The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-12-20

sailles usually accompanied by his cousin,
Count Bismarck Boiler who is councillor of
legation, and at the same time chief of his
cabinet. AZ home Bismarck generally wears,
when working, simple brown sleeping
gown for the reception of visitors, and ont
side the house, he dons the well.known vel
low cuirsssier uniform of his regiment. At
half past he takes dinner with his officials
including even his secretaries. The meal is
very simply prepared by the minister's own
cook. After the table is cleared the premier
talks with his officials seated about the fire
gtate-the pleasant appearance of which
seems to give him much satisfaction. He
then returns to his room, and works uninter-
ruptedly until one.
During the entire day the Count receives
the reports of his officials, holds conferences
with diplomatists, and receives visits from
high civil and military personages. Dispatches
and letters are received at all hours of the
day and night. Messengers, private, mill
tary, postal, and telegraphic, make their ap-
pearance at all hours. Bismarck smokes but
little, but loves warm room, since he is
often troubled with rheumatism. His bed
and bedroom furniture are very plain In
Versailles he works in a small back room
which many a country pastor would spurn.
1t was only with great difficulty that a small
reception saloon was arranged in the villa;
previously ne had to receive foreign diplo-
matists in his bedroom. Lacking an outer
room the usher has to sit in the corridor
Thus small and simple is the apparatus in
which history is coined in Versailles.
The officials surrounding the Count, and
who occupy for the most part the same villa,
live just as plainly as their chief. These are
Privy Councillor of Legation Abeken, Privy
Councillor of Legation Baron Won Kendell,
Councillors of Legation Counts Hatfield aud
Bucher, Councillor of Legation Bismarck
Bohlen, the chiffreurists st. Blancard and
Wiehr, the secretaries Bolsing, Willisch, and
DR.. Busch The Kings despatch writer, Tagli-
oni, and DR.. Stieber, the director of the army
police, belong, in their official capacity, to the
household of Count Bismarck.
COUNT HELMUTH Won MoLTKE,
general of infantry and chief of the general
staff of the army, lives in No. 80 Rue Neuve,
Versailles in the house where the bureaus of
the general staff are found. Moltke, too,
lives in very plain manner, and is active
and busy from early morning until late at
night. He rises between five and six every
morning and after coffee works from six to
eight. Then comes the sluartermaster-gen-
eral of the army, Podbielski, with whom he
continues until ten, when both are driven to
the Kings quarters. At eleven Moltke re-
turns, takes his lunch, and then drives out
w On9 h1llibdIy operations III JuS
nelghDorhood, accompanied by his two adiu-
tants. After returning he disposes of the
dispatches and letters that have arrived, and
at i've dimes with his entire staff of twenty
officers After table Moltke goes to work.
except when he is commanded to tea with the
King, and retires at eleven or, at latest,
twelve.
Moltke is very plain and unpretentious,
and bears unmurmuringly all the privations
necessitated by the war. He has only one
servant, named August Friebe. He is always
to be found during his morning inspections
of the outposts, or viewing the points chosen
for the planting of tho guns. During the
campaign he has often been exposed to the
enemys bullets. He was in the palace of st.
Cloud Just before the fire broke out, and
while the French were sending shells upon
the building. He looked into the imperial
sleeping apartment, and while the bombs
crashed through roof and wall he stood
musing for some time before the bed of
Napoleon III, which was half crushed, and
then said, calmly:-"He will not sleep here
at least any more -
During the fights Moltke can always be
found in the front. He is very sparing in his
words; he listens, but seldom speaks. But
towards the soldiers and young officers, all OF
whom fairly venerate him, he is very
friendly and always addresses them when he
sees them in the bivouac or meets them
upon the march. ''What sort of a night
have you passed ?" ''Did you get wet in
the night?" ''How have you passed the
night?" and similar questions are always
ready at his tongues end, and he frequently
enters into conversation with the men. On
the 2d of September, after the surrender of
Napoleon, Moltke rode into Donchery past o
troop of grenadieIs, and hailed them with the
words, "We've captured the Emperor; now
we'll soon be going home again" A vast
number of such anecdotes are circulating in
Versailles of these three personages, proving
that they are all fayorites with the soldiers,
as once Frederick the Great, Butcher, and
Stein.