New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE QUEEN
WHICH ILLUSTRATES HER
ENGLISH TNpE OF 1EAUTH

troubled him little. Threatened with tubercu-
losis, he has done little soldering, which means
that in some respects his reign may be expected
to be unlike that of his uncle. He is said TO be
without the capacity for comradeship which so
selped MS uncle, and to be shy, reserved, unbend-
ing, lacking in self-confdence, weak and vacil-
lating. II has even been said of him that he has
not got along we'll with the army owing to his
lack of familiarity with military affairs, and has
gained the dislike of his people and the ministry.
All or none of which may be true. 1t is all hear
say. In any event, he and the people have served
a long apprenticeship in cooperation.
HIS MARRIAGE TO 4 GRANDDAUGHTER or
QUEEN VICTORIA
On January 10, 1898, he married Princess Marie
ALEXANDRA Victoria, eldest daughter of Queen Vic
t)rias second son, Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and
Of Sake oburg and Gotha. OF classic style of
beauty she stimulated fresh interest in her hus-
band, for it is said to have fattered the Ruman-
ians that their ruling house should be allied by
marriage with so great family that sitting
upon the throne of Great Britain. Here again
gossip speaks with her usual unsympathetic
criticism Accustomed to a more generous scale
of living than Rumania could provide, the prin-
cess is said to have caused unpleasantness on
more than one occasion between her husband and
Parliament over the growing size of the civil
list. However she has made amends for this by
assuring the country of somewhat numerous
ruling family. King Ferdinand has five children
Prince Carol the oldest, having attained his
+,yontv.frst wear on October 10. The other chill
dram are Princess Elizabeth twenty years old;
Princess Marie, fourteen years old; Prince Men
alas eleven wears old and Princess leana, five
wears of age. Princess Elizabeth, named for Gar
men sylvia, the poet Queen" is counted the most
beautiful manageable princess in Europe. She
has inherited the classic features Of her mother
and has been mentioned as consort Tor the
Prince of Wales
THE RUMANIAN MACHINE DIS0WNS ITS
PARENT.
Il must be blow to the pride of German
"kultur" to put il no more strongly, that coinc-
dent with the death Of King Charles the very
machine which he, a Hohenzollern, had been
buildinp ND on the German model should object
TO association with its parent For Rumania
under the efficient rule of Charles, took military
lessons from Germany. The state, more highly
developed than its Slay neghbors, until recently
has been looked upon as a silent ally of Germany
and Austria-Hungary.
When the writer in Budapest shortly after
the close Of the Russian-Japanese War he met
in the hotel a newspaper correspondent who mad
lust returned from visit TO the maneuyres of
the Rumanian army. The journalist was exclaim-
inc apaingt the Wanted proves of the japanese
army. and added that they orght TO have tackled
an army that was more nearly their equal, like
the Rumanian army, for instance"
"There's an army that would make the Japan
csc understand what modern warfare is!" he eX-
claimed.
The Rumanian army is wonderful force and
would be a great help to the Allies should it be
turned loose in their behalf When King Charles
went to Rumania in 1866 he found army con-
sisting Of raw levies. 1t was not uniformed and
q part of it was equipped with such MEDIEVAL
veapons as pixies. Charles had been trained under
the famous Moltke and had served with dis
tinction in the Danish war of 1864. One Of his
first steps was the reorganization Of the army &c
cording to his own notions.
lie obtained from his suzerain, the Sultan,
"blissfully unconscious of the use to which they
were to be put" permission to organize militia
of 10000 men. This was the nucleus Of his army
IL won its spurs at Plevna.
In 1875 constitution proclaimed at Con
stantnople One of the details of this constitution
was its assumption of the indivsibility and unity
Of the empire. At Bucharest indignation became
intense, for the rule of Prince Charles had led