The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-22
In New York

New York Aug. 22--The stranger in our midst is Mir. John Adams of Fredericksburg. Va, alias Prince Michael Alexander Dmitri Ohlenski RomanoH of st. Petersburg, Russia, alias Harry Gerguson of Hillsboro. I'll, Or, aa tho bongus nohleman is best known, Prince Mike" of Broadway,
 Indeed, the Prince has been So conspieuously absent from front pages and gossip columns and the smarter barrooms that he conde- Hoends to visit in the Fifties. There have been no tales lately of his having served as q Foreign Legion expert in Hollywood, of his having slowed away in dog kennel on Q ans-Atlantic steamer, or of his having swum away from the deten- ton pen of Ellis Island,
 He has been unusually quiet. Ho has not lectured on the history of ariatocratic Russia to ladies' clubs nor has he recently asked tho police for protection from local Bolshe- viks. Nor has he appeared In the drawing roIna of blue ribbon dow agers with nohleman's sash across his bosom. And there has been no further talk of deporting him.
 Landed on Farm
 But ho was sitting at Jack & Charlio's oasis, twenty One" the other day slipping a tall gin concoc- ton as though he wasn't used to it and he seemed q little hay when anyone called him Mike" And he wouldn't allow his table companions to pay for the drink, Gle didn't pay for it either. It was on the house,)
 For "Prince Mike" has come back to us temporarily aS John Adams, Q country gentleman from Fred erioksburR, Va, where he raised wheat and corn and soy beans, doffed his top hat and hemedalled Starched shirt for oVeralls, and blended his nobility with the south. ern arstoeracy, He has . pair Of calloused mitts to show for it,
 Eighteen months have passed aimee the Prince hastily took up husbandry after his friends were embarrassed to learn of his connec- ton with c detective agency in- VestigAting extra -marital relations. Az John Adams, he assumed the management of a farm in the Rap- pahannock Valley and toyed with agriculture. Which ia something Prince Mikes adopted ancestors, the RomanotiS, never cared about.
 But devil take the hindmoSt. In Fredericksburg, tho Prince tx John Adams, a squire over co acres Of fertile country. At Jack & Charlie'S he iE Michael Alexander Dmitri Oh- lenski of mighty royal dynasty, suavo and 6Velte and entitled to 6
 highball for his company. How, then, did the Prince like the out- door drudgery this other fellow John Adams was up top
 Trim Reaper.
 "Well, as l was saying tho other day" the Prince acclaimed in the stentorian manner, "it is wonder ful to return to the soil. It is the same spirit displayed by the people who, haraased by worldly difnculty and woe, seclude themselves in the cloistera. It is surcease for the soul. For my part, up with the larks and in the fields until late of night. There were divers crops, AS for the soy beans, they were taller, I should estimate. than this highball glaws."
 The Prince paused, meditated his remarks, then took another sWig of Jack & ChaTlie's highly reputable lirewater. Another party came into tho room, notice the pseudo-des- cendant of the Romanoffs and sWarmed around. My dears." the stentorian voice rolled of. "f'll have you know that the name k Jawn Adams"
 The Prince, unfortunately, isn't hanging around Manhattan for any length of time. which means that there won't be much opportunity for buying him Q drink. The Prince doesn't regret that. In fact, he WaA at the verge of pointing out that although tho Almanac Do ootha has not yet capitulated to his title in the Romanoff court. the Cham Der of Commerce of Fredericksburg, Va, lists Q John Adams--Varm Supervisor -Rappahannock Valley.
 Nor is the Prince c cheap skate under any alias. fredericksburg wa the boyhood home of 0eorg Wash- ington.