The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-20
THE KINGS DAY OFF,
How William of Germany Saw the Sights Of Paris

BY VANCE THOMSON

incidentally King of Prussia, and seven
ty times Prince and Duke. The tram
reached the Care du Nord just after day
break The two travellers took CAB
at thirty cents for the drive-and went
directly to Herr MiquePs apartment in
the Rue de rUniversite This is an old
and quiet street, Herr MIGUEL has had
his Paris den there for years.
Now the two conspirators had succeed
ed Not soul knew they We're in Paris.
It had been given out to the journals
that the Kaiser was hunting on his own
estate in Saxony. Quite gayly they
sauntered out This was, you reInem-
Der. before the Exposition had opened.
In order TO enter the grounds it was nee
essary to procure special tickets. These
tickets, however, Were common enough
Every journalist had them by the score
of course Herr Miguel had provided him
self with two cards. They passed the
gates and strclled up the Rue des Ma
lions toward the German pavilion. For
l tunately for this imperial truant, herr
Richter, the German Commissioner, who
knows the Emperor very We'll, was not
at the pavilion that day. The employees
paid no attention to this English-looking
tourist and his companion, the universal
banker After leaving the German build
ling they crossed the Alexander III
! Bridge. examined the facades of the two
art palaces and went out by the big
/. gate giving On the Place de Ia Concerde.
They drove then to the Cafe ARglais on
the Boulevard and dined in a private
room on the first floor. The bill was
Ithirty-five francs, and Herr MIGUEL paid
it. giving a thrifty tip of three francs TO
the waiter. 1nen in an open cab they
drove to the Bots de Boulogpe, passing
out at ST. Cloud. There fer nearly three
quarters of an hour they walked up and
down the quay, discussing, it may be
. &c tho THINGS thai
pened thirty years ago, when from those
heights the Prussians sent their shells
Parisward. They drove back through
the Bots, dined at Herr Miquers pied-a-
ter1e in the Rue de PUniversite, and left
for Strasburg and Berlin by the evening
express.
And you ask me how I know those
things?
The next morning N. Lepine, head of
the Paris police, presented a report TO
the Government describing every detail
of the Emperor's visit-eyen to what he
had eaten and how many bottles OF wine
there were three had been ordered for
that deJeuner at the Cafe Anglais. And
here there comes in a very pretty instance
of French politeness. AT the time this
: report was pigeonholed; no one knew the
Emperor had been to Paris-not even
/ Herr Won Munster, the aged and dreamy
Prince who was then chief of the Ger
man Embassy. The Kaiser himself left
{ Paris, perfectly certain that his little ad-
: venture was quite unknown. Today he
knows that not for one moment was he
: unprotected, that the very cabman to
whom he paid thirty cents was one OF
NJ. Cocheforts most trusted agents and
/, that the old cabby who took him to St
4 Cloud was another police agent Now he
: knows: he didn't then.
He and Miguel went laughing back 10
: Berlin. It was such a good joke they
f determined to try it again. In October
e you may remember, the Kaiser-accord-
r ing to every newspaper in the world
e visited Metz and Strasburg; for three
: days, however, he withdrew "for quiet
8 to castle in Alsace-Lorraine, the prop
d erty of one of his International kinsmen