The San Francisco call., 1897-11-07
.GERNANY'S
:, EMPEROR AS
4 HUNTER
Actually Spears a Boar
That Rolled Under His
Horses Feet.
THEKAISER BECOMES
VERY GAY.
While Visiting the Eulenbergs
He Proposes a Toast in
Impromptu Rhyme.
SUGAR TARIFFS WORRY THE
FATHERLAND.
sglain1s Made That the United States
Has LegisIated in Favor Of France,
Belgium and Holland.
While Visiting the Eulenbergs
He Proposes a Toast in
Impromptu Rhyme.
SUGAR TARIFFS WORRY THE
FATHERLAND.
= aims Made That the United States
Belgium and Holland.
Special Dispatch to THE CALL

-" BERLIN, Nov. 6.-Emperor Will
liam of Germany speut the fore part of the
week at Liebenberg, the estate of the
.Eulenbergs, where be was splendidly en-
tertained by Count Philip Won Gutenberg,
who has for a long time past been great
favorite OF his Majesty. On Monday, after
%. their return from The hunt, there was a
banquet, during which an Invisible choir
oi youthful voices sang, one after an.
other, the songs composed by the En-
peroI, with a text written by his host A
string orchestra of picked performers,
especially sent from Berlin, furnished
low accompaniment. The Emperor was
in great spirits and proposed a toast in
fmpromptu rhyme.
The Emper and Empress on Wednes-
day attended the annual st. Hubertus
hunt in the Gruenwald. During the after
noon big wild boar, after having been
hunted for over an hour and half, swan
through the lake ir the forest and was ap-
preached by a group OF riders, among
whom were their majesties. The animal,
having spent its strength, clumsily roamed
about the ground and finally rolled under
the hoofs OF the EN- pc ror's horse, which
1he-eupon bolted. His Majesty, however,
finally stopped his steed, dismounted and
speared the boar.
A church. which will be dedicated on
Monday at Wilmersdorf, suburb of this
city, has been DuiIt after the plans of the
royal architect considerably modified by
the Emperor. In fact, the architect ad-
mits that nearly every plan submitted to
his Majesty is largely changed.
m rar0r Wi lila m deVOfinC mupn n
his time to the study of Russian. The
letter which he wrote to the Gear during
the latter's stay at Darmstadt was in ex-
cellent Russian.
A book written by former Judge of
the Imperial Court, Herr Otto Mittel-
staedt, has appeared under the title of
Before the Flood" and creates a sensa-
ton. 1t criticizes in detail the political
development of Germany under the
present EN- peror and uses vigorous, plain
language in condemning his Majesty's
meddIing in every sphere of the Govern
ment.. 1t also blames the Ministers and
the higher classes for their reactionary
views and lack of constitutional modera-
ton. The book has started a storm of
press criticism, commendatory and ad-
verse.
Baron Won Thielmann, secretary of the
i'm periaI treasury, has returned here after
a trip during which he visited the various
courts of South Germany and Saxony. In
conversation with a correspondent here
he said there were no important financial
plans under con nsideration and expressed
confidence that the pending tariff ques-
tons with the United States would be
satisfactorily solved.
There could not be any doubt of that"
he added, 'If the same conciliatory dispo-
s1tion existed at Washington as exists
upon the part Of Germany"
According 10 statements made by the
United States consuls IN Germany, the
German bicycle manufacturers will now
begin TO import parts of American BIZ
cycles and use them in the construction
Of their own wheels.
The Magdeburg Zeitung, the leading Or
gan of the German sugar manufacturers
complains bitterly of the unjust treat
ment" Of the United States in i'm posing
import duties on German sugar. II
claims German sugar is differentiated
against IN favor of French, Belgian and
Dutch sugars, which countries, the paper
continues, openly grant export bounties,
as Germany ooes.
Count Won Rottenberg, the son-in-Iaw
of the late William Walter Phelps. United
States Minister to Germany, is being made
war upon By Baron Won Strom in his
newspaper organs for the purpose of GUST
ing him from his present Office that of
curator of the Berlin University, because
the Count publicly declared him self in IA
vor of the right of com bination on the
part of workingmen. The Post thereupon
calls him a revolutionist.
Tho agrarian press warns the public
agsinst purchasing or using American
wheat and -four, claiming that the latter
is admittedly grossly adulterated with
maize, "thus rendering it inferior in quail
lty and injurious to health
The Cologne Volks Zeitung says the ar
tillery branch of the German army is to
be enlarged to the same proportion as that
of Russa.