The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
IN THE REALM
OF THE KAISER
Emperor William at Outs
With Several German
Princes.
TWO FAITHFUL ALLIES.
Triple Alliance Not Affected by
the Hostility of Great
Britain.
RETURN OF AN EXILED EDITOR
Herr GehelSen StirS Up a Political
Scandal in His ReSurrected
Newspaper.

BERLIN. GERMANY. Jan. 19.-The alb
sence OF Prince Luitpold, regent of Baya-
ria, the King OF Wurtemberg and other
German Princes, from the celebration
which took place in Berlin yesterday upon
the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniver-
sary of the founding of the German en-
pire, has been widely commented upon as
indicating the existence of some tension in
their relations with the Kaiser. The ex-
PLANTATION given by Prince Luitpold, in re-
Spouse to the Emperor's invitation, ex-
plains the absence of the others as well as
his own failure 10 be present.
Prince Luitpold, in regretting his ina
bility TO attend, informed the Emperor
that be was under obligations TO preside
at the local celebrations held in comllemo-
ration of the coronation of King William
of Prussia as Emperor of Germany. This
was certainly a good reason for his non
appearance. but it was, nevertheless,
highly displeasing to the Emperor, who
had desired to make himself the center of
a grand state function at which all the
heads Of the Federal States had been in at
tendance.
Therefore, his Majesty sent his highest
court official Prince Won Hohenlohe-
Oehringen, 10 Munich, with a pressing
invitation for the Prince Regent to be
present at the Berlin celebration, but the
Prince Regent returned courteous re-
fusal to alter his plans. Similar refusals
were received from other princely quarters,
and these put the Emperor in the worst of
humors, from which state of mind he re-
covered, however, upon receiving prom
Tco- Drsv, u
Princes that they would be present at the
fetes on the occasion of the birthday of the
Emperor on January q. This function
will be the eliminating point of the sea-
son, and it is understood that besides the
South German Princes, the Grand Duke of
Hesse, the Grand Duke of Baden, and
number Of other equally exalted person.
ages viii be present.
1t has now been arranged tn at the Crown
Prince and his brother, Prince Eitel-
Frederick, will not go to Ploen for the
purpose of pursuing their studies until
April is, and it is likely that all the chill
dren of the imperial family will accompany
their parents to Abbazia in April. The
Emperor and Empress are projecting a
yachting cruise in the Mediterranean, and
will visit the Grand Duke George, Care
witch of Russia, in the Riviera, the court
report says, at some French port. The
Emperor, in the course of his stay at
Abbazia, will also meet the Emperor
Francis Joseph of Austria, at some place
which has not yet been fixed, or if it has
been it has not been made known.
All the stories in circulation to the effect
that the Triple Alliance has been shaken
through England's hostility to Germany
are semi-otficialiy denied and said to be
utterly without foundation, None of the
powers concerned, according to this au-
thOrity, have suggested the slightest modi-
fCation Of the terms of the Dreibund or
intimated any desire to withdraw there
from. Both the Berlin and Vienna Gov
ernments are interested in the ventures of
Ital y III Abyssinia and are fully conscious
of the consequent drain upon the resources
which are weakening her as an ally, but
that Is held to be no sufficient reason why
the stability OF the Triple TlIiance should
be shaken.
There is quite scandal attaching to the
connection between Nine. Viva Parlaghi,
the artist who was so highly favored by
the Emperor, and NJ. Rosenthal, the Pa
rlsian journalist, professionally known as
Jacques St. Cere, who is now in prison in
Paris under charges of blackmall in con-
nection with the successful schemes to
blackmail NJ. Lebaudy, the young million
ARE who died recently while serving out
his term of CONSUMPTION in the French
army. Nine. Parlaghi came to the full
front of notoriety when the Emperor.
against the verdict of the Berlin Academy,
decided to award TO her the grand gold
medal. OF course the Kaiser had his way,
but despite this mark of imperial favor,
the German art world has continued to
refuse recognition OF her claims, and the
court for certain reasons did not encourage
any advancement of such claim.
Madame Parlaghi became acquainted
with Rosenthal in Paris. According to
common report here Rosenthal visited her
at her studio in Berlin and prom ised to
obtain for her the French Cross of the
Legion OF Honor if she would obtain for
him an interview with the Emperor or
even an opportunity to converse with him
by an apparently accidental meeting with
him in her studio. This may or may not
be true, but according to an interview with
Madame Parlaghi published in the Frank
fort Zeitung the lady admitted having
seen Rosenthal in her studio, but declared
that the meeting took place In Paris and
not in Berlin as alleged. Rosenthal. she
continued, asked her to obtain for him an
interview with the Kaiser and promised in
return for the favor to get her the dccora-
ton of the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Madame Parlaghi told the Zeitung inter-
viewer that she positively declined to enter
tain the idea, informing NJ. Rosenthal that
she would neither mix herself up in poll
tics nor accept a mark of distinction
which she had not earned as an artist.
Whatever may have been her part in the
Rosenthal affair, it is now plain that the
Kaiser has totally withdrawn his favor
from her.
Herr Il. J. Gehelsen, once notorious as
an editor of an old Berlin PAPER called the
Reichsglccke, has returned to Berlin after
twenty years residence in London, where
he lived under the name of J. B. Keller