The evening world., 1912-03-05
All, THERE, PRINCE!
MORNING, JUDGED!
H0W'S YOUR CELL?
Annual Court Room Dialogue
Repeated, Because "Prince
Ranji's" in Bad Again.

Hohe VI ilChSTlnS H1dLCUeS IN the
vssdbule Of No. c7 East Forty-second
street disclosed a startling sight to
passers-by before daylight to-day.
Three mel were bending over the form
:of . fourth. a man plainly Of Oriental
birth. They stirred him with their feet
And shook him. A horrined witness ran
a told Policeman Gum about II.
n looked upon the features OF the
prestrate man and sighed YEARLY.
"Againf" said he. For It was Joe
Smile. the curry cook. who more than
once has fooled London. New York and
Montreal into believing he Is Prince
Ranji. son Of the Ameer of Be%loochistan.
Indeed. there are times when he seems
to believe II himself.
He doesn't belong here" said the
three men who wero looking him over.
Please take him away"
oiRliEs DIDN'T FIGURE IN
PRINCESS EscAPADE THIS TIME.
With the aid of another policeman.
Gum carried Smile to the East Fifty
frst street station. He had recovered
consciousness by court time and was
able to walk out to the patrol wagon
rnassisted and to leave It with dignity
70 appear before Magistrate Herbert
in Yorkville Court. His unroyai high
ness knows his way about police courts.
The records show that for four years
the occurrence OF last night has been
almost an annual event with him. And
always. when he wakes up. he asserts.
he 10 the real Prince Ranji. son of the
Amer Of Beloochistan, and that he has
been robbed Of large sums OF money
and jewelry. This time. he said. thieves
had taken his fur Overcoat GId fur hat.
HIS tale. to-day. lacked only the
usual accompaniment of naughty young
women. who had persuaded him to de-
part from abstem!ousness. Girls did It
IN April, 1902. and In 1910. but he doesn't
remember there were any girls in It
last night; only that a pleasing stranger
asked him to join him in n drink at the
bar Of the Hotel Belmont. They had
two he said-and then he woke up in
tie station.
lie had missed his train for oscawana.
where. he said. he had a magnificent
hotel from which he comes In every
day to his Oriental grocery In Forty
second street. and was SO disguised
with himself that no thought q drink
would cheer him up. Magistrate Her
bert let him 20 with his sorrows.
JOE HAS HAD SOME CAREER
EVEN FOR A PRINCE.
Joe smile left sherry's twelve years
Joe Smile. who had been discovered
by Ollie Teale In Thampson street,
left Sherry's twelve years ago,
and later mad the most spectacu-
lar re-entry into this country ever made
by any cook but one-and that was
Doc Cook. He sailed from London to
Montreal with his princess and a
~"re''nue.' including a corps of dancing
girls" They were dressed with
gorgeous splendor. Arrogant wa no
name for them. They took a special
train to this city and their progress
vas as royal as that OF Prince Henry,
q little later. For two days the news
papers dwelt on the great honor Prince
Ranji had conferred. on the town. And
then he blandly made It plain that he
meant to open a curry restauran: oppo-
site the Waldorf. 1t was opened.
glowed with silt tables and red hang
1ngs and swinging brass lamps for
awhile. and then went into bankruptcy.
The former retinue were the walters.
cashiers. d~ishwashers and the like. 1t
lacked patrons.
Joe went to work as a cool, again
In several restaurants and hotels. And
every once In a while he goes out and
meets q new acquaintance n drinks
and becomes unspeaklbly wealthy and
. prince again.