Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-02
MYSTERIOUS "MR. DRAPER"
Claimed United States as Home and
Became Notorious.
Is FUGITIVE FROM BERLIN
Commotion Among Conservative
Politicians in Germany-New
Sect Spreading in Russia.

BERLIN, July 1.-The recent flight
from Berlin of the mysterious American.
mfr. Draper" has struck a severe blow
at American regulations here, and
checks offered in payment by American
tourists are almost everywhere refused
unless properly certified. Even Ameri-
can paper money. formerly Of ready ac-
ceptance, is hard to get rid OF outside
Of 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 audacious forging of
a telegram In the kaiser's most approved
impulsive style, wishing the club a pros
porous career.
Draper Was Exclusive.
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 duke.
The duke turns out to be a person sport
ing French title of doubtful authen-
ITCHY and with as nebulous a 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 banquet,
at which the kaiser's telegram was en-
Enthusiastically cheered. the chairman pro-
posed an adjournment to the next room,
where baccarat and other card game
tables were standing ready.
The mere name Travellers Club" also
aroused suspicion, for most people in
iofv nj a
history of a similarly named institution
in Paris. Draper furnished the club
gorgeously and paid months rent or
the spacious premises in advance, but he
forgot to pay for the furniture. and there
is now a question as to whether the land
lord can seize it for rent.
HUSTLE Pageant at Bernau.
One of the most interesting open air
festivals held near Berlin at this time of
year is the Hustle pageant at Bernau.
hemian reformer's peasant army on the
little fortress of the Mark Brandenburg,
so celebrated for its beer and pretty
girls.
The forest play is woven round love
incident in which a Bernau citizen Is
tempted to betray his town out OF ais
appointed affection for the burgomaster'
lovely daughter. The main feature OF the
spectacle is the onset of the HUSTLE
bands In the cost umes OF 400 years ago,
with rams, scaling ladders. axes and
spears, and the poetry is supplied py the
monologues and dialogues OF the lovers
and their relatives.
death of the would-be traitor before
he puts his treachery into execution.
and at the same time the betrothal OF
the burgomaster's lovely daughter to
the man Of her choice.
Spectators of the pageant remarked
with some amusement the successful
working of the scenes in which masses
of people are engaged, and the want OF
it in those where individuals come for
ward to proclaim their joys and woes
Conservative Element Mortified.
The conservative element in German
politics was recently seized with an al
most comical fit of CONSERVATION when
report appeared that the imperial
chancellor. Herr Won Bethmann- Holl-
veg, had drawn a socialist deputy, DR..
Frank, into consultation on the Alsace-
Lorraine bill. The conservatives an
guish has been allayed to some extent
by a semi official announcement that
it was Herr Delbrueck, the secretary Of
state for the interior, and not the chan
cellor. who received DIR. Frank
Even so, the occurrence is not with
out significance For the first time
the socialists have been called in by
the government to advise and cooper
ate. precedent has been set. The
hard and fast social and political line
between the dominant powers and the
party of revolution has been over
stepped Many liberal leaders here
have long held a theory that Germany
would never be able to reach firm
hos 1Pv CT
some official recognition to its vast
army of socialists and took them into
the political life of the nation. Doubt
less the consultation with DIR. Frank
does not presage any such momentous
change Of policy, but 1t is suggestive
Of change. Together with the fact
that Kaiser Wilhelm while in London
had a long and apparently friendly
chat with Mr.. Macdonald, the labor
leader, 1T has sufficed to give the con-
servatives some hours of troubled
speculation.
New Sect in Russia.
in Russia Some Of them hold wildly
grotesque tenets. others practice unbridled
self-indulgence in the name of religion,
while others again mix religion and poll
tics so inextricably that no theologian or
philosopher could disentangle them. So
the police are called in and ordered to
do their duty"
The sect Of Golgotha Christians is
an example Of the mixed type. It
was founded only last year, say the
government officials, but 1t must have
spread like wildfire. Already 1t has thriv-
ing communities over an area Of thou
sands Of miles-in Petersburg, Moscow.
Bogorodsk, Simbirsk, saratoff. Astrakhan
and most of the other Volga towns. The
sect is rationalistic, like the Stundists and
others-that is to say, it intrusts the
Interpretation of the Scriptures to pri-
vate Judgment, and it employs the criteria
of holiness in religion as standards OF
good government.
The gospel having made all men equal
there should be no such thing as the
subsection OF one man to another. Pri-
vate judgment having swept away authori-
ty I'm the all-important sphere Of religion
cannot brook it In the region Of politics.
To end it,. therefore. is a meritorious.
act. Private property is subversive OF
true equality. and must accordingly be