The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-07
BREACH BETWEEN KAISER
And THE GROWN PRINCE
INTERESTS THE GERMANS

IN 1 ERESIS The GERMANS
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tiously paid visit to the Leasing Theater
nightly to crowded and enthusiastic audi
ences, and sat prominently in the court
boz box in full view, of the general public
This was deliberate demonstration
against the Kaiser and against the pre-
vailing regime in Germany. and the news
papers interpreted it is such. suggesting as
openly as they dared that the crown
prince might fifty organize new political
party to oppose his fathers methods of
government. The Kaiser was incensed at
this fresh act of INSTRUMENTATION. and the
crown prince had to submit to another
period OF three days under detention.
EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES.
Another escapade of the crown prince
which attracted much attention was
breakneck feat of horsemanship performed
at Potsdam. where a flight of about one
hundred steep stones lead up to the
trance of the Castle of Sans Souci, the his
toric home of Frederick the Great The
crown prince rode his horse up these steps
at a great speed. stopped at the summit to
wave his sword triumphantly in the air,
and then rode down again, slowly this
time, but too quickly for the nerves of
numerous spectators. The crown prince
committed this reckless folly while lead
Il
barracks after drill. and the company was
commanded TO halt while their royal officer
rode up and down steps which only per-
sons OF sound heart and lungs can climb on
foot.
During a recent visit to Duke Siegfried
of Bavaria the crown prince revealed an
other aspect of his character. He had been
out hunting all day, and in the evening, on
his way back to Munich he dropped in at
a fashionable hotel on the outskirts of the
Bavarian capital. The crown prince was
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huge kneeboots and lance in his hand
while the hotel guests assembled in the
public rooms were mostly in evening dress.
The crown prince, disregarding every one,
demanded a piano, and hearing that there
was one in an adjacent room, the door of
which was locked, he broke it open by
throwing himself against the panels with
all his strength. Having forced an en-
trance in the room, the crown prince
did not play on the piano. but thumped on
the keys with his heavy boots, smashed
the woodwork and destroyed the strings
inside, so that when he had finished the
piano was mass of wreckage.
This accomplished, the crown prince
went on his way to the residence of mis-
host, Offering neither apology nor eXplana-
ton TO the proprietor of the hotel or the
startled guests many of whom were ladies'
There was a big scandal in consequence of
the incident, and Duke Siegfried promptly
paid the proprietor heavy compensation,
besides visiting him in person to apologize
for the behavior of his royal guest. On
this occasion the crown prince was not as
was at irst supposed, intoxicated, but
wrecked the piano from pure love of
rowdyism and destructiveness.
SNUBBED BY AMERICAN GIRL.
The crown princes latest folly is his in
fatuation for Miss Geraldine Farrar, the
beautiful and talented soprano of the Royal
Theater in Berlin. The crown prince first
pursued Miss Farrar with proposals of the
kind usually made by gallant young men
to attractive young women on the stage,
| but finding that the American girl whose
reputation is stainless, rejected his amor
| Gus advances he conceived the idea of mar
| rying her in spite of all obstacles. He was
very much in earnest about IL all, but Miss
| Farrar ridiculed the scheme with the same
determination with which she had repulsed
| his original advances. The crown prince
was so piqued that he consoled himself by
| making love TO the lion tanner Miss Heliot
| who goes into a cage with twelve fierce
| African lions every night at the circus in
| Berlin.
| The glimpses which the German people
| have had of their future monarch are not
| reassuring. The visit which the crown
| prince paid 10 the theater to see Tattoo
cannot be construed as proof that he en-
| tertains progressive views of militaryisn
| and political affairs. for that visit was
| made solely for the purpose of angering
| the Kaiser The crown prince shares the
| welI-known opinions of all Prussian officers
| who regard a military hierarchy as the
| ideal form of government, despise civilians
as a lower order of beings, and treat the
| common soldiers under their command as
so many head of cattle. He is naughty
and headstrong, and judging from available
| indications. is likely TO develop in abund
| ance the qualities of despotic tyrant.
AN OBSTREPEROUS STUDENT.
A resident of England. who is in clos,
touch with high court circles in Berlin, CAV,
me an incident of the crown princes stu
dent life at Bonn, which had happened t.
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ton. His royal highness was in the Ia bi
| of careering about the town in a TANDEM
| cart at far beyond the speed limit TIL,
| town fathers were sturdy folks who didn'
| intend 10 see their laws set at naught b,
| any one, and in consequence the prnc
| was waited upon by committee, who DO
litely hoped that he would take notice o
| the town regulations. The prince receive,
| them freezingly. listened TO what they ha,
TO say without manifestation of interest
and then turned his back on them with tn
! one expressive word, BAH The tow
| Fathers filed out, but instead of permitting
the matter TO rest they caused il TO reacl
the ears of the Emperor. and thereafter tn
| prince drove more slowly.
His royal highness got more credit thai
he deserved. | am afraid, for his reporte
refusal 10 follow the drinking customs o
his university corps. Temperance OrganiZa
tons in the United States passed resolu
tons praising him for protesting 10 hi
father against the requirement that h
should drink huge bumpers OF beer at IN
orders OF a fraternity president But IN
trouble not with the beer at all. il wa
with the idea OF having TO follow the order
of an untitled student.
Now, it must not be supposed from a
this that the crown prince is what we Amer
leans would call bad lot" The apade
quoted above are those Of a young man VIII
is bit spoilt and headstrong. His courag
IS undoubted, and except when the dare
devil spirit gets the upper hand of him, @
when he thinks his dignity is affronted, h
is an amiable youth He is far sounder /
mind and body than the average continents
royal highness. His fathers strong han
has rested heavily upon him at times. an
some OF the rash proceedings OF the crow
prince are undoubtedly due 10 the fact tina
he resents being governed as IL he were We
child He is not popular with the officii
classes in Germany, but there Is reason I
believe that when the weighty responsible
ties OF empire fall on his shoulders hi
common sense will become more apparent.
l.. II. HAWKINS.
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