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MATERNAL ANCESTRY.

on his erandmother's side Car Ferdi-
uand is descended from an Austrian held
marshal, Prince KohaTy, whose title was
won in the wars for the overthrow OF
the Napoleonic power. Wherefore this
branch has been known, though incor-
rcctly, as CobuTg- Kohary Gar Ferdi-
hands mother was Princess Clementlne'
Of the house OF Orleans, daughter Of
Louis Philippe of France. Her sister
married that other member OF the family
who may be said 10 have been the first
Of the clever Coburgs with which this
article deals: Leopold of Sachsen-Coburg'
first King Of the Belglans.
4 clever, brilliant man, indeed, was
this German princeling, who began his
career as an officer in the Russian army
and as alde-de-camp TO Alexander !,
post which ne was forced 10 resign when
Napoleon limited to him that he had rela-
tiyes i'm Germany whose domains and dig
mites could easily be taken from them 10
make rich pickings for French marshals'
Leopold Of Sachsen- Coburg- Gotha blueu
his time. and ro-entered the Russian mill
tary service In 1913, taking an active part
In the campaigns that ended with Napo-
Icons first abdication.
In 1915 the young sodier-he had been
horn In December. 1790-took up his dolni-
Gle in England and began his greater
career by marrying England's Beloved
Princess" Charlotte of Wales, the unhap-
py daughter of the disreputablc Prince
Regent, who became King George ~ ana
Of his no less unfortunate wife Charlotte"
Of Mecklenburg-St His scandalous
treatment of her ending In suit OF dl-
yorce on a charge Of inndelity. Is SUI
Recently we'll known. The hatred he bore
her he transferred also to his daughter.
whose only happiness was found IN the
brief span OF her married life.
Had she lived she would have become
Queen OF England, and Leopold Of Coburs
Prince Consort instead Of his cousin A.
bert, for Charlotte was George Tvs only
child, and her uncle. William ~. had no
issue by his wife. who. By the way, Was
daughter OF another branch OF the sax
oman house. that of sachsen- Meininger
A has already been said the genealogical
qualifications Of this German family arc
most boWilderinR. There ~ more 10 come
however. for the Duchess of Kent, the
mother Of Queen Victoria, was also
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Royo1 Police ct S%4e-.

verse, to England, Prince Albert re-
mains to date the most successful member
Of his family, as the man who. with his
uncle's initial assistance, raised the house
of Sachscn- COburg- Gotha to the mghtiest
throne Of nineteenth-century Europe. His
Oldest son became King and Emperor.
The second, the Duke OF Edinburgh, re-
turned by a whirl of the wheel Of fortune
to the land of his ancestry to end his life
with the ancestral dignity of reigning
head of the duchy. which has popula-
ton. all told, of 10000 souls. lie was
succeeded by his nephew, the son Of his
youngest brother. the Duke of Albany.
The reign Of the second Of the Coburgs
I'm Belgium Leopold II, ended only so re-
Gently that the record of his ability as a
constitutional ruler. Of his success in fos-
terlng the prosperity of his people. still re-
mains fresh in the mind More widely
known still Is his astuteness as a man or
business, for nc was, indeed the rubber
king Of the world
That the horrors Of Congo misrule and
cruelty were purposely exaggerated can
no longer be doubted. Still, there remains
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-24
AN ANCIENT RACE.

