The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-27
Amateur Chauffeurs Who Kill An
imals on the Highway Longing
for Human Victims.
EMILY CRAWFORD TALKS
With a Chaillot Vicar, Who Says
Automobiles Are an Invention
of Demons.
LATE COUNT WALDERSEE
"reminiscences Of His Visit to Paris
The Countess's Trip to the
Holy Land.
Special Correspondence of the Journal.

Special Correspondence of the Journal.
PARIS, March 12.-Doctors say that the
tremor of ''teuf, teuf'' of the motor car and
the flight of scenery before the eyes of the
furious motor driver caused new kind of
madness. Confessors discovered in fair
and wealthy penitents devoted to motor
ing new sorts of sins. Sins hitherto I'M
dreamt OF are now becoming almost COM
monplace.
1 sat at dinner yesterday beside vicar
OF the parish of Chaillot. He expressed
his horror of the motor car, which is all it
looks-an invention of demons He said:
An evil instinct called out in the mad
rush forward of a motor car becomes I'M
governable The motorist up to date and
the woman who flies forward with him
feel an appetite for fnanslaughter and dis
gust having to cheat it by running down
on high roads poultry and four-footed
creatures They crave for the stronger
sensations MASKING up these creatures can
afford them. The imprecations yelled by
villagers at seeing their cocks and hens
massacred are music to their ears. Their
state of mind is exactly that OF the Romans
who went to the circus of sensations in
the time of Nero
as it time | asked. "for NJ. Paul Bour-
get and NJ. Hervieu to busy themselves
with the psychology of motorists?'
High time and then after Ipause, II
could never have believed had / not had
opportunities to see into the souls of anna
teur chauffeurs what fruits their demOniac
cars can bring forth. / asked, but not in
confession, "a fair parishioner the other
day what pleasure she could take In mo-
toring at mad pace with her husband, to
whom she had not long been married. She
must know that each time he aimed at
running down a dog or pig he risked his
precisely why motoring fascinates me.
feel the thrill of danger and the sensation
of feeling that the next instant may be our
last far exceeds the pleasure of all the
fetes | ever attended.
Motors and wire fences have depoetized
the country in France. Before the former
were invented one might ramble to one 3
hearts content in French woods and fields.
Trespassers were not only lenently dealt
with, but woodmen and peasant farmers
who did not suspect them of being poach-
ers made them welcome and often entered
into conversations with them, interesting
10 All parties. Inc WIRE renee somehow
In allegiance, and IL has come to stay. AS
10 sauntering on country roads il has be-
come more dangerous form of recreation
than Alp climbing. / sometimes wonder
whether the world will be habitable fifty
years hence.
WALDERSEE "REMINISCENCES.
The death of Count Waldersee reminds
me of the stormy spring of 1871 when 1 saw
him at the informal receptions of M. and
Mime. Theirs at the Prefecture of Yer
sailes. which then served as an executive
palace to the greatest of French Presi-
dents. The count then served the German
Emperor as political agent TO the French
government. He received his orders from
Prince Bismarck, but remembered the par
TALLY of the Empress Augusta for French
art and literature and her humane senti-
Enfa nla of Lii,
heart and CHEEKY. genial disposition, who
disliked giving unnecessary pain.
The openness OF his countenance and
heartiness OF manner, restrained by the
habits OF court life. placed him at once in
sympathetic relations with strangers with
whom he conversed He had the fresh
complexion that announces a sanguine
temperament and seemed to think rapidly.
His glance on the review ground of Long
champs struck me as being soldierly and
thing to delight a pOrtraitist. In sweep
ing; round 1t seemed to let detail escape
IT. The stature, bearing, head and the
spirit all expressed reminded me Of Lord
Cough. 1.-The hero of Chillianwallah >" whom
i had seen in childhood reviewing troops.
The Longchamps review / alluded to was
the first held after the Franco-German
and the civil war of 1871. NJ. Theirs
attended chief of the executive power.
accompanied by NJ Grevy the president
OF the Versailles Assembly, which set up to
be a sovereign body. The Royalists fought
hard for the place of honor in the state
tribune to be given to Grevy. He settled
the dispute by declaring he would not go
to the review IL those deputies who wanted
to belittle Nj. Theirs had their way
The two presidents came in separate car
riages, met In the vestfbue of the tribune
and entered abreast, and sat in armchairs
placed on the same line A secretary of
Count Waldersee had ticket for the state
tribune and doubtless brought his chief a
detailed account for transmission to Per
lin.
WEBS A NEW YORK GIRL.
Count Waidersee married in 1871 Esther
Princess of Noer. nee Lee. and daughter
of David Lee, of New York. They said al
Berlin that she was a niece of General
Lee. one of the heroes OF the Confederate
army. Whether this was so or not 1 saw
at her place in Holstein a gathering OF
women. whose names one could not helr
associating with the secessionist move
ment, and among them the sister of Slidel
and his daughter. Mime. Erlanger The
Countess Waldersee had rather the manner
of a woman reared on a plantation in Vir-
ginia than in New York. She brought 10
her second husband the great fortune her
FIRST husband had left her. He was Prince
Frederick of Schleswig Holstein and at the
time of their marriage octogenarian
His family was ashast at the marriage
When i say his. family / mean his nephews
and nieces, for he had remained bachelor
until the bright eyes of Esther Lee made
him think OF ending his days with her.
The nephews included the Duke of Au-
guestenberg. claimant TO the Danish Ouch
in the latter half of the nineteenth GEN.
fury. and his brother Christian. son-in-la wv
OF Queen Victoria The Duchess of Au-
gustenburg was in 1874 the niece of Vie
toria. Adelaide Hohenlohe for whom Ma
poleon III proposed. but unsuccessfully.
owing 10 Victorias opposition. Victoria
had in her eye Au-,istenburs and the great
fortune she Thought him sure TO inherit
from the uncle Frederick.
The disappointment which the old
princes matrimonial within caused in the
royal and serenely high breasts had more
than painful consequences. Ii upset the
mind of Adelaide utterly that her rela
tivcs had to place her under restraint i'm a
private asylum near Dresden. where she
stayed many years and died
Her late Britannia majesty had to econ
ornize more closely To make up to
her daughter. the Princess Christian. Cor
the fortune that went from Prince Chris
tian 10 the m0rganatic wife of Frederick
The too happy octogenarian died i'm the
Holy Land. where like the heroine in Don
nays play his bride wanted To spend her
honeymoon.
Her retour de Jerusalem, the widowed
Princess de Noer cher morganatic ttle)
took place I'm circumstances that might
have tempted the pen OF playwright She
had beauty. grace. intellect. fascination
and wealth beyond the dreams of avarice
and imperial and two royal families at
ltast-to say nothing OF serene trans
parencies-weTe execrating her.
EMILY CRAWFORD.