The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-03-24
GERMANY's FUTURE EMPEROR.
Estimation i'm which He is Held
by the People.


Emperor of Germany: Prince William,
the eldest son of the Crown Prince, and
the future heir to the German throne,
received the title of Major General as
birthday present from the Emperor,
on January 9th. The condition of the
Crown Princes health has certainly
had much to do with the grandson's
rapid promotion. Two years ago-he is
now twenty-nine - Prince William
ranked only as Major, and people in
ness with which he advanced, yet all
praised the thoroughness of his military
education. Innumerable Princelings
were then above him, as we'll as untitled
men of not much longer service, for
Prussian Prince receives his straps at
the age of ten. He was compelled to
work like the rest of his comrades,
equally subject to military discipline.
Early and late he was with his regiment,
ordered about as an ordinary Major, sa-
luting his superiors, with little or no at
tention-in military way--paid to his
Royal rank. But all this is changed,
and he wears now the brilliant insignia
Of Prussian Major General. The En-
peror appointed him by telegraph, he
being stationed at Potsdam, and few
hours later he presented himself to his
grandsire i'll his new regimentals,
beamingly happy at his increased i'm
portance. Any hour may make him
Prince-yes, may make him King and
Emperor-and the proud old ruler has
at last thought it best to recognize this
possibility, and prepare the young man
for its realization.
Yet Prince William is a young-looking
Major General. He lacks the prOmi
nent rugged features of his father and
the handsome lines of his grandsire.
The Hohenzollerns have no hereditary
physical characteristics. Even Professor
Virchow failed to find any cranial ones
in his scientific examination of the an
cestral skulls. They have never inter
married, having the purest blood of all
Royal families, a custom which tends to
Prince William has the appearance of a
young man Of twenty-five. His upper
lip shows sparse blonde mustache, his
nose is slightly Roman, with a medium
forehead, and his hair stands back like
Beethoven's. But despite the compare
lively weak chin, his cold blue eye has
a brave, daring expression, which re-
minds one little of the Great Frederick,
whom he is fondly said to resemble in
character. He is slender in build and
shorter in stature than his brother, the
NAVAL Hohenzollern.' His right hand
is badly crippled and his right arm at
least two inches shorter than his left,
defect which has caused as much annoy
ance and mental pain as ever Byron's
did. He tries upon every occasion to
hide, but tries, of course, in vain. Yet
the skill he possesses is remarkable. He
carries his sword upon parade as we'll as
any officer and has become a most ex-
cellent fencer, rides like Cossack and
shoots with unerring aim.
No officer in the army is more popular
than his Royal scion, and none more
clever No wonder that his men are at
tached to him. lie has a pleasant word
for all, and cracks his joke with the
common man as though he were of his
His training has been very
democratic. He attended school at Cas-
sci, boarding with one of the teachers,
and treated exactly as one of the other !
boys. Taking his lunch one day he no.
ticed one of his comrades eating the |
black bread which the poorer classes |
use in Germany. Wishing to taste it he |
offered to ''trade'' with the boy-the |
son, [ believe, of poor Mountaineering, |
of course, was only too glad to do SO. 1t |
pleased the Princes palate so much that |
he made an agreement to exchange |
lunches with the boy every day, and
he always Toasted upon
the black bread baked in the house of !
the mechanic He was graduated after
several years at Cassel among the first
in his class, to the great satisfaction of
his parents, who attended the COM
He afterward-as is the
custom - attended the
at Bonn, and joined the
famous Sake Borussen Corps, over
whose annual meetings he presides, and
s as eager as any in relating the pranks
Of his student days, and to-day one
meets him in the streets of Berlin in
civilians clothes, mingling with the
people like the "citizen King"
The malady and suffering of the
Crown Prince in the far-off Italian town
lave reused the sympathies of the whole
population, but despite his popularity,
despite the way they love him, it is safe
o say that the majority of the nation