Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-24
KAISER IN PARIS
Turned Down His Mustache and Wis
tied the Exposition.
ENJOYED HIMSELF FOR 4 WEEK
Did Not Want Protection When
His Presence Became Known.
HOW lie SPENT HIS TIME
HOW lie SPENT HIS TIME
Special Correspondence ~ The ,ftening Star.

| chauHtnism H,hHe IL IOT-
hidden city to him, studying the exposition
! that was To be Frances defiance to German
| progress.
| That the exposition has.turucd out to be
the apotheosis of German industry is a com
monpmce. How could It be otherwise.
given the industries themselves and the fra
ternal obedience of the German exhibitors
| to the imperial request to make collective
rather than individual displays? The empe-
ror gave hundreds OF audiences to the sus-
picious smoothing down their tcalCusies.
| Before they left for Paris he had up before
him even the waiter boys who were 10 serve
in the restaurant OF the German pavilion.
In your humble capacity" he said 20
| them, you, too, will represent the father
land. Promise me that you will never drink
too much, never talk foolishly and always
work with zeal and politeness." The mag
| NATIVE, sentimental kellners wapt freely as
| they promised
| This is the secret of a great part o. the
German triumph-the imperial purpose COM
municated to ALL from the highest to the
| loWliest exhibitors. 1t is no secret that the
| emperor looked on the triumph as his own.
His great desire to witness it with his own
| eyes has been, for six months, matter for
| French speculation, in which self-satisfac
| ton mingles with resentment. 1t would not
| be too much to say that all France has
| been on the lookout for the famous secret
| visit he was to make to the exposition. He
| has made it. Under the watchful eyes of
| the French war department and the Ger
man embassy William II slipped into Paris,
| where he might have remained in secret but
| for the omniscience of NJ. Lepine the pre-
! feet of police, Here you arer exclaimed
| the great policier, tremend Dusty disturbed
at the thought of his responsibility, land /
must do the best l can for your imperial
hghness!" He did it.
Like Detective Story.
| The story of the secret visit reads like a
| first-class detective feuilleton. The part of
| it communicated to me by friend who
recognized the emperor cost the narrator
dear. Connected with the exposition COM
missariat Of another European government
he was, on that memorable morning, much
preoccupied arranging for the visit of the
prince and heir to the throne of his own
country. Herr Richter, the German COM
miSSary, had promised to do the honorS of
his own sections. Fastening through the
grounds, Just where he came to the south
end of the Alexander bridge, my friend OBJ
served Herr Richter in company with three
other men. AT the same time the German
cOmmssary's secretary FASTENED up to him
out of breath and obviously disturbed
Herr Richter begs thousand pardons,
he began, land regrets infinitely that he
will be utterly unable to receive you with
your princes party today
1T is not for today, but for tomorrow
answered the other.
"Or tomorrow, either" the young secre-
tary Stammered. Herr Richter will eX-
plain 1t to you satisfactorily afterward;
and you will admit that he could do moth
ing else 1t is a real case of force majeur."
Then, as If he had said too much, the good
German colored IN, hesitated, lifted his
hat and took his departure in the direction
of Herr Richter's party
All this naturally excited wonder In my
friend and without the slightest intention
o spying. he naturally followed the others
with his eye. few moments afterward,
at turn in the shrubbery behind the Grand
Palais des Beaux Arts, he stumbled on
them, face to face Herr Richter speaking
in French, had just uttered the word:
Sire 1t was impossible to make a mis-
take. My friend had often seen the Ger
man Emperor, had even been received by
him in two audiences the year previously.
There stood the German Emperor before
him. 1t was embarrassing and unsatis-
factory meeting. My friend could not pre-
vent his face showing his surprise. He cut
short the embarrassment by lifting his hat,
mumbling few words of regret and walk
ing away. He was more than embarrassa
He was disturbed. He knew that he had
seen too much.
Had Seen Too Much.
The fact soon proved that he had seen
too much. He had hardly taken a dozen
steps when some one touched him on the
shoulder and began speaking politely in
French. He turned around to observe the
mistake to a practiced eye Although better
dressed and more refined of manner than
the majority of his confreres, the man adj
dressing him was obviously one of the high
err confidential employees of the prefecture.
I'VE understand each other perfectly" con-
tinued the latter, land l fear l must be
your companion for a short time, at least,
until | receive Instructions You have sur
prised what amounts almost to a state
secret. You know that a certain parsonage
is Paris. and
would be the predicament of the project of
police should the fact come to pubic knowl-
edge. We must assure ourselves that those
who recognize him do not talk"
All that afternoon the state detective
stuck to my friend like brother, despite
his protests that he had prince Of his own
to look after The detective had picked up
a subordinate plain-clothes man almost i'm
mediately and sent him off with message,
Later On, by appointment, one of the secre-
taries of the prefecture came to his office,
where the three hal a long talk While
treated with the utmost Courtesy my friend
was given to understand that, relying on
hi: honor and in consequence of his own
not unimportant position, the arm-in-arm
surveillance might now cease; but that he
must, nevertheless, resign himself t. being
"shadowed" discreetly for a few days to
come. The object of the "shadowirs' was
to give him constant reminder not to
talk of what he had seen. This was the
most that they could do for him. A person
of less consideration, they assured him,
would have been hustled off to the DEPOT
there to expiate his dangerous knowledge
while the imperial responsibility continued
| doing Paris.
For three days this man, high in the ser
vice of his own government and perhaps
entitled to diplomatic immunity because of
his connection with the exposition, had
the curious sensation Of being watched, al
though he admits he could not always have
pointed out the watcher. No seal was
paced on his lips for the time after the
Swallowing should cease; yet he was
| never notified that itShad ceased. He simply
felt" one day that it was over. The next
| day he read Of the emperor's presence at
| some function in Berlin During the short
| visit to the exposition of his own prince
| h. was most uncomfortable. He preserved
| religious silence on the forbidden subject,
| however, and he does justice to the honor
| of the high Police Of Paris in keeping their
word with him..
| 1t is from my friends conversations with
his detective companion for one day that
| l have these details of the worry caused
| to the project of police and his trusted
| subordinates by the imperial escapade
| Williams Mustache.
| 1t is not out Of idle vanity or mistaken
aesthetics that the imperial William has
cultivated SO assiduously the high-lifted