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Show ROBERT LINCOLN PRAISES KING Death of Edward Comes as Personal Per-sonal Loss to Former Embassador Em-bassador to England. WAS "HAPPY, CLEVER MAN TO MEET IN SOCIAL WAY" Not Austere, but Possessed of Natural Dignity That Commanded Com-manded Respect. By Leased Wire to The Tribune. CHICAGO, May 7. Probably no person per-son in Chicago is moro grieved ovor the death of King Edward .than is Robort T. Lincoln, who wns ombassador to England under President Harrison. "His death is not only a great loss to England, but tho world at large," said Mr. Lincoln, "lie is succeeded by a man of great ability, a reticent disposition dis-position and of tho right ago. "During my four years' residence in London T became acquainted with tho king. Ho was then Prince of Wales, and 1 mot him often rathor in social than official wnj's. "Ho was at that time a happy, clever man in ovory way, and Iuh courtes' to others was ono of his greatost characteristics. charac-teristics. Ho knew about ovorybody and everything. Ho traveled exton-sivolv exton-sivolv and was always well informed. "As Princo of ales. ho had practically prac-tically nothing to do with tho affairs of the government, nnd consequently he was known to embassadors and others oth-ers purely in a social capacity. "While tho king was a chatty, genial man, ho wns not what j'ou would call in this country a halo fellow well met. You would not seo him walking along tho streets shaking hands with friends. As I have said, his crowning feature is that ho was a gcntlomnn. "I romembor the king when, as Princo of Wales, ho visited tho Unitod States. 1 was then a student in Harvard. Har-vard. Ho visited the university. Ho and 1113- father never mot. "He wns a genial and bright convor-sationnlist. convor-sationnlist. His smile was characteristic. character-istic. Though ho was not what we call democratic in tho narrow sense, he was not exclusive "Whilo I was embassador a little incident happened that showed tho feei-ing feei-ing Edward entertained toward whom he had met favorably. James Spencer, now n residont of Milwnukoo, owned a largo farm near Dwight, 111., in 1860. The farm wns in the center of a fine quail district, and it wns thcro .that tho prince wns taken to shoot tho prairie prai-rie game. Ho stayed at Mr. Spencer's place. "When I was in London Mr. Spencer visited me. I had my secretary write a note to tho prince's secretary tolling him of Mr. Spencer's presenco in London. Lon-don. The princo replied immediately and requested Mr. Spencer to visit him without delay. "To me Edward always appeared to be a very strong man mentally and physically.' Ho was a great social favorite. fa-vorite. Queen Alexandria probably is bettor known porsonally to moro peo pie in England than was the king. She is not so closely related to the reigning reign-ing houso of Englnnd, and for this reason rea-son sho has appeared more in public than her royal consort." |