Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-17

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One little merry maid, now the olive
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Round about my table call her sisters
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CERMAN.AMER1CAN
Bryant's paper, the New York Esvning
Post, is now edited by Carl Schurz. and
its editor is being effectually damned by
some of the Republican organs for his
views ON civil service reform! Schurz Is
q brainy fellow, and be can write good
essay, but it is very much questioned
whether he makes good editor. he has
not the sparkle of Fred Hassaurek, Of
the Volksjiaff, and does not seem to
know tho American people as well as
Fred does.
met a German professor today who
comes from Bonn, in Prussia. the place
where Carl Schurz was brought mp, and
had quite talK with him about the
great German statesman. He told me
that the Schurz family in Germany were
poor. He said:
.'Schurz's father lived in small town
near Bonn, bat when Carl was still boy
he moved to Bonn and engaged there AZ
a small grocer and baker. Bonn Ia a
university town and its school Is one OF
the most famous in the world. Young
Carl went through the gymnasium, and,
az he displayed much talent, his father
decided TO make q statesman of him.
He entered the college and there formed
that friendship with Professor Hinckel
which had 80 much to do with his future
life. This gentleman took fancy to
young Schurz, took him up and intro
duced him into higher society than his
fathers position admitted. He obtained
such an influence over him that, when he
acted az one of the chief movers in the
revolution OF 1913, young Schurz was
one OF his strongest supporters. At this
time Schurz was under thirty, and he
was known as Red Schurx' over Ger
many, both from his sandy beard and
from the fact of his revoluti0nism, az
the rebels were called red revolutionists,
as one party is called black republican
in Amcrica today. Well, the revolution
failed, and ita members had to flee.
Schurx and Hassaurek. who was also
among them, got away scot free, but
Hinckel was caught and sentenced to
imprisonment for life. We do such
things quicker in Germany than your
people do here, and short time after
his capture he was put behind the bars
In 6p0ndau. But Hchurz got him out,
and he ia now living in London"
"How Was 6churz able TO pardon him?"
! here asked.
"Itwasn't a pardon" replied the Ger
man; "it was an escape, and very bold
one, too. As soon as Schurz saw that
Hinckel was convicted he returned TO
Germany and first visited his fathers
house in the disguise of an old woman.
He succeeded in wearing crinoline better
than your man JEFF Davis, and I have
been told by those who saw him at the
time that he made fine young woman.
In this same disguise he proceeded to
Spandau, and after three months work
and several failures succeeded in getting
the Professor his freedom. They did Il
by rope ladder. Hinckel was confined
In the third story. They got the ladder
mp to him by means OF string and q
stone, which they threw in at the win
dow. This string hauled up the ladder.
and by some means Hinckel got through
tho window and came In safety TO the
ground. Here they had team Of fast
horses, and they dashed away on the
gallop. AT the end Of o six-mile drive
they changed their horses, and 10 on till
they reached Hamburg. Here they were
concealed BY wealthy citizen--kept 10
the cellar, ! believe, until they got away
secretly in a packet ship sailing to Eng
land. Schurz afterward married the
daughter Of the man who concealed
them. She has died since then, un-
derstand. and left fortune to her hus-
band"
: How did sohurz happen To como to
American
He oouldn't 90 back to Germany and
he did mot like England. 20 he came 20
America. He was then about twenty
eight years old. He went west to Mil
vaukee and there studied law. During
the arst two years he was here he studied
EnRltah all the time. He bad private
teacher, and he put in from ten to twelve
hours . Day ct It. No wonder he speaks
II we'll. He know something Of the Ian
RuaRe when he left Germany. but his
practical knowledge Of Il was ANAL.
when ha oame here re saturated him
eelf with Il, and now he speaks purer
EnRiish than most Of you native Ameri-
cams"
docs his father still live in BonnY"
No; about six years ago or moro hc
oame 20 this country and Carl gave him a
farm " il!inoiss whore he il now settled.
., .And what became Of ProfesorHinck-
she staid in England and had a larce
school there. He was . fine professor
and . great man. After the king Rranted
pardon 10 all the revolutionists in 1888
and 1856 he made visit TO Germany ana
hla old home. He did not like Il. how
ever, and he coon went back to london.
His wife came over 10 him soon After his
escape from Spandau, but abe ala NOS
like the English, and the story Is that she
threw herself from a window and hroke
her neck on hearing an organ-Crinder
play DioWaoht am Rhine Mrs.. Hinck-
81 was . woman Of many literary attain
meuts and flnc musician. It's thoucht
she was little crazy lust before she
committed the mad oct which caused
Bat did not Carl Schurx 90 back 10
Germany after he Was elected Senator
In the United Statea?ss
Yes; be had special pardon. Tho
0ermsns At homo Are very proud Of him,
ana whom he was ct Berlin Bismarck en-
tertained him at his homo and wont
about with him arm-in-arm.n
Did Fred Hassaurek come over in
the same ship with Hchurx?e asked.
II don't know about that" va the
answer, but it was at about the same
time. Hassaurek writes fine Enciish.
and he even INDUCES in readable Eng.
liah poem now and then. He il not a
German. but Hungarian. He comes. I
think, from Pesth, away down on the
Danube. He probably attended college
IN Geswany, and in this way vaa 3 pert
OF The revolution of ~. He was OF a
muoh better family than Schurx, and
! have heard that his father was quite
wealthy"
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