Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-08
MAHARAJAH BRINGS ONE WIFE

NEW YORK. May 5.--He might be
called jag" for short, but etiquette
demands II. II. Farzan D!lbund Ra-
sikue i-kad daulat-t- Inglishia, Rjah-i-
Rajagan, Rata Jagatgit Singh Bahadur.
Maharajah OF kapurthala, Grand Com
mandcr OF the Star of India, and he Is
here again.
His Highness. who has an income OF
100000 a year. 500 servants in the
Punjab Province. India, where he is
permitted to reign in mild sort OF
way. and four wives, with a retinuc OF
servants, arrived on the steamship
Patria of the Fabre Line.
However. he has brought only his
last and most beloved wife with him,
the Maharancc of kapurthaia. half
Spanish and half French. now twenty
five years old and handsome. The
prince married her in Madrid last year.
The other wives OF the Maharajah are
Hindus. and he never travels with them.
The Maharanee was originally
dancer and the Maharajah became
fascinated with her in Madrid and per-
suaded her TO marry him. The parents
Of the artist, whose chief income came
from her. objected but gave their con-
sent when the Maharajah. who is i'm
mcnsely rich, gave them $4,000 and
went honeymooning to Paris. Being
we'll educated himself, he desired his
youngest and handsomest Maharanee to
be endowed similarly and he provided
teachers for her In Paris. She came
forth in a few years with n perfect
command OF French and English and
the Maharajah is proud of her ac-
complishments as he is Of her beauty.
She was married in India according
to the rites OF the Sikhs. The Mahara
jah is tall. strong looking and whisker-
thoroughly democratic and modest
potentate.
with the Maharajah and the Ma
haranee is the Prince Karimjt Singh.
the eighteen-year old son of the Ma
harajah by the Maharanee Kinara. who
died six years ago. The prince is good
looking and gentle-mannered.
The Maharajah is forty-three, and
has been here before He remarked
coming up the bay that he had not seen
New York since he was a boy of twenty.
The Maharajah has equipped three
companies of his cOuntrymen for SER
vice in the war. He is a bit OF a sport.
and when most of the trained, high
class youngsters OF his principality
wanted to command the three con-
tingents. he decided to toss up coin
to decide who should head the COM
panies The result was that the second
contingent OF forty men had as COM
mander boy. The Meharajah said
reports OF rcvolts among East Indian
troops were exaggerated. The mutinies
1du Deeh pun ely ioCdl, anu mao Deen
easily put down. The people OF India
were virtually unanimous in their fealty
to the government.
The Maharajah will he in this city
about ten days. He and his party will
stop at the Ritz. They will go hence
to Buffalo, to Chicago. to the Cali
fornia eXpositions, where they will
stay several weeks: TO Canada, and
will return to this city and sail for
France. II Is said that he prefers to
live In France rather than England
because OF a tendency on the part Of
English society, which did not ar-
prove his marriage to the Spanish
dancer, to give him the cold shoulder
The much benamed and betitled Ma
haraJah was born in 1872. succeeded
to the throne In 1877 and belongs to
the Jutkalal (Sikh) family.
He has $40 square miles OF territory