The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22
HAS TWO HUNDRED TRUNKS.
German Minister Who Has More Bag
gage than a Saratoga Belle.

NEW YORK, Aug. 21,-Count Rex, the
newly appointed German minister to Per
STA, came up from Venezuela last Wednes-
day, stayed in New York over night and left
for Bremen on the North German Lloyd
steamer Bremen. The interesting point
about him is that he had two hundred
trunks ard twelve servants. The count has
been German minister in Venezuela. Il
may not be famous as statesman said
he, but pay more excess baggage money
than any other member of the diplomatic
CORPS" When the count handed his bag
cage checks to an expressman and told him
to send his trunks to the Hotel Belvidere,
Fourth avenue and Eighteenth street, the
checks were almost much as the man
could carry.
The count is a big and broad dragon,
more than six feet high and he handled the
big weight of brass with ease. From every
pocket he produced pounds of checks and
piled them into the poor expressmans arms
"These things should be made of paper,
said he. Il wonder that practical race
like the Americans should force themselves
to carry around so much dead weight az
this"
and the trunk valet keeps a ledger contain
ing a list of the contents of each piece OF
baggage. On the way from Venezuela this
book was accidentally dropped overheard
and when the count called for dress suit
No. 80 and a particular one of the decora-
tons conferred upon him by the Kaiser
they had to open all the trunks to get it.
1t was found, of course, in the last trunk
That's always the way, said the count,
land the plan to avoid it in future is to
always look in the last trunk first"
1t took six servants to dress the minister
to Persia. When they surrounded him the
scene was very much like a battle II
looked as if they were trying to hustle
h of no nd he
to be hustled. After a grand struggle he
was attired and made ready for the break
fast room. Then a carriage was called and
the count started for picturesque Hoboken.
where the steamer Bremen was lying A
long string of express wagons lined up III
front of the hotel loaded with trunks, and
they followed the cab to the terry. one
might suppose that a man so well supplied
with trunks would have enough room IN
them for everything. but there was a iot OF
overflow stuff wrapped up in paper and sew
eral handbags. When they reached the pier
they found an agent of the line there Dusty
refusing freight so as to leave room FOR the
trunks. Several baggage snashers became
limp and pale at the sight OF the pie De-
fore them. gsE4
we didn't have to search the trunks when
they arrived" said a custom-house man.
He received the courtesy of the port from
the government. TWenty-three staterooHi
trunks were set aside for the counts use on
the passage. The nobleman's Chief troubles
will begin when he reaches Europe. The
baggage-checking system is In It's INFANCY
there. When the luggage van is emptied
at a station people grab any baggage they
like the most expensive-looklng trunks
being snapped up first, as Is the case WIN
umbrellas at a church conference. Fights
for the possession of particularly hand
some grip are frequent. A man with two
hundred trunks has just two hundred
chances of losing property belonging to him.
But the count is muscular man and looks
as If he would stand good chance In a
luggage wrestle at a European railroad
depOt