The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-12
BURGLARS FOUND
RULER IN CAFE
prince Long Nose" Found
in Vienna Resort-Thrust
Upon the People.

The career of Prince Ferdinand,
now king. tomorrow perhaps emperor.
is very instructive to those who
would inform themselves as to tho
ways of the great ones OF the Garth.
Bible, which is M~achievclli's The
Prince"
After the kidnapping Of Prince AL
cNandcr and his subsequent %abdication
in the a c of the cars opposition
the throne of Bulgaria had not un-
naturally for some time gone a-beg-
ging, comments the New York Sun.
The regents, the leader of whom was
Stamboulof. were holding their posi-
ton against Russia or at least against
General kaulbars. with the greatest
difficulty. The vacant throne was re-
fused by Prince Waldemar of Dem
mark and King Charles Of Roumania,
and the Bulgarians refused to accept
the Prince OF MinSrclia whom the
Turks put forward.
Found Royalty in Cafe.
1t was ut this .iuncture that the re-
gents sent three delegates to inspect
the royal cadets of Europe in their
search for an eligible prince. Ono Of
these delegates. NJ. Stoiletf, who after
ward was prime minister, on several
occasions told me that he had about
given up the search. and preparatory
to returning home by the Orient en-
press on the following day was spend
Ing the evening at R%onachers at the
time q famous night cafe and vaude-
VILE theater in Vienna. He was at the
end OF his quest and failure stared him
in the face. He had gone over the list
with his colleagues, and they were of
one opinion. The people who were
willing to come to Bulgaria to secure
what Bismarck called in his famous
conversation with the Battenburg
prince. "a pleasant souvenir for their
old age" We're not eligible. And those
who were did not want to go.
Suggested ''Prince Long Nose"
Everybody in the theater knew the
mission Of the Bulgarian trio. It had
been c%artooned in all the comic pa.
pers So Stoileff was not surprised
when a man whose name he never
knew and whom he believed to have
beer a perfect stranger to him at the
Tune. as now, came up and "a down
at his table. you gentlemen are
looking for a prince" he began, "why
don't you take Prince Long Nose over
there? We could get along without
him splendidly."
Prince Long Nose, who occupied an
adjacent table. was no other than
Prince Ferdinand of Coburg, then al
lieutenant in an Austrian hussar reei-
ment. Ferdinand had no love for sol
dierlng. and he spent the time stufing|
birds and collecting rare stones and !
agates. He spent most Of his time at
the chateau of Ebenthal. near Vienna.
where his widowed mother, the Prin-
cess Clementine, lived. The unknown
man and the delegate of the Bulgarian ,
regents clinked glnsses and soon sep:
arated. but the suggestion stuck. i
Stolef made inquiries and found out ,
that the Princess Clementine, O grand.
daughter of King Louise Philippe. was
exceedingly wealthy. One Of her sons. i
the Count d'Eu. had married q daugh-
ter OF Dom Pedro Of Brazil. Conse-
quently the widowed mother had CEN
tered her hopes and aspirations in the
younger son.
Powers Boycotted Him.
Stoilef on the following day cabled
Stambouloff of his find, and it is said
that the leading regent Immediately
came i%ncognito TO- Vienna. This state
ment is. however, disputed, and / have
no tirst-hand knowledge of the facts.
AS soon as the offer of the throne
made Prince Ferdinand accepted
it. conditioned upon his being elected
by n grand Sobranje, or legislative
chamber. and conditioned upon the,
approval of his election by the powers.
Russia refused to recognize the cleo
ton and Ferdinand was in the very
start placed under a diplomatic bow.
colt. Indeed 1t was only in 1908, TWEEN