Another family Of German princeiings
that has doEc well for itself and is just
now very much in the public eye, IN the
person OF Ferdinand Of Bulgaria, is that
Of Coburg. a branch Of an ancient race
which began its upward struggle in 1852.
u never rose TO great eminence until the
nineteenth century cCntenting itseH
through seven hundred years with its
ducal dignity, until Napoleon raised it 10
that Of kings Of Saxony in 1906 This was
the less exalted fortune OF the younger
branch Of the two into which the parent
house divided itself in 1873. Still scion
Of this Younger branch occupied the
throne of Poland from 1891 to 1863.
From the older branch are descended
the Coburgs, or, to give them their fuli
name. the dukes Of Sachsen-CoourG-
Gotha. Toward the end of the seven
tcentb century there were no less than
seven branches sprung from the main
stem Of the family; half century later
they we're reduced to four; but 1t is with
the Coburgs alone that we have 10 deal
here. The ramifcations and intricacies
Of the genealogy Of the minor houses oil
the German Empire are too bewilderlns
TO interest mere common clay. Sufhce IL
10 add here that the Duke OF Weimdr
who patronized the arts in Germany at
the end Of the eighteenth century, who
gathered at mis- court the brilliant circle
Of which Goethe was the sun, was mem
Der Of another branch Of the family.
The house OF Coburg, then, has done
Increasingly well for itself since the be-
ginning of the nineteenth century; II
promises to do even better during the
present one, in the person Of Ferdinand
Macmillan Charles-Leopold-Ma of Co.
burg. Gar Of Bulgaria and head Of the
Balkan confederation that has finished
the work Of centuries in putting an END
10 the power of Turkey in Europe.
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rogative and power; he had also Icu-
tonic notions concerning the proper edu-
cation of royal children, especially OF inc
heir TO the throne. His widow carried
them out to the end, even to her later
exclusion of the Prince Of Wales from
all participation in the business Oh 'n'
State. The consequences OF TINS III hd-
ward WIS imperfect preparedness Tor
the duties Of Kingship. were recently
pointed out by Sir Sydney Lee In the
Dictionary Of National Biography In an
article the echoes Of whose sensation
have only just been silenced by the
greater explosion in the Balkans caused
bv another Coburg, Ferdinand of Bull
garia. Whatever. his services. or the re-
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Coburg. Thus Prince Albert was her first
cousin as we'll as her husband. and Leo
pold the future King OF the Bclsians, the
uncle Of them both.
Leopold, who had been made Duke Of
kendall on his marriage to Charlotte Of
Wales in 1916. continued TO reside at
Twickenham after her death in the fol-
lowing year. lie had desperate love af-
fair with the German actress, Caroline
Bauer who left memoirs that pleased
nobody in particular. least of all the man
whom she had ultimately married In
1880 Leopold faced his second great op-
portunty-the offer Of the crown Of
Greece. He declined il firmly. the post
appeared too uncertain To him. and fail
ure in il would have closed his career
forever II was accepted. instead, by
Prince George of Schleswig Holstcin etc,
who thus presented to the world the
strange spectacle of son becoming a
king five months before his father. He
assumed sovereignty at Athens in June,
1868: his father did not mount the throne
Of Denmark until November OF the same
ypar
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dine with him on the evening Of his ar
rival. or any other night thereafter dur
ing ms stay i'm Paris And SO. while the
great state banquet was going on. Leopold
!. King Of the Rclgiaus, diucd alone lu
his private apartments. and on the NOR
row returned home in all haste.
OF the measure Of mis- influence upon his
niece. queen Victoria. there are two opin-
ions II has been held TO be very great;
it has Of late been disproycd. I'm part at
least, 10y the publication Of the great
Queens letters. Certain it Is that ne was
Instrumental I'm bringing about her mar
riagc to his nephew and her own first
cousin. Francis Charles Augustus Albert
Emmanuel of Sachscn-CO burg-Gotha, Wh"
has already gone down In history A.
the Prince COusOrt We know from
Victoria's own letters how she thanked
her uncle for sending to her the man who
made the happiness of her life. the man
she never forgot during her long widow
hood, for their union lasted only twenty
one years. Prince Albert paid dearly for
his dazzling success. He was mistrustod,
dlsliked and coyertly snccrcd AT In the
realm Of his queen, especially during IN"
earlier years Of their marriage; but 1t
must be conceded that he maintained his
delicate and difficult position with great
dignity and tact
Here, again, the measure Of the Indirect
influence of the Coburgs on English al
fairs through Victoria is one that still
remains to be definitely settled. Prince
Albert had Teutonic ideas Of royal pre-
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-E IN this country are so accus-
M toned to associating the ro-
w nance of royalty with a dead
rast that will never be revived, that we
arc ant 10 overlook the amazing fortunes
Of the surviving inheritors of the divine
right in the present day Of its diminished
OPPORTUNITIES. Royalty still has its self
made men: the two Napoleons and Ber-
psdotte. King Of Sweden, were by no
means the last OF them. With those born
lust within the purple, fortune still plays
fayorites and finds means of bestowing
mon them dignities of the first rank
The rise Of the minor German houses OF
Teck and Battenberg TO the pinnacle Of
imperial and royal dignity is the most
notable example in Our own day-a
daughter Of the one family is Queen oil
England and Empress of India; daugh-
Ter Of the other Queen Of Spain. Since
1865 the minor German house of Schles-
wig Uolstein SOndersburG GlucksburS
has mounted the throne Of Denmark,
given Knss to Greece and Norway, an
Empress to Russia and a Queen to Eng
land-AleXandra. the we'll beloved.
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Ferd1ne-pd
u cobur,s King q
Su1S o-r1e.

