The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-01
The GERMAN KAISER
His Conduct Causes Many
Strange Comments.
is HIS MAJESTY GOING INsANEs
Such is the Suspicion Bruited About-His
Growing FOndness for Theatres-Re De-
tails a General to Teach Ballet Girls.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. I
NEW YORK, Nov. ao-This is what the Paris
correspondent of the Herald, Jacques ST. Cyr,
the recognized authority on European affairs,
has to say this morning: 1t is not easy to con-
vey to the Herald what have to say to-day, for
the facts have to state are known only to a
lew OF the initiate and they are largely my i'm
pressions of diplomats and statesmen. For the
flrst time they will reveal the true state of
ahalrs IN Germany and more particularly at the
German court. The Germans are disturbed
ana anxious about the rumors with regard to
Emperor Williams mental health.
1T IS SUSPECTED THAT THE KAISER IS INSANE
fear that the imperial mind is unhinged The
pessimists look back with regret to the times of
the old Emperor William. They have noticed
something strange and shifty in the eyes of the
young sovereign for some time past something
winch reminds one strongly of the late luckless
Louis OF Bavaria. Nor have their fears been
greatly lessened by the Kaiser's growing taste
Tor The drama, in which they see another sins-
ter analogy between the two monarchs. They
were particularly struck last spring by the in
tense interest shown by the Kaiser in Widen
bruch's play of Der Neue Herr" in which
reference was made to
HIS CONFLICT WITH BISMARCK
Since then he has had the production of the
new ana worthless piece postponed in order to
attend the performance. Although this play
Iauea signally the Kaiser asked for the author
and talked with him for fully an hour, disre-
garding the impotence of the public at the
abnormal length of the wait. Everything re-
latlng TO the stage seems to fascinate him lust
now. Some months ago he deputed general
10 teach the ballet at the opera house the mil
1tary dance. A short time after he issued his
rescr1pt against immortality and gave orders
that the business in certain PLAYS in which
military characters had to put their arms round
the waists of pretty village maidens should be
altered. ~
The kaiser's well known mania for changing
his uniforms is another symptom. In London
l have seen him in as many as eleven dtfferent
military and civilian costumes in one day On
another occasion he donned an admiral's CO.'S
tune to go boating in.
THIS CRAZE OF HIS GROWS ON HIM.
When he gave an audience to Prince Dam
rong, Of Siam, in Berlin lately, he affected
the grandn tenue of0 the head of the Order
of the Black Eagle, an eighteenth century cos
tune worn only once year at the festival of
the order. He evidently wished to impress his
visitor. His fondness for reviews for ''alarms
and excursions is no secret He delights in
surprising his garrisons, awakening his troops
and their officers at unexpected moments
When the whim takes him he will keep them at
their drill all night and day, Last winter he
Travelled all the way to Hanover one day in a
baggage car to startls the natives In the spring
OF THIS year, after banquet with the officers of
the Franz josef regiment, he forced the troops
10 turn out and meneuver from 10 in the even
ing till the next morning