Sena Khar Khei Shamsher Bahadur Of
Baroda is on his way around the world,
but will pay his main call at Harvard,
where his son, Prince Jaisingaro Gaek-
war, is a freshman.
This young prince occupies a sump-
tuous suite of rooms in upper West
morely court. He is heir, to an annual
income of something like $12,000,000,
yet he is considered extremely demo.
cratic Two years ago the Gaekwar OF
Baroda visited Harvard and Boston and
selected Harvard for his son.
The Gaelwar at that time flashed
upon staid New England in 1906 with
the brilliancy of comet.
He is one of the semi-independeni
princes of India who are privileged tc
make laws, levy taxes, mint coin and
maintain standing armies. When abroad
the Gaekwar assumes the dress and fol
lows the customs of western civilization
and indulges in all the refined luxury
that is provided for the modern mar
of wealth He carries with him the
splendid costume of brocade silk anG
gold lace and the wonderful jeweled
ornaments in which he will appear al
court receptiOns in England
At home the wife and daughter Of
the maharaiah lead almost lonely lives
There are no other women of high ranl
in Baroda, and the wives and daughter!
of neighboring potentates look at then
askance because of their fondness fOi
the ways of western civilization
When the Gaekwar ascended the
throne in 1875 the state had neithal
schools nor hospitals worth considering
Now there are a number of schools Of
various grades in which English i.
taught. The postoffice department de
livered last year letters and post cards
on an average of -four to each inhabi
tant. The need of hospitals was even
greater than that of schools, and has
been equally well met. Baroda has
been smitten by smallpox, scourged by
cholera and decimated by plague time
and again. Formerly the people coped
with these dire visitations as best they
might. Now the i'll are well looked
after in all parts of the state.
Plenty of Titles.
His Highness the Knight Grand Com
mander of the Exalted Order of thu
Star of India and of the Most Eminen
Order of the Indian Empire is a very
important parsonage in his own country
salvo of twenty-one guns signalize
his coming and going. He is escorted
by cavalcade of gaudy troopers when
ever he leaves his palace. His stat
elephant is a beast of impressive pro
portions, bedecked with costly trap
pings, At the great durbars he occu
pies place of honor near the viceroy
and yields precedence to only a few
grandees, such as the nizam of Haidera
bad and the maharaiah Of Kashmir.
Once a Herdboy.
Nevertheless, If the gaekwar's men
ory is ordinarily good he can recolloc
the days when he was a poor villag
boy, living in a mud.walled grass
matched hut, playing gilli.dando anon
the eoeoanut trees, and, like Mowgl
taking his turn at tending the wat'
buffaloes, He could have had no drea
Of greater fortune than TO become II
village headman. But suddenly II
lads life took one Of those stranl
turns that seem extrayngant when to
IN fiction One day q pOmpous pTie.
with the caste mark Of silva upog h
brow, attended by gofgs0usy clad =
taiBers from the court of BaToda, can
10 the little hamlet, making subtle \
qnirles regarding tho defendants
one Plinii, who had been tho fret gae
war Of tho state.
a Hindu family that has d genealol
IA be proud 0f rherishes NJ histoI
3ealoasiy and f6n generally esiablll