The San Francisco call., 1895-11-25
The Chase Followed by Nightly
Festivities Participated in
by the Emperor.
HIS MAJESTY AS A JOKER.
Notable Guests at the Hunting. Grounds
Fined for Having Forgotten
Their Invitations.

BERLIN, GERMANY, Nov. 24.-The final
spell of shooting which is allowed to the
Kaiser before his attention will be engaged
in the direction of political and court
affairs by the resumption of the session Of
the Reichstag and the opening of the win
ter session will be passed upon the royal
estates in Prussian Saxony, where the
Emperor will go on Monday. His Majesty
has recently had period of remarkably
successful hunting-frst at Piesdorf, where
he beat the record. In single day he
shot 264 hares, sixty-seven pheasants and
six partridges. His next shooting was at
Letzlingen, where there were plenty OF
wild boars and deer. At this shoot forty
one stags, two faIlow deer, twenty-five
wild boars and twenty small pigs fell to
the Kaiser's bag, and the Grand Duke
Vladimir of Russia, who accompanied
him, shot eighteen stays, sixteen fallow
deer, thirteen wild boars and two small
pigs.
The shooting lodge at Letzlingen was
the scene of nightly festivities, and the
Emperor put aside his dignity and joined
in the fun. In the banquet room there is
a quaint drinking cup fitted into a stag's
horn. This cup. which has been used
since the time of King Frederick William
Ill, requires a half-bottle of wine to fill
ii. The drinkers face fixes into the ant
lers, which are so curved as to keep the
mouth from coming into close contact with
the rim of the cup. The custom is that q
guest attending the hunt for the first time
must empty the cup at single draught.
Upon the occasion of last weeks hunt
Chancellor Prince Won Hohenlohe was at
tending as a neophyte, and the Kaiser
asked him to drink the health Of the En-
press out OF the cup. which was filed with
champagne. Prince Hohenlohe essayed to
do so. but poured the wine over his face
and over his collar, amid the laughter of
the Emperor and the assem- bled guests.
There is plate on the cup which bears an
inscription signed Fritz ILL.," directing
how the cup must be used by all of his
successors at these hunting fetes.
Another incident OF the hunt is told as
follows: The guests invited to Letzlingen
were so numerous and the field of the
ehase was so wide that the Emperor
caused tickets of identity to be issued
70 the guests taking part in the hunt. a
gendarme meeting the Kaiser scanned
him so attentiyely that the Kaiser said to
him:
why do you fix your eyes upon me :?
Perhaps you think have no ticket; here
1t is.' at the same time handing it to the
gendarme.
The latter replied, "I never thought of
the ticket" whereupon the Kaiser ordered
him to demand ticket from each of the
o,r7aSte which ba rroooadad m do priDooS
Dukes and other notable personages were
fined for the non-produetion of their
tickets, which many of them had left be-
hind, and the joke seemed to amuse the
imperial mind greatly.
Besides conducting the "Funciuli, Funi-
cula," as it was played by the military
band at the hunting banquet at Letz-
lngen, as described in these dispatches
last week, the Kaiser took the baton while
the band played five military marches
and composition of Count Philip Won
Eulenburg's, entitled "Die Rosenlieder." !"
The guests agree that the Emperor con-
ducts with both yigor and precision.
The Empress is occupied in selecting
Christmas gifts, and for several days, ac-
companied by the Emperor, has visited the
toys and other goods, including a large
model of the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, H
with crew and guns complete, which is in
tended for Prince Adalbert, her third son,
who holds the rank OF lieutenant in the
German navy. Her Majesty also pur-
chased at the artists exhibition number
OF water colors, which she intends as gifts
TO the various personages attached to the
court.
Ex-Empress Frederick will come to Ber-
lin on November %, and remain until the
end OF January. Literary and art circles
will hail her advent with pleasure, and the
charitable institutions will be still more de-
lighted at her coming. Her Majesty is a
regular patron of several of these institu-
tions, and a generous contributor to many
other works of charity. Upon the occa-
sion Of her birthday last Thursday, which
Ebe eK-Empress spent with her daughter,
Princess Margaret, at Rumpenheim Cas-
tie, flags we're flying from many private
residences in her honor.
The decision of the German Government
not TO send dispatch-boat to Turkey is
regarded as sign that Germany places
strong reliance upon the ability and inten-
ton Of the Sultan to preserve order in his
dominiohs. Although German official
opinion is not openly hostile to the action
OF Great Britain toward Turkey it GER
tainly is not friendly, and Lord Salisbury's
infammatory policy and Sir Philip Currie's
want OF tact in dealing with the Sultan, to-
gether with his frigid and unyielding man
ner toward that monarch, are the subjects
of open condemnation in diplomatic cir
cles here and in Vienna.
The pending reforms in the old-age in
surance measures have led TO squabble
between DR.. Won Boetticher, Imperial Sec
retary Of State for the Interior, and DR..
Won Boediker, President of the Imperial
Insurance Office, in which DR.. Grieseman,
editor OF the North German Gazette, is
also involved. DR.. Won Boediker has pro-
posed alterations in the old-age insurance
law, which are opposed by DR.. Won Boet-
fieher DIR Grieseman DubIishpd Dr