The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-01
The House Where the Imperial Fam
iIy stays During It's Visits Is
Simple and Plain.
THE VARIOUS UNDERTAKINGS
WILLIAM Il THRIFTY AND DEPART
MENTs ARE ON BUSINESS BASIS.
other Farmers Not Pleased Because
He Enjoys Special Priviieges-Quar-
ters for Man and Beast.

Correspondence of the indianapolis Journal
DANZIG, Prussia, Jan. I5.--"And this is
the imperial schnappsfactoFy." said the
herr inspector.
No. the Kaiser did not invite me TO pot
luck when l visited his farm Cadinen. but
his proxy made haste to treat me TO an
"old corn" Shades of the Bowery, When
1 was green reporter in New York the
city editor once sent me Summing under,
escort of the Office detective. We did
1.-The Big Schooner" "Beefsteak JOHN
silver Pitcher" Happy Days and Pleas
ant Nights" etc, and occasionally had
to take a sip of sOmething-the Cadlnen
corn wildly reminded me of it-a cross
between potato juice and l0-cent whisky.
The inspector liked it. though. and said
Jim wiegand, of Philadelphia. the Kaiser's
cellar master, had recently sent another
order for the stuff There would be big
money i'm il If the capacity Of the mill were
still more increased" he continued. LAS IL
is we manufacture 5000 quarts per year
only. His Majesty does not want TO make
too strenuous competition to the profess
sional schnapps-barons, you know, the
mediatized princes and other great lords
who are eternaIly kicking about American
COT0 ara Hltdl. IL tue ptOhAS rum NhCh
Highness gin mills were interfered with.
and by his Majesty, too, there would be no
end of a row"
''Thirty-five thousand quarts, and not
enough. according to his official. | wonder
whether he ever contemplated what one
quart can do to the average man.
Everything looks spick and span here"
said by way of showing my gratitude for
the ''old corn"
Indeed" replied the inspector. "all ma
chinery has been renewed since his Majesty
took charge. four years ago-and. mind. out
of the profits of the business. Instead OF
turning our surplus over TO the treasury
we refitted the whole mill from cellar to
roof. 1t is now an ideal place of business.
and in another year all will be velvet -
1.-The imperial ginmill adjoins the "cava-
lier house" where the Kaisers titled serv-
ants lodge when his Majesty is on the farm.
The cavalier house stands on the site of the
old hennery, only a few steps from the
manor. This latter is a rambling one-story
and mansard building facing the park on
one side and the lake and farmyard on the
other. Nothing royal about Cadnen except
cleanliness and the absence of the manure
heap which Mark Twain once called the
German farmers joy, admiration and
working capital"
THE MANOR HOUSE.
Over the portals, that are neither as big
a church door small as those OF
prison cell, a precoat of arms showing
mailed fist and other pleasant emblems,
and beneath a horseshoe with the legend,
Found by her Majesty the Empress Sept.
20. 1900" That the horse who lost IL got
an extra mess of oats goes without saying.
The imperial family has no more than
fourteen rooms to dispose of, and William
himself must be content with a study and
conference chamber in the rear. where he
may keep an eye ION business" the stables,
blacksmith shop, inn for the lower serv-
ants and laborers, inspectors house. etc.
Passing by / saw him at one of the win
dows smoking cigarette. A sentinel
dered me away, which was rude. The royal
residence is pleasantly peaceful and the
many fine old shade trees on the edge of
the water and about the various buildings
form an attraction that imperial treas
ury could buy. Their Majesties' rooms are
as simple the manor house itself. The
furnishing is in light oak and chintz. dotted
Swiss curtains at the windows, mating.
set off by deer and bear skins. on the white
pine floors. The table service OF undeco-
rated porcelain and none too heavy silver
is the same their Majesties used as plain
Prince and Princess Wilhelm. when they
had 10 turn every twenty-mark piece
dozen times before spending it.
The Emperor got Cadinen dirt cheap
a present from the owner. who received a
title and silver decoration worth 63 cents
in exchange. but there was a string OF
mortgages attached TO the gift: the forests
were shorn and the fields so worked out
as to be scarce more than useless dirt.
William was angry: he considered himself
badly cheated. title and an order (worth
63 cents) for the pleasure or paying heap
of interest per annumi He vowed he would
not put a red pfennig into Cadinen. and
kept his word. Consequently the men sent
to administer the estate had to put their
heads together and do lot of thinking
in order not TO lose Theoretically. And
such wise council did they take and so
hard did they work that i'm four years time
this abandoned farm was put on paying
bdsis-paying the interest on the mort
cages and for the maintenance of the i'm
perial family when there. while, at the
same time. the stock of agricultural imple-
ments was renewed and added TO. and the
number OF cattle doubled. :; SHOWS what
there is in farming. even il the soil is not
OF the best
AT THE MILKERY
In these four years the administrators
succeeded in getting rid Of all the old. i'm
ferior cattle. substituting a herd OF 150.
every head Of which was bred on the farm.
may be judged by the large number
of youthful bovine. There are sixty mich
COWS and ten draft oxen. The milk. 500 to
GOO quarts a day. is churned by an Amer
lean alcohol motor. and what Is left utilized
for the calves and little pigs The inspec-
tor said his Majesty made from 3 L 10
pfennigs (2ps 10 2i2 cents) out OF every quart
OF milk produced.
The pigsties are most unrOyai-in fact.
hardly fit for "A pig. even though some at
tempts at outward cleanliness were made
at the time OF my visit. probably because
the Kaiser had preceded ne a day or two.
1.-THE pisgery pays very WELL. said the
insgector. but the stables must 60 for
ye:fN 10 come. Why not? The pigs wouldn't