The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-29
MORE AUTOS Than
ANYBODY ELSE
Kaiser Wilhelm Has Flfty-two Ma
chines In His Garage and Has
Gone Back on His
Horses.
HE LIKES TO GO FAST
Twenty-Five chauffeurs Always on
Hand, Two Of Whom are the
Chiefs and Drive tho
Emperor.

a.
by Karl H. vonWiegand, Berlin cor
respondent of the United Press.1
BERLIN, Nov 29.-Emperur VIII
liam has more automobiles than any
other sovereign in the world He has
substituted the motor car for the
slower horses and carriages upon all
occasions excepting solemn state at
fairs and his constitutional in lac
Tiergarten. Even for that he is now
more often seen In one Of his many
cars speeding through the park than
horseback.
The kaiser is very fond OF speed
Ing" It Is the talk IN court circles
that his recent illness was directly at
tributable to a fast ride in an open
car resulting in a severe chilling
from the sharp wind.
There is no other sovereign whose
personal means Of transportation is
so up tc date as that of Emperor viii
liam. The imperial stables are d.
vided into three departments. The
saddle horse department is managed
by Captain Count Westphalen OF the
regiment Gardes du Corps and Lieu
tenant Claim OF the Ulans. The car
riage department Is in charge Of
Herr Won Aschenbach and Lieutenant
Prince of Thurn and Taxis OF the
L RI IN csn .fnS 80 i,
imperial automobile park is Captain
Geyso OF the military transportation
department.
The kaiser has fffty-two automobiles
In the imperial garage. OF these If
teen are for his own personal use.
He has twenty-five chauffeurs but only
two Of these-Herr Schroeder and
Herr Werner, who have the title OF
chief chauffeur are entrusted with
the life and safety Of the emperor.
They know every whim OF their i'm
perial master. 1t is seldom that one
Iof the other chauffeurs drives the
kaiser. To pilot the car of the Ger.
man emperor and that at the speed at
which he likes to be whisked along
through the streets, is no small re-
sponsibility and a severe strain even
upon steady nerves.
Empress Augusta, with character
Iistic German conservativsnsss, still
prefers the horse carriage to the
motor car The most OF her pleasure
drives in Berlin, Potsdam and Castle
Wilhelmshohe, are taken In carriages.
For her Journeys between the palace
in Potsdam and the palace in Berlin,
1 however, she appreciates the speed
and tpmfort Of the motor Car and
uses one of the several that are for
her personal use.
4 In the imperial stables are 1925
horses-forty-fve saddle horses and
ESQ driving horses for ninety-fiye We.
hicles. ALI are as carefully trained to
make them reliable, as circus horses
Despite this however, they become
Inettlesome from good feed and lack
of work
ITS a devil of job to get horse
ready for his majesty" remarked one
of the stable attendants to me- Since
his majesty has become 30 fond OF
automobiling he does not get into the
saddle nearly as much as in former
years. A horse has to be ridden
down and exercised considerably be.
fore the imperial equery considers IT
ready for the kaiser. II must show
mettle, yet be easily controlled. With
the crown prince it 10 different. He
will mount the widest horse in the
stables. The wilder 1t is the more he
is pleased. Should any one get on the
back Of horse before he Is to ride
lit, he probably would cause the mans
dismissal
Aside from the kaisers Transports
ton department, the crown prince has
his own stables. AS he is passionate
ly fond of horses and of riding, he
has large number of saddle animals
but comparatively few driving horses
His garage or auto park contains
more than dozen cars
The six stalwarx sons of the kaiser
ination, which is very rigorous in Ger
/ many and are licensed chauffeurs AL
of them find much pleasure in driv
4 ing their own cars, though each one
has his chauffeur. A month ago
Prince August Wilhelm, collided Will
street car in Steglitz. in which his
car was badly smashed
4 On each of the motor cars of the
kaiser and his sons, is a special horn
giving forth a peculiar tone of II
own. No one else is allowed to us,
it. That the kaiser's chaurfeurs cal
concentrate their entire attention ur
on guiding the imperiar car. bugle
sits by his side and blows horn. tn
note of which is known wherever TIL
emperor has been, as a signal tina
"the kaiser is coming