The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1913-01-13
BUCHAREST MADDEST CITY;
REFUSES TO BE REFORMED

Mad Bucharest IS wroih With mild
Prince Ferdinand Victor Meurad.
Bucharest is happily glor.ousiy hac-
oAaHt.,aiis insane, and unreasonab.s
Ferdinand wants 10 make it sane.
Ferdinand is heir % the thron,.
nephew oi tA.ialess King Carol. and
of rarollins Carmen SILVA lie has
a handsome vie and still haudsoLer
daughter. He Is rich. H. and slightly
asthmatj,. H should therefore.
know better than 10 20 about CO..
r-,riug this in,orrieible world But
ferdinand is an opgimist and wants
to reform Buehartsa
Buyharest Is optimistic also; and
Gee'lnls % consider the 4rim cen
;asenol oi reform. 4 Mas mai"
it declares. long before 81 wh-n
Doctor Ferdinand arrived from mis-
rstiyc HehcuzoIlert and | shall be
mad, please Aea a:e Ions after IL
rsigus.e
lu,hafes,'s malHess lies iii - In.
ordinate craze To ne the smartes,
:.Ife:t, bizaIr".r. ffirtiesF. q at
'-,Ho,,, : rep -as,,.h u IS. Ia pared
~. il most j,,H, are nets ii
rUruar boredom vi who want vice
HrHt charm. HtefF without e,,a
for. aamoiIrs without hoHcs.H ara
spiendor Without soap. rush Buch.
aresj"ard They have a aood time i'll
l.oumanjaH style. But ii is not good
enough lor reforming Ferdinand aho
says that since tlte other Baif.aa
states are going -politiCalI., ii
is time tor Roumania 10 &c; sane
i,oumaHsa leers iHsancit II has
tAo record harNests. Ii has had
a boom of factory building. hotel
sfar.ihs. speculation. swiudlins. EN-.
rishment ana ruin; and ii il. in 10
mood Tor The Stern ,ounseIs OF Sa-
Sonaroia Ferdinand
MADNESS is SHOWN IN MANY
WAYS.
BuCharest's madness eiiloresces
Nariously First il craze Tor samb-
Ing Which has seized all Rouman-
taus from princes 10 gypsies. RigH--
l.. there are 2Apsies nut no princes
Wise Roumania's law 4iyers forbid
titles; but there. as in other dem
ocratic lanes, people invent then
own titles; ana there is 10 lant
owner. however hard-up who does
not discover at least when abroad
that he's Il prince. The RoumaH.;tHs
have lately had their land 1,uis
doubled by the kindly providence
which riPens their crops, and lei
idea OF having a good time with it
is to see it pass 10 swindlers.
All Roumanians gamble small
boys gamble for used matches ana
antique besgars gamble for their last
grey hairs. Mad Bucharest has 35o
nno citizens; and 50 the Roumanu
says il has tHo gambling dcus
About one for every -H0 citizens.
Gambling goes on without cease
punctuated by murders and suicides
which no man takes notice OF Some
times how things happen that
even drag the police out OF their
own gambling dehs Lately the sui
ode OF Lieutenant l.uders of German
i.,i, l. l.. i,i. 1,
then that respectable Ferdinand got
his first shock He learned that not
only Bucharest and kustendjii. when
is Roumania's chief port, were thick
With gambling hells; but that the
royal borough. Sinaia, is thicker still
Sinaia Is a small town at the loot
Of the high Carpathian Bucs2cs II
boasts the fine royal chateau OF
Pelesch. and the Crown Princes pal
ace Pelischor; there are parks, walks
and hotels; and OF late the land
owners have taken 10 building villas
there. Ii was shortsighted Ferdinand
who set them building the villas: and
now he's sorry, for the villa owners
turned Sinaia into the biggest gambl-
ing center OF its size on earth.
FERDINAND BUILDS VILLAS TO
CLEANSE CITY.
Ferdinand MAS so keen on develop
ing Sinaia and on creating Rou.
manian Nersanes that he built villas
himself. He dragged out OF dusty