! enough of scandal in Lcopolds public ana
private life to heighten the contrast be-
tween the amazing intellectual quality of
the man and his cynical indifference 10
public opinion. His royal contemporaries,
/ who certainly were not squeamish IN mat
| tcrs of private morality, politely, but un-
mistakably. OStraciZed him, but he went
his own way, protracting his unseemly
souabbles with his daughters beyond the
grave through the disposition of his estate.
His sister, Carlotta. lost her mind in the
tragedy Of the Mexican adventure or her
husband Macmillan Of Austria; he him
| self married daughter of the Hapsburgs'
and one of his children became the bride
of the Crown Prince Rudolf. whose death
/ remains one Of the carefully guarded
/ secrets of contemporary royal history. II
4, is worth while to bear i'm mind at the pres
,nt juncture Of affairs in the Balkans that
| a member of the English branch Of the
| family. Mary Of Coburg, daughter Of the
Duke OF Edinburgh and of Sachsen-Co-
burg Gotha. Is the wife of the Crown
Prince Of Rumania
Before turning to the clever Coburg
T, of the present generation. the Car OF
Bulgaria, it may be we'll TO remember his
uncle, the son of Ills grandfather and of
the daughter OF the AUSTRIAN general,
Prince Kohary-anotter Ferdinand OF
Saxe-C oburg- Gotha who, through his
marriage to Queen Maria IL de la Gloria
of Portugal, became King Consort and
established his family on the throne OF
that kingdom in 1886. Here fortune be-
slowed her favor but to smite, for Ferdi'
nand's descendants. Carlos |. and his
elder son. were assassinated i'm 1905, while
his younger SON Manuel II, was driven
into exile two years later by the estab-
Iishment Of the republic.
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FORTUNE KNOCKS TWICE.

Fortune. il is said, knocks only once AT
the same door but she has made an eN-
ception of the CoburgS. Undismayed by
Leopold's rejection of what she had Of
fered him. She kept her benevolent guild
ing hand upon his shoulder. Scarcely had
he refused the dignity of the Greek throne
when, without resentment, she found Tor
him another crown and sceptre anu purple
mantle The kingship Of Belgium, Nhlch
had Just freed itself from Holland mad
gone begging among the royal houses Of
Europe. Leopold took it without hcsita-
ton Clever CoburE that he was, he
weighed the hazards against the posi-
biljties. and made the right choice. He
was capable and tactful ruler the
founder OF the prosperity OF the little
kingdom that reached its present mar
veUous height under his son and sue
cessor. Leopold II, another clever CoburG'
indeed
Leopold ! raid the price OF his success,
for his position was al first far from a
pleasant one. The first difficulty that con
fronted him was the onmity Of King
Louis Philippe Of France, who had
coveted the Belgian throne for his own
son. the Duke OF Ncmours. Leopold con-
ciliated the citizen-king by marrying his
daughter. What could have been simpler
than this? Clever, clever Coburg, one
public humiliation he had To swallow
however, and ne swallowed ii gracefully.
1t is an interesting story.
Shortly before Leopold's meeting win
Charlotte of Wales that royal princess had
been wooed by the Prince Of Orange, the
son Of King William / of the Netherlands
| Leopold therefore had scored twice over
| the future William lI-first in love, ana
then in accepting the throne Of the south
ern part of his inheritance. torn from ms
house by revolution. The Prince OF
Orange who had ridden alone into dis
| loyal Brussels, jumped the barbados IN
its streets and returned TO his command
unframed, had had better success at the
Russian court in seeking wife
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DOUBTFUL FAvoRs OF FORTUNE.

1t was only wintry smile that Fortune
bestowed on the present Ferdinand of
Coburg when. on July !. 1857. he was
elected Prince of Bulgaria by the national
assembly of that country, as the successor
Of Alexander Of Battenberg. whom the
Russians had dcposed by kidnapping him.
Clever, prudent Leopold of Coburg would
have refused tn. perlous honor, as he
had refused that of Greece. Clever. ad-
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HUMILIATION OF LEOPOLD

