Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — “UNSER HEINRICH.” [ARTICLE]

“UNSER HEINRICH.”

The Good Nature and Physical PrAitwi of the Kaiser's Brother. Prince Henry of Prussia, the Kaiser's brother, is the idol of the German naval service. He is the “Unser Heinrich” of the navy, just as his imperial father used to be the “Unser Fritz” of the army, and countless stories are told to illustrate his good nature, his devotion to his profession, and his physical prowess. Once, when the Olga, of which he was then a watchkeeping lieutenant, was lying in the Gulf of Kiel, the order was given through him for all hands to bathe. The weather was chilly, and an officer, , remarked to the prince that the water must be far too cold to be pleasant.* He suggested, therefore, that the order be annulled. Without a word Prince Henry, who wa3 on the bridge, sprang thence into the sea, swam to the Jacob’s ladder astern, climbed on board again, and mounting, dripping, to the bridge, said to the officer: “Do you say so now?” There'was no reply, and the prince instead of going below to change remained on the bridge in his wet clothes until his watch was relieved. Another story illustrates the prince’s activity. One day at Wilhelmshaven he put a thaler between his teeth and dashed up the rigging of his ship crying: “He who catches me shall have the thaler.” Although he was pursued by the whole of the ship’s company not on duty he was not caught, and at last swinging himself by a rope to the deck he turned to the nearest of his pursuers and said’ laughingly: “If you are as thirsty as I am you must want it, so here’s your money.”