Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1903-02-08
MOVE QUICKLY AND WITHOUT DISPLAY
Attract No Attention, but Are Watching
Everywhere for Danger.
ALL OF THEM ARE PICKED MEN FROM ARMY
Railroad and Train Inspected with Minute
Care When He Travels,
GUARDS MET EVERYWHERE IN THE PALACE
These Are the Most Trusted of All the
Men who Are Selected 80 See
No Harm BefaIls the
German Ruler.

German Ruler.
| Copyright, 1903, by Press Publishing Coz
| BERLIN, Feb. 7.-(New York World Ca
| blegram-Special Telegram.)-To secure
! the kaiser's safety from accident or enc
mics is the most important task committed
to the minister Of the interior. The kaiser
| will not tolerate any visible fuss about
these protective measures They must be
complete, effective, certain. but not in evil
dence
He got out of his carriage at the Branden-
burg gate the other day to speak to some
officials about the statues OF his father and
mother he means to erect there. Suddenly
he noticed that the traflc of that lively
quarter began to slacken and at last
ceased. He looked around, and seeing po-
licemen stopping carriages, cabs and foot
passengers, gave the police master to un-
derstand that his personal security was not
| to be arranged for in that tactless, awk-
ward manner.
The kaiser's security is the sole concern
and work of special wing of the Berlin
police, numbering about $50 men. All are
picked men, of whose hdelity there can be
no doubt, men who have been under the
closest observation for years in the army
powerful, sharp sighted, we'll educated
| with prodiRious memories for faces and
voices. Twenty officers are set over these
men, mostly retired military men, sharp
and shrewd. In addition there are about
200 men whose duty It is to appear in plain
clothes among the people when the kaiser
drives out and keep sharp ear for hostile
utterances
Guards Along Route.
When the court ofHcials hear from the
kaiser that he intends to drive out they
telephone the police the hour when he will
|, appear. Immediately the entire 450 men
are In motion. In an incredibly short time
they take positions along the kaiser's 8
route, each man within signalling distance
OF a comrade. facing the direction from
which the kaiser Is expected.
II the weather is fine the kaiser drives
in an open. two-horse Victoria. The rate
is rapid, much more rapid than any CUB
jeet dare attempt but there is nothing
breakneck about IL, On the box sit coach
man and liebjaeger, or body guardsmsn,
both armed with revolvers. The coachman
is an ordinary enough jehu. but the Heb
Jaeger is resplendent in cooked hat and
white feathers, and is man Of great
bodily activity and strength.
: In front Of the carriage gallops a mounted
policeman his eyes glaneing rapidly right
and left up streets, down streets, shouting
directions TO clear crossings, to stop tram
cars, carts and droslies.
AT every cross street policeman stands
and dotted all along the route are those
rigid, stern, watchful men. their keen
eyes not regarding the kaiser as he passes
! but the crowds on the sidewalks.
The precautions are most stringent when
: he is travelling. When he was in Posen
lately a strong body of the select Berlin
; police was in the city a week before he
arrived. They carefully surveyed the route
y and noted every balcony and window They
are afraid OF balconies and windows. They
' secured hotels and lodging houses, espe-
cially those frequented by the lower orders
2 and finally knew every man from whom q
wicked deed or disloyal word might be ex-
pected Day and night they kept up theiI
restless labors. AS in Posen, so in every
d city visited. During his journeys equally
, vigorous precautions are in force.
: Not So Had I'm Russia.
i II is not so bad as in Russia. where
I whole army corps are ordered out to line
: the railways. But there is always a pilo
engine in front OF the imperial train, and
sharp-eyed men are on It on the lookou
for any point which means treachery.
| Az anu ABOUT l0t railway bldllOub SlTOnt
h bodies OF police and gendarmes are posted
and no one is permitted on the platforms
When the train glides through the usual!
bustling stations all the kaiser sees, II h
looks out OF the windows. is a deserted
} platform, except for rigid soldier or two
! an oficial or a gendarme standing painful!
i at the salute. The train itself has a stat
: of skilled, carefully selected men to guar
: It and search it.
% Before a royal journey is begun the trail
e is examined in every nook and corner
b There is nothing that is not ransacked o
n tested--every cushion, spring and piece o
le furniture. The wheels are tested, brake
h and other appliances subjected to minut
examination. The possibility Of accident o
: evil design is eliminated as far as humal
'r foresight can do It.
:. Guards Everywhere I'm Palaces.
y In the imperial residences at Potsda1
rs and Berlin IL is only natural that tn
kaiser should be secluded and CAREFUL
10 guarded The courts are patrolled b
rs guardsmen and police. and the interior cor
re ridors, especially near his apartments, ar
watched by the castle guard with lynx
eyed vigilance without parallel Ever
s man of the castle guard would die at hi
post to save his master from danger
- AnCoG nave bcNu plNheu IN
very elite OF the most loyal men in tn
land. Their loyalty is a passion. 1t does nc
matter whether It is day or night thei
steady tread moves ceaselessly over N
1) carpets of the corridors, and their CLEAN
a ing eyes, flashing swords, Furnished aC
s. coutrements, their great, strong faces, SUI
ch mounted by their helmets, over which II
u gilded imperial eagle spreads his wing
lis are terrifying sights.
r Amid the momentous complications
ks the Venezuelan trouble the kaiser hnt
time 10 model in clay reliefs for vase
'ol The clay comes from his estate at KadiI
u enen, In East Prussia. where he is settir
he up furnaces for manufacturing potter
in His successful efforts have been two r,
He lief portraits Of his father and the Prussia
nd eagle. To the latter he imparts a remarl
en- ably ferocious aspect He has ali
mt sketched new designs for the porcela
al works at Charlottenburg. They are Of
n nambuoyant character. like all his wOrl
In art or politioA