His marriage TO Princess Anna Paul
oyna made him the brothcr-in-law OF
car Nicholas J. Now, it 50 happened
that this gloomy autocrat Of all the Rus
sias visited Paris at a time when Leopold
was staying with his royal fathcr-ln-la".
Nicholas had his opinion Of kings OF the
calibrc of Louis Philippe and Leopold. IT
was an Oriental one. Moreover, he had
a grudge against Leopold on account VI
his sister and brother-in-law OF the Ne'h-
erlands SO he arrogantly told his frehch
host that he would not speak to beopoiu
Of Belgium, that he would not receive
him and. above all, that he would not
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Owing to illness, Kate Carew' who
is in Europe for The Tribune has
bsen unable to prepare her usual
weekly article and sketches. She
will make her temperance in these
Columns within week or two. g.
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Poya.t Pe.lace> ct Brussels =.

vcnturous Ferdinand Of Coburg accepted
il. Genealogical explanations will insist
on obirudmg themselves. Ferdinand
mother, CIemertinc of Orleans. daughter
Of KIM Louis Philippe Of the French, aud
sisteI-in-law of Leopold of COburg, hi'L.
King of the Belgians, is generally held To-
have managed the election OF her son To-
the Bulgarian prIncipality brilliant
ambitious woman, she had educated hIW
As a aaion Of a royal house, the grandson
and nephew Of kings Ferdinand, so A. is
said. was largely influenced by her iu
accepting the post and its perils. The
time for proving that lac, too, possessed
the clcvcrness Of the Coburcs WAS stu u
come.
His was. indeed. the thorncst ratn Of
aW. Russia vetoed his election. Germans.
still under the influence Of Bismarck p.
pro- Russian policies followed suit 80 dia
the other great powers. II was at the eHl
Of this period of uncertainty IN 1896, Nh'h
recognition was given, that the clever
head Of another branch Of the family !he
old Duke Of Sachsen- McininSon, had his
Itlo Joke at the expense Of the future
Bulgarian Czer Ferdinand whom lie had
not seen since his childhood, paid him a
Lvisit i'm all the splcndor Of his princely
role The duke looked az him doubttullyr
then said. You see, Ferde must he one
Of the great powers. | did not recognize
you Al first
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5~ekensbo-ro pe~le-ee ;. London

Bv Great Ability and Well Contrived Marriages
the Princes of the House of Sachsen-Co-
burg-Gotha Established Themselves With
in the Last Century on the Thrones
of Great Britain, Belgium, Bull
earia and Portugal
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SOMETHING OF A CHARACTER.

Ferdinand 81 Bu Saria was, rightly or
wrongly. for a while the joke Of Europe
That eccentric royal lady the ex-Crown
Princess Of SaxonY at is all in the fam
ily. one secs) devotes 10 him some pun
gent paragraphs in her memoirs. she
saws that he was a sutton for her hand
i'm his younger days, and that she re-
fused him. "He ought 70 have been an
actor" she opines. and refers also 10 MS
extreme vanity concerning his personal
appearance aud his shapey hands. 10
began bv assuming royal pose, orderea'
SO il was reported, regalia TO he maze IN
Germany. could not find the money to pay
for them, and was. moreover, warned ny
Russia-and Stambuloff-not 10 indulge in
nonsense Of that sort.
His rule was as troubled within tho
realm as il was unstable and disquieting
abroad. He lived in constant fear or
Alexander OF Battenberg's fate, still moro
of assassination. Conspiracies constantly
sprang up and were suppressed-that led
by Major Pantza being the one best
known. II was repeatedly reported that
he had fed from Sofia and sought safety
abroad. while, after the assassination or
Stambuloff, the Bismarck of Bulgaria"
IL was said that all the combined innu-
opce OF the Coburg, Orleans and Bourbon
families had been needed To induce him to
return TO his capital Stambulof's muir
der is, indeed. the dark stain on Ferdi-
nand's record in the principally, The
dead mans wife accused him. and stu
more pointcdly his first wife, Maria
Louisa of Parma Bourbon, % at least
passive completely in the crime. At the
! trial Of the assassins she exclaimed: Let
! these men go! The real murderers Of my
husband are the members Of the present
| government
UGLY STORIES ABOUT THE cZhR.
! Ferdinand's name had been found Oh the
| list of victims made up by the assassns.
I but, according to Stambulon. who had
| forstold his own fate, it had been placed
there merely as a ruse. Certain II Is that
| his murderers we're lot off with merely
nominal punishment. Thsrs eas nasty
! scandal also over the violent death Of al
Austrian actress with which Ferdinand S
name was openly connected-in short, the
! future historian will find much to sift and
! weigh and question when he comes 10
! write the story of the first Car of Bul.
garia, who may yet become the first Car
of a Balkan federation as we'll. To con.
ciliste Russia. which he had offended by
promising 10 decline the offer of the Bull.
garians and then accepting 1t, Ferdinand
a Roman Catholic himself. caused ms
eldest son and heir, Prince Boris, to b.
baptized in the Orthodox Russian Church
This political move not only estrangec
from him his Roman Catholic wife and al
the Bourbons. but brought him also ex
communication by Pope Leo XIII, and
Continued on seventh page,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-27
CAPITALISTS PLAN TO
| BUILD FOR GOVERNMENT
F Street Structure for Com
merce Commission-Oth-
ers in Contemplation.

