Show TALK WITH WALES PUTTTRE KING OF ENGLAND IS A BUSY MAN I Paw Merchants and Business Men Who Work Harder Than Ho Does Disposes of Vast Amount of Work London Friday Jan 11Spechtl Correspondence of the Associated pressTlie following Is the substance I of an Interview with the Prince of Wales which is to appear shortly in a London magazine There Is every reason to believe Itls perfectly genuine and it Is understood to be the first Interview In-terview in which his Royal Highness has been directly quoted A correspondent who had been privileged privi-leged t6 nice the Prince of Wales on more than one occasion had an interview Inter-view with Englands future king at Marlborough house His Royal High nesss London residence some days ago The Prince talked with great frankness j concerning himself and his views on various subjects If anyone ever deserved de-served the appellation of a busy man the Prince does and there are few city merchants und business men who work hauler than he docs and even the Lon don public has no idea of the quantity of work he gets through In tim course of a day It Is only by following a most methodical arrangement that he Is able to do as much as he does in the time As a matter of fact all his engagements en-gagements are made weeks and sometimes some-times months ahead and every hour almost every minute Is mapped out for him When the correspondent was ushered ush-ered Into his study at Marlborough house the Princes greeting was kind in the extreme It was merely like an elderly business man smiling a kindly welcome to some young and daring intruder in-truder The correspondent launched forth his I questions ocginning with inquiries about the numerous public dinners which the Prince attended and allud ingto the published statement that the Prince held the record for the hang est sum of money ever collected at one banquet Yes that Is correct I certainly hold the record In that respect said the Prince And presiding at dinner etc for the benefit of charities especially Masonic ones Is almost a pleasure tome to-me the only part which I do notrUko about the proceedings Is If the dinner drags Itself out to a considerable length If only you knew how terribly bored I am by the inordinate length of some of these dinners and the speeches and how I am all the time longing to getaway get-away you would be really sorry for me But there I must not say too much on that subject With regard to horseracing and betting your Royal Highness I 1 think racing Is the finest sport In the world and I only regret that It should be harmed by the amount of betting which goes on Personally I always use what Influence I possess to discountenance It among my personal friends especially when It Is made a regular practice of and the stakes are largeThere There are many people who think your royal highness has a very easy life of It and that the hardest duties which you have to perform are attending at-tending State functions Now here Is some Information for you said the Prince Do you know that I myself see every letter which Is addressed tp me and In the majority of Instances dictate the reply When the mall arrives In tim morning it In opened by my secretarys staff and sqrtcd Into three groups letters from personal friends and relatives those bearing on State affairs and thirdly begging letters and petitions and I make It thy business to make myself aware of the contents of each This of Itself Is no light task when you lake into cosldcratlon the fact that each mornings mall consists of some hundreds hun-dreds of letters So that those who say mine Is an Idle life malign me Asked his opinion on South African affairs he smilingly shook his head and refused to be drawn out but he said he should always remember with the deepest affection and regard tim heroic conduct of the troops in the campaign |