The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-12-13
CRANkIsMs OF BILL
New Yorker Writes of EN-
peror Williams Moods.
NOT VERY COMPLIMENTARY
But Incidents Are True and
Interesting.


calculated to interest the Imperial court
at Berlin is The Private Lives Of VII.
liam II. and His Consort.'' by Henry w
Fischer. He has written as no man eveI
dared write before. and his disclosures
terest displeaseure.
Mr.. Fischer's informant is called 'Ur-
sula, Countess Won Eppingham, dame du
palais TO Her Majesty the Queen" This
IS a pseudonym, but hiding behind it is
q real countess, "a hofdame," or lady
in-waiting. as she would be called at the
Court of ST James's. This lady was long
In the service of the kaiserin and knows.
therefore of what she speaks so freely.
Mr.. Fischer met her at the coronation
OF the car in Moscow. She talked of
the doings in Berlin and finally was in
duced to tell all she knew OF the secrets
OF the COURT
1t is said her identity is known TO the
car, and If she appeared in Berlin for
an hour she would be behind the bars on
Official charges.
Mr.. Fischer quotes the Countess as to
how nearly the Crown Prince. now the
kaiser came TO dying when he was born.
AS to his deformed hand and arm he
is equally frank He thus quotes the wo-
s@tnan who was present at the birth:
Z THAT was discovered only the third or
fourth day after" said Fraulein Stahl;
''you see. at first we were all so busy
putting life into the prince and keeping
IT in him that no one thought Of examin-
ing his limbs. Even when. on January
q. the late Crown Prince showed his son
to his relatives. friends and the assembled
royal and princeIy households no one OBJ
served that anything was wrong. But on
the last or last but one day of the month,
IL was noticed that the child could not
move his left arm and the surgeons dis
covered that the elbow joint was dis
located. That, as your iadyship knows,
IL nothing serious in a healthy child.
However, in he case of Prince William.
the surrounding soft parts were so in
5ured and the muscles attached in such
a condition that no one dared attempt to
set the bone then and there, as should be
done in all cases.
The kaiser's day is we'll lampooned, as
Count Schendorff tells.
Enduring fatigues, he calls it, says
the count; Ito be bather and groomed;
breakfast, take a canter on horse pre-
viosuly tried out and so trained as to
give the rider not the least trouble; break
fast again; ride to a parade, or, while
stretching on lounge, listen to reports
carefully worded, so that they may be
agreeable to the imperial dgestion; be-
fore luncheon some pleasant converse
tion with corners from all parts of the
country, diversified by clever men and
women. drummed together for the pur-
of
the latest gossip; after luncheon a cold
rundown, and an hours absolute rest in
a comfortable bed; dressed anew by
smart servants: meal number four-cof-
fee and cakes-a drive or lawn tennis. a
minister or general makes his report;
after dinner. theater or reception; finally,
meal number five: bed
The contretemps which resulted in Will
liam K. Vanderbilt, ST., being refused
entrance to the kaiser will be interesting
e. New Workers. says the book:
F"OnIy during the absence of their ma
Hesties are visitors admitted to the Neues
PaIsis-a rule from which there is abso-
lutely no appeal. Even William X. Van
derbilt whom the emperor personally re
CARDS as the very richest man in the
world-the kaiser has not great head for
hgures-even Vanderbilt, l say, was on
one occasion turned away from our gates
like beggar or some Hungry Joe of the
road. 1t happened in october. 1891, and
made quite stir in the palace.
Vanderbilt, it appears. had driven to
the castle over the royal highway, and
his coach was about 10 enter one of the
outer gates. when the sentinel stationed
there. observing the lack of a known
and so-called 'courtly' livery on the part
Of the jehu and footman. stopped the
horses and demanded n card of adnis-
sion.
This is his majesty's friend said
Jacques Hartog. Mr.. Nanderbilt's courier.
with an air of magnificent assurance. But
the soldier only stared the harder
Your pass, herr repeated the in
fantryman.
You don't understand things. This
r. Mr.. Vanderbilt, the American million
sire.' Hartog was pleading now.
LAS the word American struck the
eentinels long ears he raised his gun. for
his lieutenant had taught him that the
United States is 'one OF those COMPOUNDED
republics totally devoid of a king. or
princes, or even n respectable standing
army.
'Kurtscher' he commanded. in his
most pompous voice. and apparently I'M
mindful of Hartos's very existence.
.Kutscher. right about face, forward
xarch. March. l say. and march
third time or l will shoot, -
Mr.. Vanderbilt marched.
The palaces lack of modern plumbing
more than once moved the kaiserin to
xrh
Fischer with her memoirs.
'I should think myself in heaven.
said my mistress some time ago after
reading a magazine article to the effect
that even the bedrooms OF moderately
priced American apartment houses are
provided with running water, hot and
cold-''I should think myself in heaven IL
such were arranged for my husbands and
my use. not to mention the children's
and I am the kaiserin."
After dinner at the palace was rather
tiresome. as the book recites:
Both msjestnes being indifferent talk
ers. after-dinner entertainments at the
Prussian court are rot of a very lofty
sort; indeed. am not stretching the point
when l say that ennri begins ia hang
heavily upon all present in the gilded sa-
Ions as soon as the coffee Is brought in.
unless the kaiser happens TO lecture or
chooses TO exhaust his stock Of humorous
remarks. In that event it becomes every /
ones duty to appear at least interested
and edited.
Its pity said the Empress Freder-
ok after Count waldersee's retirement
ION Berlin (January. 1seD that my son
Win have none but lishtweights about
him: all men Of acumen are pushed aside !