AMERICAN ROYALTY

New Zealand Tablet, 7 October 1909, Page 1598

AMERICAN ROYALTY

A visitor to one of the hotels at Carlsbad, Germany, tells the story of a gentleman to whom the servants and the proprietor paid the' most profound attention. He was : royally treated, rather to the neglect of the rest of the ■ Every time he came out of the hotel' door a strip of green carpet would be rolled down in front of him, and _f the attendants would take off their caps and bow m the most deferential and obsequious manner. Neither the visitor thus so strangely honored nor the other guests could . make out what this deference meant. _ At last some one looked in the printed register. There was the entry : ' James the First, King of Buffalo, N.Y. It was the native printer's rendering of the American c name — James I. King, Buffalo, N.Y.