The Washington herald., 1912-02-19
POLISH PRINCE
DOING AMERICA"
Gives His Impressions of Washing
tom New York, and
Other Cities.

His serene hIghness. Prince C. Tn.
de GuetlSo-wydzga, of Lublin. Poland,
Is at the Arlington, having made fiying
visit to the United States for the bene-
fit Of his health and 10 embody his OBJ
servations in this country in a little
book, which the prince intends to call
what I Saw in America in Twenty
Days"
The visitor is a member Of the ancient
Polish nobility, numbering among his
forebears and collateral forefathers the
prince primate Of the Catholic Church
OF Poland, who refused to sanction King
sobieski's expedition to Vienna to re-
lieve that city from the onslaught OF the
Turks. and a great-great-grandfath
who fought with Kosclusko under, Ma
poleOn the Great in his Russian cam
paign.
my doctors advised me TO spend the
winter months in the South of Europe,
said the forty y-three-year-old nobleman,
but 1 had heard so much OF America
that I determined TO come here. having
seen almost every other part of the
world" The prince grew very enthu-
siastlc about this country, describing
the various cities he has visited.
New York" said he, Struggling his
shoulders, is like a big blum; every
thing so ungainly big. Chicago is
fine city; but only business. San Fran
cisco is beautiful; its Golden Gate Park
cannot be equRled in the world for
beauty. San Francisco is a most won
derful city, showing what pluck and
determination can do. Your own city
of Washington is like a countess
among the other American cities; she
is refined, cultured, and quiet, no un-
necessary ostentation or business II
business did not call me back 10 Poland
and I could satisfactorily arrange mat
ters. believe 1 would like to live In
San Francisco
Prince wydzga, who makes his home
in Paris, speaks seven languages, but
has only a slight knowledge q English.
In German, interlarded with Snatches OF
French and English, he said that every
body everywhere I'm America said All
right to everything.
''NYhen I give the waiter N the hotel
tip. he says all right and when l
dent tip him. he says ALI rign,," 100.
The same with everybody else. When
you depart. you don't find the hotel per-
sonnel lined up with open hands waiting
for their tips.
I'm France" said the prince. ''shop-
keepers size a man up by his clothes
and appearance, and charge according
ly. A man attired in fine clothes has TO
pay twice as much as a man who dress
es ordinarily. In America It is one price
to ALL and that is much better.
"Ah, but there Is one thing do not like
in your country. and that is the gold
filed teeth OF the people. Even colored
men and women have gold-filled teeth,
and when they laugh the gold shows. 1t
Is like business going 10 extremes, re-
mlnding one that gold rules everything
in America. My Pullman car porter and
a colored manicure girl had gold-hlled
teeth, and cannot md words to ex-
press the opinion I formed from those
gold teeth"
The foreign visitor is a patriot, and
when in Chicago placed three roses at
the foot of the monument of Kosciusko.
and promised TO honor the local statue Of
the Polish Revolutionary hero in the
same manner. The prince excused him
self for not appearing In conventional
evening clothes. explaining that while
passing through New Orleans his luggage
was misplaced at the railway station. but
that he expects TO receive IL every min
ute, having been notified that the case
containing his garb had been located.
The prince said that the Polish people
hated everything German, and would
never rest easy under German govern
ment He believed that in years TO
come the Polish people would come to
terms with the Russian government and
unite with them. which would make that
country the greatest enemy OF Germany.
as well as most dangerous Prince
wydzga said he loved the Catholic re-
ligion. and because OF the persecution
of the church in France his affection and
love for that country had become consid-
erably cooled on.
"All that we Polish people ask OF Rus
sia Is our language and our religion, and
we would be happy" said the visitor.
Prince Sapieha, Of Paris. also a noble
man of that ancient kingdom and a close
friend OF Prince wydzga. is at the New
willard