The erection of ten-story office build
ing adjoining on the west the building of
the American National Bank, which it is
announced is to be carried out during the
coming season, will provide space, In con.
nection with the upper floors Of the bank
building where the offices Of the inter
state commerce commission are now To-
Gated. for the entire force Of the COM
mission. And this is not the only provi-
sion that is contemplated by private en-
terprise for the accommodation of the
executive Offices OF the government in
this city.
1t Is expected. as soon as decision is
reached by Congress to provide quarters
for the Department of Commerce and
Labor. that 1t will be possible to erect a
building to be used during the period
that must elapse before the new govern
ment structure can be completed.
The size Of the building to be erected
by the government has an important
bearing on such an enterprise In case
the bill becomes law providing for the
erection of that building on the Mali.
rather than on one Of the tier of squares
between Pennsylvania avenue and the
Mail and between l4th and 10Th streets,
where the structures for the State De-
partment and the Department of Justice
are to be built, then much larger build
ing will be erected. Pending the deter
minatiOn of this matter. the capitalists
who have secured the right to purchase
large block Of land to the north of the
main business center Of the city. where
they propose to provide q suitable build
ing for the Department of Commerce
and Labor. will hold their plans in ABBEY
ance.
Another group of capitalists is matur-
ing a plan for the erection of a modern
fireprOof structure for the accommodation
of one of the government offices. and 1T is
probable that active building operations
will be begun during the coming season.
The number of such enterprises. either
contemplated or actually decided upon at
this time, gives an excellent outward in
dication Of the growth Of the machinery
of the government
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DEEDS RECORDED IN
LARGE REALTY DEALS
Secretary Meyer Adds to
Holding on H Street Ward
man to Build on Harvard.

Several transactions in realty were CON-
cluded during the past week by placing on
record the deeds formally transferring
the property to the new owners. One Of
these papers placed the title to the prop
erty laos H street in George Won L. Mey-
err, the Secretary of the Navy.
BY this transaction Mr.. Meyer merely
adds to his holdings on this street, as he
owns the adjoining building. which is
used for office purposes. and Is known as
the Maryland building. 1t gives him a
holding of twenty-three feet in addition
to the sixty-one feet which he has had
for some time. The new acquisition is
offered for rent, so that it is evident no
change in the property is contemplated
by Mr.. Meyer at the present time.
Another deed transferred the title OF
the residence at the northeast cerner OF
Connecticut avenue and Rhode Island
avenue to William A. Mearns. who, It IL
understood, represents others in the
transaction. It is now offered for rent.
subiect to alterations which may be nee
essary to adapt the building for new
uses, which, 1t is supposed, will be of q
commercial character.
Another transaction was the sale Of a
large area of unimproved' land on Har-
ward street between Georgia avenue ana
Sherman avenue northwest, comprising
the larger part Of the square. This prop
erty was transferred to Harry Wardman
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TUG NEEDS REPAIRS.
Metal of Her Hull Damaged by Con.
tact With Ice.

The big tug NJ. Mitchell Davis of the
Taylor fleet. which yesterday arrived
with q tow of four oyster boats from the
Wicomico river to this city. did not leave
here last night for the lower river, as
was expected, 1t having been found that
while coming through the heavy ice she
had started some Of the metal covering
the wooden hull, and she remained here
to replace the metal and to give it all a
thorough inspection. She will sail as
soon as this work is completed and she
can get stores aboard. but will go away
light. 1t being thought unwise to attempt
to take light boats down the river through
the drifting ice.
From here the Davis will go to the
Patuxent river to pick up a tow OF oys-
ter-laden craft bound to the Baltimore
market. Capt Frank Taylor is aboard
the tug with Capt. Tally Fowkes. She
will probably continue in general towing
work until late in the spring. when 1t Is
understood she will resume service as
tender to dredging machines working at
Baltimore or Norfolk.