The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-02
TALES OF A SULTAN'S FRIEND.
LIGHT on MOROCCO FROM A ST.
LOUIS FAIR BOOMER.

Most Of His Bodyguard Were Killed on
the Way 70 Fez and q Fresh Batch
We're Slaughtered ON the Road Back.
but the Daring LangermaH Escaped.
James w. s. Langerman, q commissioner
OF the st. Louis Exposition. who has been
In Morocco for six months or 80, got In
yesterday on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse.
He brought with him a remarkable story
Of personal adventure and distributed few
chapters as he was landing. Later he
scattered revised and detailed versions
around the corridors Of the Holland House,
where he Is staying.
The story begins at Fez where Com
missioner Langerman says he had gone
with hired guard of 100 men to see the
Sultan and get him interested In the St.
Louis Exposition
-The,City of Fee, says the Commissioner,
was surrounded by countless bands OF
blood-thirsty barbarian rebels under Bou
Hamara, the Pretender, and lost many
of my men entering the city. The Sultan
received me in the camp-the first white
man he had ever allowed to com @ before
him when he was at the head OF the army.
I'VE struck up warm friendship right
away. He seemed TO take to me naturally,
but some Of his people didn't. They spat
at me 80 much that had to stav in my
house more than would have under other
circumstances.
sThe people were down on me principally
because 1 promised the Sultan to have his
picture taken with mine. Being photo
graphed is prohibited by the Mohammedan
the conditions in Fee were awful There
was scarcely a day that we didn't see fifty
people killed. The heads Of the rebels were
ant .NH at.A laA Nha ,tx rata hxr
the ears and left for the birds TO pick
Il staid in Fee for six months until every
other white man had left, and then decided
to return to Tangier, $50 miles away. My
friend, the Sultan, almost begged me to
ised the Sultan before left that II were
killed the United States would not hold
him responsible.
"The Sultan promised to send liberal
exhibit to the Fair, and present ed to me
horses from his private stable. They are
the most beautiful animals I ever saw.
They had tails that reached to the ground.
and names four feet long and eyes like balls
of fire. Now, nobody but the Sultan Is
allowed to mount one Of his personal horses
TO lead them to Tangier.
-The Sultan also insisted on sending a
guard OF l20 soldiers with me. We were
harassed by the rebels almost from the
staIt. NY men uIOpIt0 Oh OHt ny one,
some being killed, some deserving and
some falling sick. We swan three rivers
and lost our baggage and food supply
When got to Tangier only two men were
with me"
Mr.. Langerman said that he got the
horses on shipboard all right, but he didn't
explain how the two men who survived
managed to take care Of the four spirited
steeds The rebels. he said, had a sort of
sacred regard for the Sultan's horses and
wouldn't harm them.
None Of the horses has got TO this coun-
try. Two, he said. died of seasickness,
one got its neck broken on the trip from
Gibraltar TO England, and the other is
supposed to be in Liverpool recuperating.
Mr.. Langerman said that he has heard
the Sultan took awful vengeance on the
rebels after he heard how they had treated
the Commissioner.
He said also that he didn't remember
telling reporters when he came in yesterday
morning that 400 OF his 500 guards were
killed on the return trip and that two Of
the horses had broken their legs.