Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01
PRINCE, HARDUP,
HAZARDS LIFE
FOR KINGS PAY
Insurance Companies Cameo Will
liam of Yields Policies When
He Accepts Albanian Throne.
SALARY WILL BE $1OO,OOO.OO
New Subjects Hold Life Cheap;
Shoot One Another Down on
Slightest Provocation.
Special Gable to The American.

Special Gable TO The American.
BERLIN, Jan. 31.--If the blood In
your veins was so pure that you and
your sons and daughters could mate
on equal terms with the Hohenzol-
Terms and the Romanoffs, and If. at
the same time, your $4,000 year
was merely sufficient to keep up n
Berlin town house, would you take a
chance7
Would you exchange a place as
crack colonel of Kaiser williams ar
my for the title Of King over eight
hundred thousand Of the fiercest 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
IflOnLn--A uOtIlIb BVru WtVh6
his conBort one of the most accom-
plsshed and best loved royal person
ages in Europe, and their two beauti-
full children to the Albanian port of
Aviona 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 a la Mexico.
Then there are Montenegro and Ser
via claiming a slice of Albania on
the north and Greece crying out she
"a cheated OF several thousand square
miles on the south. There 10 a big
population of Epirotes (natives OF
Epfrus) in South Albania demanding
10 be made subjects of Greece. And
there are several Albanian chieftains
ruling over few thousand capable
riremen who don't see why they arc
not as blue blooded as any German.
There is Turkey with 400 years OF
domination to back her claims as Al
bania's overload. There are Austria
and Russia demanding certain rights
And there is, finally, the German En-
perur to be repaid for the hingmaking
in which he undoubtedly played
leading part.
SO altogether when William anc
Sophie start out to teach their seven,
foot mountaineers their "A. b, C's,'
the will have several disturbing and
disconcerting elemtnts both inside
and outside the schoolhouse.
Prince Is Brave.
But the Prince is 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-
scienffous man. He and his wife both
have commanding, regal presences by
nature, likely to touch the imagina-
ton and command the love and re-
spect of q semi barbarous people, and
they may make good. {
II the Prince escapes with his life
II is said, he will have after his abb
dicatiSn a pension of $4,000 n year
guaranteed by Emperor William OF
Germany. His salary as Albania's
ruler is to be- $l00,000 year. He
asked $500, 900. but had this cut down
to fifth Even 100000 Is quite
salary for the ruler of a country 200
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 II an hon
or to play before Princess Sophie.