The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-01
AMERICAN CREDIT
IN BERLIN DROPS
All Because of the Bold
Stunts Pulled Off by a
Yankee Criminal.
BY STEVEN BURNETT.

BY STEVEN BURNETT.
Especial Cable from the internationa!
News SerVice.)
Berlin, July 1.-The recent flight
from Berlin of the mysterious Ameri-
can, Mr. Draper, has struck severe
blow at American regulations here
and checks offered in payment by
American tourists are almost every
where refused unless properly certi-
fled. Even American paper money
formerly of ready acceptance is hard
to get rid of outside banks who have
experts to examine the yelloWbacks.
Indignation Is felt, not only because
of Diapers hypocritical pretense that
the Travellers club was founded
chiefly In the interests Of German art
and artists, but because of his auda-
cious forging OF a telegram in the kai-
ser's most approved style, wishing the
club prosperous career.
A curious thing is that no journalist
was ever able to get nearer to Draper
than an interview with his Hungarian
factotum or a message through the
hall porter, that he was busy with a
person sporting French title of doubt
full authenticity and with as nebulous
past as Draper himself.
After all, not much damage was done
by the club, for it's character became
apparent on The opening night, when
Immediately after an inaugural ban
quet, at which the Kaiser's telegram
was enthusiastically cheered. the chair
man proposed an adjournment to the
next room, where baccarat and other
card tables were standing ready.
The mere name "Travelers' club"
also aroused suspicion, for most people
in Berlin society were already aware
of the history of a similarly named in
,stitution in Paris. Draper furnished
lthe club gorgeously and paid a months
,rent Of the spacious premises in adj
vance, but he forgot to pay for the
lfurniture and there is now question
as to whether the landlord can siege
st for rent.
One OF the most interesting open
air festivals held near Berlin at this
time of year is the HUSTLE pageant at
Bernau. 1t commentaries the attack
of the Bohemian reformers peasant
army on the little fortress of the
Mark Brandenburg, so celebrated for
its beer and pretty girls.
The forest play Is woven round a
love incid<>~> in which a Bernau citi-
wen Is tempted to betray his town out
,of disappointed affection for the bur-
igomaster's lovely daughter. The main
feature of the spectacle is the onset
,of the HUSTLE bands. in the costumes
.of four hundred years ago, with rams.
scaling ladders. axes, and spears, and
1.-THE poetry is supplied by the mono
Elogues and dialogues of the lovers and
their relatives.
The play ends with the remorse
and death of the would-be traitor be-
fore he puts his treachery into execu-
'tion and at the same time the be-
;trothal of the burgomaster's lovely
daughter to the man of her choice.
q Spectators of the pageant remark
,ed with some amusement the success
lful working of the scenes in which
masses of people are engaged, and the
want of it in those where individuals
,come forward to proclaim their joys
land woes.
The conservative element in Ger.
IMAM politics was recently seized with
Ian almost comical fit of consterna-
ltion. when report appeared that the
Imperial chancellor, Herr Won Beth
.mann-Hollweg. had drawn a socialist
deputy. DR.. Frank, into consultation on
u
eervatives' anguish has been allayed to
Home extent by a semiofficial announ
cement that it was Herr Delbrueck
1.-THE secretary of state for the interior,
hand not the chancellor. who received
sDr. Frank.
Even SO, the occurrence is not with
tout significance. Fur the first time
THE socialists have been called in by
1.-THE government to advise and co-ope-
lrate. A precedent has been set The
shard and fast social and political line
between the DOMINANT powers and
the party of retolution' has been
.overstepped. Many liberal leaders
there have long held a theory that Ger
many would never be able to reach
a firm basis of political stability un-
til 1t gave some official recognition TO
its vast army of socialists and took
rthem into the political life of the ma
rtion. Doubtless the consultation with
'Dr. Frank does not presage any such
tmomentous change of policy, but it is
suggestive of change. Together with
the fact that Kaiser Wilhelm, while
i'm London, had "A long and apparently
tfriendly chat with Mr.. Macdonald, the
Labor leader. it has sufficed to give
the conservatives some hours of trou.
bled speculation.
New sects are continually cropping
up in Russia. Some of them hold
widely grotesque tenets. others prac-
tice unbridled self-indulgence in the
name of religion, while others again
mix religion and politics so ineXtrica-
bly, that no theologiau or philosopher
could disentangle them again. So the
police are called in, and ordered to
do their duty"