Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01
|PR|NCE, HARDUP,
| HAZARDS LIFE
|. FOR kINC'S PAY
Insurance Companies Cameo VIII
liam Of Yields Policies When
He Accepts Albanian Throne.
SALARY WILL BE 100000
New Subjects Hold Life Cheap;
Shoot One Another Down on
Slightest Provocatiop.
Special Gable to The American,

Special Gable to The American, q
BERLIN, Jan. 31.-If the blooR in
your veins was so pure that you and
your sons and daughters could mate
on equal terms with the Hohenzol-
lerns and the Romanoffs, and If, at
the same time, your $4,000 a year
was merely sufficient to keep up a
modest castle on the Rhine and a
Berlin town house, would you take
chance?
Would you exchange a place as
crack colonel of Kaiser Williams ar
my for the title of King over eight
hundred thousand of the iercest per-
sons on the face of the globe?
Prince William of Weld said he
would. And Immediately several
German life insurance societies
showed what their official percentage
opinion of his chance was by return
ing certain sums of money to him.
and notifying him that the policies
on his precious neck were thereby
and from that time forward Cancelled
Despite this somewhat disturbing
move on the part OF the life and
death experts, the Prince will next
month"; nothing goes wrong-take
his consort, one of the most accom-
plished and best loved royal person
ages in Europe, and their two beautl-
full children to the Albanian port of
Avlona and there set up the capital
of his little state.
Many Pretenders Active.
Then sevar Things can Mapped. In
the first place there are thirteen
more or less-pretenders to the throne
who may start an inroad la Mexico.
Then there are Montenegro and Ser
via claiming a slice of Albania on
the north and Greco crying out she
is cheated of several thousand square
miles on the south There Is big
population of Epirotes (natives or
Epirus) in South Albania demanding
to be made subjects of Greece. And
there are several Albanian chieftains
], ruling over a few thousand capable
riflemen who don't see why they are
not as blue blooded as any German.
There is Turkey with 400 years Of
domination to back her claims as AL
bania's overload Theirs are Austria
and Russia demanding certain rights.
And there is finally, the German En-
peror to be repaid for the kingmaking
In which he undoubtedly played,
leading part.
So altogether when William and
Sophie start out to teach their seven
foot mountaineers their "A, 3, C's,
the will have several disturbing and
disconcerting elemtnts both inside
and outside the schoolhouse.
III. L..
But the Prince Is a brave soldier.
He has passed the difficult examina-
ton necessary for an officer who
would become a member of the Ger
man Army General staff. He is am
bilious and at the same time a con-
scientious man. He and. his wife both
have commanding, regal presences by
nature. likely to touch the ina gina
Jion and command the love and re-
epeci of a semi barbarous people, and
they may make good. 6
II the Prince escapes with his life,
it Ia said, he will have after his alb
dication a pension of 100000 year
guaranteed by Emperor William OF
Germany, His salary as Albania S
ruler is to be 100000 a year He
asked $500, 900, but had this cut down
to one-fifth. Even 100000 is quite a
salary for the ruler of country zoo
miles in extreme length and 100 miles
in maximum width, with an area
about that of the State of New Jer-
sey.
The Prince is SO years old The
Princess is marvellous amateur
harpist and pianist, and her house
IN Potsdam has been the music CEN
ter of the Prussian court. Distin-
guished musicians consider 1t an hon.
or to play before Princess Sophie,