The Washington herald., 1913-01-18

Prince Albert, the King of England
second son, who is destined for a naya
career, toward the end of this month
win begin the six months cruise which
is the final period of training for Brit
ish naval cadet. He will be accompanied
by the other cadets of his class at the
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. Hi:
last term at Dartmouth now is ended
and he spent the holidays at Sandring'
hem.
The sea-going course on cruiser. or
which he is. about to enter. is part OF
the regulation training, following on the
completion of two years at Osborne. ano
two years at Dartmouth. This finish
ed, the young cadet is ready to be conn.,
missioned as a midshipman, and has SET
his foot on the first rung of the ladder
OF his naval career.
In the case of the Prince of Wales, il
will be remembered, the six months on
a training cruiser was omitted, and the
young prince became a midshipman on
H NJ. S. Hindustan directly on leaving
Dartmouth. This course could be adopt
ed more easily because the duties Of his
position and the varied training thai
was necessary did not permit him to
adopt the sea as a career. But Prince
Albert, as the second son, will be enabled
to follow the profession OF a naval off,
the Duke of Clarence, did before him.
Neither for the royal cadet nor for his
fellows will this cruise be a mere pleas
ure trip. During the whole OF the six
months they will be kept hard a their
studies by the staff of instructors who
sail with the cruiser, and in addition
there will be practical work in naviga-
tion and watch-keeping. They will thus
have made their real entry TO the hard
working life of the navy.
The young prince has left Dartmouth,
after a successful experience of the IA
nous naval college. No favoritism has
been shown him, and he has been put
through the mill as strictly as any OF his
fellows. Into games and sports he has
entered wholeheartedly, and has proved
himself a competent oarsman, cricketer,
and runner. There has only been one
break in the routine. Early in 1911. after
leaving Osborne. and while the Prince
of Wales was in his last term, the COL
lege was visited by measles. In Feb
ruary of that year both princes were
down with the disease, but they soon
got better.
The centenary of the restoration of its
national independence, destroyed during
the French revolution, of the recall OF the
House OF Orange and the establishment
of a constitutional monarchy will be cele-
hrated by the Dutch this year by means
of a number of expositions IN the COM
mercial centers of Holland. Amsterdam is
to have a great nautical show with every
thing pertaining to Dutch navigation and
colonial history. Haarlem. famous for
its tulips, will have a horticultural fair:
Utrecht will exhibit the long line of old
Dutch masters, and Delft will devote it.
self TO its famous porcelain and pottery,
&c
- The great popularity enjoyed by Queen
Wilhelmina has worked a remarkable
change in the democratic Dutch, who so
freely and enthusiastically shed their
blood for the sake OF their republic and
who regarded a monarchy as intolerabIe
tyranny. which is not a surprise consid-
ering all that they were made to suffer
under Spanish rule and the notorious Duke
d Alva. But even with their Orange dy-
nasty, the Dutch mynheers were not very
fortunate when one recollects the un-
savory reputation of the present Queens
half-brothers. The elder, the Prinz VIII
helm Won Oranien, succumbed to dissipa-
tion in Paris, practically as an outcast
and Alexander, the younger brother, was
a maniac, his idiosyncracles taking the
form of liking for female neither gar
ments. 1t Is stated even that the ILL.,
starred youth. by his express wish. was
buried in such garb in the royal vaults
of the Nieuw Kirke. at Delft When their
mother. a princess of Wuerthemberg.
died. King William III married Princess
Emma Won Waldeck Pyrmont. now the
Queen Dowager. Their only child is the
present Queen Wilhelmina, whose CON-
sort is Prince Heinrich Won MeckIenberg
Scfrwerin, and first cousin to Crown Prin-
cess Cecilie of Germany.