Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-14
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The coming visit of the young
Prince of Wales recalls that his
distinguished grand father, King
Albert, then Prince Albert, spent
parts of two days and night in
Harrisburg during his tour of the
United States in October, 1860. AL
bert Edward was accorded a great
reception here. He stopped at the
old Jones House, afterward famous
as the Commonwealth and now the
Dauphin Building, at the corner of
Market street and Market Square,
and the rooms reserved for him
were the best in the house and to
decorated in honor of their no."
guest.
The Prince, then very popu:~-
throughout the nation, was littis
more than Is years old and he We.
accompanied to this country b.
Lord Lyons, the British ambassadv~
at Washington, and the Duke or
New Castle, who looked after his
welfare during the tour. The party
was met at the Penna. depot by a
party of prominent citizens appoint
cd by the Mayor and driven in open
carriages to the Jones House. The
day following a great reception was
| held at the capitol, the Governor and
| State officials extending the freedom
| of the State to the visitors. The re-
| ception was preceded by parade
| that ended in the capitol grounds be-
/ fore the largest of the three buildings
that constituted the old capitol
group and the Prince made an ad-
dress to what a writer of the times
GALES the assembled multitude"
Captain Charles P. Meek is ono
of those who heard the Prince
speak. He stood on a large brown
stone slab at the side of the main
entrance to the capitol" said he,
where he could overlook the great
crowd gathered around and looked
out upon the sea of upturned faces,
evidently greatly pleased with the
enthusiasm displayed, as he well
might have been. 1 was only
small boy at the time and l do not
remember anything the Prince said,
but l do recall that he was a very
young man and that he wore a pair
of white trousers. Those were the
first white pants 1 had ever seen
and they stick in my memory be-
yond anything else I saw that day.
They were a marvel to me and
could not forget them.
Another kind of a story of a visit
ing Prince, who driven from his
home, fled for his life, and sought
refuge in free America, is revealed
i'm the announcement made by Colonel
j. B. Kemper, the Army Recruiting
officer for this district that Alex
andre Rukhtomsky, a Russian
prince descended from the house of
Rurik, which ruled Russia from the
ninth to the sixteenth century and
gave way to the Romanoffs, parked
his automobile in front of the San
} Francisco Recruiting Office, few
DAYS ago, and one of our energetic
) recruiters got him interested in the
Army.
= He had three years of service in
the Russian Army as a Lieutenant
and Captain in campaigns against
the Germans, and is a graduate of
the Russian Army Cavalry School in
Petrograd He is 2S years of age.
I'm Europe we often heard of the
, great American Army and we have
admired its efficiency" said the
young Russian. "I have heard it is
a great sport-loving Army and that
is why | want to enlist. Further
more. I do not know what the Boil
sheviki have done with my estate
in Russia. Too many of my fellow
officers are imprisoned in Siberian
; mines and many others have been
killed" =:
He saws it cost him 10000 rubles
: in bribes and fares to get across
Siberia. He then passed few
months in Japan and has been in
San Francisco since February 1919.
; Ambassador Fletcher knows
: more about Mexico and can handle
! the Mexican situation better than
, any one other man in the United
, | States" declared a United States
; Government official fresh from
, conference on the subject at Wash
+ ington. Fletcher is we'll known in
Harrisburg. being brother OF for-
l mer Sheriff J. Rowe Fletcher and
$ a member of the famous Roosevelt
/ | Rough Riders. FLETCHER knows the
| Latin character" continued TINS or
2 fetal, land he knows also the situa-
e tion in Mexico and has the conf
f dence of many of the most influen-
tial Nexicans on both sides the pol
: itical fence. He has a reputation
l not only for sagacity but for fair
, dealing that stands the United
: States Government in mighty good
: stead at this time. 7 believe that
: If the Government would turn it's
Mexican troubles over to Fletcher
he would be able to evolve a policy
highly beneficial to both this
E country and to Mexico as we'll"
!
t According to this same official
\ the United States formerly contron-
= ed. through the ownership of its
. citizens. more than half the oil out
= nut of the Mexican republic. Slowly
a but surely it has been losing its
D grip and Great Britain and Ser
many now control more than so per
cent and the loss to America is
steadily increasing. I'VE are build
ing oil-burning ships and our own
domestic oil supply is running low.
How long will it be, I wonder, If
n the Government does not turn
: Fletcher or some other good man
s loose on the job, before we will be
n dependent upon the capital of some
e other nation for our naval oil sup
+ ply?"
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