New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-26

all my comrades, and nothing more. God IN Ills
Providence led the Prussian eagle to victory
The bravery Of our army, the foresight OF It's
leaders and my plans were the instruments Oh
His Divine will. And when hear these endleSs
songs of Joy, the thought will not leave me
What would have been the consequence II success
had not crowned our effortsP Would not TINS
undeseryed homage have been turned TO unde-
served blame?' lie remains as modest and uh-
assuming as when, an unknown lieutenant seventy
wears ago, he proffercd his sword to Prusslas
King.
Despite his great age, he is a familiar sigho
still in the streets and salons Of the metropolis
Clad in the uniform which he always wears with
the Iron Cross pinned on his breast. he loves TO
wander about the city or along the beautiful
promenades lof the Thiergarten. His gait Is
slow. his tall and slender figure somewhat stooped
from the weight of years; his brow Is wrlnkled.
his bcardless face is furrowed But the Keen
blue eve which has watched the course OF so many
battles; the thin, tightly closed. Determined
looking lips, the sharp, clearly cut. eagle-like
nro6le are little changed. Men, women and
children, who lovingly address him as Uncle
Moltke." follow him wherever he goes. and make
Of his way veritable road Of triumph. helmut
Karl Bernhard Won Moltke is essentially chiia
OF the century Born in the little village Oh
Parchim, in Mccklenburg, on Sunday. OCTOBER 90
1900 his youth falls in the days OF Germany
greatest degradation. The son OF aaron rri'z
Won Moltke, he belonged, on his fathers slue' W
one of the oldest families in the Empire. In ooo
Years no bar sinister found place in their coat
of-arms His mother, on the other hand, from
whom he inherited most of his talents
snranp from the people. She was the daughter
NJ Financial Councillor Paschen, wealthy mer-
chant of Hamburg At the request Of his father
in-law the Baron resigned his place In the army
and took ND his abode in Lubbock. In that his
torical city young IIclmut made his first nc
ouaintance with the hereditary enemy" OF Ger
MANY the soldiers Of France. Napoleon had made
himself Emperor, had conquered Austria ana Kills.
STA at Austerlitz, had dismemoered the
Holy Roman Kingdom, and by the battle
Of Jena had humbled and crushed poor
Prussia Bluecher had withdrawn to Lubbock
! after the battle, pursued by 10000 men. On No
yember the city was besieged. and the French
soldiers soon sacked the place. Baron Moltke'S
home suffered among the rest The insult left
n lasting impression upon the mind OF the boy, VINO
was destined, years later, to have such terrible
revenge BY the war and the humbled condition
OF Prussia Baron Moltke lost his fortune, and
WIS obliged again to take up his sword IN the
service OF Denmark Unable to superintend the
education OF his children he placed them, in
1871 IL. in the charge Of General Lorenz. cross old
/ bachelor to prepare for tho military academy In
/ Copephagen With that change Helmut severed
| his connection with his home and began period
! NJ his life which is filled with trials and de-
invitations In the autumn Of the same year young
! Moltke and his brother entered the academy as
! free State pupils, their father being unable to
nav their expenses For them the discipline was
unusually severe. and they were subjected to o
surveillance that was prison-like in its sharp
ness More than half century afterward
Moltke had not forgotten those hard
sbips without friends and relatives in
a strange city," he wrote In 1855, we passed O
ioyless childhood" The discipline was severe
even hard and to-day, when my Judgment has
become impartial in regard to it, / must say that
il was too hard and too severe. We were obliged
however, to accustom ourselves to deprivation.
of all kinds at an early age; that, perhaps, wal
the only saving feature OF our stay"
During his seven years course in the academy
Moltke passed few idle days. Although the reel
tations were all in the Danish tongue, he sooI
stood high In his classes and became noted as
model boy His hours OF leisure were few. Lacl
OF money Obliged him to refrain from joining II
III. pleasures Of his weather. comrades. and h
devoted his spare hours to extra study. In lslt
h. missed his final examination with credit Be
fore his assignment to regiment, however, b
was Obliged to serve one year as page at tn
Court Of Denmark to repay the King for tn
money expended in his education. In 1919, there
fore he was first made a lieutenant In the Olden
burg Infantry. "He WAS slender young man,
wrote O friend at this time, with heavy blon'
hair. cheerful blue eyes and open expression, whic
ot times had melancholy tnge. His iron-lik
industry and energetic will enabled him to &C
complish almost anything which he desired. Ill
comrades treated him with certain respect. o
this. however, he never took the least advantage
Talkstive and communicative a. . companion, h
WA earnest and reserved when at work. A COR