The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-31


 positions Prssident Roosevelt neiursi- iv wiefdr fess influence In these neias HeaIde& MT. HooaAveite intsfest in n,,es, matters. while lively. e probably not 50 great as the Kaiser's. It dem- oretratea itself at times. however. as In the case of the designs for the new gold coins.
 'Thers Is ons respect in which Em- naref William easily excele the Presi- dent and that Is In the extent 70 which ha dominates the ordinary life of hts people and particularly that of Berlin. n spite Of hls alleged deaire to central ix& power as much as possible In his own hands one cannot Imagine Mir. Roosexeif for example. dictating the style and architecture of private build lnRs erected on Pennsylvania Avenue In Washington. yet that ls what the KMfeof tries to do and In most cases theatre is to be built q new statue placed. or any action taken affecting the appearance of the German capital the Emperor is ubaalIy con8ulted. If his opinion Ia not sSught he gives 1t anyway and generally hnds some means of enforcing hia ideas Particularly is this true of any change in untef den Linden. the Fifth Avenue ot Berlin. which It's people regard. and with some R~%fIANtAs &R
 srhA Kaiser feels d pfoprfetarT ln- tefest In unfsr den Linden. ft e the show street Of the capital and he ih Intensely interested in making Berlin she finest and most heantiful city in the world. II ls the fAshionabie shop ping center the site of great galleries and public butialnTs. stretching From clty'a great pafk and the BraAdenbufg Gate the triumphaI arch of royal er- frances and military sp0ctAelef AleH 6 II the Emperor rides every morning on the wny to his daily aaii1p in the park. # anybody Fnake@ any sh&n&ss an un- ter den Linden, that Wilhelm. H ls not in favor Of there is likely te be iname- dIate and aefiouz trouble
 "A atfikiH8 illustration cf hts dorni- mating position tn nHttefe which might hn regarded aA tftvial from an imperial viewpoint was given last year during my stay n Berlin. At the beginning of Unter den Llndan. Number l. facing the TIergafteA and the keeAk Hranaen- burg Tor. formerly hte1a tbe famous old palace of Count Redfern. designed by the great architect Friedrich Schin- keI who impressed his personality 50 powerfully upon the be&utifcation of Berlin. From the point Of view of so- clal sxelusivensss. oF Chat of attrac- tive sufreundingas lt was khk most de. sir&bie site tn the city, The naughty and eonasrvatiye residents of the neigh borh ood were horrifed one day to learn that the palace had passed in- to ths hands of one Of the clty's hotel keepers. who proposed to put up a big botel right n tho midst of all t1eif ex- einstvepess. There was great indigna- tion and the outraged owners of fash ionable establishments immediately brought the matter ko che AstentIon oi the Emperor only to learn that tho forealghted hotel proprietor had been there ahead of them.
 .eThe Kaiser informed the protecting fashtonables that he thorou9fily ap- proved che idea ox fis modern huiId- thst he was for tho hotel. only he pro. posed to supsfvise the plans and sec that thay met iia ideas as to what a hotel in these surroundings ought tu be. Accordingly he went over the nlana making suggestions here and there, inspected the material for the exterior walls and the drawings fof inside decors lions. He followed each step in the enterprise just as though he were 10 be the proprietor and was even consulted about the name. dscid. i ing with a forbearanee surprising tc those who are familiar with stofies oi ! his egotism that it should be called the Aalon. after the founder.
 .At the instance Of the Emperor, wft takes . strong interest In American in. ventions. a number of up-to-date i'm. provements from this side of the At i innffe were introduced In the new ballding, including a complete Ameri l can ae1ephone equipment with instru lSnauts sn every room. As naark of i'm perfai favor he permitted a portrait q i himsaif by q leading German artist q