Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-28
THE THREE BLACK KINGS
The Famous Tavern at Augsburg to
Be Sold at Auction.

from the Manchester Guardian.
A famous hosiery. the Drei Mohren IN
Augsburg is about to come under the ham
mer.. Built IN the early years OF the six
teenth century by Hans Herwart, a wealthy
merchant OF Augsburg. and bought from
him In 1850 by Jacob Fugger. the Roths-
child OF his time, the house passed through
the hands of various private owners until
IN I'2S 1t was bought by one Andreas VAIL
ana by him converted into a hotel II Is
probable that the Emperor Charles V STAY
ed In the house in Herwart's time and the
emperor MaNimillian III IL known TO have
been Jacob Fugger's guest there in lsG6
The list of illustrious and famous per-
sonages who visited the house during its
Palfny GAYS as hosiery. when Augsburg
was much-visited town-apart from IFS
own attractions 1T was kind OF halfway
mousse between Tim and Munich and q
natural hating place on the Journey 10
ana from Switzerland and Italy-seerns an
Shuiess one, and the guest books OF the
hotel. which have been carefully preserved
must De very interesting reading In 1872
haiser FRANCIS III stayed there with his
wife. Maria Theresa
In 1901 Napoleon stopped at Augsburg
ana many OF his generals STAYED al the
Drei Mohren, Napoleon himself occupvine
Ihe episcopal residence. The Empress
Jost prime was guest I'm 1905 on her way
20 Aunich, whittier Napoleon had sum-
mohed her. Late In December OF the same
year the Bavarian Major Won Hausnan
~tSttVN tte sheSt DoOk. ana opposite his
name appears the statement that he came
10 occupy our free town in the name Of
the Prince of Bavaria" On March 3 1sO6
the FORMAL delivery OF the town to the Ra-
HarIah commissioners was celebrated by
great banquet al the hotel In $50 the
Archduchess Marie Louise stopped there
with great suite on her Journey to Paris
70 suppiant the divorced Josephine. During
t te Iater Napoleonic wars there was much
Journeying of soldiers and fiipIomats ha 81
ward and forward through Augsburg. and
we ma in the guest book OF the Drei Nfoh-
rem the names of Metternich CastlereaRh
odhhihg' Wellington, Talleyrand and 9th
ers entered on their journey to the congress
or vienna. Soon. however the stream was
turned in the opposite direction, and there
was great jnurneying of the notahles of
france, where Napoleon had reappeared
ana was showing very scant resDect for The
DEGREES of congress.
After Napoleon's final fan the Drei Nob
rem sheltered Jerome Fouc he (yho signed
niihsel1 DUKE OF Otrantol, Count Walewski
IuStaNuS WaSa and others Of the GREAT
Corsicans proteges who had shared IN HE
lall. In the following decades we find
n,1ihes whose fame is of different kind
rauerpach, Lamartine, Walter Scott. Pag-
amin, Spontini, INLAND. In 1866 on Apg1TS+
~. the German federation was iissoIved in
augsburg, and here again the Drei Mohren
was the scene of the formalities This was
AugsDurgs last appearance as a Welt
stadt, and since then. though the DrcI
HIonreh mas extended its hospitality on sew
eraI occasions both to the old Emneror
william and to his son. who as crown
prince was immensely beloved I'm Augsburg
as indeed throughout Bavaria and Whose
visits were always made occasions OF great
reJolclng-both Augsburg and its famous
hasthof have suffered eciipse Augsburg
Is no longer great place of call: the tray-
eieIs VINO would once have stayed there are
now Whlsked past II In the orient express.
estate.