The Washington herald., 1911-12-05
OUR RICH AMBASSADOR
TO THE KAISER'S COURT

44t-AiAAtA 4i' lSSoIN ~ ONA NOA'oA
diplomacy:
No nation changes it's ENJOYS so rap
! idly and so often as the United States.
In that Union. which. by courtesy, is
called republic, based upon democratic
institutions, but which in reality is ruled
by the plutocracy, 1t is getting more and
more to be sport for the multimillion-
aires and magnates of the all-powerful
trusts to spend several years as ambassa-
dor in one or the other of the European
| capitals. Money to these men is no obs
ject. The United States, as is well
known, pays its diplomatic representa-
tives but poorly, and, having neither the
tradition of prominent ancestry nor Of
great political achievements. all that is
left to them is TO shine by costly repre-
! scntatiOn and lavish expenditure.
I'm Berlin DR.. Hill vas out OF place
after the magnificent entertainments of
ChIrlemagne Tower. Hence his stay was
hut very brief. His successor. Mr.. John
6. Leishman, prefers to initiate his pred
eCeSSor from his own State of Pennsyl-
vania. 1t is therefore not to be wondered at
that this gentleman, also in imitation OF
Mr.. Tower, clad his tall figure in a very
costly. not to say fantastic. court uni
form when he was received by the Kaiser
the other day to present his credentials
There is no such thing in the land
of the free across the Atlantic as
specially prescribed uniform for its dip
lomatic envOys to foreign countries.
Each of them can do as he sees fit as
to appearing in tn" regulation 'full-drcSs'
swallowtail-the dress of honor of the
Ii,
gold lace and tasse,s. DR. Hill was
satisfied with the swallowtail. hut Mr..
Leishman follows the example of Mr..
Tower. whose ambIssadoriaI regalia as
much Outstrippcd that of his European
colleagues as do the gigantic diamonds
of American ladies' at Berlin court func-
tiOus. whenever admitted, make almost
insignificant family jewels of German
plinceSses or peereSSeS.
DR. Hill. shortly before his recall.
leased house in Rauchstrasse. for his
official residence and "hanCelIcry. 1t is
in an exclusive neighbOrhOod near the
famous 'ThirrGarten. and Is surrounded
by 2 garden which reaches to the south
as far as the I.andwehr Canal. But il
appears that this sort of domicile was
not what Mr. T.eishman coveted. The
great wealth which the new Ambassa-
dor accumulated during the thirteen
years of his connection with the Carne-
gle enterprises enables him to live ON
far grander scale than plain univer-
sity professor Of the Calher of DR.. Hill.
He prefers to dazzle Berlin with the
elaborate functiors which he has planned.
and for these the Rauchstrasse dwelling
naturally would not be spacious enough.
Mrs. LeiShman, who was Miss Julia
Crawford. and her daughters, one of
whom is separated from her husband.
the Count of GOntaut-BrOn, appear to
be eager to Outshine Berlin social and
court life, for it is reported that Mr..
Leshman. when. for the first time he in
spected the residence selected by his
predecessor remarked that such a house
would be just about big enough for his
valet
The death is reported Of the father Of
Herr Won Chelius, the personal aid and
friend Of the Kaiser, at Karlsruhe. at the
ago ~ nnety-two. He was Philipr Won
Chelius, chamberlain and privy councillor
Of the Grand Duke of Baden. and the
old, Il son OF DR.. MaXimilian Chelius. the
orl.l-rcnowned professor of Ophthalmy
at the University of Heidelberg. who was
cnnqbled in 1850 as :. reward for his great
services - surgery.
The dead statesman began his career (
a jurst. In 1851 he married Miss Har-
ret Parish. Of Hamburg, who died in /
1864 leaving TWO sons. the elder of whom. ,
Irivv IouncllOr EiCGard Won CheIius. !
married Miss Else Won MciSS, the daugh- ,
ter Of a well-known patrician family OF
Zurich
TIL" younger son is Maj Gen Oscar F!
Won Cholius. the Kaisers confidential {
aid-de-camp and attached TO the person !
f the sovereign for special military duty. /.
The general has been near tile person |.
of the Emperor ever since the latter as
Prince William o. Prussia was in COM ,
mand of the regiment of IIussar Guards /
when h" was adJutant. He has enjoved /
the confidence of the monarch ever since. /
who promoted him to the positions of I
''flueg ! adjutant.' military attaChe Of !
the German Embassy in Rome. colonel /
Of the crack regiment Of Life Hussars, /
and later enrolled him into his immediate ,
entUurage.
But Gen. Won CheIius is not only a SOL (
dior. He is also a composer or some note |
ana not without fine talent. He adores /
Wagners music. and his clever perform
an"e on the piano has tended to enliven !
many an evening at court. His wife. He'd
wig, is the daughter Of the cabinet min
lister. Won Puttkamer, and a sister to
the former governor OF the German
Kamerum colony in Africa. The Kaiser
Prince and Princess William of Prussia.
are the Eodparents Of Gen. Won Chelius'
oldest son, who bears the name of VII
helm Victor.
At the recent opening of the new
Mitchell Library. in Glasgow. Lord Rose
berry said Mr. Carnegie had told him re-
Gently that he had founded 300 free
libraries.
That was an enormous work of benef-
cence. But every one of these 200 IL
Oraries had been opened with Oratory.
At any one of them ten speakers had
uttered their thoughts-that was 22OOO
speeches. Every one of these speeches
on an average contained ten platitudes
On the subject of public libraries. Thus
10000 platitudes had been uttered in
connection with the foundation of the
Carnegie libraries alone, said Lord Rose
berry. One hundred and eighty thousand
are in the Mitchell Library.
What a cemetery of books! for, after all,
most of them are dead. The percentage
0f living books is exceedingly small.
How many baffied ambitions, disappoint-
ed hopes. crushed aspirations, are rep
,esented by each shelf of books-noVels
rapd as soda water which had been
opened for a week, pages of sermons
which had given satisfaction to no one
1ut their authors, collections of political
,peeches even more evanescent than the
sermons, bales of forgotten science, SUI
lerseded history. biographies of people
whom nobody cared about!
In the Middle Ages the whole library
II the world could be contained in a