The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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Very few Of us would look toward Rus
STA and the st. Petersburg court of the
RomanofYs to find humanitarianism and.
what is more. to find it exemplified. And
yet 1t was Alexander the Third, the
father of the present Gar Nicholas, who
upon ascending. the throne In 1881, de-
clined to permit the Prince Of Monaco
to enter his dominions, as a visitor or
guest, because SO many Russian mobiles
had been ruined and a number driven to
self-destruction. after the losses they had
sustained at the gaming tables Of Monte
Carlo This ukase held good during all
these years until very recently, when It
was lifted by Emperor Nicholas-but only
in part.
That is. the ruler Of the little princi-
pality in the Riviera of Southern France
and Italy at last has been permitted to
cross the Russian frontier: but the Car
as yet has not consented to receive him
at his court. This forbearance on the
part of the Muscovite autocrat was
brought about by a remark made by
Prince Albert to a friendly Russian
grand duke whom he met at Paris, that
he was nxious to see an "auerochs, -
roaming in the wilds Of his native Polish
heaths This was promptly reported to
the Gar who affably consented that the
Prince should have the chance and in
vited him to visit the imperial preserves
near Bialostok. in Poland, where in the
neighborhood vast forests this only sur
viving species of the bison of central and
northern Europe were allowed to exist
under a strict guardship. The congenial
Emperor added that the Prince Of
Monaco might even shoot one-only one
of these auerochs, il so disposed"
1t has never been commented upon
publicly, but it Is fact nevertheless that
the late Alexander III entertained a most
violent hatred toward Prince Albert,
owing to. the latter's i'll treatment Of his
first wife, Lady Douglas Hamilton, now
the Countess Festetics Of Hungary. This
feeling was intensified by the refusal of
the Prince Of Monaco to terminate the
concession granted the Casino company
to copduct gambling tables at Monte
Carlo as he had promised to do. On the
became a partner Of the Blanc brothers
concern.
Still more incensed became Alexander
III when he heard that Prince Albert,
after his divorce from Lady Hamilton.
married and placed upon the throne with
him Alice Heine. of New Orleans. q
Jewess. and the daughter Of ''plebean"
banker. from whom, by the way. he is
judicially separated through her instiga-
tlOu. AleA6nQeT was a jew HAlcT, anu
he took his revenge by ordering his po-
lice to "drive the prince and his Jewish
wife out Of his domains should they set
foot upon Russian sell during the round
CT visits paid by them. after their mar
rage, to the royalties of Europe"
Though his father is long since dead.
having been assassinated while on jour
ney by a bomb thrown into his royal
train, the present ruler, despite the fact
that Prince Albert since has been re-
ceived at every court and that the world
10 greatly indebted to him for his sci
entifc deep-sea researches and other i'm
portant discoveries, has steadily declined
to yield and to lift his fathers ukase.
The permission to visit his aueroche pre-
serves in Poland was the one exception
after all these years. but as far az st.
Petersburg is concerned the prince Is not
allowed to cross its city limits.
AL this apparently Is due more to the
fact that he was married to Jewish
woman than TO the long forgotten i'll
feeling existing between the prince and
Alexander, for the latter was just as
much opposed to the family OF Peter
Obronovitch of Servia and his whole kin,
and yet such a man was received at the
Court Of st. Petersburg, though it il well
known to history that he reached his
throne only through the terrible work of
the Seryian regicides and the double
murder at the royal palace at Belgrade.
Statistics generally speaking are dry,