Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-20
The PRINCE AND THE PAWN
BROKER.
How the Furture Hunter Just Missed
Marrying the Rich American Heiress.

~" tHe FuFtuFe Hunter Just MtSSeo
Marrying the Rich American Heress
Prince Victor Rathenberg of Holster
sat IN his room in the Mills Hotel ans
counted his money He had exactly s.,
ana n bill from the hotel showed thai
ne owed 81 for room and board.
me Prince went down stairs to the
Office and asked the clerk if there was
any mail for him.
Il expect remittance" said the
Prince.
There is no mail. replied the clerk,
and, looking at the Prince with a du-
blous manner. he asked; Did you get
bil?''
The Prince was annoyed and showed
II.
There is your money. he said, lay
ing the exact sum down on the desk
He took the receipt and sighed.
a year previous the Prince had called
council of the Rathenbergs of Hol-
stein and placed his poverty before
them in strong light.
Some of these Plattdeutsch kinsmen
were wealthy, and the Prince heateGly
demanded that they finance him. he
.iistNN IL pam tIial EfiltsS t1ltS LUZ HlSii-
ed money for him to go along on that
1t vas his prineeiy intention 10 dis
grace them.
His great aunt the Princess of
Schleswig. had an attack of horrors
when she heard Of the youths threat,
and vas only revived with difficulty.
This yenera BILE lady had more money
than all the rest of the Rathenbergcrs
put together, and she summoned her
Chancellor to solve the problem.
Send Prince Victor to New York
and let him marry one of those rich
Americans" he said to his Princess.
You will have to furnish the money.
but it will be cheaper in the end
The Princess loved her boarded gold.
but she started a fund for her young
granddaughter, and $4,000 was raised and
given to him. with the intimation that
il was all he ever would receive.
Prince Victor came to America and
lived cheaply, and his $1,000 had last
ed nearly two years. He now stood in
the office Of his hotel with 81 left, and
was not engaged to marry an heiress.
He had one in mind, however. Miss
Minnie Pulzer granddaughter of Peter
PulZcr, of Lancaster. Penn, who died
rich AMI left Miss Minnie a quarter of
q million. She Immediately moved to
New York, purchasing house in the
Bronx.
The Prince called upon her fort
night before, and told her about his
wonderful family plate hundreds of
years old, and she had been much i'm
pressed. She said she would like to see
it.
Whereupon the Prince had rushed to
his hotel, written letter and told his
great aunt. the Princess, that he near
~ had an heiress.
Send me some of the family plate,
he said in his letter. some that IN
hcritnd from my grandfather afsel
whom | was named, and which bear.
my monogram, and also send me LOCO
and | can win this heiress sure
Tho Prince gave the address of thu
money lender who had the plate. Thu
Princess was greatly disturbed. There
was an intimation in the letter tina
unless she sent the money and pla
it was the intention of the Prince t.
return home in the steeraSe and Vlsi
for an indefinite number of years a
the home Of the Princess.
The following day both the plate an
money arrived. Prince Victor inspect
ed the family heirlooms and found 81,
gold plates handsomely engraved am
bcaring the monogram: ". X.
He sent them to Miss Pulzer withou
a card or note. The monogram Wi
tell her they are from her falthtt
Prince and / will call tomorrow an
propose" he said.
Over on the East Side is one of tn
| busy streets was a rising young paw
| broker of New York. He was Nincer
| Roberts. and he had just returne
| from Il business trip to London. NJ
| Roberts read in The English newsn
| pers that the dining room furnishing
of the late Queen Victoria were to b
sold by auction. and he had hastene
| TO London to pick up some bargains
| The pawnbroker was delighted to fin
| that each article bore the letters, N
| r."
| why, those are my initials he sal,
I"I can let on they have been in m
| possession always.
Then a plan came into his hea
| Away up in the Bronx WAS Miss Mil
ME Pulzer, to whom Mr.. Roberts ha
beer paying court for three years. eve
| since. in fact, he had heard that ST
was an heiress.
Finally MIR Roberts wrapped up
! cup of silver lined with gold and beal
| ing the letters "V. r." on the outsie
| with a crown above them and sent
| to Miss PulZer with a note.
MY dear Minnie Pulzer,' he wrot
please accept this cup, which Wa
| given to me, with dozens of other fir
silver and gold things when was II,